CHINA

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 7 December 1927, Page 7

CHINA

THE PRESENT FEELING HELP REQUIRED AND WELCOMED STATEMENT BY LADY MISSIONARY. Boston (U.S.A.). “There has been a tremendous awakening along educational fines in China,” said Miss Myfanwy Wood, long a missionary in China, speaking to members of the American Board of Foreign Missions from all parts of the United States and to missionaries' from distant corners of the earth, gathered in Boston to dis"cuss appropriations for carrying on tlie work of the American board, the oldest foreign missionary organisation in America, in the 13 foreign countries in which schools are supported . "China has an open door for everything foreign. Therefore we find moving pictures from the West dumped in upon her, with no attempt at censorship; modern industrial methods, pood as well as bad, adopted by her big business concerns, along with the adoption of the other goods and bads of modern civilisation,” said Miss Wooo. “While it is true that the Chinese as a nation are eager for independence it is not true that the Chinese Christians wish to be left, wholly alone and without friendly aid from the Western Churches. The attitude that financial aid is no longer necessary in China is giving impression to Chinese Christians that it is only when the foreigner can dominate that he is willing to donate his money.”