WORK AMONG CHINESE
Difficulties Of Mission
“The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, June 15.
The Chinese people in Auckland had the same superstitions, worshipped the same idols and propitiated the same spirits as their countrymen in China, said the Rev. J. Poon, of the Chinese Presbyterian Mission in Auckland.
Work among the Chinese was essentially a mission, he told members of the Auckland Presbytery. The Chinese were a Western people with a heathen background. The only difference was that they were perhaps a tie more sophisticated in Auckland than in China. The young people here had taken on the idols of money, sport and work—an idle Chinese was rare.
The Church had difficulty in attracting girls. Parents felt it was more difficult to find a husband for a Christian girl. “We must show in our work that Christianity is not necessarily a white man’s religion, and that it does not conflict with loyalties to race,” Mr Poon said. ‘‘Christ can meet their needs at the deepest level.”
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29850, 16 June 1962, Page 13
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