Dr. Lew gave a stirring interpretation of China's intellectual awakening and its bearing upon Christian work as seen from the inside.' This movement was summarized as a new attitude to life and one that inspires the race with a new hope and courage. It is a movement. primarily of learning. One of its outstanding results is the popularization of the Baiwa or vernacular, which has been adopted by 150 periodicals as their medium of expression. Its chief interest is in the welfare and progress of men and in the application of science to everything, past, present and future, It is an attempt to test life in China. The movement, while under strong leadership, is as yet without organization; it is intensely democratic, scientific, social and fearless. Like everything else religion is being criticized though most of the leaders recognize that it is essential. Christianity, like all other religions, is also being challenged and its foundations passed under critical review. At the same time there is recognition of what Christianity has done for China; it is dogma and not the results of Christianity that are being attacked. Dr. Lew presented the movement from the view point of Western trained Chinese, from among whom many of its leaders have come.
Dr. Price treated the movement from the view-point of the missionary. He felt that the movement bore the marks of youth and was critical with the easy criticism ut youth. He felt also that the loss of the distinction between right and wrong evident in some of the utterances of its adherents, and the presence of a license mistaken for liberty were serious dangers that needed to be guarded against.
Mr. J. L. Childs pointed out that the prestige of this movement among the students is enormous. The Young China Association at first required that none of its members should espouse religion but, owing to pressure from its membership, it was now reconsidering this requirement. While the literary productions of its writers were largely borrowed from the West the movement has taken modern ideas and adapted them to Chinese life.
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