Arizona silver belt., 1901-04-04
A MISSIONARY VIEW.


 It is refreshing to record the opn- ions of an honest partisan. The Rev. Arthur J. Brown is one of those. MT. Brown is missionary and ordinarily would look at things terrestrial as well as those celestial from the missionary point of view. It would appear, how ever, that, notwithstanding his natur- al bias, Mir. Brown is able to deal fairly with subjects in which the cause he represents is virtually interested.
 In an address before the Young Mems Christian Association, he re- viewed the situation in China declar- ing that three forces have operated to ] bring about the recent troubles in | that country. The first of these said ] Mr. Brown, was commerce; the second was the intrusion and interference of l foreign governments in the politics of the empire; and the third disturbing | force was Christianity.
 It does not appear that Mir Brown ! iustities the aggressions of these three | factors in the oppression and disinte. grafton of the Chinese Empire, but he attempts, as in duty bound, to excul- ! pate the agents of bis order from much Of the blame that has been cast upon them for the consequences of too jealous propagation of doctrines that were utterly repugnant to the Chinese mind, habit and superstitution MT. Browns attitude IS logical enough from his standpoint, aud the only objection that may be urged against his conclusion IS directed at the assertion that the missionaries were not directly responsible for the ui rising of the Boxers. This objec- tlOn may be palliated by the reflection that MT. Brown admits the complicity of the missionaries in any event It may even be agreed that the mission- aries were not directly responsible for the revolt, in that they personally pro voked the massacres, but there is a widespread belief that they were the melting cause of the trouble, and that if it had not been for the presence of the missionaries the natives would have been less bitter against the for eigners.
 The missionaries were the pioneers of the foreign invasion of the Chinese Empire. They preceded the traders, aud it was to sustain the missionaries that foreign governments iuterfered in the politics Of the country.
 Mir Brown will probably admit that the immediate cause of the disturb ances in China was the seizure Of vast province of the Empire by the Germans in retaliation for the murder Of two missionaries by an Irresponsible Chinese mob. It must be admitted even by tue m sSlunaries that the just ricalipn 0i this selzure of territory was only preteXt, and that the mur- der ut tie missionaries was an excuse loug awaited by tue German govern meat.
 The injustice of the civilized nations toward China is manifest in the eX- urbitauce of their demands tor ihdem- uity due for acts of the Chinese perpe traied under the goad of foreign az dertaken to rob the Chinese of their properly and their land; foreign gov ernments have compelled concessions that were ruin0us to Chinese interests and Chinese policy: and foreign reiig 1 ions have attacked the sacred super stitions of the Chinese people as an | invading army attacks the stronghold | of an enemy-with gunboats, and the | threat of armed hosts
 Usually these facts are yelled in the | Sophistries of the preacher and the so- called ''humanitarian, "and it is, there- | fore, refreshing to hear some ething ap- I preaching the truth from the lips of | one whose interests are with the cause of religious aggression in China. i There is hope for ultimate justice to the weak and the oppressed when such fair-minded men as the Rev. MT. Brown are willing to acknowledge the wrongs that have been done in the name of and Christianity. San Francisco Post.
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