The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-05-15
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carried the light to the japanese in
a spiritual sense, but in the actual
physical form of kerosene lamp. The
ancient lamp of Japan, a vessel filed
with vegetable oil in which fioated
rude wick, was fit only to show how
dark it was. To read by it was to invite
blindness. The missionaries, the first
foreigners to get to the interior, car
ried kerosene and lamps with them. The
practical advantage Of this strong,
clear light was instantly recognized by
the people and they asked how they
could have lamps, too. AS result,
the kerosene lamp is almost as univer-
sal in rural Japan as it is in rural
America, while in the cities it is ev-
erywhere. The Standard Oil Company
has a tremendous business in Japan,
as have also the Japanese oil concerns.
This business undoubtedly would have
followed the opening of Japan to for
eign ideas, even if there had never
been a missionary, but the fact that
the missionary was twenty years in
the interior before the foreign traders
were permitted to go there, means that
the immense business of today was
built by twenty years sooner than it
would have been, had there been no
missions.
In China, where everybody wears
cotton, there was no such thing as a
cotton mill until missionary built a
small spinning mill to give employment
and support to his band of Chinese
students. Out of this beginning has
grown a considerable number of spin
ming mills in China Missionaries in
the New Hebrides discovered the ar
rowroot of which the natives knew
nothing, and the annual trade is now
worth several hundred thousand dol
lars. How trade has penetrated into
darkest Africa through the opening
made by the great missionary Living
stone, is known to all the world. That
the interior and remote reaches of
China are being brought closer to the
ports by traffic in foreign supplies, is
directly due to the missionaries; for
by their agency alone was the demand
for foreign goods created in those in
land places.
Trade follows the cross. That fact
cannot be disputed, but at the same
time the commercial set and the mis-
set in any Oriental port have
an entirely different point of view and
are often at Ioggerheads on local ques-
tons. The missionaries in Japan, for
are nearly all so thoroughly
that they partake of the
fanatic loyalty of the natives them
selves to the Imperial government. The
foreigners in Japan, on the
other hand, are almost unanimous in
their criticism of japanese methods
and practices. 1t was the missionary
influence which was largely responsible
'or the Revision of Treaties which in
s99 brought Japan into the most fav-
,red nation class This revision was
bitterly opposed by many of the COM
nercial class.
But differ as they will, the mission
Try realizes and admits that commerce
las given him the means to come to
he land where he is working for the
advancement of his holy cause, and
hat he owes much to the presence of
he foreign commercial spirit. The
business man, also, if he be fair, will
onfess that it was the missionary who
irst created the tiny demand for for
ign trade upon which has been built
he great superstructure of the import
BUSINESS of the japan of today. And
most business men in the East will say
hat the money spent on missions has
zen more than repaid in advantage to
commerce, leaving out of the question
he results in education, civilization and