Christians Need Not Become Yankees

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 6, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 42.

Christians Need Not Become Yankees

PRESIDENT ANGELL, of Michigan University, said, in a speech at a missionary meeting, that, from what he had seen of missionary life in the far East, he thought some missionaries have gone too far in attempting to transform every converted Chinese and Japanese into a live Yankee. He thought that to add the shrewdness of the Yankee to the subtleness of the Oriental, would not be a very good combination. A man need not lose his individuality or nationality to become a Christian. There were Christians before there were either Englishmen or Americans.