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Show i .' THE DELUSION OF REV P. A. SIMPKIN. , I v! Extract, from sermon of Rev. P. A .Simpkiu, Herald-Republican, Oct. IS : 5 ; "Even as we gather today a great revival of j religion is sweeping through Fuh-Kien, Shan-si and i ;i Hunan under the lead of Congregational, Episeo- i pal and Methodist missions." 1 ; Extract, from address delivered by Mr. W. T. R. f Pro.ston, Canadian Commissioner to Japan, iu j Parkdale Presbyterian church, Toronto. Toronto Mail and Empire, Aug. 30: ''The duty of the west is to evangelize the east, I "lid that work must be done in Japan. But my two 3. years' residence; in that country satisfy me that i 'he evangelization of the Japanese can never be accomplished by the present system. There is not in Japan today more than one Christian mission- i ary who is able to preach a sermon fit for an" in-' tclligcnt atidience to listen to. I have no hesitation ; ; ; 111 saying that the sooner the churches wake up to i the fact lhat the present system must be pulled out, ! root and branch, the bettor it would be for them! """"" . iJf 1 Joul liave iny way, I would recall 7 per cent ef the missionaries at ence and the balance within five years. Instead of sending out a lot of boys and girls to Christianize the Japanese and Chinese, men and women of the greatest intelligence and experience experi-ence of human need and human difficulties should be sent, all of whom should have had ten years in our western world cities. The Roman Catholic Church had converted 900,000 Japs to Christianity, but the combined Protestant Churches, with their immense resources, could not claim 60,000. The Protestant Churches had better amalgamate and send out a commission to study the situation on the spot for at least a year, and when they had gathered all the facts they could return and report. When that report was made, Christendom would awake and say the present system sys-tem was a farce and a sham." Extract, from Mr. Windsor Earl's "The Eastern Seas," ch. xii, p. 398 : "The labors of the Protestant missionaries have been absolutely thrown away; they have invariably remained at the chief settlements of the Europeans, and the effects of their labors are rarely heard of except through the medium of missionary publications publica-tions brought here from England." Ext race, from Mr. J. D'Ewes' "China and Co-rca," Co-rca," chap, viii, p. 291 : "There is both an American and English school for the education of Chinese children, but I hear not very well attended, nor could I discover any traces of Protestant missionary labors in the interior. in-terior. By far the most extraordinary establishments establish-ments I saw at Shanghae were two Jesuit colleges. Xothing can exceed the order and regularity and apparent harmony with which these extensive establishments es-tablishments are carried out. The priests taught sculpture, painting, music, languages, etc., etc. When it is considered how extremely difficult it is to obtain even a smattering of the Chinese language lan-guage and how few Europeans amongst the commercial com-mercial class, and even amongst our own (Protestant) (Protest-ant) missionaries and diplomatists, arrive at anything any-thing like proficiency, then the self-denying and hard labor and study of these priests is truly wonderful. won-derful. The pupils appeared happy and proud of their occupations, and far more intelligent than the generality of Chinese we met with." Extract, from Mr. Oliphant's "Lord Elgin's Mission," Mis-sion," chap, v, p. 103: "The children in the Protestant missionary schools (Shanghai) are taught only the most rudimentary rudi-mentary work in their classes. Their education, therefore, seems likely to be of little service to them, either amongst their own countrymen, or foreigners." Extract, from James Anthony Froude's "The English in the West Indies," chap, x, p. 129 : "The only really powerful Europeans are the Catholic bishop and the priests and the sisterhoods. They are looked up to with genuine respect. They are reaping the harvest of the long and honorable efforts of the French clergy to make the blacks into Catholic Christians. They have a distinct influence influ-ence which we have not tried to rival." And again, p. 135: "The priests have a genuine human hold on them (the blacks); they baptize the children; they commit the dead to the cemetery with the promise of immortality; they are personally loved and respected." |
