FOREIGN MISSIONS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 24, 28 July 1927, Page 11

FOREIGN MISSIONS

WHAT THE CHINESE THINK

STATEMENT BY DR. KOO

(united Press Association.—Copyright.) (Sydney Sun Cable.) HONOLULU, 26th July. At the Pacific Relations Conference a searching discussion into missions in the Orient resulted from a declaration by Dr. T. Koo, a noted V.M.C.A. worker in China, that too many missionaries had a fiatronisinT attitude towards the Chinese Mr. Koo declared that the principal objecionß of the Chiu.■so to missionary's were: First, iccauso mission

work was mixed vifh foreign interests; second, Chinese Communists wero antiChristian a n d igninst all religions; third, the Nationalists held

that missionaries promulgated a form of superstition and oppression; fourth many Chinese said that missionaries did ))ot practice what they preached Dr Koo added that missionaries must adopt an attitude of searching for tho truth rather than assuming that thpv already possessed all the truth. " Vrofo.syor Fninnaen I'eniU, Dean of tlie College of Education of the Univorsity of the Philippines, said Christianity could not holj tho younger Filipinos unless it Tdputined itself with Filipino idenls and aspirations.