The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-01-26
cHRISTIANIZE CHINA
IAncn AnGnrr1oKs or RELIGHoUl
 EDUCATIONAL WORK.
Carried on Among fhe Chiness in New verk--TrasnfnG Native Christian Teackers for Work fn
 China

lsF TEWGH#EX EUE WOTk In
 China.
 New York, Jan. 26.--ThA word Chi namens when used in New York. com nonly brings to mind at once a pic- ture of dark. twisting Doysrs Street and the yellow angle of Chinatown fsrmed by Mott ana PelI streets. just west of Chatham, Square. It carries with 1t also ideas of opium smoking, of mysterious oriental joss houses. the eacophony of Chinese theatres. of fan- tan games. murdsrous Tong seuds. res- tAuranfs with strange dishes and much rice and tea, and a general smell of starch and biuing. And yet. of the g. oeo Cninafnen who live in this city. fuis " 1000 probably never enter the "cuar-. ter" except1to buy the Ingredients of chop suey, and yakiman and the star fruit and fyches preserves which are to be had only at the tiny butcher shops and from the pig-tailed green grocers in this district. Except for these oc- casional shopping trips. these men are to Do found night and day and during the week at the laundries or restau- rants where they work, sometimes eighteen hours out of the twenty-four. But on Sundays, to ind them one must go to the Christian churches or the tWGlF9 NllMtGG 2uHQAS OtnVOAHs AlGEG the thousand will be found, dressed for the most part in weli-htting American garb and wearing short hair instead
 If the pIans of the Rev. Huis Kin. superintendent of the Presbyterian Mission to the Chinese in New York, materialixe. it will not be long before these studious Chinamen will also be found in, a s100,o00 building devoted to non sectarian Christian influences. which will provide for the Chinese the social and educational advantages com mon in the F. M. c. A. buildings. This building will also solve the hotel problem for respectable chinamen who visit the city, and now have no cheap and thoroughly comfortable hosteiry where they are not the subject oft dis coacertfng scrutiny by other guests. and where they can obtain food such as they are usedfto eating.
 while this work of Christianixing New York Chinese is carried on as q local mission by the several churches
 which have entered the field. It's objec-. tive is the naakinE of Christian nation people. According to Mir. Kin. the work in New York ia having q wide effect in the far East. The 1000 students In tho Sunday SchooiR are. for the most part, Chinese who have come to this country to make money asa then return to China to live. AS t happens, any one who cah teach Eu9lish in, China is at Q premium and has no difficulty In getting pupils and in ssarting q school. In fact. China man who simply knows the English A B C's will be requisitioned as Q teacher In some of the towns far inc land. while those who really can speak and write the English language are in demand as teachers in the govern ment schooiA An instance cf this is Joe Lee, a graduate of New York Uni- verafty, who developed such command of English that against American com petitors he won second place in the | Sandman oration contest. Mr. Lee has | just been called back to China to take | a highly paid teaehership in a severn Iinsnt school at Canton.
 l So remarkable has been the spread
 of our Ianguage ia China that Mr. kin ] is of the opinion that English mas . l fair chance te become the common Ian | guake of the country. Many Chinamen | speak this tongue which they have | llearned from their residence in Afaerf- can and Auetraiim and other English. | spealxing countries which are more fre- q1enteA 1hN Chiness than are those where other European languages pre- vail. Moveovor, the Chinese arc bee T A~A8AAEAA men from other provinces. The dia. lects in China are so widely differest l that a man from Pekin cannot under stand the talk of . man from Canton l or Shanghai As result, English af- ! lords convenient medium of speech, and tla Chinese are beginning to study I t in n1any towns of inland China | p4eiAity written English. has great commerciel valne for Chinese clerk l and in also useful for those who act | as guides Go travellers.
 The opportunity to learn7 English IS, according to Mir. Kin. the magnet which
 attracts the heathen to the Sunday
 Schools. and the workers are very glad to have them come with this object. as | they think it is too much to expect q Chfnantan to enter 6 class primarily to
 be converted to . belief of which he | knows nothing. The Chinese learn more than the language in Sunday School, however, as issinstanced by the l fact that some forty Chtnamen in the I school operated by the Fifth Avenue | Preabyterian Church have become com | municantS. Of these, many have res I turned to China to found Christian Il schools in their native villages. and | one, at least. went back to become a I martyr to his belief Others have | moved from New York. and 1t is . | significant thing the teachers say, that ! on communion Sunday they will travel I more than 800 miles. riding night and day in order to tage the sacrament in the church where they were baptized
 This Sunday School operated by the l Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church l which operates also q number of mis' | sions and has introduced a series oi special Sunday evening services in tti j Fifth Avenue edifice, where strangers in New York are specially welcomed, il one of the most interesting conducted for the yellow race. The school meets I each Sunday evening In large hail h East Fifty-ninth Street. At each ses. sion there are from twenty-four te
 forty Chinamen. The pupils in the pri'
 mary wear their pIg-tatls and the loost
 flowing garments of the Celestial, but the pupils In the upper grades ara
 garbed like Americans. To each pupil there is one teacher and the lnstruc' tion is entirely individual.
 Many former pulpils who have mas.
 tered English and have Joined the par.
 ent church return each Sunday to ac
 as interpreters and teachers for tht
 beginners who cannot speak a word oi
 English, or even read Chinese. The
 first effort is to give them enough
 English to understand the Christiani
 message which is to be given to then
 words of one syllable with theil
 ployed, and for those who read Chi
 nese. as the greater part do. for edu
 cation Is held in great respect In China I An. fa . FaA fy