140 stance^, for:-example, the Presbyterians refused a certain candidate in their own denomination who was to go and teach in one of these Universities. They re fused him because they regarded him as theologically and radically unsound, but this same man then applied to an other denomination and was accepted by them, and sent out by them to teach in the same University where the Presbyterians had refused to accept him. The different denominations send their candidates for the ministry to these Union Universities, where many of them are poisoned in their faith and incapacitated for the great work to which God has called them, and for which their own churches have spent much money in training them in the preliminary schools. HI. China’s Need Now, a few moments on the most important subject of all,—China’s need. I can tell you China’s great need in a word— the Gospel; the simon pure Gospel; the Gospel of the Book, the Gospel of a Christ, Who was conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost and born of a virgin, the Gospel of a Christ Who died, and by dying made perfect and full atonement for sin, on the ground of which the vilest Chinese sin ner can And instant and complete for giveness and justification through sim ply believing on Him Who died, the Gospel of a Christ Who was conceived the dead and now lives in the glory and has all power in heaven and on earth, and Who can, therefore, deliver the opium eater, and other slaves of sin, from the power of their sins in a moment. China needs Christ, the real Christ, the Christ of this Book, the actual historical Christ of the four Gos pels— Christ Jesus. China needs salvation, not education. I believe we have made a great mistake in putting altogether too much money and too many men and women, com-
THE K I N G ' S BUS I NE S S paratively, into education and alto gether too little and too few into evan gelization. Of course, we need to edu cate our Chinese ministers, though, even then, we need to educate in the right way, and much of the theologi cal education in China is not of the right kind to train effective ministers for the Chinese Church, but the Uni versities, into which the Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists, and others, are pouring so much money, and for which they are drafting so many of our men and women who go out as missionaries, are not to any great extent training ministers. One of the greatest and best equipped of the missionary Univer sities had not (at least a year or two ago) sent one single man into the min istry for years. Another mistake we are making, at least I think it is a mistake, is the un due eagerness we are showing to get hold of the educated classes and the in fluential and the rich. One great mis sionary body has said that the other missions can go for the poor and un educated and the such like if they wish, but “ our Mission is to the educated and to the leaders.” This, certainly, was not Jesus Christ’s program, nor the program of the apostles. “ To the poor,” the Gospel “ was preached,” and it reached them, and in due time, follow ing God’s order, it reached the scholars and the rulers and the governors and the kings and emperors. The old Gospel, preached in the old way, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to all classes, especially to the poor, is China’s great need today. That will solve all problems and nothing else will. In time it will solve the political prob lem, and nothing else will. It will solve the industrial problem, and nothing else will. It will solve the grave financial problems, and nothing else will. It will solve the social problem and noth ing else will. And it will solve the greatest problem of all — the moral
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