In China

Denominationalism in the U. S. is accustomed to justify itself by the thought that Truth appears to man in many different forms. With this and other commonplaces, the average American protestant evades the horrible thought that if the Presbyterian Church is the one true church, the Baptist Church is not, etc.

But the current justifications for denominationalism become thin when missionaries in foreign fields endeavor to translate them into heathen tongues. In Chinese, for example, the Methodist Episcopal Mission becomes, literally, "the doubly beautiful society," because there are two m's in M. E. M., and the Chinese pronounces m as "may," and "may" means "beautiful." The Wesleyan Methodists are the "following the Doctrine society," the Lutherans the "doing the Doctrine society," the Limited Methodists the "be with me society," the Congregationalists the "common sense society," etc.

All this was pointed out by Dr. C. Y. Cheng, leader of Chinese Christian work, now in the U. S.

There are now nearly 400,000 Christians in China, said he; but the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy has added to the difficulties of presenting to the remaining 400,000,000 the Christian faith in its essential simplicity.