Missionary Work Among China’s Upper Classes
REV. GILBERT REID, writing to the Occidental Mission Board, San Francisco, says: "Out of 1,500 Protestant missionaries in China, men and women, only three are devoting a large portion of their time to the upper classes, and of these two are especially engaged with the literary department. Such a neglect, and that, too, of an influential class, without whose aid China can never be transformed and uplifted, makes the need both apparent and imperative. To meet the need there must be specialty of attention and concentration of effort. Just at present there is a special need, with special opportunities and facilities, owing to the new crisis in China's history. As a result of war between China and Japan, more may be accomplished to extend Western methods of civilization and education, and to establish Christian institutions, than in thirty years gone by, if only Christian men and women are ready to meet the emergency and meet the demands."