CHINA AWAKENING

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 86, 8 October 1914, Page 2

CHINA AWAKENING

Rev. F. P. Joseland, in addressing a meeting at Courtehayplaee Church last evenjng as ft deputation from the London. Missionary Society, referred to the spirit* ual_ awakening that had taken place in China. The outlook there was now most hopeful. t The first Chinese president was a Christian, ahd religious equality and freedom was one of the first things that the Republic did t The Chinese had abatt* doned the terrifying dragon on their standard, and had adopted a Hog of five colours representative of the five nations of China and their brotherhood. A wonderful advance hftd been made, and doors for Christian work and opportunity were opening everywhere to-day in that vast ! country with its hundreds of millions < f people^ China could, if she. wished, dispense with all foreign missionary effort and work out her own salvation,, so strong a hold had the Christian obtained { but ehe.still needed all the help that Christian nationß could give her, and especially c if die parted too speedily with her oli belief in ancestor worship without im securing a fetrong grasp on th© Christin faith. It was really remarkable to &t how rapidly the, country had advance towards Christian ideals—a matter tc great thankfulness, on the part of a) Christiane, and a stimuluu to further work and prayer on her behalf.