The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-29

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of students was IS. 900 last year
They 90 out into the nelGhborho odsl
and they cannot but have a good ef-
feet throughout that great en- 2tIse.s
large enough as it is to pronoteStne,
ideas of Christianity and the IDEAS OF
sC.iyflizatfon Two or three things
make one impatient when he under
Stands theGacts. One is this crit ctBlll
of. the missionaries as cons m
Yotxing tn ego yeEnn1ent - ~ tfht.ss
as cCpstantly bringing about war
The truth IS that Western 81 Utilization
In trade Is pressing into the Orient
and the agents that are sent forward
I am soRry to say, are NOT the bese
ton The American and Eng lishman
and others who live In the Orient a-eg
Ilaanyaof them excellent honestS Cod
fearing men; but there are In that set
of advance agents of Western ctTtllzs=
tion gent1emen 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 non
est Woodworking tFadesmen and
merchants attempting to push bust-
ness into the Orient, their minds are
constantly on business. It is not h1-7
man nature that they should resist
the temptations that not lnfrequentky
the Oriental brother IN, business
transactions. They generally are
quite out of sympathy with spirit
Of brotherhood toward the Orientai
that spirit Is shown, for while was
there can remember hearing on the
streets, sung by q gentleman that did
NOT agree with my view of our, duty
toward the Fflipinos;
He may be brother of William
But he amt no. brother OF mine.
Now that is the spirit that we are
SO likely to dnd among the gentle
men who go into the East for the
am bound to say that the restraints
of public opinion, of fear OF the
criticism of ones neighbors that one
finds at home, to keep men IN the
ened in the Orient. and we do not
md that they are the models, many
of them. that they ought TO be In
probity and morality. They look up
on the native Us inferior, and they are
too likely to treat him with insult.
(JIyiIizatIon ParaIleIfng Trade.
Hence It Is that in the progress OF
civilization We must move along as
trade moves; and as the foreign mis-
sions move on, It Is through the FOR
eign missions that we must expect 70
have the true picture OF Christian
1 bTofherhood presented to those ma
tIyes, the true spirit of Christian sym
I rafhy That is what makes IN the
nroRreSs OF civilization the Immense
( importance OF Christian missions.
| You 20 into China to-day and try TO
!, find out what the conditions are in
the nterior-consult in Pekin the
gentlemen who are supposed to know.
/ and where do they go? They go at
: once to the missionaries, to the men
I who have spent their lives Tar adj
vanced into the nation, Tar beyond
| the point OF safety IL any uprising
/ takes place, and who have learned
| by association with the natives, BY
/ living with them. by bringing them
I into their houses by helping them on
Ito their feet, who have learned the
I secret OF what Chinese life u. And
! Therefore Il is that the only reliable
\ books that you can read, telling 4oas
/ the exact condition OF Chinese civil
/ ization, are written by these same
| foreign missionaries who nave been
SO much blamed for involving US IN
I foreign wars
/ The Boxer War.
II Is said that the Boxer war was
/ due to the Interference OF tnissionar-
les and the yelling of the Chinese
afZainst the Christian religion as
4 ,Tnanifested and exemplthed by the
Ynissionaries That Is not true, Il
/ IA trne TINT the first outbreak was
arainst the mIssionarte s[becarse
the outbreak was against foreign IN
reference, andait was easiesE 70 at
: tack those mem w no We're 1aEt1esI
lin the Chinese nation, ana he5ei tiley
tYnatIe expression OF that feehng by
fIssi,. intfack against the whole for
, efEn interference. But g1aS Wnicn