The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-07-06

to be decided without reflection, par
ticularly by people who believe in char
ity for all mankind.
When we read of the blind fanati-
cism of the Chinese mt BIS, and when
we are incensed beyond measure with
their deeds, might it not be well for
us to remember the inquisition, ST.
Bartholomew day, Latimer, Ridley
and the alleged witches of Salem?
Before we cast out the mote from
the eyes of the Cinnamon let us look
for the beams in our owl, eyes. When
we reaC. of the treatment or our mis-
sionaries and are moved to anger and
wrath, might it not be well for us
and for our missionaries who are per-
secuted to repeat the words of One
who suffered: Father, forgive them.
They know not what they do
Talking with a learned Chinaman,
and hearing his appeal for charitable
consideration. necessarily stirs the
memory and the heart of one taught
to believe that the greatest of Chris
tian graces is charity, and impels the
mind in the direction of kindly con-
sideration for the people who have
another side of the story to tell; q
side which we do not understand.
They believe, and who shall gainsay
their right to believe, that the same
God who loved our little part of the
world, also loved their greater part
of the world, and gave them a religion
which is as well adapted to their quail
ity of brain as our religion is calcu-
lated for our quality of brain. They
believe that we have no right to as
same that we are better than they are,
greater light and love. Therefore they
resent our assumption of superiority,
and ask us to take our missionaries
away from their land, to cease prose
lyting their children.
The people called Boxers" are not
the brutal and degrading monsters
they have been pictured. On the con-
trary they are patriots resenting the
efforts which are being made to de-
stroy their religion, their customs,
their self-respect-eyeryth thing that
men and nations hold in reverence and
honor.
One Sunday night recently in .
church where large missionary col
lection was taken the writer listened
to the stories of missionaries about the
terrible doings of the people in So
called heather lands, how mothers
threw their babes into the Gauges. and
all that sort o. thing. That very night
in South Washington a young white
girl was brutaEly beaten and killed
by negro; and on the following Mon
day morning. in an alley on the same
block where the church stands, moth
er took a strap and beat her child al
most to death with a heavy strap. and
would have killed her little one but
for the interference of others. There
are many thoughtful men and women
who believe that home missionaries
are needed all over this Christian land,
and that they are needed more than
foreign missionaries.
Missionaries are unfortunately the
advance guards of the civilization OF
pelf; the unconscious and innocent
agents of merchants and kings, who
seek not the salvation of souls, but
the acquisition of wealth and terri
tory. Great Britain produces opium in
India, sends it to China, and with the
pulp of the poppy she destroys the
body and brain of the Chinaman; she
follows her drug with large consign-
ments of missionaries. Other nations
pursue the same course, knowing that
ultimately the missionaries will be
sacrificed. Then. for the sake of 1.-The
national honor" armies are sent,
China win be dismembered, and rapine
rule where once was peace and plenty.
This is the Chinaman's side of the
story. Is it not worthy consideration,
in charity and good conscience?
SMITH d. FRY.