PRAYERS FOR CHINA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 93, 26 April 1913, Page 6

PRAYERS FOR CHINA.

■" v T biij'F ‘3Bah* . ■ o-ip“ v- ‘W-i [By EeKOTRIO TfeLEaiWPH—CpPYBI.OHT], [UNITED PRESS (Received 9:35 .am.) <bu. London, April 25. The Rev. Mr Meyer -has received a cablegram from, the Federal Council of Churches- in America stating that all are responding- to China’s appeal. Archdeacon: Moule, .who was for fifty years in China, describes the appeal as .electrifying even Lord William Gascoyne Cecil, two- honourable motives impelling China—first, her patriotism in that she feared to risk disruption, and desired recognition as a nation; second, her respect for the Western religion. This appreciation of the, valhe of'western thought on the anti-opium crusade was also significant.

English Bishops ihvite clergy to arrange for intercessions. A recent London cablegram- stated that the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and- the Church Missionary Society have drawn up forms df prayer om behalf of China to bo read in all the churches to-morrow. The prayers exclude direct references to the spread'Of Christianity in China, exclude direct references to the spread of Christianity in China. The Primate and the National Free Church Council agreed to comply with China’s request for prayers for the success of the new Parliament.