Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-07-14

the same price, and in about the same
style OF establishment as the Wah Kee
Nun Kee, the proprietor, reporter. of.
ice ooy, ETC., was employed in smoking
a water pipe. "Ho, la" (How do Won
EdoD said the writer. "He gong fan
wahT do you speak English n Nun
kee responded, in very good English
He stated that he was about SO wears
old. had been in this country fourteen
years, and had published his paner
which now had $50 subscribers. for
almost five years. He could form
about seven thousand characters. and II
required him two days of ten hours
each to work off a complete edition of
his paper. The rate for advertising in
his paper, as in the Oriental, was $40
per column. Instead of the title being
on the first page, like the other, it was
on the fourth; otherwise the papers
resembled each other. Nun Kee. also
had no previous experience as a iourn-
alist, and had started as a lob printer
de stated that neither of the papers
had policy, religious or political, and
that the Chinese were great readers
AS to the future of the Chinese on this
coast and at home, he said that before
many years the race would be on an
equality with all others, and would be
welcomed in all lands. A civilizing
process is at work, he said, which is
bound to result in breaking down all
race distinctions and in merging all
races into one common family, socially
and religiously, if not politically. He
foresaw a glorious future for the Chi
nese on this coast, the climate and
other conditions being highly favorable.
He verified the statement recently
made to the writer by S. S. Smith, of
the Pacific, long resident in China.
that, prior to the treaty of last year.
all the Chinese in this country, except.
ing officials, were escapes, or in the
same category as were the slaves that
escaped from their masters in the south
in ante-bellum times. "Chaing an"
(good-bye), said the writer. "Good-
day." pleasantly responded the intel
ligent and wide-awake Man Kee.
On Raising Money tor Church Uses.
The Evangelist
We have more than once had occa-
sion to condemn in strong terms the
popular methods of raising money for
religious purposes. We know of moth
ing more destructive to genuine be-
nevolence than the modern practice of
oblique giving through fairs, festivals,
etc., etc. Even when these are free
from the excesses to which they al
most invariably run, their tendency is
to destroy the spirit of all true and
worthy service in the work of saving
souls. And taking this view of the
matter, we have great pleasure in
quoting the following earnest words
from recent Lenton pastoral letter of
Bishop Jaggar, of Ohio, U. S. A. It
seems to us that some of the bishops
of this country might study these Wig
orOus paragraphs to the spiritual ad-
vantage of themselves and their focks.
Bishop Jaggar says:
"Again, I note with grave disappro-
baton, the prevalence of demoralizing
and unchristian methods in so called
church work. l mean fairs and sOcials
and various entertainments for raising
money. When the church social de-
generates into dancing party, and the
world, the flesh and the devil, which
Christians have promised to renounce,
are employed in the name of religion
to attract young people and make a
church popular, l affirm that it dis
honors the cause of Christ; dissipates
spirituality; destroys the moral inau-
ence of church in any community;
and is condemned by the world itself.
The practice of raising money for
church purposes by means of socials,
fairs, and other entertainments, posi-
lively object to, because il supercedes
and tends to destroy that principle of
charity or love which is fundamental
to pure and undefiled religion.
1t is a fact that these methods have
already so lowered the standard of
charity, that young people and others
in our churches will not do any work
for Christ, unless it is served up with
some pleasure or excitement-a dance,
sale or show.
All this is certainly true of Chris
tians. But what of those who are
not Christians? Is there any harm in
putting them under contribution by in
nocent means, for good cause? l am
sure that there is harm, because the
means employed tend to compromise
and dishonor the good cause itself.
Christianity is compromised by the very
fact, that it must stoop to bid in the
market-place for the patronage, which
the free-will offerings of its deciples
ought to supply. 1t is dishonored by
the contempt with which the very
men to whom these devices appeal, re-
gard them. They say, whether justly
or not, that the cause must be weak
which can not stand upon its own
merits, or church members hypocrites,
if they cannot sustain it out of their
| own pockets.
The necessity which is pleaded is
generally the pressure Of debt, which
ought never to be created, of luxuries
of choir or furniture, which might be
dispensed with; of official mismanage-
ment or neglect which would not be
tolerated in business affairs; or of
selfishness on the part of church men,
bers which begrudges the payment of
subscription or pew-rent, and i'm
poverishes their souls and their church
by practical denial of the Masters s
own words, "Give and it shall be given
unto YOU
The remedy for the evil must be
found in resolute adoption Of the
principle that all money shall be raised
by direct appeals to the hearts and
consciences of the people, and no work
undertaken nor expenditures allowed
which cannot be paid for by free-will
offerings. In this way only can we
hope to educate the people up to the