Show I CHINESE MISSIONARIES Many Folks Hold that Reform Should Always Begin at Homo Many people among us are led to say we should reform the millIons of Ignorant Igno-rant and vicious citizens In our own lands before commencing operations on I the heathen Chinese heothen The Chinese also will point with scorn to the crowds of debauched American and other sailors who get shore leave to goon go-on shore when their ships are In Chinese Chi-nese ports and run In drunKen riot among the harmless natives In a 1 manner that Is disgusting In the ex treme Even the welltodo merchants and other representatives of our lands when In China too often live anything I but moral lives so that the Chinese aru I led to cry shame upon them Attend to your own people first they say and when you have lifted them up to tho standard you preach to us we will gladly listen to your words The Chinese ofilclals do not hate the I average regular missionary as a man L but they dislike his teaching Tho missionarys pure and upright life as an example for the Chinese people Is a continual and unmistakable object lesson les-son to the ofilclals making manifest by contrast their own cruel grasping evil lives Tile corrupt official is bettor pleased with the depraved European or American merchant than he Is with the missionary Ho feels that the merchants and he have much In common com-mon are birds of a feather In theory the Chinese classics hold that the ofilclals are to be like parents to tho people I Is therefore their duty I to aid and Instruct the people on all points of morality and doctrine This duty they not only do not perform themselves but they very strenuously object to tIm sensible selfdenying missionary when he comey unasked to perform It for them The more the I fitupld common people as they aro I called can be kept in Ignorance lie I more easily they can be governed I Hence the attempt of the missionary Ito I-to uplift them Is n conspiracy against one of the strongholds o officialdom The misrepresentations of the object and the work of missionaries and tho I wolt Irn many evil things attributed to thor i as well as the riots stirred up by tho I J j olfiplals ending In tho occasional murder of tho more aggressive missionaries mSc sionaries are mostly duo to this cause From Alnslles I |