London, Jan..17.
Mr. Hodgkin, Secretary of the National Christian Council of China, addressing _the Anglo-Chinese Friendship Society of London, last evening, on_ the significance of the New Thought movement in China said that the movement was led by those who were influenced by Western ideas, Western commerce and invention, and by a desire to rediscover the secret of China's greatness by a new study of Chinese classics and philosophy.
To-day, the Chinese classics and the ideas and learning of Western nations were available to the whole of the people in their national speech. This was a change as great as Wyclif's translation of the Bible into spoken English. The new movement, he said, was fundamentally internationalist in outlook, not anti-Christian.
Bishop Bannister suggested that the Anglo-Chinese Friendship Society should formulate proposals for submission to the Government for expenditure of part of the Boxer Indemnity.—Reuter.
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