The Archive · 1902

A Rational Hope

We do not dare to hope that the above invitation will be accepted, but we dv hope that it will not i labeled with the rather too fu "Odium theologicum." The writer is one of those who hope that the Chinese branch of this great church isto follow the example of its younger sister in the United States, and begin the tempt of working out its own salvati But this must b+ done, in the judgment, by vutting more xe-ponsibility upon the' loreal churches, ind also by a frank ant free rendering ito thins that are Cre st's puni-ment of such found in that membership.

Té the Remi Catholic Church is not willing to reform the Christianising of China must be left to Along these lines, then in our judgment th

the Protestant churches, and to those churches that understand the necessity of this sort of reform.

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