Nevertheless,, while believing that it is our duty to give adequate support to the missionary ties already on the field who are loyal to the doctrine of the church, -I cannot refrain from stating my conviction that the Board, and especially some of our secretaries, have erred grievously in some of their policies with regard to the work entrusted to them by the church. The first of their errors is tha entangling alliances made with bodies of missionaries differing from us in doctrine and polity. There is no better reason that I have heard for such unions on the foreign field than there is at home. If a man_ believes the Bible to be the Word of God, how can he teach in harmony with aman who does not so believe?
If some professors teach the Apostles' Creed and the inspiration of the Scriptures, while others deny them, how can they teach in harmony, and what must be the effect on the students? These Chinese students (as well as the Japanese and Koreans) are just as keen at discerning inconsistencies and incongruities in their professors and teachers -as our American students are; and
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