Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wednesday night Bishop Roots addressed members of the St. Paul's Society in Phillips Brooks House on "The Christian Movement in China". He traced the four great movements which led to the establishment of the "Chinese Church", which now comprises 400,000 members and is a great power for good in the Chinese Republic...
...Right Reverend Logan H. Roots '91, Bishop of Hankow will address the St. Paul's Society this evening at 7.30 in the Noble Room of the Phillips Brooks House. Bishop Roots will speak on "The Christian Movement in China". Since 1904 he has been the leader of the most important of the Christian centers of China...
...authority, and anything that is not accounted for in it is not a case for courts. A pistol murder, for example, cannot come up in court because Allah, when he dictated the Koran, forgot to speak of pistols. In addition, a Moslem can kill, assault, rob, and injure a Christian in any manner he pleases because this doesn't constitute a crime in Turkey. With prospects like these any man fortunate enough to be born a Turk is indeed lucky, provided of course that he can find a Christian on whom to practice the pastimes the Koran neglects to forbid...
Only in this way can peace be re-established and the Christian civilization in the territories that for so long have passed through fire and sword, be saved and strengthened to the interest of humanity...
...Turkophile diplomacy of such European powers as France and Italy to establish a treaty based on justice, having due regard to the rights of the people concerned and not a treaty dictated by the jealousies and selfishness of the Allied Powers themselves. There lies the hope of the Christians of the east, and indeed of all others, for salvation and peace; Let the Turks be free in all the territories in which they are a majority; Let Armenia, Ionia and Thrace be emancipated from the bonds of slavery to the Turks; Put an end to the sufferings of the Christian...