Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-23
PLACE THE BLAME
oUTSPOKEN VIEWS OF PROM
NENT CLERGYMEN.
SHOULD PREACH GOSPEL ONLY.
Some Have Interfered With Politics
and Helped Bring on Chinese
Trouble.

New York, July 23.-Rev. Robert 8. Mac
Arthur, preaching in the Calvary Baptist
church tonight on the subject why DO
the Heather Rage?' said:
1.-The heather are raging, that is certain.
China amazes the world. Five years g
Japan alone annihilated her army and
navy. Now she defies all the European
nations. China has been called the riddle
of the world; the jest of all nations. Doubt
less some missionaries are largely respon-
sible for the present uprising in China. All
the missionaries VINO refrain from civil
functions and confine themselves simply to
preaching the gospel are not responsible
for these uprisings. They follow the Amer
lean idea of separation IN church ana state.
verts and the Chinese authorities.
These missionaries who combine civil
are partly responsible for the condition Of
things in China. More than 800 years ago,
in Japan, the Roman Catholic church per-
secuted the Japanese who refused to ac-
cept their doctrine. At this moment SINH
lar things are at work in China. Bishops
have told tales which excite the Jealousy
of the Chinese.
"Some missionaries actually sit as JUS
tees in civil cases, and impose fines and
other temporal penalties. They soon sur
round themselves with all the. dignity of
kingly rulers, and the native heather do
not distinguish between the ecclesiastical
and civil rule. The result is an anti-foreign
4 AL p4l4 has DSCu
developed and no one can help but see
that the first attack is made upon the mis-
sionaries who have assumed to exercise
power.
Il was in China five years ago this month,
and many of he conditions I examined
on the spot. I also have the testimony of
missionaries on the ground at this moment.
They declare the bishops secure the release
of their converts when brought before the
courts, and that the authority Of the French
consul is often invoked to emphasize the
demands of the priests and bishops.
1.-THE same thing is going on in the Phil
lead to u up sin p.es The war; ware; with hh1 Jana .nln ngf
an end for a time to a contemplated upris-
ing Of the Boxers. Only missionaries who
duties can do any good. Those who do not
NIP revoke uprisings on the part of the
jealous Asiatic.
Nothing is clearer thar that it is the
duty of the United States government to
protect the lives and property of it's citi-
zens. Great Britain provoked the admira-
ton OF the whole world because of her
army and navy, and is ready to protect her
citizens with Them"
New York, July 2s.-Rev. DR.. A. Wood
run Haidsey, secretary of the Presbyterian
board of foreign missions, speaking on the
Chinese situation. said:
fo nrhs mis fbis trguh has hi, had h. share in
share of the blame. Some of the mission.
aries have been politicians as well as
titude has helped to bring about the pres
ent condition. s ~
Very significant is the attitude of the
Chinese toward the Roman Catholic mis-
sionaries. I know of many Roman Catho-
lies who have done really good work, Rnt
It is true. unfortunately, that the whole
Roman Catholic propaganda is political as
well as religious. This has been nro,ni.
nently exemplitied only recently in the
Philippines. where all the influence of that
great church of the ages was used for self
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. So it is in Peru, Chile and
Brazil. These missions are simply monas-
ter1es of the middle ages over again,
In China the Roman Catholics have suf-
fered hrs because they meddled with Chi
would nos Ao'erate a band of Chinese mis-.
sionaries c,Xling to New York and preach
ing Confuchnism and meddling with the
: government ~ 1H'
i point this out because I want Won IN
understand that there are two sides fo tbis
question. Of the 1874 Presbyterian mission
aries who were in the dangerous zone all
but - are now in places of safety. Nat
W1thstandinS the great eommotion. the nav
secutiOn has not been directed nrin,arii,
against the sProtestants, because as a r,,la
Christ. o1
have now 1900 missionaries in Chin,
l,aO schools, and 14 hospitals and dis
pensaries. at which latter places last Yea -
We're treated 100000 persons. You cannot
go through a village in China withnut
meeting some one who has been blessed nv
the Christian church," W
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