Aprit 22. characteristic style Mr. Lockhart tilts'at all and who took part in the réMgplt meeting of protest against National Christian Council, though it is clear on which side Ihis sympathies really lie, Very, probably the men who organized the meeting were not as well equipped as they might have been to handle the sort of a Jdience they had to meet. Their object, as we understand it, in arranging the meeting was chiefly to deal with those dace trinal questions on which many members of the N.C.C, differ most strongly from the prevailing opinion of the Executive Committee, They encountered a band of rowdies, whose only purpose was to wreck the meeting, with the result that might have been expected, We have it on }good authority that the children of this generation are wiser than the children of light; and their wisdom was sufficiently shown in the tactics they adopted, Destructive criticism is always the easiest Line, When invited to say something in defence of the N.C.C., they prudently changed the subject Yet, perhaps, they wore not, 60 very wise after all. Nothing could have told-more against themselves or in favour of the purpose of the meeting than the exhibition they gave of bad and obstructiveness. ism of the N.C.C. has become very widespread, No effec tive answer has ever boon made the charges laid against it. We still wait for a vindication of its policy, apparently in vain. The truth of the matter is that there is none, Though we do not presume to express opinion on its religious policy, there can be no doubt that this policy is violently resented by many earnest missionaries, As for the N.C.C.'s interference In political affairs, we have alrendy made our position clear and fla sufficient support in the cond nation published a few days by thirty-two leading British and American missionaries, In China at least the N.C.C, is utterly discredited, How it may be regarded in the West we do not know, but it is important to remember that delogutes from the N.C.C. and actually on their way to America and England to proselytise in behalf of those very' ambitions which have jwreeked the organization in China, Are effective steps being taken to meet these delegates wherever they appear, to controvert their arguments and expose the entirely unauthorized and unrepresentative character of their mission? If not, we trust that no time will be lost in appointing suitable speakers for this purpose. Among the hundreds of missionaries who have been hounded out of their homes in China by the "Nationalist" friends of the N.C.C,, there should be no lack of good men {to confound the delegates and to make known the truth of things jas they are in this country. There is abundance of hard fact with which to overcome the insidious propaganda of the N.C.C. But these things cannot be left chance. The N.C.C. delegates will not be scrupulous about the methods they employ. Only by prompt and careful preparation beforehand can they be defeated.
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