Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-16
AVOWS MISSIONARIES
ARE MISREPRESENTING
AFFAIRS IN THE ORIENT
Teacher Declares American Women Work for Child
Wives Abroad and Neglect Frightful Con-
ditiOns of White Slavery at Home.
Talks of Gross Misstatements
ny DADA BIIARATI

That my exposure of the missionary
myths in regard to the status and
condition of Hlndoo women would
create CONSERVATION in cozy corners of
Christian missions in general and dis
turb the dove-cotes of Zenana missions
In particular I was more than sure
and prepared for.
These Christian missionaries working
Tor the salvation of heather souls in
the east, without any thought of res
cuing their own from the influence of
the old gentleman, are wonderful be-
ings I'm many respects. Their mission
work in the east is based upon mis-
guided zeal and maintained by mis-
representations, both wiful and un-
conscious, bigotry, conceit, prejudice,
ignorance, want of information and the
charms and temptations of comforta BILE
living in the Orient. This comforta BILE
living Is assured them by the mission
funds at home, contributed to by pious-
minded Christians, most of whom never
dream of enjoying the comforts of the
missionaries In the east and never get
at the real facts and the results of
the work for which they contribute.
On these Misrepresentation wilful
or otherwise, the missionary funds de-
pend and flourish.
Says Funds Are Dwindling
During the past decade or SO, how
ever, the eyes of many of the pious
Christian patrons of missionary funds
have been opened more and more to
the utter futility of these missions, SO
the funds are dwindling appreciably. A
few years more of western enlighten-
ment about the real conditions of east
ern life may make them dwindle more
and Hpnnp yUhntaxrar
these myths about the east it is the
bounden duty of the missionary to
contradict. But they are finding 1t
harder and harder every day to do So
on account of the presence of some
Hindoo preachers of their own religion
and philosophy, whose interpretations
of spiritual truths and Christianity are
being appreciated more largely than
before in this country.
All this has spread CONSERVATION in
the missionary camps, as 1 say, and
finding impressions of one myth after
another about the Hindoo's inner life
which they have so long traded upon
being wiped out from most American
minds, they are making desperate eff
forts to create fresh Impressions of
those myths. These misguided people
have come to think that they have es-
tablished for themselves a sort OF
claim, as 1t were, upon the beliefs of
people here in regard to these myths
about the Hindoo, having once started
them, especially as they have run Sc
long unchallenged by the Hindoos here
or out m their own country.
Reverses the Situation
The reason the Hindoos have not
contradicted these myths is that they
believe that only truths can stand, and
lies are doomed to die some day, and
that these misstatements are so trans.
parent that the intelligent westerners
when they investigate for themselves
cannot fail to see through them. Sc
these missionaries have, it seems, per.
suaded themselves to believe that the
Hindoos have no right to contradict
now, not having contradicted so long
just as legal claim is barred by limi-
tation. Hence, when any Hindoo. con-