St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-11


wearing hustle adjusts it at least five
times day. 1t takes hera minute each
time. and she thus loses five minutes
each day. One hundred and twenty
five women will consequently lose 625
minutes, which is over ten hours. These
are ten hours / have to pay for, and we
are consequently out of pocket to that
amount"
THE MISSIONARY FAILURE
In the last number of the Fortnightly
Review, Canon ISAAC TAYLOR raises
the question whether or not Christian
missionary work is failure, and pre-
sentS arguments which rather lean to
the affirmative side of the proposition.
He points out that the terrible NAL
thusian theorem has to be faced. The
heathens multiply much faster than the
Christians, and the grand work OF
Christian missions does not anything
like overtake even the normal annual
increase of pagans. This is discourage
ing,in the face of the tremendous efforts
the Christian churches of all sects and
denominations are making in this direc-
ton, and particularly in view OF the
immense sums CT money that are an
nually donated by Christian people for
foreign missions.
Canon TAYLOR estimates the nom
Christian population of Asia and Africa
at 920. 900, 600, so that the annual increase
ceed 11,0U0,000. Dr.. MACLEAR, the
principal of training college for mis-
sionaries, and who is perhaps the great
est living authority on the subject. es-
Inmates the Increase of native Christians
due to missionary efforts at 10000. Ii
this estimate is approximately correct,
it would take the missionary societies
1873 years TO overtake the increase Of the
non-Christian population IN a single
year. Canon TAYLOR tests Dr.. MAC
LEAR'S estimates by the returns OF some
OF the societies. and finds the results
even more disheartening. Thus. the
Church Missionary society, which does q
third or fourth Of the whole work, iu-
creases the native Christians at the
outside by 1000 a year; whence it
would appear" he says, THAT it would
take the society 2,750 years to overtake
the additions made by birth in single
year to the non Christian population.
while, if the population remained sta
tiOnary, and all the converts remained
steadfast, it would take mere than
$4,000 years to convert the world. CT
nearly 100000 years if the relapses are
taken into account" Canon TAYLOR
thinks that this sort of advance in mis-
sionary work is like the tortoise racing
with railroad train. Instead of over
taking the work, the work is overtaking
the mission societies.
He presents some curious figures show
ing what it costs to convert heather, by
which he demonstrates that if the rate
of conversion is painfully slow the rate
of expenditure is prOdigiously fast.
Last year in Ceylon 424 agents of the
Church Missionary society spent e11, 900
III making 100 adult converts out of a
population of nearly 100000, but the
relapseS were more numerous than the
converts. In China 427 agents of the
same society spent G14, 900 Iii making
167 converts out of population of
3S2, 900, 900. In India 715 agents made 1T3
converts at cost of e35, 900. 1t will thus
be seen that converts cost as much
as $500 and S400 apiece. Large sums of
money are annually spent in mission
work in Egypt, Persia, Arabia and other
countries where there are 10 heathen,i in
an endeavor to convert the population
from Mohammedanism Here the re-
snitS are still more diSeouragiug than in
| the heather countries. In Egypt all
last year there were two "inquirers,' y
| but no converts. In Arabia sick rob
| Der who was doctored by missionary
| promised to abstain from robbing ten
days. In Palestine there was one Mos
! lem convert, q weak-ninded orphan girl
who required constant guidance. In
| West Africa at one point the converts
| divided into -Sects and war broke out
| between them. The victors cooked and
ate the bodies of the slain. and as pun
| ishment for their canniballsm the pas
tor suspended the whole congregation
from church privileges for one full
month.
Canon TAYLOR aScribes the failure OF
| mission work to the absence of true
missionary spirit among the workers.
| He thinks if ST. PAUL. before starting
on one of his missionary journeyings.
had required the church at Jerusalem
| to guarantee him $1,000 a year and {
pony cart to travel in, he would moi
have changed the history Of the world
The successful missionaries have beer
| those who, like PAUL and BUDDHA, have
cut themselves from the world by 6
| solemn act. The successful missionary
must be ascetic, and must come forth
from his solitary Self-communing with a
message to his fellow men. Sir W. HUNT
Err tells US that the natives in India re
| gard missionary as Il charitable EngliSl
gentleman who keeps an eXcellen
cheap school, speaks the language well
breaches European form of their oil,
| iincarnations and triads, and drives on
his wife and little ones in pony car
| riage. According to Canon TAYLoR's
ideas on missions the Salvation Arm,
turned loose in heather countries woult
do more effective work in day thar
all the mission societies have done il
all these years.
ITS PURIFYING EFFECTS.
That the late presidential campaign
has had purifying effect on American
politics is evident to the most easua
observer. The absence of personalities
and the freedom from mud slingin;
during the contest was no less a SUI
prise than it was qualification to tn
masses of the people. 1t was taken a