The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1900-07-31
Bellelontaine Republican
TUESDAY. JULY 81. 1905.


Entered at the Post Office at Bellefontaine
as second-class matter.
Mansfield News
"The Good Book says that men are
worth more than many sparrows-and
we believe it. We also believe that a
good man or woman is worth too many
heather to justify the imperiling of the
lives of missionaries by sending them
to save people who don't want to be
saved and won't be saved"
The Toledo Blade copies the above,
and endorses it as 'point well taken. "
This is an illustr alton of truth that is
not often spoken of by newspaper writ
ers, to-wit, that when the ordinary ed
itor attempts to turn preacher, he
makes an exhibition of himself. The
book, which the pious CappelIar in
dorses as the ''Good Book uses the il
lustration that men are worth more
than many sparrows, to show the care
God has over men. That care for men
and their salvation is further shown in
the Savior's injunction to his disciples,
go ye into all the world, and preach
the Gospel to every creature" The
command does not except those that
''don't want to be saved" The Gospel
is to be offered to all. There are thou
sands of Christians in .China-natives
who have accepted the Gospel, and are
willing to give their lives for it. Il
the Gospel had never been carried to
any people but those who were asking
for it, the editors of the Blade and the
News would today have been ordinary
heather, beating tom toms in some
Jungle. The Anglo-Saxons, before
they were Christianized, were far be.
low the Chinaman in intelligence and
morally.
| What China needs, more than al
things else is Christianity; and it is be
cause Christian missionaries and mis-
sionary physicians have done so much
to relieve suffering and distress il
China, that they have found an oper
door in that hermetically sealed coun
try. They have been welcomed by thu
rulers, and by the better class of peo
pie, and are opposed only by those
whose business and evil lives are con
trary to the missionaries teachings
There are many people in China, a
well as in America, who think human
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sparrow, and they have no use TO
Christi ians or Christian missions. Blu
are those who want Christianity to b.
denied, because those who want whisk,
and opium, object to it?
We have seen considerable sneerin,
at Christian missionaries in newspa
pers, and have heard some of it here il
Bellefontaine; and have seen and hear
the intimation that the missionarie
would better get out of China and sta
out. Yet we have not seen nor hear
from any Of these missionary critics,
word against the missionaries of tn
Devil, who carry opium and rum int
China to ruin her people. In som
Imen's eyes, it is all right to ruin pee
iple, but all wrong to carry to them
message of love and salvation.
The missionaries have the sam
treaty rights in China, that the ru1
sellers have. They have never force
themselves on any people. But whe
they have been given the right to g
they have gone, living lives of self d'
nial, estranging themselves from HON
land country, accepting all of sufferin
and persecution which may come
them, that they may serve their rise
Master, who warned them that as b
had been prosecuted 30 they would b
Ipersecuted, that ''the servant is nc
above his Master"
The Christian missionary has bee
the advance agent of civilization an
enlightenment, and has brought whol
nations out of darkness, and saved thel
from the vices which were fast destro.
ing them. A Chinese missionary save
Oregon and the Northwest to th
United States. Christian missions save
the Sandwich islanders from extinction
lChristian Missions saved New Zealan
and Madagascar from the worst vice
of barbarism. Christian missionarie
; have opened up Darkest Africa. Chri
tian missionaries captured the Roma
Empire and saved it from the vilest I
civilizations. And when the hordes
barbarians from the North overran tn;
Empire, the leaven of Christisnity col
verted them, and made them the viri
nations of today.
Christian missionaries will not 6
back into China, with fire and swor
but if they can, even at risk of life, the
will carry back the gospel of peace
the millions there who need it. The
will 60 back, for their Master has cor
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