The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-14
IAN APPEAL FOR CHINA |Dr. Young J. Allen De-
 livers Address. IS A FAMOUS MISSIONARY Tells Large Montgomery Congresa-
 tions of Conditions. Representative of MetAodist church De- cIares That Exclusion Act of
 United states .werks Hard
 ship 0a People.

Dr. Young J. Allen. the veteran mis- lsionary of the Southern Methodist Church. who for forty-eight years has |labored for the cause of his church and This master in the field of China, brought yesterday. to two large Mont lgomery congregations message from that far of land.
 Forty-eight years in China. Cut off during the Civil War, for five long |years from al communication, all word or remittance from his native land he labored on. For fourteen years he stood, during those trying times true to his trust as a missionary, sup porting himself and family by his liter |ary work and work for the government. and all the while learning of that strange peop1e--that people of an Elm pire that has stood through all the centuries while Kingdoms and Empires and Dynasties have fallen about 1t. What has China done? asked a Bishop" said the venerable man, and II had my revenge at the conference last week. when I told there what China has done"
 A Complex subject.
 The subject of China is complex one, one full of significance-one of too numerous details to be presented in Ia connected story which can be told in an hour said the venerable speaker, |yet under two heads China and its Present Conditions and Our Relation to China" Dr. Allen at the Court Street Church yesterday morning discussed the Empires problems. politically, com- lmercially. and religiously.
 That China is great country. that hers has been glorious past and that la bright future awaits her. no one |could deny he said. Tt is her present |condition that Is the problem of the |civilized world today. Dr. Allen spoke of China as being the most ancient. land yet the most undeveloped country in the world. As people the Chinese hate war and everything pertaining to war, and when conquered by the Tar tars, they accepted their domination but never became reconciled. And as they accepted the domination of the Tartars so did the Tartars, in the same |rebeliious spirit, accept the civilization that they found among the Chinese. China was found when invaded by the Tartars to be an Empire of Prov |inces, to be divided into clans and into tribes with her people speaking many dialects and languages. Through these lconditions she fell an easy prey to her Ienemies and through these same con- lditions Is she held in Bubjection. There Is no uniform language throughout the Empire. the only means lof universal communication Is writing
 done in characters or pictures. Thus.
 If man of province wishes to speak to
 la man of another province about a
 i"bird" he draws ths picture of bird
 and the picture is translated into the
 known tongue. The Tartars have seen
 | to it that no language has become uni-
 lversal. They find such conditions
 make for keeping separate the tribes
 land clans and for the safest way to
 keep those 00,0o0.000 people. in utter
 lsubjection.
 Through her missionaries China.
 while hating all things and all people
 foreign, is becoming better acquainted
 with the outside world than is her !conquerers, the Tartars. The people of