Show arop lk r I 1 BEVERLY HILLS ILLS at all I 1 know fa f just fust what I 1 read in the papers or whit what I 1 get in the malls malla I 1 got a letter th tb other othar day about th I 1 missionaries I 1 had insinuated one ace lima um 7 11 blaa I 1 and talking ug to t everybody I 1 could coall meet and based a I 1 good deal on oil their opinions ameri aae cans that lived out ant th there ere tb that at the ml ali sl slon arlea badent ha dent hardly been what tvs you would call coll collo osal aal success lots lota ot of em have dono done lots lota ot of good bui but the same effort by those same splendid men and women tomen it it had been con tributes tri buted to parts of 0 our country would have been more benefit lai and would have added to international relations no nation lines likes to have some other nationality come to their country to teach ena em now you take things like that nursing service in the th kentucky mountains and dozens of other fino fine things done torl taa toot door in a dozen other parts ot of the CoUn country tri beats all your foreign missions miss lons I 1 way may be all wet and probably an am but when an american starts telling a chinese how to live villy Its like ilka a new dude telling an old cowman how to run his ranch now I 1 can see ae some sense in a chinese coming over here and trying to teach us ease contentment tent ment no worry greater app tion ot of our parents and a tremendous regard affection and veneration for or old age every one ot of those qualities K are things that every american knows we are lacking in yet those things us are bred into the chinese we will leave the religious part out oui ot of it and say that our missionaries teach ern em not only how to be a baptist or a methodist but how to be sanitary we bring ern em tooth brushes and paper drinking cups soap and fords now lets get down to results tor for thata th tha alt ultimate I 1 mat e a answer n awer what kills the most people in the two countries lack ot at good roads and A reliable mouth wash in china or accidents by automobile in our ov oft n country I 1 would as soon be a beathem ant die dia because the town have a sewer as to be an and get bum bumped off by a fellow members rolls royce but these are arguments that no sane salle person ever gets into for you never get anywhere but always remember that up to the time that ilia missionaries arrived in china and ana es specially ally up to the time when the yale yai and harvard students arrived back home china was doing great but here is what a una fine letter tron from china a missionary says have enjoyed your wisecracks wise cracks and otherwise cracks have seen and enjoyed your movies now give a moment or two I 1 wish you could have been here when hen men and won en piled la in here to register lor for our 12 days bible class they brought 40 cents in american money to pay for their meals during all that time now what fill did they get for or this money just a chance to sleep on some straw and share their flies and falth faith their opprobrium and their joy in christ 1 I under stand a thing at last years classes said one dear old country woman hut but did a little at this years they go to the church and sing and how bow or should I 1 say howl and are preached prea cheil at by the hour maby alaby you will say well they got what they deserved desery eil but they dont think so lor for each year more mere and more come and I 1 know you are a lover of 0 truth and it you on could have been here and seen this you would have taken back what you said in an all article one time most of 0 them art are christians over there just as long ions as the missionaries hand out the rice we are not saying that all these christians are perfect but in picturing these above I 1 have given giten YOU yo a true picture ot of the rank and file of 0 the all church in inland china now will the next time you pass through our town as you did last year when you was going from rom to antak NT ak stop off and see us yol 1 wl I find out that we missionaries are not nhat we are wisecracked to be now aint that a nice letter lesterj you yoa just see there is two sides to everything athing and I 1 want to thank goodness SAVE that I 1 have never said that the missionary A was wrong FIRST I 1 I 1 have only claimed in lots of cases that the system w was a s 1 wrong my theory of 0 the whole missionary business could u be summed up in a sentence it if you send somebody to teach somebody be teach sure that the system you are af Vs a ing is better than the system they practicing some think it is colue alink it aint A difference of opinion P is ahat hat makes horse racing and its is 8 wr sion aries narles this follow fellow that eliat this fine letter is E H N hani lon an able up to date on 0 ly and my man as most of cut cm are tick rick against him Is that he is not doing doin and olle that line brie work ork in a hundred P places laces right here at home my motto is save america I meric firby fir then ft hen you get ern em all saved sill sale e doni dol I 1 tile tor for tile the chinese I 1 need savini savin 0 slit sy all tl IC 1 |