The Archive · 1935

Kirin Scots Mission School in Trouble

Confucian Idol Worship Not Permitted

Kirin, Oct. 5.

The Kirin Provincial government has decided to take "drastic action against the Scottish Mission School ere owing to the refusal of the headmaster, Mr. MacWhite, to allow the El pupils to worship Confacian idols at the temple, despite the request of the local authorities that they should be permitted to do fo.

Maintaining that Christians do aot worship idols, Mr. MacWhite says that Christianity was introduced in. Kirin "many decades ago and that hho cannot condescend to conform in the present instance with the policy of Manchoukuo, "which ig) not recognized by Great Britain."

"Final action" against the school now only awaits instructions from the Department of " Education at

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