It is needless for me to say that I hold no brief for the northern militarists, so-called, I have long recognized that their system for China is wretched, hopeless, but at Toast under them the missions were safe. On the other hand, the anti-Christian policy of the Bolshevized South means death to much mission work, The missionaries who sympathized with the Nationalist movement and supported it. wore evidently ignorant of the anti-Chxi character of the present Rut Government (largely Jewish) they may have refused to believe the fact of Soviet leadership in the Southern political and military, movement, In my opinion, the American missionaries would have done better had they confined them. selves to the teaching of religion, school and medical work, to the feomplete suppression of ' political partisanship, but that, perhaps, was not possible for a people of our peculiar American temperament,
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