The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1911. A CHINESE PROTEST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 85, 30 May 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1911. A CHINESE PROTEST.

The “heathen Chinee,” educated, civilised, and equipped with a sound knowledge of modern civilisation, is appealing to the Christian countries to withdraw their “Bibliolatrous missionaries” from the Celestial Kingdom. Mr. Lin Shao-Yang, in a bool: just published, entitled “A Chinese Appeal to Christendom concerning Christian Missions,” protests'against the “absurd, contemptible, and demoralising medley that forms the stock-in-trade of missionaries,” and urges that China be left to work cut her own salvation, as far as religion is concerned, without Western interference. His method of argument is mainly a bland astonishment and questioning. Dealing with the present condition of Christianity in Europe, he observes:—“What we wonder at is that your missionary zeal should not only remain unabated, but should actually show signs of increasing activity during an epoch, which is obviously one of religious unrest throughout all Christian lands, and in which historical research and scientific methods of criticism have caused the gravest doubts to be thrown on the truth of some of the fundamental propositions of the Christian faith. . . Do the missionaries propose to convert CJun.i and then wait for the Chinese to reconvert the West? ... It because I am firmly convinced that some of the teachings and methods of very many foreign missionaries are seriously defective in themselves, harmful to the people of China, and disastrous to the causes of truth, civilisation, and international harmony, that I have obliged myself to undertake the difficult and cheerless task of issuing this appeal to the people of the Christian West.”