I am pleased to see that on the programme at these meetings there is, main topic of the "Church and its Relations," and that under this heading you have included the New Lite Movement. 1 am offering these few thoughts as my contribution toward the "discussion of this importa! subject.
With reference to the regeneration the nation, as I have intimated, important changes in the life of the people of China must come within the system given to us by our late leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen. The Founder of the Chinese Republic was man of faith and action. He had within his soul a burning passion for the uplift of the people who. toil. Beyond the slightest trace of doubt, he walked in the steps of the Master. He lived in faith, and died in faith, Teaving to us the task of completing the more important stages of the revolution.
The most important factor in reconstruction is the spiritual renewal of the people, and the improvement of their character. We cannot create the social life of the people, history has a long start of us in that, but it within our power to regenerate it, and wholly transform it by breathing Into it a new soul.
The beginning of the Christian life is really a "radical and permanent moral change wrought in the spiritual nature," and commonly referred to as the New Birth, "A change in the growing purpose, reformation of habits and life, and continuation by the Holy Spirit of new ways of living." this Is New Life from within and the right place to begin the regeneration of a nation. In, a very large measure this part of reconstruc tion is pre-eminently the work of the Church. Then let us do it together, the New Life Movement and the Church.
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