Page 5 - 創校十六週年感言 The sixteenth anniversary and college day

Ee Ho “which I knew to be the name of a great British Shipping Company on whose

nice ship I used to travel up the Yangtze River in old China. And then I
thought ”Praise the Lord, I knew the top Taipei manager of the company and have
cordial relations with him playing tennis in the Grand Hotel Tennis Club.” I called
him as son as I arrived home and asked him if his company owned the property on the

high bluff over the Tamkang River half-way between pei-tou and Tanshui. He
promptly answered in the affirmative and said he had handled the purchase of the land
himself, and said, “ why? Do you want it?” I said ,”Yes, I do!” He said, “What do you
want to do with it?” I answered “I want to put a Christian college for young Chinese

there”. When he found that I did not want it for any selfish use, he said, ”Alright , I
will sell it to you for just the price I paid for it 9 years ago!” This seemed to me to be
a sure proof that God was with me, which made the price for about 2½ hectars
ridiculously cheap, and I had enough money in hand to pay for it in cash. To me it was

a miracle from the Lord, as was the progress in the construction of our first building.
The contract was signed on faith which I only had any payment when it fell due. We
had a handsome building with 3 floors and fifteen thousand square feet of floor-space
and free of debt. We took in our first freshman class with about eighty-five students in

the fall of 1959.

The Ministry of the Interior is the government agency with which all religious
institutions must be registered with them. Even though we are unregistered with the

Ministry of Education we make it a point to observe the academic standards set by
them and other regulations handed down by them. I am thankful to the Lord that I can
repeat what I have said above—that the government has not molested us at all and our
college is becoming widely know and our graduates in damand for their efficient and

honest work. From our present student-body which averages around six hundred
students, a Christian witness flows out in all directions—the mountains, the plains, the
offshore island to the East and West of Taiwan, to the Hakka people, in the churches
and small Sunday Schools every Sunday. For this we thank God and take courage,

because it is for this collective purpose that Christ’s College primarily exists.

JAMES.R .GRAHAM