The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-04-15
CHINA IN A
 NEW LIGHT Lecture by Miss Emma
 Gary. PRESENTS A NEW IDEA Not the Bafbarians They Are Gen
 orally Pictured. s.fantieide, Their Chief Bsrsarou. Habit, is Now Being Abolished, But 1t |. Likened to Amer
 icas Race Suicide.
 

China in an entirely new light. from the old generally accepted idea, was presented by Miss Emma Gary of Att 1anta, in a most interesting talk given in the Court Street Methodist Church last night. Miss Gary has worked as . missionary in several Chinese prov tnces during the past ten years. and from her talk seems most thoroughly in touch with the situation there.
 In beginning her address she said she was not going to speak of China as regards the church, for that subjec had many times been discussed, but she wanted to tell the people here of conditions in the Oriental Empire as she had seen them. But on /the re- sented one wildly new idea:
 Tn missionary work in China she said. Adenominationalism is almost en- tfrely lost sight of in the work for Christ The missionary. workers are banded together and the work to do Is so immense that the little differences between the denominations have no room for consideration. We use a universal hymn book. we teach togeth- CT. and work together"
 Laughingly she told how one chi- naman had sized up the, situation: "They work together, worship the same God and sing out of the same book. only difference the chineman see. some big wash. some little wash, some no wash at all."
 Although they are heathens, they are not for one moment to be called barbarians." she continued. China was more cultured in the time of Moses than were the Egyptians. Fuchow was a great city when Babylon was fouffd- ed. Compared to Chinese civilization Europe is in it's childhood and Amer a.. a..N l.a <Ak .f~.n. of as the advanced eastern country, yet Japanese written language is Chinese. their laws are Chinese and their It, erature Is Chinese.
 China gave the three great discov- cries. or inventions, that raised the cloud of the dark ages; The mariners compass, printing. and that great civ- that for civilization and the world has forgotten to say thank you
 One Barbarous Habit.
 Tn one thing they are barbarians but are getting over it. and that is foot binding, fashion started some thousands of years ago by the favorite wife of an Emperor She was club footed and the Emperor's wives attrib- uted her position to this and immedi- ately tried to cultivate club feet. The fashion spread, yet when we come to think of 1t, it Is not more foolish or sbarbarous than the western custom among women of lacing their waists. which..is even more harmful to health and brings on nervousness, word the Chinese do not know. The fashions among Chinese women never change, their garments are simple. loose and hygienic. the fashion set 5000 years ago being in vogue today.
 eff they are superstitious so are we: 1t is not more foolish for them to be- lieye in their air-haunting spirits than for us to number. aS I have seen in New York skyscrapers, the noors--i1, 12, 12A. and fl. The two things are equally barbaric and superstitious.
 "Infanticide. result of ancestral worship. a practice that Is passing. is