Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-02-28
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oiouAiy isoot, wes hoNot ecou shoh W.
the Pacific Coast. In all the larger
towns or cities, as In San Francisco,
there Is tho "Barbary. Coast" aud the
element which needs home
missionary ehristlanizing work, yet
should It seem inappropriate to send
missionaries among our ownpeople,a and
heathens are wanted for cvangelizlng
purposes, there arc plenty Of Indians
aud Chinese all around aud among us.
Who could ask for finer material?
Tho Piutcs are innocent, tractablc
children Of Nature, and might per-
haps DO very easily chrlstianized, and
taught to read the Bible, and attend
churches and Sabbath schools. They
are not given to lying and stealing,
and have comparatively few wicked
habits. III moro vicious and de-
PRAYED class OF heather 10 desired to
operate upon, surely tho Chinese will
all the bill. No need to send mis-
sionaries or money from here to China,
India, or other heather localities, to
place the Bible In tho hands Of the
poor hsathens, and by prayers and
cxhortations induce them to turn from
tho error OF their ways; quilt worship
ping idols and become good Christians.
No need to 60 beyond "Chinatown."
Ia the lower suburbs Of Virginia City
to do that. Those heathons may DO
comparatively good In their own coun-
try, but whatever vices they possessed
there, they have corruptingly import
ed to this country, aud are %sedulously
c~ultlvstlng and adding thereto the
vices they meet with among u peo-
pie. They lilo without difficulty, and
even perjure themselves In court like
white men. They steal chickens and
commit other petty larcencles with
constantly Improving skill, aud arc
capable Of learning how to steal tracts
Of land, horses, railroads, public
moneys, or committing Credit Mobilier
frauds, unless they are chrlstlanized In
time. Already they can get drunk,
quarrel, fight. cut, shoot and murder
as desperately, viciously and success
fully As Americans. They revel In
dspravlty and are happy In not being
virtuous. They have imported idols,
and worship them later their own
conscience" In temples oil "Joss
houses" built by themselves, right
within the city limits, and within pis-
toll shot Of numerous Christian
churches. Yet, who knows but that
these very joss houses, with their
"gods Of wood and stone" and their
sandal wood incense-burnlng priests,
may be missionary establishments sent
TO heathenize US Christians?
A late telegram states tht a few
days ago another pro-chins,o meeting
took place at Santa Barbara, Callfor-
MIA, In the Congregatlonalist Church,
and a society was organized to be
called the Santa Barbara Chinese Mis-
slon. Its object being to laid, protect
aud svangelizo the Chinese residents
among u.s." They do not propose
sending missionaries or money to Chi
ma, .'Indla's coral strand" or .'Green-
lands icy mountains" for that pur-
pose, but simply to turn their atten-
ton to the heather material close at
hand. Similar work has been doing In
San Francisco for years with good sf-
feet. Sending the gospel abroad to the
heather. reads and seems we'll. and
sounds we'll on the principle that ''dls-
lance lends enchentment to the View"
but true charity begins at hsme, where
true missionary work should begin
also. Home missions before foreign
missions always. "Cast out first the
beam out Of thine own eye, and then
shalt thou see clearly to pull out the
msts that Is In thy brothers eye"
Yet should neither the Indian nor the
Chinese field be acceptable to our homo
missionaries, perhaps tho Nevada State
Prison might be found a choice, more
easily controlled, fruitful and merito-
rlous field for Christian work.