After spending Sunday morning in visits, by motor-car, to St. John's University, Siccawei, etc., the delegates of the Sunday School party, together with the pastors of the Shanghai churches, Sunday School superintendents and representatives of the leading churches, were entertained at. a Chinese tiffin party given in their honour.
Mr. K. S. Zee, chairman of the Welcoming Committee, gave an address of welcome on behalf of more than. 30 churches of the city, of 12 denominations, and representing a membership of over 6,000; and Mr. E. G. Tewksbury pointed out that arrangements for the different meetings had been in the hands of a Chinese committee of 10 members, all details being left to Mr. K. 8. Zee and the Rev. T. C. Wu, executive secretary.
The Rev. Chow Liang-ding, in welcoming the visitors, and the Rev. Peter Chu'an, representing the "Christ for China Movement, explained the reason why no Chinese delegates attended the Tokio Convention. Mr. Zee announced that contributions to the Famine Fund amounting to Yen 3,800 and $4,000 had been made by the delegates, and this would be disbursed through the regular channels, Dr. F. L. Brown, of the World's Sunday School Committee, referred to the time of his first visit to Shanghai, in 1906, and to the gift' of a banner given by the Chinese then as an evidence of their interest in Sunday School work and their plans for the future. On this banner were the three words "China can do," which briefly summed up all those plans. Mr. Brown went on to say that the Sunday School party were not here as tourists, but with the avowed and definite purpose of helping, through the Convention and their tours, to turn the hearts of the leaders of the Orient to the only method by which international relations and life could be reconstructed and made right—through Christianity—and that Christian teaching must first be put into the hearts of the young. Benjamin Kidd wrote in his last book, "The Science of Power": "Give me the children, and in one generation we will create a new mind and a new earth." As Meyer, the great Sunday School man, had said: -"If the world is ever to be changed, it must be through its childhood." The delegates now here were set as steel to this purpose, and hoped that the Chinese Christians would emphasize the work even more than in the past.
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