CHINESE MISSIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 220, 17 September 1930, Page 7

CHINESE MISSIONS.

Missionary Replies to Consul's Allegations. CHRISTIAN EXPLOITERS. (Received. -."'.'. SYDNEY; -this day. . Sectarianism presented, one < of the biggest problems •the Christian faith, in China-had to.face, eaid Mr. F. T. Sung, Consul-General' in Australia for China, in his. address^' to a' [ Foreign ' Missi&n demonstration. Was it to be wondered at that the Westerner was represented in picture's aa carrying a- rifle in one hand and a Bible in the other? China at present was undergoing a national revolution and the cry. was for a full, recognition of her right to rule her own people. . The refusal on the part of those. 1 in control of missionary schools to register them with the Ministry of Education, according to. regulation, was tantamount to a refusal to recognise the sovereignty of the Nationalist Government. Their refusal to comply with a request that the three principles of the peoplenationalism, democracy and livelihood— which were the inspiration of all modern, thought in Ch'ina to-day, should be taught in the mission schools was a further indication of. the lack of sympathy of the Christian Churches with the new national movement in China and of their failure to> adapt themselves to the trend of the times. ' , - • '. Moreover the withdrawal of a great number of missionaries'from the interior when Britain declared that her missionaries were no longer under her jurisdiction* but under the protection of the Chinese Government,, was considered an insult to, the national sentiment. Mr. J. W. Dovey, a Presbyterian, who has been engaged in missionary administrative work in China for ten years, replied to the criticism of the missions in China made by Mr. F. T; Sung. He denied that Christians exploited the Chinese people for their own ends and that the missions were not in touch with the new national sentiment in China. Regarding exploitation he said the boot was on the other foot.