| Show MISSIONS A great gret donl has hia ha bm saM seki during th thI ties and luI nd no noble last lut I few years about th the K greet t his bit work done by b In iK 1111 pagan n 1 land rind and about th their lr might to got gov government 10 protection even CYOn at t time the tit cost e st of or war wM op o operationS There li Ii I however ho an another another n other r Je to title this and t that wt l ls Is III by b n k writer In thi th london ds pr wh he l Is tX tn II shel quoted In the Literary oC or writer sets ts forth alter a 11 July J l M fl The e of ot the subject ct the coat ceet C At of ot enter world and pried as s In t tilt the r mI mITh ulu also al o the t Time Th writer shows l w th that t ties fowl 10 i ii llIe i of ot Or t contribute to on oue OIW society slety 1 Church rr Society little oyer n U annually Th The sunt im of ot I I is pt P In m ing the motley and ami th tM the of or the funds costs 3 Inet n clergymen r c ve rt at II I l g ml rh Society t lia h has an of about t y yearly arly hH hilt hIle lt It th the ltv Itt M 1 I f rt 1 10 jt ont 1409 OM p JIlt it f ansem an V 10 ITe 11 tely l berg rn amount The f r the th far UN to Ia toW c lJ 00 W aboUt out of or which tour four I ministerial secretaries received large larg salaries In addition to extra exima charges for far children rent rates houst houa blU 1111 repairs repa I re and a ad of ot II furniture coals KM gas etc de to o about I tin us much lunch I ii The fima I lists In lii 1900 collected about for far mission Now ns as to It H IH Is pointed out Unit t t In I mm India hid in with tt I I ii a n population of 10 souls the time converts made O l by y the tho Church Missionary society In lii one ono hun hUll hundred dred years amount td to t although nit hough there are now no aa as many as liS agents tI at ot work How Ilott lIo many of at these converts are IHO genuine Is beyond oven even nn an estima I Ite te to In the year 0 the gain caln J ln was I MM ISZ Including the babies born In fam families tiles Illes of ot converts contorts It took therefore two I missionaries amid to secure lecure one Addition to time the told fold In one ono year Including IncludIng ing lug babIes and nil all And the time other oilier smite mis missionary organizations sIre are sold aid to have even axon IMS less satisfactory records Hut the time whole story Is IR not told until the time character of ot the time converts Is consid considered considered ered On point tho time paper says regarding rc ur India The London Missionary Society In its the isas p iSO ask I ic not to despise the tho low Ideas and mo ma lives with which they IhlY the time converts come omne flIe to us WI Aol And again nt at pago 4 A very largo large proportion who 0 protean H themselves ells Christians and ate baptized are BO so very ter er Ignorant that great rent cure care and ami patience are required to make them In itt acquainted with tho the fonda funda fundamental mental truths of ot Christianity Amon Among the Malay Christians which the this lj 2891 i of or the Methodist MIR Mis Missions iliuM states furnish turn Ish Us lis with the great grent majority of ot our converts p fI 76 iC n a lady Iud worker r writes When tOme one questions them by hy themselves the tao one appalling factor that forces Itself upon one ammo Is III their heir unimaginable ignorance In n most the time anxiety for tor tho thi dally dais tread bread is time the th Hulking factor for tur their con cong consciousness i iNor Nor or is the time condition different In In China Chinans I ns nl by hy this thlE extract I In the missionaries oro now thoroughly disliked although have not been b Interfered 11 with unIs their lr zeal has outrun their th lr discretion n for the Chinese says Professor Douglas In his book on China p aTe are singularly ly tolerant of faiths other othel than their thell own In Ia time Report of the Church hutch Missionary I Society for tor IM v we o are aro told that churches hurches have hao boon been organized by h Chinese for the time purpose of or affording protection In law latt In w cases such pe is the pay payment payment ment ot or debts In W lS our Foreign l Parliamentary paper on China No o J is I ISiO 1810 II p 13 wrote us as follows ns IS to Protestant missionaries In China There Thee Is III good tenants reason to tu suppose that time the animosity which line has lately been moro more Intensely shown toward mule mis on om the part of ot the time ruling au nu authorities In In a great measure to In hI attributed to the Injudicious R con comm conduct duct bet ot or the native converts to Christi Christianity unity anity There seems reason renson to believe that converts assume mini have acted on the assumption that by embracing Christianity they released themselves eles from tram tim the obligations of ot obe oue obedience to the local from tho the discharge of ot their duties as subjects of ot the time r and acquired a right to be lie protected by Ly the European power inner whose religious tenets they have adopt ell eti AH All to Africa the following evidence Is la quoted Sir H If II Johnson our present special special pe cial elal commissioner for U tT inda anti and a aman man latin of ot sunny many years experience In Africa ca en says In The rho Nineteenth nth Century November 1857 US It too often oUrn happens that while hile the time negro nero rapidly the tile rutes anti and regulations rl of ot time the Christian religion ho hD still continues to be gross groBlI Immoral and deceitful They missionaries may have suu ceded In turning their died pies Into i Catholics Anglicans nII cans calls or but Jut the tho Impartial ob Is III surprised to flush find that adul adultery tery drunkenness I and ARtl are more tInt converts than among their heathen hen then brethren And Anti dl I j regret to say that with n a few fewer very er rare exceptions those native African pastors teachers and 1111 whom I have e met were nil all a II more marl or less ices l had bad men inca They The attempted to veil teil ll nil ai unbridled Immorality with an nn unblushing ing hypocrisy and n a profane display of ot which to an aim honest honl t mind seemed more disgusting tint than the Immorality Itself While It was WIS apparent that not otis one particle of ot true religion lon had Imad mantle made Its lis way wn Into gro gross i minds It was wall also evident that tIme tho spirit of ot sturdy manliness which was WIS present In their savage forefathers found no ito place In their false cowardly ni tines ell cc ellIt It Is 18 not on the time spread of Christian Christianity ity It that African missions minions can nt at pres present Oat ent Lillie base their claim to our gratitude or support In many Important districts where they have haC been heen at nt work for tor twenty tw years car they can enn number In honest statistics twenty sin sincere cere cele Is III to say ay twenty natives understanding In any an decree the doctrines II or dogmas they time the have havo beet bee and striving to shape Ort duct by their new now o other r f potts of C Africa principally Ins nos hs where here large lurge numbers ot nf nomi nominal n ml nat nal exist exl t their Is t by I y numbering Its itA ad nil all the drunkards liars nr rogues and unclean livers of at the colony Olon A certain class of ot Christians hav male made It II their special concern to represent represent sent Mormon missionary efforts as at asa asa a n fare faree or n a failure Mor Mormon mon man missionaries nr maliciously said to labor among the time lowest anti most degraded and to make converts convert among the Ignorant whom whOn wh n they coax 00 Into a life lite of superstition und and shame 11 e It can cams do tb no harm to point out Whet what wh Is sold said 9 about their own mission missionary sty ary efforts and that by friends As 1 for forthe the thc Mormon missionary work the facts fatU op speak Ak for tor themselves anti nd refute the Ih falsehoods lala promulgated What are the ib cU in ill the case ca of 01 the time sectarian missions In la China Chinn India and |
