I venture to put it in a rather homely figure of speech s0 as to make it clear. The suggestion is that the mission should dive out of sight, then that it should come up again beneath the good ship, the Church of China, and finding a hole here should quickly creep in. The Chinese flag would be flying, assuredly it ought, tion but Chinese would be seen on the bridge or walking on the deck, which is also desirable and right, but the stokers would be in large part the mission that-had slipped in unbeknownst, The coal in the bunkers would be imported coal and the commissary department would be largely of foreign provision.
T must: gay frankly that for my own part T believe the Church Japan or China ought to be what. we would insist on our Church here the United States being. If Dr. Jowett is coming over here to be a pastor of the Fifth Avenue Church pand is-going to stay permanently and do his work in and of our church, "he should become na-ruralized as an American citizen, But if he is coming over here for a time, even a long time, to help us to build up something "indigenous, and all the more if he comes. representing and supported by British Churches, then we want him to keep his toots over in England oF Scotland, we want to breathe the heather from him and let him go back again and again, and get some more-heather smell on him,
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