War’s Hindrance to Christian Missions
The effect of war on Christian mission work is emphasized by Rev. A. B. Hutchinson in the following terse manner: "The fact that Japan is fighting with a professedly-Christian foe, whose conduct contradicts all that the Japanese have been learning to connect with the sacred name of Christ, is a serious hindrance to our work. Duplicity, greed, cruelty, deliberate massacre of hundreds of helpless victims, with repeated disregard of most solemn promises, are constantly referred to as inevitable fruits of Greek Christianity, and it is difficult to cause them to understand that that kind of Christianity is something very different from the teaching of the Saviour and His apostles."