Take again the question of Christian educational institutions. Bishop Graves' sole concern is to keep these efficient aids to the Christian movement in China. He has not hesitated lose them when the insubordinaion of the students could not be con-oiled in any other way. This has ction seemed harsh but has been proven a most wise step. He hi also refused to consent to the regis iration of his Christian schools with the present Chinese government, not zt all because the registration of a Christian school with a state is wrong but because the government requirements falsify the basic purpose for which Christian schools are run They virtually take the control of th school away from the church and n it over to the orders of the tinisiry of Education of the National-government. He considers it a h honour to stand for freedom to seek and teach the truth of God, and not to acquiesce in that mentality which yields to a government the sole right to direct the education of its youth. He would sooner close all Christian educational institutions than of God and his actions are all directed toward the furthering of the commands of God, whether pleasant r unpleasant to himself and to hers. He has no desire to make personal capital out of his ability, and ihe Board of Missions in New York has always been confident that so long as Bishop Graves was at the helm, the work in China was on] solid ground. be untrue to this divine call. Yet he has been severely criticized for thi attitude and his Chinese ce-workers arly all think he is too strict in interpreting Chinese official docu nis at their face value. But it is nce of his moral integrity that he abides firmly by his own conviction It is wise? Already there are hosts who see that his position is the right It is the wisdom of his decisions Christian position to take and who that strikes one most forcefully in deplore the easy way in which many retrospect. Few of his workers have missionary institutions acknowledged not disagreed with him in some mat-ithe government right to control of ters, but few of them have not come their organizations. It may be only in time to recognize that he a matter of a few years before this right, almost unfailingly righ christian conviction will that ' they themselves had but a justified as the mind of Christ rartia understanding of the situation where he saw it whole. Consider a Expects Moral Integrity few of these matters and note the wisdom of his policies,
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