PRESBYTERIAN CHINESE MISSIONS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 March 1927, Page 4

PRESBYTERIAN CHINESE MISSIONS.

TO BE HANDED OVER TO CHINESE CHURCH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Referring to the cable messages regarding missionaries in China, the Rev. Mr Barton, Foreign Missions Secretary to the Presbyterian Church, deprecated anything like a panic. He po;nted out that arrangements were already in train for handing over control of the New Zealand Mission work to the Chinese Christian Synod . This was. the fulfilment of the constant intention Of the,_i mission, whose aim was to build up n Chinese Church. Letters .received indicate that detailed arrangements for the transfer are being carried out in friendly fashion. The Chinese Synod desires' to retain the services of the Mission staff. In the meantime the New Zealand Church will j continue its financial contributions. Mr Barton added that the position regarding mission schools was difficult, but their usefulness was not necessarily ended even if the regulation was enforced. So far as he could judge his own Mission would not find it impossible to function under the new order. The main thing was for the Church and State to realise that China was determined to be mistress in her own house and adopt a policy accordingly. THE STOCK MARKET.

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