The missionaries have been one of our principle sources of information about China for many years, yet the knowledge of most of them has been local; their sympathies have made many of them somewhat the dupes of Chinese; they are as 1 body not well informed on nati fal or international affairs; and many of them have strong prejudices. As teuchers of religion, as teach ers in schools, and as medical doctors and teachers, they] have served splendidly; as' statesmen they have been injurion For more than a year past many Jof the mission leaders here in [China and in the United—States Ihave been supporting the demands Jot the Nationalists, getting resolu-[tions passed, petitions signed, and letters written, sending them to the State Department, the White House, urging the abolition reality, the withdrawal of gunboats and the rendition of concessions. Now, many of the missionaries whose voices have long deen silent are speaking out in opposition to such prop recognizing that China is not yet ready for this change, and also [knowing that when she is she will have very little difficulty in bringing it about, Hospitals and Schools Sacrificed But the works of the former group has-been done, there will not American interference here, and, many of the schools and hospitals, 5 well as churches, will be sacri: ficed. The missionaries who appealed for American friendship for the nationalist coust, making light, of the part the Bolshevist agenta were playing in the organization and its activities and success, influenced our government's attitude Now it is useless for another sec-n of the same group to try to Jehange that attitude, The policy is set. The missions)—those in thi interior, outside the Treaty Ports—are going to be sacrificed unless the Nationalists of their own free will permit them to live. And the sacrifice of these splendid institutions is going to do the. Chinese infinite har Tt 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 sym: pathized with the Nationalist, move! ment and supported it were evidently ignorant of the—_anti-Christiad character of the present Russia Government (largely Jewish); they may have refused to believe the fact of Soviet leadership' in the' Southern political and military, Th my opinion, the AmeriGan mar sionaries would' have dong better had they confined themselves to the teaching of religion, schood and medical work, to the complete suppression of political partisanship, But that, perhaps, was not pos-sipe for a people of our peculiar American temperament, Ec, buttenda to prevent uch con ies and
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