CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17157, 6 October 1926, Page 12

CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA

AN OPTIMISTIC FORECAST. ' LONDON, Aug. 25. At the Summer School of the London Missionary Society at Swan wick, Derbyshire, Mr. V. G. Sparham, of the Advisory Council of China, gave a hopeful view of the future of that country. China, he said, was now governed by tour generals in different centres, but as the armies were better disciplined there was less of what- the Chinese called “ looting to emptiness.” The people were intensely nationalistic and did not want the foreigner. The present troubles were, in the nature of a lainily quarrel, and the people wanted to settle it for themselves. Amidst it all the progress of the country was remarkable. New towns had sprung up by the side of the old ones, with thoroughfares, parks, and public services which would hear comparison with the West. This national feeling was showing itself in the church. New churches at great cost were being erected, and through synods, colleges, schools, and hospitals China would become dominantly Christian. This was not a foreign movement, but it was moving in and through Chinese life and institutions.