THE KING’S BUSINESS John R. Mott in China and Japan A Letter from Tokyo.
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ditorium of their own, and larger than at Canton. This, holding over 3000, was crowded, and hundreds were turned away. We had not planned any meetings at Muk den, as Dr. Mott only expected to pass through the city en route to Korea. It was found, however, that they must wait there over Sunday in order to avoid Sunday travel. This last city broke the record of attendance with 5000 at the first meeting. Even this record has probably been broken, however, in Foochow, where Mr. Eddy now is. Last night I received this telegram from there: “Thousand inquirers first day.” Evangelistic meetings were held in the following great student centers: Canton, Hongkong, Tsinanfu, Tientsin, Peking, Paotingfu, Wuchang, Hankow, Anking, Shanghai, Nanking, Foochow and Mukden. The first meeting for Chinese students in Tokyo is to begin next Saturday afternoon. The results from Foochow have not yet been learned, but at the other centers the aggregate attendance at the meetings has exceeded 65,000, and the number of inquir ers more than 5500. One of the most striking characteristics of the meetings has been the extraordinary whole-hearted co-operation of the Govern ment. This seems to have been based in every case upon a deep conviction on the part of the officials that a republic is an impossibility without a moral foundation, and that the Christian religion is the best agency for assuring this moral foundation. President Yuan, in his talk with Mr. Mott, took pains to emphasize this point. At Canton the Minister of Education presided at one meeting, and the Chief Justice of the Province at another. There alsothe Com missioner of Foreign Affairs introduced
Mr. Lyman Stewart, Los Angeles, Cal. Dear Mr. Stewart:
The past two months have been the most splendid days I have ever spent in China. I have been with Mr. Mott in his series of Continuation Committee Conferences and with him and Mr. Eddy in a number of the remarkable evangelistic meetings which have been held for Government school students. I shall have to write you two letters, one concerning the conferences and the other the evangelistic meetings, and will devote this to the evangelistic meet ings. Dr. Mott says that they surpass any thing that he has known in his experience of twenty-five years in over forty different countries, and I can well believe that there is no exaggeration in the statement. Canton was the first city visited. The largest theater in the city was secured for the meetings. Five thousand tickets were distributed, largely to Government school students. I reached the hall on the first night quite a while before the advertised time of opening, but was stopped at the door and was told that there was no chance to get in. Students were already being turn ed away. The audience of about 3000 was a magnificent sight. Mr. Mott spoke the first time for an hour and a half and dis missed the audience. Some 1500 remained and he srave a second address for nearly an hour. This was followed on two other nights by crowded halls, and resulted in a total of over 800 inquirers. The interest here was so far ¡beyond our expectations that we assumed it would be exceptional. The reverse proved to be true. Peking, hearing of the results at Canton, determin ed that they must build a temporary au-
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