The Archive · 1928

Keeping an Eye on Missionaries

Attack on American Body Over Religious Teaching Frow Arn Mankow, Nov. 3

Times have certainly changed. It ix not so long ago that a missionary institution found it difficult to get its doings noticed in any way by the daily papers even when it was willing to supply the news itself. Now the local newspapers open their columns both to missi news and to criticism of m methods as well. This ix as it should be, but difficulty arises when, asin the case of a recent attack on a mission hospital for its treatment of a case, the editor concerned declines to publish the missionary version of the case. headed, "American jon Schools in China will not obey the Board of Educa-n-and register", It quotes a letter received {fom Washington saying that at the Assembly of the Protestant Episcopal Church Qetober 10, it was decided that, as the regulations fixed by the Gov ment would prevent the schools of the American Church Mission from preaching Jesus or having prayers, all clergy in China are directed not to register their schools with the Board of Education, No comment is added, but the impression is conveyed once again that Mission Schools are not law-abiding.

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