The Archive · 1928

Missions Within Their Rights

What the paper does not see is, that a Mission has a perfect right to say that it will not open schools until the clause in the Constitution auaranteving religious liberty is re= pected by Government Departments. The American Church Mission hax certainly not decided to open schools in defiance of the Jaw, It has de~ cided to submit to having its schools. closed, which ix a very different thing. Hus not the time come when the wealthy and influential alumni of Mission Colleges together to insist that the Nationale ist Government shall respect the right of Christians to provide edueadren on such lines as they please, so long as they do not ask for grants from the Govern= ment?

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