the Editor of the China and who built up in one of! /most isolated stations in the remote West 2 faithful congregation of more than 200 converts:
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What is Best for China Si—In his remarks upon the! woeful ignorance in America of real issues in China, your San Francisco correspondent makes an appeal to-ay for educational publicity which least ninety per cent of the Americans in this community will endorse li. the sanctity of their breakfast rooms but about which, they will presumably do _nothing whatever. Action is left to the pious cultivators of Red good-will, to the Anglophobists and to the purveyors of diseased sentimentalism, while the sane and wholesome elements in the various American communities in China are content to. maintain a Micawberesque attitude towards always hoping. that i turn up that will dis credit the Borah-Portsr campaign in Washington and give our timid politicians the courage to frame an thonest policy on the basis of the excellent information that they receive from our Legation and our: major consulates. We all look—to "the other fellow" to start something, amd the only other fellow who does start anything is invariably some tearful, scatterbrained, parlour Bolshevik oF a calculating person} devoted to currying favour with the destructive elements in China.
Missionaries Terrorized both British and America missionary circles there is now the! strongest tend pernicious pro National Council, but against this very efficient publicity! organization there is no attempt whatever to create organs through which sane and. constructive missionary opinion can be put. fore the general public in this country or at Home. The missionaries som to be terrorized by the N.C.C. in much the same way that mil workers are frightened into strikes by. the hireing agitators. 1 they oppose the N.C.C. they can very Feadily be stigmatized as anti-Chi-rose "imperialists" and their "hope fof carrying on their work under amiable conditions in this frenzied ¢ountry is then gone. They therofore rest in a silence that is naturally {interpreted as endorsement of propaganda with which they have not the slightest. sympathy and which: they! know is undoing the work of genorations and is turning native Christtunity into some such hodge-podge of Red politics and garbled doctrine as the Taiping rebels professed when they were trying to elicit the support of the Christian Powers.
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