Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-05-22
EVANGELIZING JOHN CHINAMAN.

The MORNING APPEAL has it's mental reser-
vations. 1t will not pin its heart upon its
sleeve for davis to peck at We take the lib
erty of retaining from the public gaze some Of
our inner secrets. These embrace q true in
wardness upon the Chinese question. We
are not always what we seem. Our supposed
leaning toward the Monaghan influx may be
false Interpretation of a bitter opposition to
that invasion. Our sometime seeming lack
Of sympathy for the Circassians who were not
born in the Caucasus may be our subtle fash
ion of hiding from too curious public vulgar
gaze our love and tenderness for the particl-
pants in the Anti Asiatic Leagues. We keep
with a solicitude and reserve which are as sa-
cred as the soil of Virginia, our own councils
in this regard We are not at home to the
impairment stare of public curiosity. We are
our own confessor. as it were; and We reveal
not our own precious secrets But We may
with consistency present the following:
Chicago, May 19.-At to-day's session of
the Presbyterian Assembly, the Moderator
presented memorial from the Presbytery of
San Francisco asking that the work of evan
gelizing the hundred thousand Chinese of the
Pacific Coast commence mmedlately under
the lead of foreign missions. 1t says that tins
people have established in this Christian coun-
try their heather gods, sacrifices and dolatry
with heather vices, which they practice openly
in pOpulOus cities with mpunIty The memo
rial refers also to the Chinese prostitutes, and
the excitement of the public mind of the Pa
cifc Coast 1t says the Church has but one
I ArTr Son Erar,
cisco, Oakland, Portland, San Jose. Sacra-
mento and Virginia City, with assistants, and
with church newspaper published III Chinese.
They ask that this should not be merely an
auxiliary of the mission III China that re
turned ministers be stationed on the coast as
assistants: that mission schools have tbeo-
logical class as soon as possible; that If the
Board of Foreign Missions proves inadequate.
the work be transferred to Home Missions
The memorial was signed by Revs. LOOMS
Shearer and Patterson, 1t was referred to a
committee OF hve.
If we were Chlnaman we should laugh the /
laugh of dersion and sheer the sneer OF scorn |
at any modern Calvanistical brahnins who /
should undertake our conversion from the set !
tied faith of our ancestors We should re
gard such an attempt somewhat an EgyP- !
tian might regard any ambitious effort Of
maker of Plaster of Paris images to set up !
gypsum rival of the SPHINX. If, on the other
hand, we were a Caucasian, should find /
some objection to the RECONCILIATION of the
Chinese. Such process We should regard as
a dangerous precedent, something of the
nature of possible stepping stone to natural
ization. So long as We who Christians
can, upon looking across the social, moral,
political and religious gulf which separates us
from John Chinaman, see him standing i'll the
shocking attitude of Pagan, We are compara
lively safe. But let him be - evangelical,
and would we not be in duty bound to look
upon him as a man and a brother! Theory is
what we are discussing the theory of possible
ties We are not taking either side. We are
merely presenting possible phases. If we
have any prejudices predictions, any
choice or convictions they are our own private
We are merely presenting, in all
some Of the possible bearings of a
hypothetical case. We cannot see how the
Calvanists of San Francisco can well do other :
wise than to make an effort toward the CON f
version of the heathens by whom they are
surrounded Not to try would be to fall short
Of q bounden duty, AS to the promise of ;
success !; as to the pertinence of the move :
ment-on these points the APPEAL is non
1t is for us to make an impartial
showing and not to draw conclusions. c