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<正>In their reflections on the Great War,missionary groups and Christian leaders attributed the war to some wrong dominant ideas in prewar time.One was the Machiavellian principle of jungle in dealing with the inter-national relations.The other was the notion of white supremacy and western superiority in dealing with inter-cultural or inter-civilizational relations.On the basis of their understanding of war roots,they put forward their program to prevent war and keep peace. In their program,the first cure for war is to reformulate the inter-national order according to the spirit of Christ,namely,to "Christianize the international relations".In this regard,many missionary groups changed the traditional and evangelistic approach narrowly focusing on conversion and salvation of individual souls and broadened their agenda to the solution of intentional issues and the establishment of a just world order on the base of Christian love and universal brotherhood.The second cure is to reformulate the inter-cultural relations(especialIy between the West and the East),including appreciating and respecting Oriental cultures as equals and even using the heritages of other cultures to supplement Western Christianity and to enrich the Christian heritage.With this notion,they revised the missionary goal,which was no longer "the transplantation of Western Christianity" into Oriental lands but filling "all nations with the spirit of Christ" and representing Christ in all civilizations.By these reflections,missionaries advanced a moralistic and Christian approach to international affairs and brought about the rise of Christian internationalism,which is of great value to the cultural dialogue and international understanding in the age of globalization.