Dee, 2 Tus December number of "The Bible for China" contains a translation of certain resolutions adopted by the seventh national convention of the National Student Union of China held on Suly 20 last. In the whirl of events then taking place thia ivas overlooked and our contemporary has done valuable service putting the affair on record, The resolutions are preceded by an introduction, in which the following first paragraph strikes the keynote in no. uncertain Since the unequal treaties wore ligious propaganda, Christianity has igned granting freedom. for' tee
absorbed millions of Chinese to. be Christians and. missionary schools established "everywhere " with thousands of students." But lately Chinese students as a body have eradoally come' to recognize the evils of Christianity and. to. realise that Christianity' isan instrument of the ruling the class to be other Chistian organizations and their officers are the Hawks and Hounds of the Imperialiats, The Y.M.CA. fs evidently. the special object of the National Student Union's enmity for it 1s referred to pointedly again and again, For example, student unions are urged to explain everywhere, that Christianity is the weapon of our oppressors, that the Industrial Department of the Y.M.C.A. is an instrument used by imperialists and feapitalists to cheat labourers 40 that they will be contented and will regard the capitalists as their benefactors, who take care of them #0 that the labourers may be slaves Meanwhile, we are told that "ip mission schools no student allowed any freedom of action or thought. They make their of univer: racial service of J chloroform their thoughts." Later on the usual lie about scores of Chinese" having been "repeatedly killed in Shanghai" reappears and this, we are told, is the work of "the Christia Municipal Council of Shanghai, the American Christian marines, the International Volunteer Corps and the British Christian Not only the masses of China understand clearly that Christianity is the instrument of the Imperialists? encroachment, but also numbers of old Christians now see clearly thet Christianity is an instrument of this imperialistic encroachment, From this introduction the National Student Union proceeds to action with a number of resolutions. This is the first:—We decided that Christmas Day, December 25, and the week, Deco ber 22 to 28, should be observed anti-Christia Week, During this week when the Christians are trying to recruit followers, every Student Union should stir up the mass of People to carry on all sort of activities against Christianity. We must make the anti-Christian movement everywhere work toward anti-imperialism. Most important of all, Student Unions everywhere should collect facts and material regarding Christianity and imperialism in eonnexion with the massacres which happened in Shanghai, Hankow and other places. This can be used as concrete material for propaganda among the masses. We also should print anti-Christian picture postcards in lieu of the various kinds of Christmas cards used everywhere.
There is further denunciation of missionaries, officers, and. workers of missions as "foreign slaves" and "the running employed by {mperialists and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.