The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-26
HIS TOPIC WAS CHINA INTERPRETING ADDRESS BY PREs- ENTERTAIN MISSIONARY. Rev. G. W. Painter, For Thirty Years tn the Work, Speaks to a Large
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large congregation assembled at the First Presbyterian Church yester- day morning to hear the address of Rev. C. W. Painter. who for more than thirty years has been a mission" arv worker in China.
 MT. Painters address was espec- tally interesting. from the fact that he has been for so many years in the very heart of China and has made d special study of the needs of it's pea- pie and the ways and means best adap- ted to the allAviation of their needs.
 Dr. G. w. Patterson. pastor of the church, in a few introductory remarks, spoke of the good work that Mr tPain- ter had done in his long sotourn 'n China and now that he is at home on a furlough and for recuperat ton. he is working just as hard, carrying wher- ever he goes. messages of instruction and of encouragement, and of the gen eraI situation of the work as u ts today in China. =
 Mir. Painter said his one idea and purpose was to increase the endeaVor to Chrlstianize the whols Eastern world. for the present, as he saw 1t. was a more favorable time than any other period in history for the fur : therance of such work.
 He said that the result of the great Boxer trouble was an Illustration or the changes taking place in China. ana that through the Japanese the work CTS of China has been revealed, also that the late war between Japan and Russia has affected China more than any other country in the world.
 "The Chinese" he said. are proud people and no people on earth have ever been more thoroughly humih- ated."
 He drew realistic picture of the Boxer troubles and of the dissertation of all the most sacred ediices and pal aces of that country by the foreigners. Not only were the natives humtliated during that terrible uprising, but great indignities were heaped upon the Chris tian missionares, the blood of l59 adults and ffty-three children. besides more than d thousand of native Christians stained the soil of China.
 But" said Mir. Painter, T believe that nothing strange occurred, 1t was simply the logical and necessary out growth of things that have gone be- fore"
 He then touched on the situation in China from a commercial standpoint, saying that the country was almost en- tireIy in a virgin and undeveloped state; that China has more than tWen- ty times as much coal as all Europe combined and other natural resources in like proportions
 China has it's grievances against the western world and Mir. Painter treated th sm under three heads--"social, com mercial and political.
 He said that the Chinese people be- Iieve that they are the most superior nation of the world and they have more contempt for the people of the Western countries than those people can pos sibly have for the Chinese. He said that China has contributed, in lit erary way, to the world as few other countries have done, contributed of its past civilization, for they as a people, as a nation, live in their past and look backward instead of forward, while men of the other countries about them go out and look for devices of development and promptly adopt all that seems good.
 MT. Painter then spoke of the labor situation in China and affirmed that as a nation, 1t Is the best organized eoun- try in the world. He said that the labor organization problem of this country Is a failure today, compared with the situation along that line in China more than 1000 years ago. He said that labor troubles in that country are rare. because their institutions are on a basis of stability, such as they have never been in the Western world. A question between employer and cm- ploye once settled in that country is never reverted to or mOlested again, In other words. the Chinaman is loyal to his promise and his contract.
 MT Painter described China as country with a history--that 1t has 3,0SO years of real history. It was a nation TOO years old when Israel went out of Egypt. It saw the rise and fall of many of the greatest empires of the world. It has lived under the rule of twenty eight dynasties, and reached the very zenith of it's wealth and pros- perity during the last of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century.
 From coming in contact with the Western civilization dates the de- terioration of China, he declared,
 MT. Painter said that when our an