本文主張，蔣介石的國民黨成功的利用了美國保守派宣教士的利益關切來推展其政治意圖。前行政院新聞局長兼日本、美國大使董顯光於1959 年在蔣介石與一群宣教士的集會上做了一個演講。本文將深入探討這個演講的細節，並呈現蔣介石政府如何利用跟他們合作的宣教士，而這些宣教士多是神學上較為保守的美國信徒。這篇演講的年代正是「現代派」的美國國家基督教會協會（NCCCUSA）想要促使美國政府承認中華人民共和國的時代。在董顯光的演講中，他反對了這樣的想法，卻同時細膩的處理了宣教士在台灣時的複雜心結，希望他們支持國民黨的政治方針。董顯光認為宣教士和國民黨是必然的同盟，因為蔣總統、他自己本身還有許多其他國民黨的領袖都是基要派基督徒，都想要傳福音，也都擔心現代派基督徒和共產主義可能帶來的不良影響。本文的結論反省，支持蔣介石與其政府的政策是否對宣教士宣教的一切努力，可能帶來了傷害。從這段歷史可以學習到的是，宣教士必須仔細思考支持一個政治意圖與政治方針是如何影響到他們
的宣教使命 。

This article argues that Chiang Kia-shek’s ( 蔣介石) Nationalist Party
( 國民黨) successfully appealed to the missionary interests and anxieties
of America’s conservative Christians to advance a political agenda. This
becomes apparent in a 1959 speech that was made in the presence of Chiang
to a large and formal gathering of Taiwan missionaries by Hollington
Tong ( 董顯光), who was the former Director General of the Government
Information Office and ambassador to both Japan and the United States.
The speech is examined in some detail in order to demonstrate how Chiang’s
government successfully harnessed the energies of the missionaries
who served among them, most of whom were theologically conservative
Americans. The speech was delivered when “modernist” Christians in the
National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. were urging both the
United Nations and the United States government to recognize the People’s
Republic of China. Tong’s speech opposed the idea and, in an effort that
showed a sophisticated awareness of the issues important to the missionaries who served in Taiwan, asked the missionaries to commit to the Nationalist agenda. Tong did this by arguing that the missionaries and Nationalists were natural allies; that President Chiang, he himself, and many other Nationalist leaders were fundamentalist Christians who desired to evangelize and were anxious about both modernist Christianity and Communism. The article concludes by pondering whether endorsing Chiang and his government might have harmed the missionary endeavor. This stage in history teaches that missionaries should think carefully about motives and how a political agenda might affect their mission.