Lastly, and by far the prevailing note of the conference thus far, was the emphasis on the part of all of the Chinere delegates for a united Church. ' The common impatience on the part of both foreigners and. Chinese denominational divisions: Became stronger than ever before! when it was voiced yesterday by the Chinese who are now forming, as quickly as possible, a unified Protestant Christian Church for this eountry. While this is as yet more a desire than a fact, great satisfaction was expressed at the recent holding of the first National Assembly of the Charch of Christ in China, which represents a third of the Protestants of this country.
One of the high points of the conference last Friday was the appeal made by a west Chisa missionary to the Chinese members of the Council {or all possible help in the decisions which west China missionaries are! about to make as to whether and when they should return to their stations. This reflected a new degree of cooperation and fellowship between the Chinese and foreign leaders of the Church, Mr, T. Z. Koo summed up much of the discussion of the day in his analysis of fundamental reasons for the recent attacks on the Christian Church. Beneath the more superficial reasons such as resentment of mistakes made by the Church in the past, and a natural reaction to the fact that up o he present Christianity has been protected by the toleration clauses, he felt that a very fundamental reason for the anti-
Christian movement lies in the growing discontent in China with the existing social order in which so great majority barely have enough with which the Church In this in many other statements made throughout the day there was evident desire to root}
Christianity deep in the actual conditions of Chinese life, Bishop Roots of Hankow began lust Friday a series of devotional talks which van through several days of the conference.
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