All students of the missionary question will be aware that in Catholic countries interest is. grow.
ig with amazing rapidity, and Professor Latourette declares that the recent multiplication of the native] clergy and increase in native bishops in the mission fells give promise of adjustments to the spirit of na-Vionalism abroad. Protestants, he says, are for the moment bewildered, but most of their working membership will respond to the missionary appeal. The mew relation of the missionary to the motive church is being rapidly worked out, according to the Yale professor, especially in and in the major Protestant it haw already been worked Japan. Missionaries, he say', low cing at the invitation of the Chinese or the Japanese churches, and their return after fur-more and more depending on these bodies and in a number of missions the policy of sending only. those who are acceptable to. their native colleagues is already in opera tion, Meantime the Right Rev. Charles} Fiske in an article entitled "The Bishop's New Spectacles," in the October "Atlantic," seeks to demon-
Strate the causes of the weaknesses the Church, We can never, he says, in days of doubt and distress, ile enthusiasm and affection for Church that is little more than an Ecclesiastical Rotary Club, and chat "American Protestuntism has been reducing the! Church to this level"
Bishop Fiske's article can be remended ty anyone Who sincerely withes to see the Church Universal in the Occident. T have but little space here to touch upon the ditfere) narly sects which many cardinal points of contact and
come protestant head, of the Roman Catholic Church which the Bishop deals with. In one paragraph he says that modern Protestant dis-ship is hesitating and uncertain, otent and unsaving, just because vision of the It is, however, to this larger vision that we remain loyal, he says, despite the distressing inefficiency. of the mo-{ent In his opinion the only hope of Protestant Church life lies in a return to the thought of the Church as a world-wide organism which represent; Christ on earth, and is His Body, through which he (docs Ibs work,
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