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Show 'ANTI-FOREIGN* OR 'ANTI-MISSIONARY5: Missionary enterprise. . .was the one great agency whose primary function was to bring China ínto contacr with me best in the Occident and to make me expansión oí the West a means to me greater welfare of the Chinese people. £. S. LATOtHKTTE, A History of'Christian Missions in China (1929). p. S43. Four times in history was China offefed the possihiliry of adopting organized Christíanity.. . - Bu: [the missions] always failed, and the fact must be .faced by Westerñérs that the Chrisüan religión in its organized íorms has been decisiveiy rejecced'by the Chínese culture. As Antonio Banfi has put it, tliis necessarily foiipwéd from .me highly organic.structu.re of Chinese humanístic moralky. which could not but view with distaste a religión piaeir.g so tragic an accent upon trans-ceñdence, and wliieh was diere ib re so dogmatíc and eceiesiastical. J O S E F H SEEDKASÍ. ' T h e >A: i~. China*; PreserA, C-i-^itr,r.i-1íu:. rv. 3 (ig-5o).. . The fauít lies largeíy with. Ch:ismni:y. í: has the misíbríttíie m evéry alien land of running counter to abnost ail cheríshed local insritutions. It oríends eveiyoner.it antaganizes every creed; it mingies with none, . because its fundamental tenets áeny :he co-existence of any other faith or standard of morality.. .ÑV» York, 19 tí.vTp". -4. That tiie Boxer uprisrng was feotií ánti-foreigri and anti-Chrisdan is incontestable, but whether k was essentíaliy anti-Chris'tian or whether k became so only because rile missionaries were foreigners has.been a matter of controversy. Steiger, for one, is at pains ro argüe irom the known tole ranee of one anethets existence of me Chinese religious sects that íhe Boxers could not have been a sect (chiao), and. from reasons of pmdence at the leas:, diey would not have attacked the Chrisdati"*. But -'as wki be' ce"'mm^trateaVonce acra!n m tire e^sti1"1-* chapters) the Boxers were áénnkeiy a hui, or se-cret society, oí an anti-Chrktian nacure. Beto re the arrival of the Christian missionaries the rebellious sects could scarcelv claím ti:at me íormer were the authors oí the coi niisibrtunes, but with their advertí and ¡aerease in numfcers, v iucided with a detenoration in me p j-Iidcai and economic ccndlri 121 |