On Monday last delegates to the annual meeting of the National] Christian Council spent the entire day in discussion in sectional groufs of some of the leading issues} present before the Church. The subjects of discussion were related to the plans for the great Christian conference which is being called by the International Missionary Council to meet in Jerusalem next March, A notable feature of the Jerusalem meeting will be the presence of a good many of the Oriental leaders of the Church in so-called *"mission lands". China will have a delegation of twenty, of whom. sixteer ese. One of Monday's Relation between the Younger and the Older Chur-"ase the relation betireen the contributing churches of the West and the young Christian Church of China. The theme was presented by Mr. ¥. 8. Tom, secretary of the Church of Chri Kuangtung province, and reflected the thinking of a large number of Chinese Christians.
'Mr. Tom's presentation of the Present status of the Christian Church in China was coloured by the fact that his exper part of the country which longest under Nationalist control, and which has therefore, emerged from the period of great' confusion and civil war into an era of more constructive growth.
Mr. Tom traced the inevitable] effect of the Nationalist Movement] upon almost any institution existing under the Southern regime to-day. He considered this to be found in the ing desire for a freedom from foreign connections, and from traditional forms of authority; i current—dissatisfa with the present social order in Chi a quickening of the democratic] spirit and desire for democrs trol, Claiming that the Church cannot but feel keenly the impact of all of these ideas, he said, What shall we do with this new spirit that fs abroad in China to-day?
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