宋耀如与林乐知

Charles Jones Soong and Young John Allen

监理会上海布道团负责人林乐知是宋耀如学生时代崇拜的偶像和学习的榜样。1886年1月到达上海后,宋耀如在林乐知手下任巡回传道,由于薪酬问题以及各自理念的不同,两人之间产生了不可调和的矛盾。1892年,宋耀如宣布退出布道团,自愿降为不受教会调派不拿薪水的"本处传道"。自身所遭受的不公正待遇,激发了宋耀如内心的民族主义情绪,加上他在美国所接受的平等、自由、民主的理念,促使他逐渐成为一位职业革命家。但宋耀如对基督教的信仰依然虔诚,终其一生他都是虔诚的基督徒。

At his school days,Charles Jones Soong revered Young John Allen,director of the China Mission of the South Methodist Eposcopal Church,as an ideal.After his arrival at shanghai in January,1886,Soong started his work as a preacher on trial under Allen.The remuneration issues,as well as the differences between their own idea resulted in irreconcilable contradiction between Soong and Allen.Soong announced his withdrawal from the Mission,and became a local preacher,who was free from transfer by the Mission and without pay from the Missiion.Although,no longer a missionary Soong continued to be a devout and active Christian all his life and patisipated in founding the China YMCA in Shanghai.