Putnam patriot., 1908-05-22
The Foreign Mail Bag.
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offnrrRNtSos IN CHINA.

oNEHrt KNfNGs iN CHINA.
 The most stirring events on ihe face of the globe are taking place i'll the ofieBt. fhe editef ef Inc " London
 Times said re sently: "fhe coming
 question will he Asiatic. IL belongs to the new generation. 1 should advise my younger friends to bend their thoughts in thai direction. Il may come with the youngest aud the oldest eisilifatieHs--ihe 1 niied -laIes and eAina--iaee to face, ~
 Even mafe significant is the remark af Chimes, Prince, who said to one ai | the foreign representatives. 'iA oa com. piaiu that China moves too slowl lS the | time will come when you will say she
 k going too faptdy Both these pro pheeies seem 10 be tn process ot fuliil. | meni,
 | What has Tought this change Men | like secretary Taft now admit that one ol the strongest formative influences i'll | the East k Christian missions. Com
 merce and diplomacy have conferred some benefits, out neither has eNer built
 n single church, school er hospital on
 foreign soil These are gifts ot Chris | tinn men and women.
 | The ottttnrnings in China today are due, In large measure, to American
 seheels aad colleges The American Roard~the uidest missionary efeanlsa- l ton in the niled states, with head | quarters n Boston has two splendid
 colleges, one n fungsehow and the | other in acklhx. These are doing for Chinese No0ng men precisely wfat
 \ ale. Amherst, Chicago diversity and otheIs here al home are doing Tor Ane- | riean youth An editorial Ill The | World To-day says there k mol one
 American in hundred thousand wte
 can think ol the Chinese as other than 1 euriosities oT laundry men, and adds, | that "the day will come N hen Me shall
 he thanking our lucky stars that Sonle men and women were faFsighted enough to send school teachers and fo- reign missionaries to China along With drlll sefgeants and civil engineers. One of the hes, wass to avert possible "yellow peril, n k to strengthen such as the American Board is doing in the Orient. CT the Commercial value of
 its work Hon. F. s. Stralton, Collector of the port at san Francisco says:
 'srhe missionaries are advance agents for the commercial enterprises. II ha- siness men only understood this better they would assist rather than disconf- age evanselistic work in the East. AANtfAeruRsn ssIie>-
 One of the eurios on exhibition in Pittsbure, al the first international con
 seniion ot the Young Peoples Mission afy Movement, which has just been held there, was board about two feet
 long oy one wide. bearing an iaserip-
 ton in Japanese. This bit ef hard wood attracted considerable attention because il hore the original edicl against Christianity ne longer ago than l>n>. The translation reads thus:
 ! "Hllhetto the Christian religion has lSeen toFbiiien. and Inc order must Is strictly kept. The corrupt religion i,
 strictly forbidden. laane in the srd naath ai the sla oi ksos March. i>ss>, ' This order was nallei on public huild-
 lngs aud elsewhere throughout The enl- 1 pire, and onlN few es inc originals are sn existence. These now eanmand
 such high pftes for thell historic vs- | lae that the 4assk-~itted Japanese sfe manufacturing duplicates, and hurying them for aahile la the ground lsa order