Amazing Document Issued by the China Continuation Committee: Declaration of Friendship for the Anti-Christian Movement: The Anti-Imperialim Cry wom tamed by the Gontinuati 'Committee, ady allied to "the Founell, Shanphal. Ite' pervonnet Chinese, but Informed that foreign. miesionartew were present ut the me fehich the draft they approved the otto. was wudynitted.
We do wot Know whether jonnd of the document or protented——it lo te be Ropod they did the latter, Fellow Christians of the Whole Nation:
Jesus founded His religion on the sacrifice and Wo are all a. part of the nation' of the Chinese Republic. Owing to the: dissatisfaction concerning the} old: traditional ethics; we. have Jecome followers -of Christianity. But, as it was transplanted from ether nations and unfortunately it become identified with imperialists, much misundereptanding has developed. Now as we fat and under the flag of "Blue sky' and White-sun" as a free people, Wo are no longer oppressed by the id conception which insisted that he Church should have nothing to do. with polities, and we have come torrealize our duty in the big mission Before us for the salvation of our nation, We therefore beg to clearly express our attitude in the following: of sin, and never willing to ginally He was a great revolutionary force. In the] past not a few of our fellow Christians devoted their lives to revolutionary work. Some of them) initiated the movement, and others serificed their lives for the cause: and even now we have no small number of Christians who are either leaders in the National Government or officers in the army or connected with other lines of revolutionary Jwork. We recognize them as the bect example of real Christians. As ]we remember these forerunners, we become bolder and braver and' try harder to carry out our duty for the salvation of our nati wish most om homelands on the ground that the church furnished the dynamic of fanti-imperialism and of the movs-ment of revolution in China. This Jshows that imperialism, both in its nature and history, is fundamentally out of harmony with Christianity and is therefore our worst enemy. Christianity, as well as the landless jelasses and' the weaker nations of the world, is the slave of imperial ism, Now we all stand with a firm resolution to throw this master.
We are struggling not only for the emancipation of our people, but for the emancipation of our religion.
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