The sun., 1908-05-12
BAPTISTS VISIT CHINATOWN
MINISTER'S HEET N MISSION
ABOVE FiNTtN JOINT.

Are Told by DR.. Fung '. Nov, VINO Wants
Whole Building for the Mission. That
Money Spent There Would Pay Gov.
Hughcs's Father Promises Building
DR. Fung y. Nov. superintendent of the
Morning Star Chinese Mission at II Doyers
street, has been desrous for some time Of
securing an entire building, and with this
IN view he had $50 members Of the Baptist
Ministers Conferences in Chinatown yester
dav afternoon 10 see how things were
Among the guests was the Rev Dr. David
Hughes, father Of Gov. Hughes and one oi
the earliest missionary workers among the
Chimes, in this city.
Dr Nov intends that the new housa shall
have baths and a roof garden Bath pro
visions in Chinatown dwellings are alnl1s
unknown Or. Fung points out that tho
Chimes are not to blame for this, becaus'
they didn't build the houses. It is hoped
that hy having a garden on top the build
inC the Chimes women in the colony may
I've CoaHed from their clos q quarters and
20 regularly 10 a place fitted up in the
fashion Of their country. Every EFFORT has
been made 10 get thes' Chimes women n
attend the mothers meetings at the miss. on
hut 81 far without result. Tho Chimes
women have refused T. come ont Of their
houses
Dr. Fung listened with interest when the
preachers told him their several expert.
ences Of how they got to the ramshackle
hnildnG where the mission now Is and mp
the rirkety stairs pas Chinese fantan
Joint on the floor below, where the chips
we're rafting noisiy. Mos, everything is
housed in the place, from a laundry TO
narrow bunk Chinese lodging house, the
third floor only being occupied by the
mission,
The usual quota Of policemen were strung
along Doyprs street, with weather eye on
the Tong quarters not far away, and the
preachers eyed them nervonsly az they
edged their way through the congested
thoroughfare. Or Fung denied that the
meeting, which IL Usually held AZ the Madl-
son Avenue Church, was transferred to
Chinatown because WI Ting-fang, the
Cllnasa Minister. had lectu'ed recently IN
the settlement upon the subject of Con
fucius" and spread the cause to an extent
alarming to outside religious workers.
Iho hev, Or Hunt, q negro clergyman
Of Mount Vernon, opened the meeting
with prayer DR.. Fung introduced his
wife. a Chinese woman, who told the lis
teners Of her work among the.women, She
spoke well and her remarks were received
enthusia stically, There ives hymn IN
Chinese and a number OF Chinese children
gave an idea oi the sort Of pupils thI'
attend the kindergarten Miss +. NJ. Dixon
said that tho little school now numbered
forty pupils, half OF whom we're Chinese
and the rest Italians Lee Dick, head Of
the Chinese Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation. told how much the people Of the
quarter needed a religious place.
DR. Fung said that the miss ion workers
had tried 10 make things right and that
those assembled should help,
The New York ministers are the biggest
ministers, yet they do queer things, he
continued Instead Of spending 81. 900 to
send a minister 10 China, why don't you
spend five cents to come down 10 China.
town and help us teach and spread the
Gospel All the people here come from
one province Canton province, and speak
tho same dialect. When man goes home
he tells the people what he has learned.
Think how the Gospel would he spread II
al could be made 10 see.
Chinatown has a bad name, but We
are not all 80 b"d. We can't throw the
bad people out hu' the government can.
The Improvement that has come to China
town has been Effected by the Chinese.
We have been taking up collections for
two years: we have q little now. but that
little. ! believe, will prove the Masters
seed"
Or. Hughes praised Dr. Fung's efforts
and said that he should h9yJ the building
In the course of his remarks DR.. Hughes
said that Confucig nsm stood for atheism
and deplored the possibility Of It's finding
root among the American Cinnamon.
After the meeting the conference ed
loirned 10 nearby tea house and had
Chinese luncheon, which he'd 90 many
courses that the sun was sinking pretty
low bv the time the last had been served