Evening star., 1925-01-30
REVISED METHODS
IN MISSIONS URGED
Need for Better Educational
Work Stressed by Leaders
at Convention.

Importance of revising educational
| methods to meet changing conditions
In non-Christian lands was stressed
in messages delivered by missionaries
from the frontiers OF Christianity in
foreign lands before more than 5000
sion OF the foreign missions conven-
/ tion of the United States and Canada
in the Washington Auditorium.
keynote addresses proclaimed the
passing of the old order. and explain
ed how the way must be prepared for
the new scheme Of things. Speakers
pointed to educatio as a corner stone
| In the future structure OF the native
| Christian church in lands hitherto
pagan or nom Christian. Briefly. II
was declared, foreign lands are in a
! transitional period today. A new
consciousness is awakening. Native
: Christian leaders will be needed TO
continue the work started by Chris
| tian missionaries. In turn, 1t was
| shown, education must supply these
| native leaders with the necessary
equipment for their tasks.
Quality Now Sought.
! The work in the future will be for
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| then let the natives interpret their
religions for themselves. 1t was
shown that where the church 15
years ago was striving to bring the
word of God to whole peoples that
otherwise might go TO their graves
| without hearing of Christ. today ef-
| fort was being centered on quality
! rather than on quantity, assurance
| being felt that qualified native Chris
To-
they themselves had been properly
! trained.
China's situation was graphically
portrayed by Dean J. d. McRae OF
| Shantuns University. Taking the
| family IS a medium OF illustrating his
| point, Dean McRae pointed to the
| fact that in China families today
| were smaller than in days gone by
! that Western ideas were being pick
ed up through Western commercial
! Influence and the result in some cases
| was undesirable.
Honesty BEING Affected.
| The characteristic honesty and
| loyalty of the Chinese is being sub
! merged in some quarters. he said, ir
an imitation of unsavory phases OF
! Western commercial ideas; the
/ Oriental moral structure is being
affected by Occidental association
And the answer to it all, he conclud.
ed. is education. Education first ot
the prospective native Christian
leaders and through them and theil
! teachings education indirectly to tht
masses was the solution he outlined
DIT. Ida Belle Lewis of China spoke
! on the school as an agency in the
building of character, centering hel
address on the benefits of school.
divlduals.
As usual simultaneous conference
| viii form the bulk OF the convention
| business from 2:30 until 1870 O'Clock
| this afternoon, and at 4:45 genera
session will be held in the Auditorium
| at which Bishop A. r Clippinger OF
Dayton, Ohio, will preside. After &
prayer by Rev. w. B. Olmstesd O.
| Chica go addresses will be delivered
by Rev. Arthur Judson Brown, D. d.
| of New York and Mary L. Wooley o.
South Hadley, Mass
Auditorium Is Packed.
Tonisht's session. starting at
o'clock, will include addresses b,
Prof. T. Dwight Sloan, NJ. D.. OF tn,
! PekinE Union Medical College or
Medical Mission: Miss MARGARET e
Burton Of New York, on Women anc
Children in Industry in the Far East"
DR.. T. kagawa, on sixteen Years o.
Campaigning for Christ" and Prof
! Rufus Jones of Haverford College
Pa, on The Power of Christ Re
! vea1ed in Personal Life"
The session this morning was mark
ed by virtually a capacity audience
! every seat in the huge auditorium be
ing occupied. The mornings them,
IF discussion was Christian Educa
tion in the Mission Field"
Need of Colleges stressed.
Responsibility of Christian colIeg
! women in Asia was emphasized b
Helen n Hunt, dean of women Il
Judson college, Burmah, India, VIII
| lollo"ed Dean McRae on the pro
gram today.
Appealing for CO. cooperation Of WON
en- of the world. Miss Hunt declared
The work which must be shoulders
by the Christian people of the worl
Is growing so increasingly heavy an
complicated that we cannot consen
to limit the workers to any countr
or any class All countries and al
classes must labor together IL S
heavy a load is to be moved and tn
! world to go forward.
"A Christian college in the Orien
is laboratory in which all the prob
lens of class with class, race wit
race, East with West, peace and wa
are daily being tested. The COLES
women of the East must be the one
to build the girls schools into tn
life and need of their country. Thi
is one of their great contributions an
no one but they can make it. lie
us share with them, all we have wo
by painful effort and then go on to
gether working for all the huma
family"
DIR. Henry's Plea.
DR.. James Mcclure Henry, presi
dent Of Canton Christian Colles'
China, centered his address on tn
need for winning the present genera
ton OF non-Christian students t
Christianity.
opportunity for training under Chris
tian auspices the great leaders OF tn
new world" DR.. Henry said
"A new world is emerging in tn
Orient. In India, in China, mishtie
transformation is taxing place tha
the emergence of Europe from tn
Dark Ages. The part played b!
Christian trained leaders in this proc
ess cannot be estimated.
Never in the whole history of tn
church has such an opportunity bee
presented as iies before 1T today 70
the training under Christian auspice
of the coming leadership Of the ne'
world that is being born"
Outlines work In Japan.
, A different picture Of Toxic, ia
removed from the staid TOXIC OF fic
ltion. was presented by Rev. williar
Axling of Japan in an address o
"The Gospel in Japan's Creates
; City" last night.
"The dreamy, tranquil Toxic |
gone" he said. Japan is a fast