CONSUL'S CRITICISM

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1930, Page 11

CONSUL'S CRITICISM

OUT OF TOUCH WITH TIMES

NATIONAL SENTIMENT

United Fross Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, 16th September. The Consul-General for China, Mr. F. T. Sung, in an address to a foreign missions demonstration held in conjunction with the General Asembly of the Presbyterian Church, severely criticising the missions in China, pointed out that sectarianism presented one of the biggest problems the Christian faith in China had to face. Was it to be wondered at that the Westerner was represented in pictures as carrying a rifle in one hand and a Bible in the other? China was at present undergoing a national revolution, and the cry was for full recognition of tho right to rule her own people. Tho refusal on the part of missionary schools to register with the Ministry of Education according to tho regulation was tantamount to a rofusal to recognise the sovereignty of the National Government, Mr. Sung declared. Tho refusal to comply with the request that tho three principles of tho people, nationalism, democracy, and livelihood, which wore an inspiration of all modern thought in China to-day should bo taught in mission schools was a further indication of the lack of sympathy of tho Christian churches with the now national movoment in China and their failure to adapt themselves to the trend of the times. Moreover, tho withdrawal of a great number of missionaries from the interior when Great Britain declared that her missionaries were no longer under her jurisdiction but under tho protection of tho Chinese Government was considered an insult to national sentiment.