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March 20, 1912 ]
First of all, if the care eercised in. the
reception of its members to full communion
were exercised by the Church
authorities among us, 1 believe it is no
exaggeration to say that fully one-half
of our church members would be relegated
to the roll of the catechumenate,
at least, and many of them would have
to be turned adrift altogether. A very
large proportion of the communing
membership of the Chinese Church is
composed of persons who have given
conclusive evidence that they have been
truly regenerated and saved. As the
living germ in a very small piece of
leaven is sufficient to transform a large
mass of lifeless dough, so it will be
easy for God to use this living organism,
the Chinese Church, small as it is
in numbers, to transform the Chinese
nation.
In the second place, this Chinese
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Church, has been tried in the. fires of
martyrdom and found faithful. One of
the natural traits of the Chinese, testified
to not only by missionaries but also
by foreign merchants, is that of reliability
in all matters which they
recognize as involving a responsibility
or a trust. It lias occurred to me that
this quality of theirs is a product,
partly at least, of their peculllar in
dustrial system through the influence
of heredity. Ts'o one can pursue any
business calling in China without being
a member of the guild which represents
that business. Even the street beggar
wuoi ufiuug 10 me oeg'gars guild, and
in order to steal with impunity one
must belong to the thieves' guild. The
guild holds its members responsible for
its business reputation, and those who
injure the guild's business by betraying
a trust and thereby bringing discredit
on the organization are always
subjected to summary discipline, sometimes
of the most drastic character;
and so. at first, through fear of the consequences,
and finally through the influence
of heredity, it has come to be
a part of the Chinaman's nature to feel
that he must be faithful to a trust.
We are told that this guild feature
enters intn their iHoo et u,n eiiUotio"
w ??w.. iuvu Vi. cue "V/ U I lOtiail
Church, and it is in consequence of this
perhaps that there is no other church
in Christendom in which the sense of
the responsibility of church membership
is so strongly developed. It was in
the year 1900 that their fidelity to that
responsibility was put to its supreme
test. How they endured the test is
known to the whole Christian world,
and to the whole nation of China.
What does this mean for the future of
the Church in China? It means that we
have there a church that can be trusted
to meet all the issues of the present
and the future, however, trying they
may be, as it so nobly met thoBe of the
recent past. And as it was the Church
of the early martyrs that went everywhere
preaching the Gospel when it
was scattered abroad by persecution, so
we may hope that this martyr Church
of Phimi. tmur fhof roHwlA?o
? ?w ?. v?t i?ugiuuo nuciij uao
been proclaimed, will be ready for the
evangelistic effort required to meet the
extraordinary emergency and opportunity
of the present hour.
Dangers to be (Guarded Against.
Two special dangers need to be
guarded against with the utmost care.
The first is that Christianity, by reason
ot its supposed alliance with other
western things that have contributed to
China's emancipation, may become a
popular fad. and that the Church may
receive an influx of members that have
come into it from some other motive
than that of love and loyalty to a
ouviuur 'oy wuom mey nave Deen redeemed.
Mass movements are not
necessarily an evil. They constitute an
opportunity. They are only a manifestation
of that spiritual unrest which
makes men willing to listen to a Gospel
of peace and rest. But they always
involve a peril to the Church from
whioh it needs to be guarded with the
utmost vigilance. As with the early
Church, and with the Church in all ages,
the power of the Chinese Church to accomplish
spiritual results will be ir
proportion, not to the number, but to
the purity and the genuine faith of its
membership.
Another danger that may arise, and
that will need to be sternly met if It
does arise, is that of any possible form
of entangling alliance with the State.
All that the Chinese Church needs from
the Chinese Government is to be let
alone. It is hardly to he supposed that
under the Chinese Republic administered
by men like Dr. Sun Yat Sen and
President Yuan Shi Kal any form of
persecution will arise from which the
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Church will need to be protected by the
government. So far as government
patronage of any kind, or any form of
preferential treatment of its members
by the government is concerned, aii
that such things can do is to corrupt
the Church, and ultimately to emasculate
it of its spiritual power.
Help Needed.
It would seem that the facts of the
case, if only they could be brought
home to the Christian world in their
real significance, are Buch as would
move God's people to rise, as it were
en masse, and give the Chinese Church
all the help it can effectively use for
the accomplishment of its mighty task.
A few days ago a missionary spoke
ten minutes to a Laymen's Convention
in the city of Chattanooga, setting forth
the condition and needs of the people
of the Congo. His speech was a simple
recital of facts given without the slightest
attempt at oratorical effect. In another
ten minutes twenty-eight young
peupie were on me piauorm astting to
be sent as missionaries to that field, and
over $30,000 had been pledged to send
them. God's people are woefully lacking
in knowledge, but the love of Christ
has not gone out of their hearts, and as
they responded at Chattanooga to the
call of Africa, Bo will they respond to
the incomparably louder call of the
four hundred millions of China, if they
can only be put in possession of the
almost miraculous state of facts existing
to-day in that land.
Meanwhile, let us send from this
Conference to the Chinese Church, including
the missionaries, such a declar.
ation as will bring assurance to the
hearts of our brthren there that they
are not to be left alone In the hour of
their great need, but that the sympathy
and the Dravers and th? nlpHcoii <>n
operation of the whole Christian world
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interested in the Foreign Missionarydebt
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towards its liquidation. One of our
loyal members said she had some fine
coffee that had been in keeping for lo,
these many years, for some good purpose.
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