Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-04-24
AN EXPOSITION OF MISSI oNS.
1t is Proposed to Make at the
Worlds Fair an Exhibit Of Every
thing Relating to Home and For
eign Missionary Work.

CHICAGO, April 1, 1891.
William ID. Douglas, OF the Balti-
inorrc .imcrican. has undertaken TO
arouse interest in plan to make n
wurld'> exhibit OF miSsisns at the
Columbian Exposition, and he is re-
cciving much encouragement from
the missionary societies and the
churches. There are in the world
more than four hundred missionary
societies. Each one has in various
teachers, and quite Il number of them
have their physicians and hospitals
~ aids in the work ei cvangclizing the
hcathcn. As the various demonstra-
tiuns in this and other Christian
countries are nearly all more or less
engaged in promoting missionary
work, such an exhibit as is proposed
would surcly-have very general inter
est The project includes an exhibi-
ton OF everything relating to mission
ory effort, domestic and foreign,
throughout the world by all denomi-
nations, including idols, plaster
casts and photographs of idols, work OF
missionary publishing houses, and of
the medical stafiis and industrial
schools. There would be the Peru
Wan idols, idols of New Zealand, the
h, adachc idol OF Alaska, the gods OF
India and China, scenes Of Indian wor
ship. Brahminism, Buddhism, ancest-
raj Chinese worship, and the work of
city missions, with Photographs of the
little waits saved from the streets.
The Catholic Sisters of Mercy, the
Kings Daughters and similar organ
izations, the foreign and domestic So
cietics, the dcaconesscs and Episcopal
SiS,erhouds' work could illustrate their
methods. The non denominational
work of the Hebrew Daughters, who
carry out the work of love to God ami
man, the work of women in the harems
OF Turkey and the zenanas of India
and China could he shown; also stat
istcs showing how missions aid a
worldwide growth of the spirit OF civil
and religious liberty, and how mission
aries break down race and religious
prejudice against both Christians and
Jews in Russia, Turkey. Persia. China.
India and other countries. The rela-
tions of missions To social problems
would bc represented in the Protestant
and Catholic rescue homes, and the
work of such undenominational organ
izations us the Salvation Army. The
alphabcts and languages OF missions
would be shown. Chinese ancestral
money to prevent financial embarrass-
mcnt in tho other world, Buddhas,
praying machines and devil worship in
Siam would be exhibited Models of
heather temples might be erected,
and photos and stereopticOn views eX-
hibited; as for instance, of the great
Shway Dagon Pagoda at Rangaon,
India, and Of Buddhist idol houses.
Statistics of the progress of missions
and the literature OF missions and of
heather lands would be shown. The
monkey temple of Benares, and the
monkeys rs an object of worship could
I've exhibited us diyinities for the wOr-
ship oi the people. The symbolisms of
silva would be shown, with trident,
three eyes, a black throat, holding a
crescent. a rattle, a tigers skin and an
elephants skin. The drawbacks to
missions and why the name OF Christ
ian is too often, in the Moslem mind,
the synonym for hypocrisy and in
temperance, may be considered in the
final published report of the exhibit.
Christian villages OF India might be il
lustrated."