Lin Shao-yang.

A Chinese Appeal to Christendom Concerning Christian Missions.

Watts & Co. London. 1911. 319pp, index, double page table showing the Development of Chinese Culture taped in at rear, endpapers and edges foxed with some occasional foxing throughout, considerable browning along gutter of two prelims, original dark green cloth little marked and trifle worn at extremities. Written under the pseudonym Lin Shao-yang, the author of 'A Chinese Appeal to Christendom' was in actual fact, Reginald Johnston the author of the well known 'Twilight in the Forbidden City'. More a critic than an appeal it contains many thoughtful arguments. Chapters include: Missionaries and their Methods; Religious Tolerance in China; Monasticism in China, Christian Intolerance and the Conversion of Aborigines; Emotional Religion; Prayer, Faith and Telepathy; Science and Prayer; Christian Ethics and Social Prejudices; Religion, Magic, and Word-Spells; Western Education in China and the United Universities Scheme.

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