Reformation in China

Missionaries have now become a serious embarrassment to their Chinese Christian friends. This is one of the reasons why most U.S. Protestant missionaries are pulling out of China, according to Dr. Rowland M. Cross, Far Eastern missions secretary of the National Council of Churches.

Dr. Cross's statement last week was underscored by a report from Shanghai that more than 400 representatives of Chinese Christian organizations had formed a group with the resounding title: "Shanghai Christian Associations' Committee for Resisting American Aggression and Aiding Korea."

"We Chinese Christians," they said in a telegram to Mao Tse-tung, "have joined enthusiastically in the great movement . . . now spreading among the entire Chinese people. We assure you that we will follow your leadership and contribute whatever we have to defeat these imperialist provocations, safeguard world peace and the security of our country.

"We will also complete the reformation of the Chinese churches in the direction of self-government, self-propagation and self-support within the shortest possible time, so as to get rid of the American imperialists' misuse of Christianity as a means of carrying on their aggressive conspiracy in China."

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