Show missionaries AND 7 ve have read two stories about missionaries one Is a feature story in the new york herald it fells of the work of bere iere hyacinthe and his wile who are laborin fi for the high ideal of universal brotherhood in religion while both of them are christians they do not ry to convert the heathen to a formal allegiance to but simply 0 teach him and to teach christiana oo 00 the lessons of tolerance in their work in northern africa and palestine hey reached only peace and loving kindness leading to the kingdom of heaven on earth which we firmly believe will corner else the supreme prayer lord is but verbiage lla gladly received hebin cw missionary teaching how 0 lire in harmony with others whose religious views differed from theirs was the end it sought to make pos ible people who embraced it at once bigan to look upon christianity in a light they looked upon it in a light which has led many of them 0 embrace it suppose perc hyacinthe and his ve bad taught that doctrine in una we see no reason why the chinese choso whoso religion is purely phil and to a great extent agnos ic in tone tor Chinese worship altos 0 o those of ancestor worship and ho lack tho fanatic lingo of tho ac rolv mohammedan Moha should lot haq gladly received the paros fon rast this method of missionary work 10 that which goes on in china however aa it is told in our ory an associated press despatch which we print this morning hero we have a group of mission u les who are so s o prejudiced against ae old and pure religion of the achl diat when the chinese have a fair they get ore and lyck because a booth overlaps their compound thc jhc it s not moved enough to their idea of their own ui one of them goes out and forcibly removes certain pieces of prop iy ay from their lawful possessors and lie takes several small cannon and runs off with them he comans highway robbery tha ua ailed riled the tempera of th who witnessed the deed ii a hnaihen chinee stole your pet noodle you would be ailed riled ir did more alian rile the chinese however those cannon were sacred a each hundreds of flam that even if they did not x sc in the objective sense were caus ng those chinks much mental and spiritual florry were destroyed put out or business laid to rest laying to rest also those celestial minds the chinese were therefore offended insulted daei all bearing and as they thought i injured perhaps ruined by na ao if you think for a moment waa the christian eucharist means nd hen imagine your feelings it a tor ibber rushed into your holy service and dabbed tbt bread and wine from he hand of the you can am v abino jabe feelings of those china men i those feelings culminated in burdei and no one can wonder at such a culmination mi nation KOW fay 60 think it necessary to rad ui the toes ot those chef would coubert couT ert why do they not first gain the respect ot their subjects icho chinese for example the answer is because many of them are not true missionaries they arc merely proselytizers proselytisers they themselves believe in christianity but cannot get the true perspective of the man who docs not they talk christianity to the heathen aa a drummer talks his product to the prospective customer and with less tact we have had the privilege 0 conversation really good chinese in china they adopted native dress it they met a chinaman with a sore foot or a bover they let up ou theology while they bandaged the foot or nursed the fever IF they were called foreign devils they did not run to the nearest consul ali a talo of woe and indignity they took it stolidly and won the re of a people to whom is first nature in fact they curled themselves fo f o well that instead of going to preach tho gospel they had i the coming to them and clamoring tor knowledge of the religion that could produce such men thus those made good and ultimately reached home without being massacred when we consider what 1 big figlia china as pinar to bo in the worlds arithmetic iu the very near future it behooves us to acte out our missionaries wih as great a regard to educational and temperamental qualifications as well as moral as we have to the qualifications of our own physician for not only Is the missionary a factor in changing the Chin amans religion but be ia abinger factor in determining the Chin amans attitude to us is the work ot the missionary that does or undoes the later work of tho condal and ambassador it is the work of the missionary that may do or undo the west in its coming struggle for supremacy ith the eash let us then send to the east true not mere bigoted prose ly Users |