The daily Alaskan., 1909-04-24
PREACHER TAKES EXCEPTIONS


 for the following lines which I an constrained to write in response to your editorial tonight on Missionary Work"
 Just let me say that was some what startled at your statements. for l had expected something better from you in the light of other things that you have written. Did think that YOU had thought this whole matter cut to serious conclusions l should pursue a different course in my an. swer. But sir, you are only echoinS the thoughtleSS sentiment of those who neither know nor seek to know what missionary work is or what 1t accompliSheS. IL is the same old cheap talk that the black man hasn't soul. Ii you read the history Of Europe and America, as far as they have a history, since the Resurrection of Jesus Christ you will find that the compelling motive of every and for. ward movement has been supplied by ChriStiauity. Think ot what the let lers B. C. and A. D. mean in the measure of history and the evolution ot human society. Compare the per. son ia thing impossible) of Jesus Christ with the founder of any other religion; His teaching and theirs; the results obtained; and their res pcctiye attitudes toward the present and the future, and you will not be so blind as to say that it is an open question if foreign missionaries have hot accomplished quite as much harm as good" Ever since the Apostle 10 the west heard the Macedonian cry and crossed the line seperating Asia from Europe the progress of Christianity has been accomplished b foreign missionary work. The saliva. ,iou of Greece and Rome was through the preaching of toreigners-Jews. The ciyilzing of the barbarous Teu- tonic and Celtic tribes was wrought by the combined work of Roman le' gions and Christian missionaries, and the planting of the church among these peoples who were our own torefatherS was done by the sacrifice Of the lives of hundrds of Asiatic and Roman missionaries. How did those wild tribes become the modern na- tious of Europe with the highest civ ilization and society ever known in the world except by real conversion 10 that high service and noble sacri. flee taught by the Christian mission. ary? Skin deep conversions there Iuay have been. but you will remem- Der the Master Himself found one traitor among His twelve trained Apostles.
 Ii it is a mistake today to go to races born and bred to different re- Hgious ideals" with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, then it was a still great, CT mistake for Christ Himself to have come to earth at all to save even His own nation, the Jews.
 The Christian religion is not "a matter of evolution" in the common use of that term. It is the religion of Revelation.
 Christianity had its origin among the Jews, and so when We send mis- sionaries to other lands, we are but Going what others have done for us.
 You say that "massacres have marked the progress of the mission. ary etc" to which we offer no denial, But be it remembered, the mission aries have not made the assaults. Sacrifice is the reward for high ser vice as we'll in America as in China or Turkey. The Saviour Himself was Crucified because He dared to expose the corruption and hypocrisy of a half pagan religion and society. And if the Hindu, the Chinaman, or