We have received the Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal for July 1802. is perhaps on the whole, hardly up to, the usually high standard of this tet periodical. Glancing through its contents we find in the first place an article which breathes such an atmosphere of liberal, Christianity. and advanced views, as is seldom found lin missionary publications. It seems in fact to have yot into this journal by mistake. Yet it was read, as we are informed a foot note, before the Shanghai Missionary Association," by the. Rev. F. L. Hawks Pott, B.D. The title is, How to increase the efficiency of our native work-ere," and it professes to be theoretical rather than practical. It is really however one of the most suggestly i rs that-can be imagi Mill not find a cificulty'in agreeing with. which the foreign commu: of China The da tigers. of the: treatment of native workers in the missionary -cauge are suc-ointly arranged comes the danger: of "denationalisation: The, object of the missionary is to Chris tianise and not to: Genationalise.-. Thetive pastor myst not/be.so far removed foreign and Christian education from
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