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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students found questions revolving in their minds. They attended "colloquia" where they could ask their questions for any one to answer. Most of the questions exhibited a naīve idealism and an insistence on the particular rather than the general. Said one student: "Would it be possible for Christianity, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism to be worked together into a whole?" "It would not," said Dr. Francis C. M. Wei, President of Central China Christian University. Many asked: "Can't the missionaries bring Christ to the foreign fields without also bringing Christianity or Christian Civilization?" One asked a question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Student Volunteers | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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