Article April 21, 1923 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Cornelius A. Wood, Luther Burbank, Charles L. Kloss

[From the Living Church, Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 18, 1922]

The Rt. Rev. L. H. Roots, Bishop of Hankow, recently made an address on the necessity for the cooperation of all Christian forces in china. "The National Christian Council is faced with one of the most difficult and inspiring tasks in Christendom," he said. "It is not to secure organic Christian unity, but to secure the more vital and practical thing, promotion of intelligence between each denominational unit so that each may know what the other is doing, and each may have the sympathy and interest of the others. Our primary duty as Christians, in facing one another when we differ in matters of creed, is not to fence ourselves off with those with whom we agree and have no dealings with the rest, but to seek out the basic things upon which all Christians agree, and work together. Men and women do not leave their homes and friends and go to the other ends of the earth to live the lives most missionaries must lead, unless they have the spirit of Christ in them; and it is on this fundamental love of Christ that all of us can get together to do our work in the mission field in China. We are faced with a China which is going to pieces. Its intellectual traditions are shattered. It is morally and spiritually shaken to pieces; and we have an opportunity to help as Christian people, if we can all get together, not merely as an organization, but as a working brotherhood of sincere Christians."

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