COMPLIMENT TO CHINESE.
' BY A CLERGYMAN. I Complimonts to Chinese were paid last night by the Rov. G. J. Williams (London Missionary Society during his address on " Tho Now Missionary Outlook" at the OonstuHe Street Congregational Church. He assorted that ono could always rely moro on Chinese than on Japanese, because for c-Mvturics they had been trained in that direction," and already tihe scrupulous and moral system of Chines© ethics had reached tlio Christian level. No raco .was so fitted -to interpret to them' in their national and commercial lifo tho Sermon on tiho Mount as ,tho Chinese, nnd peoplo wero beginning to see that they wero only Burglarising tlio Christian dhurch as, long as they had a thousand million peoplo un-Christiainsed. Yet pooplo asked him: " Why are you jn such a hurry to get tho world evangelised?" Ten'years ago the great nations of the East woro asleeg, but ithoy must act now or loso the opportunity. Tlio first word of the Lord s Prayer committed them to missionary enterprise), and their ideal must be a universal empire for God.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1876, 9 October 1913, Page 7
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180COMPLIMENT TO CHINESE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1876, 9 October 1913, Page 7
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