NOOD, SPECIAL sEnvtce Peking, Oct. 3.
Chinese people of all classes—merchants, scholars, and artisans—are overwhelmed by an immense confusion of thought, declared Bishop Logan Roots, the Methodist Episcopal Bishop of Hankow, in an address before the form of religion Yenching University here. The "new thought tide" has swept over Chinese of all classes, Bishop Roots declared, and has broken down much. of the hold which the old beliefs and ideals had gained through the centuries, with nothing as yet to take their place. The only persons who cling to their long-established beliefs are small groups of Cor fucianists, Buddhists, and Taoists.
Superstition still has i hold upon the great, people in China, His stated, and this fact is the most significant element in the religious situation. The Bishop recently. toured extensively through Szechuan and Hunan, two of the backward provinces.
"The chief hope of China," said Bishop Roots, "is a snail group of, well-educated Christian scholars, for it will always be true, as it has always been, that, as. China's. scholars think, so ultimately will the nation think." The greatest menace to ghe Christian movement in China,
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