The publishers call it “Fifty Years in China,” but most of us will probably just call it “Dr. Stuart’s book.” It is subtitled, “The Memoirs of John Leighton Stuart, Missionary and Ambassador.” It also boasts a prefatory note by General Marshall and the introduction (of some length) by Dr. Hu Shih, one time China ambassador to the U.S. But the thing that will make this book one to be read by the people of our church is the fact that it tells the thrilling and yet the intimately personal story of one of the greatest men of our church who brought his distinguished missionary career to a close by becoming the U.S. ambassador to the land where, long before, he had gone as an ambassador of Christ … . More than half of the book is of the immediate past — beginning with his ambassadorship – and it is concerned to the end with American policy in the Far East, essentially support of Nationalist China and 100% opposition to the Communist government.
From the editorial, “Dr. Stuart’s book.”
