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The Manila hotel ballroom was festooned with red Chinese lanterns and behind the podium hung a huge photo of Communist Chinese workers and soldiers on a sight- seeing tour of the Forbidden City. The meeting was not, however, a rally for Mao, but a gathering of 419 Evangelical Protestants from 22 nations intent on spreading the Gospel to the People's
Republic. Remarked one delegate: "For the first time, Chinese Christians outside the mainland are seeing the Chinese not as 800 million blue ants but as human beings."
TIME, September 22, 1975
