Missionaries and Political Ques: tions: What Shall Their Position Be?
The Recorder for March is a varied number and contains much thought provoking material. Professor -MacNair writes on missionary ethics and propounds some ques-that would not readily occur to the average reader. "Shall a missionary serve his government as an interpreter or as a temporary consular official? Shall he send information to officials of his govern mont either at home or in China?
Shall a missionary or his wife engage in manufactures, in the import and export trade and in Chinese real estate? Shall missionaries serve as members and officers in volunteer corps? Is a foreign national flag to be used for the protection of mission property. Should converts and non-Christians be housed in mission stations in time of tumult? ete." These questions are not easy to answer and might provoke others just as cult to reply to if they were broad-ast widely enough, Robert Merrill on "The spiritual urge Gortain wri seo in ions only an urge towards nal expansion. This paper, should do something to correct such a mis-conception. But if a writer has no religious experience of his own how ear/ha estimate the force of a spiritual urge in others? How shall a blind man judge intelligently on the value of colour in the scheme of the world? Mr.
Murray Walton, a missionary" in Japan tells of the use made of the press as_an evangelizing agency in Japan! But in Japan 98 ner cent. of the people can read. In China the proportion cannot be more than 10 per cent. That is, of those who read newspapers. Still, the 10 per cent. exercises an influence out of I proportion to its numerical value. Much more use could be made of the press in China. Dr. Rawlinson has an article of "Christo-centric broadmindedness."
The burden of which is that the best of us is not so good as he thinks he is and the worst of them is not 0 bad as we think they are. Therefore "Judge gently then your brother man. Still gentler sister woman. If they should go a ken-nin' wrong, to step aside is human." Mise Luella Miner has a tribute to the work of, in. Marshal Feng's army: regret that the Christian ral's great gifts are not exercised ina sphere w they would be leas open to eritiel than they are in an army. A chaper on "The istory of Mission work in Turkey" encourages the timid te believe that even if extrality were abolished to-morrow it would maki Tittle or no difference to the cause of missions. Dr. Hu Suh, one of the foremost scholars in China, writes frankly on the problems confront Christian education in China and if we do not agree with him it will be well for us to define clearly the reasons why we feel bound to differ. Altogether, this is an excellent number. matter of aircraft, she is fillin, s yet another role while at Shanghai, for she has come to relieve the USS Pecos, a US. man-of-var which is
a crew of about '80. The it arts. She length of her stay in Shaugtai not definitely known, but it is certain tnat she will be here for some days more. Before coming to Shanghai sla spent a few days at Hongkong: where she arrived from Manila on March 5.
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