Evening star., 1925-02-01
HOME DOMINATION
OF MISSIONS IS HIT
Speakers Favor Co-0pera-
ton, Holding Native DeveI-
opment Is Needed.

! Like an undercurrent beneath
words Of speakers before the foreign
missions convention yesterday, came
Il strong plea for the church at home
| gradually to eliminate all tendency
| toward domination over the missions
abroad. and to foster the steady and
Increasing development of COM
| radely cooperation.
This dominant note, sounded by
speakers since the start Of the con-
vention, found distinctly powerful ut
| terances yesterday
| Bishop II. St. George Tucker, re-
| Gently of the diocese of Toxic, eau
| toned against leaning too far toward
placing entire administration OF ma
| tive church affairs in the hands of
native Christians, but at the same
time warned against domination by
| the home church
1T should be cooperation, not
domination in the church. charged
Bishop Tucker. THE independent
leadership of the native church
should be maintained"
And in one Of the climax speeches
| or the convention last night DR.
Harris E Kirk, pastor of the Frank
! lin Street Church of Baltimore, refer
ring to the establishment of native
churches In the Orient on their own
Sees Work Justified.
When we throw these great people
on their own resources, we NAV vet
zee the breaking out on our distracted
ana Industrial Western world that
splehdor or God which shall not only
JUSTIFY all mission work in the East.
nut enable us OF the West TO posse IS
ourselves of those deeper and more
durable blessings of the kingdom OF
God"
leadership. partnership, comrade-
SNIP describe the evolution Of rela-
IIohs between the home church of
North America and the mission
churches of Latin America, accord
ing 20 rev. j. II. Mclean OF Chile,
VINO spoke last night.
The first stage. that or lAadersbin
is passed, he said. At present the re
lation OF the church which sent the
missionaries and the church which
mas taken root as the result Of the
work or the missionaries is that of
partnership The future. he said
might be looked to hopefully as
holding the possibility of comrade
snip between the mother church and
the offspring.
Appeals for Latins.
lie appealed on behalf Of the
churches in Latin America for a
larger participation in the distribu-
tioh OF forces and the expenditures Of
FUNDS for church work. pointine to
the fact that 5000 sons and daughters
OF the Latin American church were
now dedicating their lives to church
activities as pastors. teachers nurses.
eVangelists and social service work
ers.
Bishop Tucker then painted his
picture of conditions and REQUIRE
ments OF the church in the Far East
me aim or missionary work" he
said, is the Christianization of the
hauon. The native church is the
agency through which alone this aim
can be realized. The first stage Of
missionary work is the effort to
ests olish the native church: to At il
Tor Its work, and to help create con-
dirlons favorable for that work. In
the Far East, generally speskinp
mat stage has been passed already
speak with special reference to
Japan, but the same principles hold
eooa Tor China. The missionary task
OF the present stage of our work is
cooperation with the native church
in the evangellzation OF the nation
Cooperation Is Needed.
such church. while well ousIi-
ned for leadership in Christian work
Is not adequate to carry forward the
task OF gelizatio of the nation
Cooperation is necessary for It's own
| healthy growth, and still more so
ior the full utilization of the oppor-
tunities to carry forward tho eTar
gelization of the nation"
The Imprisoned Splendor ~ The
orient was the topic Of the address
by DR.. Kirk.
Inc mission movement Of th.
orient has now reached a point WHARF
IL Is ceasing to be the importation
or something foreign and external
10 the native life, and has begun to
aefeIop the latent element in the
oriental soul. The imprisoned snIen-
dor of the Orient is beginning to es-
cape That is why there is a iusti-
maple belief among missionary lead
ers that native church contro1Iad
by native peoples rather than a com
pick of mission activities under for
eign direction, IS the legitimate goal
of all wise endeavor"
Indian Churchmap Speaks.
From India, through Rev. Bbasker
Z. HiVale of Bombay. came the mes
sage last niYat' that denomination
lines are being wiped out by Chris
tlans in that country, with the result
that denominations are merging
themselves into national church OF
India.
He gave five reasons for his belief
in the future of the Christian church
in India.
In the early history of the
church. he said, "the missionary had
to arrange for all the converts to live
together away from the other COM
munities, partly because he was
afraid of the un-Christian influence
and partly because the Hindus re-
fused to have anything to do with
the converts. The result was that
the Indian Christian community be-
came denationalized. Today, how
ever, the missionary ENCOURAGES and
the Christian Indian demands par
ticipation in the national life"
Faiths Are Compared.
Second, he said The Hindu reli-
gions were studied some time ago to
discuss the weak points and show
the superiority of the Christian faith
Today efforts are being made to ap-
preciate the good points of non
Christian religions and Christ is pre-
sented as the crown and fulfller of
aspirations of other religions
Next. Indians became Methodists
Congreg egationalists. and Presbyterians,
etc, because missionaries of those
denominations happened to go to
their villages. Today the denomina-
tions have begun to merge into a
National Church of India.
I'm the early days the missionary
was a father and the converts were
treated as children. Today Indians
are given more share in the Christian
work. Indian churches have started
| Indian national missionary societies
financed by Indian money.
Observation-Disclosures Grow.
"In these days of the mingling of
| the nations of the world many mis-