NOTABLE VISITORS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 177, 12 July 1927, Page 4

NOTABLE VISITORS

DOCTOR AND MRS HOWARD TAYLOR LN HASTINGS.

Marshal loch predicts a world war greater than the world has experienced within the next twenty years. The latest issue of that mentally alert magazine “The World of Today,” deals with the friction spots in national relations, and describee the steady drill to another great convulsion. Books have been written telling of the rising tide of ths coloured races, and taking it for granted that conflict with the white races will come. Lord Inchcape charged the missionaries with the responsibility of the present civil war in China. The charge is one of grave moment, for the Prime Ministers of our British Dominions a few years ago went on to record that the solvent for the dire world troubles can only come through the application of Christian teaching. Every person of intelligence should be interested in important movements to alter existing national outlooks so that it r-ay be possible for an increasing number of people to live in a world that improved communications is making smaller. There are few, if any, more competnent to deal with Lord Inchcape’s criticism than Dr. and Mrs Howard Taylor. Dr. Taylor is the son of Hudson Taylor, the founder of the China Inland Mission, an adventure wnicli is one ot the most wonderful in the thrilling stories of modem missionary crusades. Mrs Taylor is the daughter of Dr. Grattan Guinness. Both are good speakers. Hudson Taylor besought various organisations to extend their sphere of work to the dense population of inland China. None could see their way to do so. He started the mission himself, with a resolve that if it was the will of his Master, all things nedful would be supplied. There never have been direct appeals for money. The story of the need lias been told, and the spontaneous response has created a work which is more than interdenominational for the the 1200 white missionaries on active service have come from no less than twenty-two different countries. The personnel will hold its own in virility and talents. One of the best cricketers England has known was proud to join the band. Another recruit had won fame as the stroke of a Cambridge eight. Has the work of such men and women been not only a mistake, but a hurtf Can the coming of modern commercial organisations to the Orient transform age long habits, without the restraints and the stimuli] of what Edison describes as the motive power of progressive nations, Christianity

Writing as one who has never as yet done anything to help the China Inland Mission, may I say to the men and women of good intent outside the churches, as well as thoss who do identify themselves with such essential organisations, that the opportunity to-morrow night of hearing Dr. and Mrs Hudson Taylor is not one to miss.