The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1906-11-18


| the unanswerable argument in favo
of our religion.
1t is sometimes suggested by thos
unfriendly to missionary work tha
missionaries live in too great comfort
This criticism will not have weigh
with those who have attempted to live
in the Orient upon the salary of a mis-.
sionary. but even if the missionaries
lived more luxuriously than they dc
that would still exert a beneficial in
nuence
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 op-
portunity for comparisons. In China
there is polygamy, while the mission
ary has but one wife.
; In the Chinese home the birth of a
son is the occasion of rejoicing; the
birth OF a daughter an occasion for
less rejoicing, if not actual mourning.
In the nissionary's home the girl child
is as welcome as the boy. The mission
ary's wife is not only a standing rebuke
to the practice of foot binding, but is
stimulus to the movement now setting
in for education of women.
EXAMPLE OF THE CATHOLIC
PRIEST.
The Catholic missionaries reach a
class which might not be reached by
Protestant missionaries and Protestant
missionaries appeal to some who could
not be reached by the Catholic mis-
sionaries. Each church does its own
work in it's own way, and the result is
better than if either attempted to fol-
low the example of the other
The celibacy of the priest and his
voluntary 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
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 its ministers
the advantages of the family.
In other words, the different branches
of the Christian church, each pursuing
it's own way. meet the widely different
needs of the heather better than any
one church could do 1t.
HARD To CON
VERT.
Missionary work in the Malay States
has been very slow because the Malays
are nearly all Mohammedans. and it
has been found difficult to make head
way against this religion. The Moham-
medan believes in most of the Old
Testament and regards Christ as a
great prophet but claims that Moham-
med was later prophet and greater
one
Burma, the home of Buddhism, is one
of the best missionary fields, and great
success has attended the Baptist mis-
sion, which has it's headquarters at
Rangoon
For many years American mission
aries have been establishing schools
and churches in India. While this field
has also been developed by the English
missionaries, 1 was informed that a
majority Of the Sunday school children
are now attending American Sunday
1t is one of the fndisputable proofs of
our country's supremacy in altruistic
work that, though drawing nothing
whatever from India in the way of
revenues. it sends into India every year
for religious and educational purposes
almost as much as England does, not
draws something like a hundred mil
lions a year from India
MISSIONARY. PHYSICIAN AND
TEACHER.
We found the various departments of
Christian work growing vigorously in
India Medical missionaries are win
ming the confidence and the affections
IF the unfortunate; teachers are bring ,
ing increasing thousands to a higher
evel of intellectual development and
he ministers are explaining to the peo-
pie why it is that the Christian is
and benevolent
Simply stated. the medical missionary
,ompels attention, the school teacher
axes the one whose attention has been
aroused and furnishes an education
which enables the pupil to see things {
n their proper relation, while the min