Support Given by the Marshal to an Anti-Missionary Institution: Apparently Two Brands of Christianity, Chinese and Foreign Fae Rooney Gusear, Peking, March 1.
In their long history the Chinese have been intensively trained to absorb information and memorize. Adversity has taught them shrewdness and danger elusiveness, But} at no time has there ever been 'a serious movement to teach them to think—thut is, to reason logical ly. And so it happens that many of their arguments when they get them into print are only—childish sophistry. 'This anti-Christian' movement, for instance, is making some astonishing displays of puerile reasoning in its published propa.
anda.
is perfectly obvious here that the campaign against missionary] endeavour,—particularly in the fehools, ly fostered and, forwarded bythe' allegedly Christian leaders the "Ist Kuominchun,, Anti Bolshevist propaganda is arbitrarily suppressed and the editors papers. which forward it are Frrested without charge and held without trial. 2 Treldentally the two journal who were recently released were set at large when Mr, Silas Strawn, in hhis capacity as a member of the Extraterritoviality Commission, made some inquiry, into the circumstances of their detention and} not before.
Anti-Christian propaganda, how-fever, ig not only unchecked by the Toco! officials responsible directly Feng Vu-hsiang, but is openly fostered by those high in the councils of the Kuominchun, This {s too clearly seen on the surface ere to be denied, but it comes as something of @ stir prise when the Chung. Met News Agency, recognized Kuominchun ora, omer out with a short story clearly that Peng Yuchsiang is anti endeavour has been encouraged, by. Marshal. Peng Vu-hsiang's" Yemen Under General" Chang Chih-kiang. by the "gift of §5,000 to" the Chin Shi School at List Yuan, which was established. ¢0. take care' of students—who were dismissed or who voluntarity Toft Christian missionary schools.
Christian Generals Not Anti-hu Peking, Feb. 2 of the Diplomatic Bureau of the Direct fate-General. of the Northwestern Prontior Defense has handed us the following:
Nothing is further from the truth than the. interpretation the Chung fi News Agency gave to the donee tion of $5,000to the Chin Shih School by General, Chang Chih-kiang. The Chin' Shih School was established not a protest against Christianity, but result of the May 30th incident.
'Among the teachers and employees the school there are many Chris: ians, the president Mr, Kan, himself iva' believer of Christ.
As to the of Marshal Feag and general Chang in Christianity, well-known to need any confirmation. Only "the credulous could" impugn anti-Christianism to them The Chin Shih School, under its Christian management of course]
not be anti-Christian, the second news item argues. It was only] established as a refuge for the students, who were persuaded to Teave the missionary schools and colleges, by the agitators who operated under the protection and encouragement of the ~Kuominchun. Te isn't anti-Feng—Yu-hsiang, Christianity—the improved Chinese brand—but only the foreign sort of Christianity that the missionaries import and broadcast.
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