Tue Curvese Reconper. Vol LI, November, 1920. The Presbyterian Mission Press, Along various lines the articles in this month's "Recorder" indicate what the several authors think ought to be stressed, although in the first article on the Double Emphasis of Christianity, by Earle H. Ballou, both lines are euiphasized, social service as well as personal evangelism. The cure must not stop with the individual. Society must be made sanitary, the missionary cannot be content with the futile methods of snatching here and there a brand from the burning (to use a time-worn figure). The glory of Christianity is that it knows how to use both the telescope and the microscope—it fixes its eyes upon the one far-off, divine event, but it gathers up the fragments that nothing may be lost. To condense this paper is difficult, whilst to extract thoughts here and there is to produce a mosaic of unasso1 ed metaphors. In the article wi follows, What is the present task of the missionary in China?" we have the old-fashioned emphasis. In Dr. H. C. Mei's "Pressing Problems in China," we have emphasis placed on. political stabilization, an independent judiciary (with qua-lifed men to fill the benches), and the advantages of a sane view of the problem of extraterritoriality. We trust that success will attend the efforts to educate the masses of the people to an altogether new and sane attitude of mind towards the law, to displace national self-distrust and self-depreciation by self-appreciation and_ self-respect, to cope with national indecisiveness and the doctrine that approves compromise with evil, and to ever-come official inertia. All lovers China must sympathize with the growing number of young men loyal to the highest "ideals and fighting for a better China.
Further significant emphases will be found in Mr. Vale's article on "Non-Missionary Literature missionaries should read." This instalment is evidently from the heart and experience of one brought up in the atmosphere of dignified and orderly worship. His method of worship is evidently the only one that can be considered healthy-minded and satisfactory from his viewpoint, but there are evidences of a willingness to compromise for the benefit of other types.
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