Sunday, December 9, 2018

Which Reminds Me

Yes, whatever did happen to the mysterious Dr. Yu? He was such an important a figure in the ministries at Foochow, China, working with the ministries of the ABCFM, and then suddenly the ABCFM left China when they went Communist. In fact, the ABCFM denomination no longer exists, having been merged into the United Church of Christ in the 1950s, which is somewhat of a departure from the original mission of the ABCFM. Ok, fine, but what about all those people who were relying on the denominational existence of the ABCFM? What are they supposed to do now? Who is going to remember and recognize them now that the ABCFM has gone off in some other direction not foreseen at the beginning of things? Yes, these puzzling dilemmas are not lacking in the history of the world. Perhaps the government would want to encourage other denominations to help if they can, but then again the UCC would probably not like to be interfered with, so there really is nothing that we can say about that. I would think that it would be up to the individuals to make their own memberships and attendance and tithing. I really have no clue what else to say about that.