Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30

of students was $4,000 last year.
1hey go out into the neighbOrhoods
( ana they cannot but have a good ef-
tect throughout that great empire.
1 large enough as it is, to promote the
/ ideas of Christianity and the ideas of
/ civilization. Two or three things
make one impatient when he under
/ stands the facts. One is this criticism
OF the missionaries as constantly in
/ VolVing the governments in trouble,
as constantly bringing about war.
lne truth is that Western civilization
IN trade is pressing into the Orient
! ana the agents that are sent forward,
l am sorry to say, are not the best
representatives Of Western civiliZa-
ton. The American and Englishman
and others who live in the Orient are,
many Of them excellent, honest. God
tearing men; bat there are in that set
of advance agents of Western civiliza-
tion gentlemen who left the West
for the good of the West. and be-
cause their history in the West might (
prove embarrassing at home. More /
than that, even where they are hon /
est, Woodworking tradesmen and /
merchants attempting to push bust
ness into the Orient, their minds are
constantly on business. It is not hui
man nature that they should resist
the temptations that not infrequeutly
present themselves to get ahead of
the Oriental brother in business
transactions They generally are
quite out of sympathy with a spirit
of brotherhood toward the Oriental
natives. Even in the Philippines
that spirit is shown. for while / was
there | can remember hearing on the
streets, sung by a gentleman that did
not agree with my view Of cur duty
toward the Filipinos:
"Ilc nav be brother of William H.
Taft
But he amt no brother of mine"
Now that is the spirit that we are
SO likely to find among the gentle
men who go into the East for the
purpose of extending trade. Then |
am bound to say that the restraints
Of public opinion, Of a fear Of the
of ones neighbors that one
finds at home, to keep men in the
straight and narrow path, are loos-
9ned in the Orient, and we do not
ind that they are the models, many
lf them, that they ought to be in
)robity and morality. They look up
IN the native as inferior, and they are
90 likely to treat him with insult
Civilization ParslIcling Trade.
Hence it is that in the progress of
utilization we must move along as
rade moves; and as the foreign mis- {
ions move on, it is through the for c
ign missions that We must expect to v
lave the true picture Of Christian d
brotherhood presented to those ma &
ives. the true spirit Of Christian sym {
'athy. That is what makes in the n
rogress of civilization the immense Il
Importance of Christian missions
-ou so into China to-day and try to p
nd cut what the conditions are in .
he interior-consult in Pekin the h
entlemen who are supposed to know n
nd where do they go? They 20 at II
nee to the missionaries. to the men f.
'ho have spent their lives far adj ~
3nced into the nation, far beyond .
he point of safety II any uprising n
axes place, and who have learned g
y association with the natives. by n
Wing with them. by bringing them r.
Ito their houses, by helping them on y,
) their feet, who have learned the is
scret OF what Chinese life is. And =.
lerefoYe il is that the only reliable n,
1oks thgt you can read. telling you cc
,c exact condition of Chiaase civil in
alton. are written by these same ~
lreign missionaries who have been T.,
, muca blamed for involving us in ~
reign wars. m
The Boxer War. IA
II is said that the Boxer war was Sc
Ie to the interference OF missionar- 81
s. and the feeling of the Chinese a
yainst the Christian religion as M
anifested and exemplified by the do
fssionaries. That is not true. II ex
true that the first outbreak was til
.ainst the missionaries-beca tn
e outbreak was against foreign in tn
rference. and it was easiest to at Of
ok those men who were farthest sic
the Chinese nation, and there they co
ade expression of that feeling bv Ch
cir attack against the whole for VIC
gn interference. But that which ha
ally reused the opposition Of the Mi