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Christianity in Khaki
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with the related proposal to use missions in order to float foreign trade.

The following passages from a recent Report of the British Consul at Canton states with admirable lucidity the advantages of this 'combine.' 'Immense services might be rendered to our commercial interests, if only the members of the various missions in China would co-operate with our Consuls in the exploitation of the country and the introduction of commercial as well as of purely theological ideas to the Chinese intelligence.' Which is to float which, is clearly indicated in the following comment: To the sceptical Chinese the interest manifested by a missionary in business affairs would go far towards dispelling the suspicions which now attach to the presence in their midst of men whose motives they are unable to appreciate, and therefore condemn as unholy' – a sentence which, for completeness of analysis, leaves nothing to be desired. This scheme of utilizing the 'commercial instinct' for missionary purposes is quite the most ingenious scheme for reconciling God and mammon-worship that has been produced.

From the Christianity of the Archbishops we are led through the Imperial Christianity of Lord H. Cecil and the strictly business

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