COME-BACK AT CONSUL ON CHINESE MISSIONS
“BOOT ON OTHER FOOT” CONTROVERSY IN SYDNEY United I*. A.—By Telegraph—Copyrigh Reed. 11.40 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. Tlie speech of the Consul-General for China, Mr. F. T. Sung, before the Presbyterian General Assembly yesterday, when he criticised the work of missions in China, has drawn a reply from Mr. J. W. Doney, a Presbyterian, who was engaged in missionary administrative work in China for 10 years. He denied that Christians exploited the Chinese people for their own ends, and that the missions were not in touch with the new national sentiment in China. Regarding exploitation, he said the boot was on the other foot. In his speech yesterday, Mr. Sung said sectarianism presented one of the biggest problems the Christian faith in China had to face. Was it to be wondered at that the Westerner was represented in pictures as carrying a rifle in one hand and a Bible in the other? China at present was undergoing a national revolution, and the cry was lor a full recognition of her right to rule her own people. The refusal on the part of those in control of missionary schools to register them with the Ministry of Education, according to regulation, was tantamount to a refusal to recognise the sovereignty of the National Government. THREE PRINCIPLES Their refusal to comply with a request that the three principles of the people—nationalism, democrary, and livelihood—which were the inspiration of all modern thought in China today, should be taught in the mission schools, was a further indication of the lack of sympathy of the Christian Churches with tho new national movement in China, and of their failure to adapt themselves to the trend of the times. Moreover, the withdrawal of a great number of missionaries from the interior, when Britain declared that her missionaries were no longer under her jurisdiction, but under the protection of the Chinese Government, was considered an insult to the national sentiment.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1079, 17 September 1930, Page 9
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