MISSIONS IN CHINA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17233, 12 April 1930, Page 10

MISSIONS IN CHINA

GOOD PROGRESS OF WORK PEOPLE MORE RECEPTIVE The thief Iruublc missionaries had to meet in China today was liimi bandits and (Jmmnuiiisls. explained the lice. (. \. Lack, ni Melbourne, assistant-director of the. China Inland Mission lor Australia and Nets Zealand, on his arrival m Auckland to obtain recruits lor the work in Chine. Prior to 192 b, when llolshevik agents invaded China, the missions were firaelieally free. I'Vom molestation, lie added. They were regarded as neutral in .disputes bet ween local lata ions, and their persons and property were sale. I he. liolshevik agitators, however, urged the Chinese to attack everything' \Yesteiii. missions included. They had siuee been ordered out of the country, hut the new mode of behaviour remained. There was more banditry than in earlier days, especially when the soldiers ol the G<vvernnienl, were campaigning in distant provinces. The disorder, ot course, bore harder upon the people, as a whole than upon the missionaries. Apart irom this risk, missions were, making good progress, as must he evident from the. fact I hat the China Inland Mission was seeking recruits. Some six years ago an edict had been issued, requiring mission schools to he icgistered and rcsliicting the teaching ot tin l Christian doctrine to the scholars. However, this edict- had not been enforced upon the schools with which Mr. j.ack was associated, and il seemed unlikely, after such a lapse or lime, that j\ would he invoked against them. The hospital work of Hie China Inland .Mission was greatly appreciated by the people, and more doctors and nurses were needed. There was enormous scope for missions in China: il was estimated Hud fuily 10C0 cities had not yet- been touched. ’ The China Inland Mission, founded 65 years ago by the Rev. Dr. Hudson Taylor, was interdenominational and international, and was supported by freewill offerings. Through its efforts 121 .COO Chinese bad been received in chujeb membership since the mission was founded Auckland Herald.