The age-herald., 1900-07-09

to give the proof of expenditures which would call forth protests from hard press ed mission boards-eertainly from their clientage-if they themselves proved to be in the nefarious scheme. The attendance of 100 for twelve months would absorb $9,600 of the money of people who find it difficult to raise enough at times to sus- tain the men on the field, and who fre- quently have to refuse to send out others to reinforce or enlarge the work because of the lack of the sinews of war. Certain ly it would be more satisfactory to think ing people who want facts, and are not looking for something to bolster up an ever vigiant antagonism to the mission idea-if not to Christianity itself. if he would discriminate.
 "In speaking of Christian representatives in the lump, Mir. Chow discredits himself again. Any informed persons, in or out of China, knows that Christian workers in sympathy with the protest of Luther in the 16th century are not to be classed with that politico- ecclesiastical organization against which Hle leveled his lance
 "'The writer was himself missionary in Canton for several years, and during good part of that time was treasurer of HIS HllSSiOll, anu pdlu out every uOlldT Ol its funds He does not recall a single in- stance where money was paid Chinese but for labor done, or in the exercise of relief for suffering. And in the matter of such relief it was generally the case that the help came from the pockets of the mission aries themselves, or from their converts, He was also in close touch with other mis- sions than his own in the same section. and nothing of the sort was ever brought to his attention.
 "When native Christians are sadded with all the disturbances and outcries against foreigners and foreign innovations,' will MT. Chow please explain on this basis the numerous petty rebellions of years past against the foreign Tartar ruler who holds court at Picking? Perhaps he will assert that the opium war of the 40's is to be laid at their door. It is also doubtless true that all this recent talk about partitioning China has been taken in good part by his people, in so far as the powers are concerned, and that the expulsion of a few scattered mis- sionaries and the killing off of several handsful of simple farmers, merchants and artisans collected under their tutelage, would solve the perplexities of the nations and of China itself over situation which is just now emphasizing the old saw that Uneasy rests the head that wears a crown.
 Relative to the testimony of consuls and foreign merchants, often made much of, let it be understood that they are not all on the witness stand The utterance of EX-Unted States Minister Denby at the recent Worlds Missionary Congress in New York state shows him to belong to a diff ferent breed of dogs than some who have volunteered to bark to the delectation of the High Binders and Boxers of anti-miS sionsm. Those who have contented them selves with attending to their official du ties, and those who have been looking eX- clusively after the main business chance, selling foreign goods at the dearest price and buying Chinese goods at the cheapest figure have had the good sense to say lit- tie, if anything, about something of which, in the case of most of them, they know about as little as the average American knows about the Eastern question.
 MT. Chow is to be pitied more than blamed for talking through his hat. He has a deal of explaining to do these days, and the trouble is that no explanation he or his confederates attempt explains. A scape- goat sometimes makes a very good riding mule. N. B. WILLIAMS