T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S 889 One of these fruits is the strong anti-Christian agitation everywhere springing up on the part of heathen leaders and based upon statements taken from Christian missionaries themselves. A few months ago we reprinted articles from a Buddhist paper of Ceylon in which the denials of some leading Christian theologians were featured, pointing out to the heathen that even the highly placed theologians were admitting that the foundations of the Christian Church were crumbling, and calling upon the people to hold firmly to their own beliefs. Now the news pours in from China regarding the anti-Christian propa ganda, and of the forming o f anti-Christian federations for the purpose of disparaging American mission interests. The Chinese papers are spreading the idea broadcast and already there is much apprehension lest the move ment should assume more aggressive developments. The propaganda is being pushed especially among college students. Appeals have been made to Chinese officials to try to nip the movement in the bud lest it should eventually lead to bloodshed. The Anti-Christian Alliance of China was organized at Peking in April with 800 members, and the suggestion for the formation of an all-China federation was unanimously passed. Reference is made in their literature to the great strides of science and the bankruptcy of Christianity in America, and objection is raised to Christian missionaries turning their attention to China under such conditions. Rev. T. L. Blailock, Southern Baptist missionary at Hankow, China, writes to the Western Recorder of the widespread proportions of this move ment, and says as to its cause that it had its rise in European and American teaching and philosophy, and that in no small measure Chinese students educated in American schools are responsible. He declares that it is. the legitimate child of the teaching of evolution (meaning not development and progress but Darwinism). It is a concrete case of what modernism will eventually result in among any people. Really we are getting tired of people writing us to the effect that they see nothing incompatible between Christianity and modern evolutionary views. A good way to test out these assertions is to go to the heathen with the Bible in one hand and the literature of modernism in the other and see what happens. It cannot but lead to the rejection of the missionary who goes under such an arrangement. The most simple-minded Chinaman can see that no harmony exists between the two things—that the modernist missionary is offering him one thing and believing another. In plain words, evolutionary teachers will have to go out under some other flag than the Christian flag. •$'£. ^ & WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO AMERICA? “ A certain householder planted a vineyard and hedged it round about. He let it out to husbandmen, and then went into a far country” (Matt. 21:83-34). The Householder was Jehovah. The vineyard was Israel, divinely cre ated, trained and guarded (Isa. 5:1-7). In the time of fruit, servants were sent to get the Householder’s re turns. There are special seasons, both in the history o f souls and nations, (See Insert)
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