Foreign News: Feng's Faith

The most famed Chinaman of today is Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, called 'the Christian General" and master of the largest personal army in the world (195,000 men). For a generation at least, Christian missionaries have called Feng the "Chinese Cromwell," rejoiced at his large-scale conversions of his troops to Christianity, and contentedly observed his distributions of Bibles in carload lots. Therefore the shock to Christians was great, last week, when delayed and not positively confirmed reports envisioned Marshal Feng as turning from Christianity to a newer faith.

According to an explicit despatch, the erstwhile...

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