The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-28

than one who works among people of
his own race. The wonder is not that
missionaries make mistakes, but that
they do not make more than are now
charged to them. 1t is even possible
that missionary occasionally proves
untrue to his calling-is it strange that
this should happen to a missionary al
most alone and with but little Sympa-
thetic support when it sometimes hap
pens to ministers who are surrounded
by friends and hedged in so that a fail
would seem almost impossible?
One part of the misslonarys work has
received Scant notice, namely. the
planting of western ideas in the orient.
The daily life of a missionary is not
only q constant sermon, but, to GER
tain extent. an exposition of western
ways. His manner of dress and his
manner of living are noted, and even
if he did not say a word, he would
make an impression upon those about
him. 1t would be worth while TO send
Christians to the orient merely to show
the fulness and richness of a Christian
life. for, after all. the example of an
upright person. living life of service
according to the Christian ideal, is
| more eloquent than any SermOn-it is
! the unanswerable argument in favor of
on religion.
1t is sometimes suggested by those
unfriendly to missionary work that mis-
SiOnaries live in too great comfort. This
criticism will not have weight with
those who have attempted to live in the
orient upon the salary of q missionary,
but even if the missionaries lived more
| luxurianJly than they do, they would
still exert beneficial influence. AS the
| Chinaman becomes educated he learns
! of the manners and customs of the
| people of other nations, and the home
of the missionary gives an opportunity
! for comparisons. In China there is
! pOlygamy, while the missionary has but
one wife. In the Chinese home the
birth of a son is the occasion of rejoic-
| ing: the birth Of a daughter an occa-
| sion of less rejoicing if not actual
| mourning. In the missionarys home
! the girl child is as welcome as the boy
! The missionary's wife is not only a
i standing rebuke to the practice of foot
binding, but is stimulus to the move
ment now setting in for education of
/ women.
The Catholic missionaries reach a
| class which might not be reached by
! Protestant missionaries, and Protest
| ant missionaries appeal to some VINO
| could not be reached by the Catholic
missionaries. Each church does it's own
work in its own way. and the result
| is better than if either church attempt
ed to follow the example of the other
| The celibacy of the priest and his vol
| untary sacrifice of home and it's joys
that he may more fully devote himself
| to religion-these appeal TO some es-
| pecially to those who have been i'm
1 pressed with the aSceticiSm of the re-
| ligiouS teachers of the orient. There
are others, however, who are more i'm
pressed with a form of Christianity
| which does not deny to it's ministers
/ the advantages of the family In Other
words, the different branches OF the
i Christian church, each pursuing its owl
! way, meet the widely different needs Of
the heather better than any one church
/ could do it.
!
/ Missionary work in the Malay state:
has been very slow, because the Malay!
4 are nearly all Mohammedans. and i
has been found difficult to make head
way against this religion. The Mo
i hammedan believes in most of the OH
Testament, and regards Christ as
great prophet. but claims that MahOme
was a later prophet, and a greater one
Burmah, the home of Buddhism, il
one of the best missionary fields, anC
! great success has attended the Baptis
! mission, which has its headquarters a
3 Rangoon.
| FOR many years American mlSSlOndr
les have been establishing schools an'
churches in India. While this field ha
also been developed by the Englisl
missionaries was informed that
majority of the Sunday school children
? are now attending American Sunda.
schools. II is one Of the indisputabl
proofs of our country's supremacy il
. altruistic work that though DRAWN;
2 nothing whatever from India in tn
way of revenues. ii sends into Indi;
2 every year for religious and education
2 al purposes almost as much as Englan
: does Notwithstanding the fact tina
England draws something like a hun
2 dred millions a year from India.
I We found the various departments O
5 Christian work growing vigorously il
: India. Medical missionaries are winning
2 the confidence and the affections Of tn
t unfortunate: teachers are bringing In
e creasing thousands to a higher level o
= intellectual development; and the min
Y listers are explaining to the people VIII
{ il is that the Christian is sympatheti
and benevolent. Simply stated, the med
2 ical missionary compels attention, tn
> school teacher takes the one whose al
| tention has been aroused, and furnishe
an education which enables the pup
! to see things in their proper relation