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Show The Influence oi Christianity Dr. Lin Yutang, Chinese author, now residing in this country, has written several books which have been "eaten up" by the Americans. Ameri-cans. He passes as a philosopher of considerable wisdom. Speaking the other day in New York, the Chinese writer asserted that "the dismal fact is that Christianity has no influence in business and politics, both shaping shap-ing our lives." Met, as a "heathen," "hea-then," he declared that "we have nothing but the Bible to hold civilization together." We are utterly unable to understand un-derstand the mental processes of any student of the past who comes to the conclusion that Christianity "has no influence in business and politics." The fact is that Christianity has influenced influ-enced business and politics in every country of the world except where there are no Christians. The trouble with some philosophers, philoso-phers, and certain religious leaders, lead-ers, is that they expect the mil-lenium mil-lenium and fail to make proper allowance for the slow processes of human progress. Dr. Mutang and other critics of Christianity should know that it has widened the scope of men's minds and broadened the tolerance of mankind. man-kind. It is making steady prog-ressand prog-ressand its influence is felt in every activity of modern, Christian Chris-tian countries. |