The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-15
STAR.
Chinese TroubIes-MissiOna Not
Responsible.

Responsible.
To the Editor Of the Globe:
1t rains me to find the G o b e this
morning defaming the missionaries, in
company with Ministers WI and Lu, in
it's editorial on missionaries as Civ
ilizers' 1t Is too much like Herod and
Pontius Plate with the Gentiles and the
people Of Israel being gathered together
against Christ. The Chinese ministers
must lay the blame upon somebody, but
they are no such fools as to accuse the
merchants doing business in China. That
would not ipgratiate them with the
American and English public. Alas!
that they should have cause to think
they could do so by their filings at the
missionaries.
I will not accuse the Globe OF
malice, but of ignorance. A sportsman
returning from India was inVeighing
against the missionaries. On being ask
ed whether he had seen any of them,
he replied: ''Not one Did you see
any tigers?" ''Plenty of them; and killed
them, too" ST have been ten years in
India" said the other. ten years, and
have not seen single tiger, but
many missionaries, and can assert from
personal experience that your statements
are incorrect. You Went after tigers
and are qualified to speak on tiger hunt
ing. hut not on missionaries"
Will the G o b e. & secular paper, allow
that the Undersigned is in position to
tell it something it does not know about
missionaries?
Let an admission be first made. A
number of missionaries are under the
protection of TIE French government,
who. by imperial decree. are accorded
tie privilege OF officials So far as their
relations with the rnandarins are con-
cerned and who protect their converts
in a manner offensive to the natives.
Another admission taken from the New
York Times, is that the heather Chinese
feels the Christian Chinese superior to
himself, which is a natural cause Of dis
like of the missionaries but for which
they are not blaTleWorrhy.
further natural cause Of dislike of
foreigners not to be laid at the mission
aries door is the overturUing Of social
conditions resulting from the introduc-
ton OF Western IDEAS and customs in
general A like unrest exists among
ourselves. owing t, the growth Of Amer
lean ideas. public schools. Introduction of
machinery etc. Here labor blames cap
ital there the native hiames the for
eiglier. The number ef unemployed peo-
ple in the United States is nothing COM
pared with those caused by the introduce
ton into China OF Western products,
machinery and means OF loconotlon
According to the q D e. II the en-
ergy of the foreign societies We're ex-
nended in the propagation of the arts
that civifize. 1t would he found that the.
ethics Of the Christian faith would take
root as naturally RS the flowers bloont
in the spring
Purity, humility, truth, honesty and
mercy are virtues hard to practic7
Where the moral standard is high those
who are not religious arc influenced foe
he CO. ria
the salt of the earth In China only
those will show forth Christ in their lives
who love Him, because they know that
He loved them. SO as to die for them,
and because they believe Him to have
risen from the dead and will reward them
for all that they suffer for Him.
The Globe does not think that the