THOUGHTS OF THE TIMES.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 May 1931, Page 4

THOUGHTS OF THE TIMES.

CHINA AND CHRISTIANITY. Chjna, the most thickly-populated country in the world, is to-day emerging from a period comparable to the dark ages in European history. This statement was made at • the Auckland University College recently by Dr. T. Z. Koo, the eminent Chinese scholar, who is touring the world in the interests of the World Student Christian Federation. The whole . history of : China in recent times, he said, had! been an attempt to find some unifying; power which would restore ordered! thought and give people a feeling of ! security. That power had been found in the Christian Church, and it was; for that reason Christianity had gained so strong a hold over modern China. Other countries, he thought, might benefit from China’s example. A wave of discontent and revolt against present conditions seemed to he sweeping through modern life. Tn all the countries the speaker had visited lie had sensed a feeling of dissatisfaction with, democracy, with capitalism, and with: all the institutions that had beent laboriously built up in the last few centuries. This fact. he was convinced, was mainly due to the sense' of nurposelessnes s which seemed to be characteristic of the present age.