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""10 GENERAL REVIEW OF THE YEARshoulders to those of the Chinese. The Chinese Church isat present, subject to sharp growing pains" due to the widedifference between more or less clearly perceived responsibility, and more or Jess clearly recognized lack of capacity.This condition can not, however, be permanent. The Christian Church in China must go forward into its new opportunity, or must confess itself a tested and a proved failure.^-rr o M v U ^ S de li cate transition stage it is notdifficult for the Candid Critic to point outthat nothing is right and that everything is wrong. Thenumbers of the church grow but slowly, and its activitiesdo not proportionately expand. There is everywhere alack of large results, commensurate with opportunities.There is a general unwillingness to arrive at self-support,which in some missions is no further advanced now thanit was twenty years ago. There are in missionary education serious defects, and in every stage from the primaryschool, up to. and through the so-called (and generally miscalled) University. Our graduates are dazzled by thehitherto unheard of opportunities for sudden wealth farbeyond the wildest dreams of their ancestors. These studentswe can not do anything with them, and we can not do anything without them ! The new missionary regime is brimfulof organization. Everybody is on a committee; most areon several, and between the sessions of committees to preparefor conferences, and conferences to hear the reports ofprevious committees, and to nominate new committees, thereis actually less accomplished than when I was a !boy"What you say, kind Friend, is not without some grainsof sense ;but let us remind you that in every age of greattransition the Spirit of God has been working. He is working now, even in the midst of this cruel World War, indeedlie was never more at work than now. All these impressivechanges point to the eventual coming of the Kingdom of Godin China.