Dec. 6.
The full text of the Report of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry is not expected to be available for the public in China until some time this month. Meanwhile summaries of certain passages have appeared in these columns in the form of authorise ed "releases" from the investiga tors themselves. Mr. D. Willard Lyon, in the December number of "The Chinese Recorder," is able to give a valuable outline of the Report on the basis of access to the manuscript copy. Sufficient light has been thrown by the published summaries on the recommendations made. to indicate that the findings are not likely to be generally accepted by missionary thought without critical reservation. The "Recorder," for example, in commenting on Mr. Lyon's article, inclined to think that the Laymen have been alarmist and that their scheme involves the Dureaueratisation of the Missions. It is predicted that opposition to the Report will be aroused; already one corres pondent' in these- columns has shown intense hostility. It is of
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