Show MISSIONARIES AND PROJECTION The Philadelphia North American says a distinguished clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal church In thlH t city last Sunday quoting tho declaration declara-tion of his bishop that a missionary should be prepared to live or to die in the world says that he believed It to be not only unwise but absolutely wrong to back up any purely missionary mission-ary enterprise or to protect the missionaries mis-sionaries by soldiers or gunboats A missionary he said by the very character char-acter of his service expatriated himself him-self cut himself oft from all political dependence and relied entirelyandex I clusively upon God I he did not he I was not u missionary in the true sense I and he had no business to pretend to I be one He added that while holding at tho same lime as every nation lme CCfY 1llol W should to the extent of Us ability and to tho last use of its arms protect the citizens and the properly of its citizens citi-zens but the missionary had no right to demand such protection i That is good talk from the minister In Philadelphia but would he talk the same way 1C he wore in Peking I The North American quotes again from a sermon delivered a week ago by the Rev H S Bigelow a Congregational Congre-gational minister of Cincinnati In which the divine Is reported as saying I tho Chinaman does rot like us son so-n uch tho worse for Ills taste of course Tho Chinaman does not like our religion Neither do 1 like the brand that Is usually exported for his consumption Tho moro benighted L mans religion tho moro anxious anx-ious ho Is to bestow it upon others Missionary Mis-sionary zeal scorns to hear m Inverse ratio to religious enlightenment To send missionaries to the heathen ivlion wo havo such an abandonee of pacunlsrn at home seems as much like Impertinence us benevolence Notwithstanding all that it Is a fad that savages are affected only by force and the capacity to Inflict punishment Aside from tho fact that It Is tho duty of the American Nation to protect the American people In foreign countries whether they be missionaries or not the work of grace will go on faster when behind every missionary there will be If necessary n gunboat But the truth Is that the hostility In China is against foreigners They do not like them they do not like their ways and further they have t great fear that the Intention of the Western powers Js to wrest from them their I country Surely the prospect is n most gloomy one The nations arc gathering their ships Inc arms to make war upon China and yet the very utmost they can do Is to t beat them back a little from the shore No army can advance into central China except perhaps by her great river No army could exist In that country I would have to be in dally connection with Its base or starve and then if a million China men were to be killed that would be nothing I would be as when n ship goes down at sea and the waters close coso over it giving no sign that any ship ever sailed there Every wcllwlshcr of his race hopes that notwithstanding tho provocation some satisfactory adjustment ad-justment can be made without a general gen-eral war |