Food for Controversy in November Number This issue of the "Recorder" wil certainly promote thought and pro-yoke discussion. The first article is written by Mr. Y. 7. Wu, who is secretary of the student department of Y.M.C.A's in China, Mr. Wu's article discusses "Can Modern, Men be Real Christians?" It would be more correct to say that affirms that modern men are "real". Christians because they have failed to alleviate the pitiable conditions under which a multitude of people toil for a living. But while Mr. Wa states his case lucidly he Propounds no remedy, He does not Push his argument to its logical conclusion which would be "sell all that thea hast and give to. the poor." He evidently balks at this bervie conclusion. tribution to. foreign Missions, But: they all belong.to that -class of which it was said that "they earn their money like horses and. spend it like asses.". That was in' their unregenerate days. They still earn their money by the most strenuous labour, but they would laugh Mr. Lacy to scorn if he said their we hindered them in their Christian life. Nor is even crushing poverty such a hindrance as Mr, Lacy sug. gests. Did not the founder Christianity say "To the poor thi gospel is-preached." And agai "How hardly shall rich man enter into the kingdom of heaven." Mr. Lacy is altogether right in his argument that it is a Christian duty to labour for the amelioration of the hard lot of those who live on, of under, the poverty line but he altogether wrong in his conten that poverty or hard work hinder man from believing in Christ. He should visit the Ricsha. Mission or the Salvation Army hostel.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.