Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-18
COURSE OF COMMERCE
CHINA MAY BRING ABOUT
CHANGES, MISSIONARY SAYS.

The course - The commerce of the
world is to be changed in the next twenty
five years by John Chinaman. and 1t be-
hooves us to get his friendship early"
DIR. NJ. ID. Eubank, an American medical
missionary OF Huchow China. declared
during an address before a laymen's mis-
sionary meeting in the Sunday school
room of the Calvary Baptis. Church last
evening. DR.. Eubank pictured those
characteristics OF the Chinese people
which. he thinks. enable them to take
place among the leading nations of the
world.
H. n Mckinney OF Philadelphia presI-
dent of the Baptist Laymen's Missionary
Movement. presided. and in addition To
DIR. Eubank the speakers were ]. Henry
Haslam OF Philadelphia chairman OF q
deputation OF sixteen Baptists who made
trip to China last summer to study
conditions there: Morney Williams Of New
York city, vice president of the Interde
nominational Laymen's Missionary Move
ment. and H. c. Applegarth. treasurer OF
the Baptist Missionary Union. Rev. DR..
Samuel III. Greene. pastor of Calvary Bap-
fist Church, pronounced the benedictiou.
Live by Agriculture.
DIR. Eubank pointed out that a popula-
ton of 400. coo. 600 in China has up to the
present lived almost entirely on agricul-
ture. This population. he said. covers a
territory about large as that OF the
United States east OF the Rocky noun
tains. divided into eighteen provinces in
China proper and three In Manchuria.
Using large map, he indicated the rivers
of China. Such, he declared. are not only
the highways of travel and commerce for
the people but for hundreds and hundreds
of miles along their banks they supply
tor f.,v- tnv, pses,~n - a
feet above the sea level the speaker said.
the rivers have great possibilities for use
as water power.
In addition. China has great mineral re-
sources. Fifteen of the provinces. he said.
have been found by German investigating
parties to be rich in coal and copper.
Hearing of these resources. Germany.
England. Russia and other countries have
already started to build railroads to the
undeveloped sections.
For fruit growing. the speaker said. the
virgin and almost untouched hills in China
are pronounced excellent. With the means
of transportation developed in a few
years. the Chinaman of north China will
find markets for his temperate zone fruits
in the southern provinces. and the resi-
dent of south China can sell his oranges
and other tropical fruits in the north. In
the line of manufacturing, the speaker
said. China has hardly made a begin
ming.
Says He Has a Past.
But you say. If we only had real men
there Let us see what kind of a man
there is over there now. You see him
walking along the street with his head up
and his chest out and you wonder what
he is proud Of He will tell you he has a
past, that while you were unclad heather.
his people were well dressed; that long
before your people knew their A. B. Cs. his
people had Libraries: that long before your
people could boast of their lineage to the
Mayflower passenger list. his people were
civilized.
Regarding him as an animal. he's a
pack horse. No other animal can do
more. for the avoirdupois, than he can.
He can do more work on less money than
any animal 1 know. The people on the
western coast don't like him because he
puts in too many hours of work. His
adaptabiity is worldwide. Go into the
Philippines and you will find that nine
tenths of the business there is in the
hands of the Chinese. Go to India, to
Japan, to the frozen north OF Siberia and
1t is the same. He can go farther north
and farther south than you can and do his
sixteen hours of work every day in any
climate
Mental Powers of Cinnamon.
The speaker next took up the mental
powers of the Chinaman. declaring he
would stand any test. John Chinaman, he
SAID, has taken oratorfcal prizes in the
American colleges. over the Yalu river.
where the Russians thought a bridge
would not stand six months, he said a
Chinese engineer has built q structure
that still stands after several years, and
another Chinese engineer has built an
entire railroad. John Chinaman. he said,
is economical, self-reliant and persistent.
Besides being a man of great physical
and mental powers the speaker declared,
John Chinaman has great moral mower.
Every time there is mob in China, he
said, it is pretty safe to say that IL in
wolves a moral principle. When they
mob their rulers, 1t is because they be-
lieve that the official has ruled against
heaven"
Through the gospel of Jesus Christ. the
speaker declared the Chinese people are
making great advances. What their flu
ture will be, whether the Chinaman who
is to be a powerful factor in the COM
merce of the world twenty-five years
hence will be heather or Christian he
said. must be determined by the Christian