Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-03-14

found great opportunities. Commo-
dore Peary said that without the aid
of the Eskimo he would never have
been able to reach the goal for which
he sought through many years. He
did what he could for those people in
showing them how to live in a more
sanitary condition. Jesus Christ died
to save the Eskimos as well as to save
the black men who live in the tropics.
Trade Follows Missionary.
cit has cost us 81 100000 to evangeE
ize the Sandwich islands. Before n
mission was opened there we did net
get cents worth of trade from these
people. Since that time we have re-
ceived 5000, 900 worth of trade from
them
"A boy once asked me why the Dead
sea was dead and why Salt Lake was
salty. He wondered if no fresh water
ever entered those two vast bodies Of
salt water. l told him that millions
OF barrels of fresh water entered both
every year, but that there was no out
let and SO those two bodies would
never be fresh. Yearly the church
receives barrels of Christianity, bun
the outlet is not large enough and so
they become like Salt Lake and the
Dead sea. 1t behooves us to get an
outlet"
81 spent the best II years OF my life
in missionary work in China DR..
Nichols said "The missionary effort
is the greatest reformation in the
worlds history. The early conception
of the missionary. according to large
majority of the people. was not very
complimentary. 1t was thought that
man who went to a heather land to
preach the gospel was not a big enough
man to stay at home and occupy a pull
pit or make a success in business life.
1t was thought that 1t was a great deal
easier to preach the gospel to some
one who did not know anything. But
this sentiment has changed greatly in
the last decade.
Big Men I'm Field.
81 thought the same way myself. and
that was why 1 offered myself. But
since my work in the field I have found
that men in the mission field are great
men, capable of occupying the best
pulpits in the land, and not inferior
men who gave themselves to serve for
God. 1 found that this was the same
with the laymen who are working in
the field.
Many people think that the natives
of heather lands are ignorant. | have
found that they are intellectual and
among them are some of the greatest
of the world, even though
they worship idols. They are not
heather because of lack of intellectu-
atty, but because of the lack of moral
I'VE are careful now in the selection
of men for the mission field. Yearly
thousands are offering themselves, but
the majority are not able to pass the
test, and so are put in an easier posi-
ton at home. There is one great thing
about this missionary movement, and
that is all denominations are being
brought together, unified. There are
no distinct religious forms in the mis-
sion field. missionary goes there to
teach and preach the gospel of God.
and not to make a heather a Methodist
Or Presbyterian. Oftentimes pulpits
are exchanged in the field and mis-
sionary is known as well in some one !
else's station as at his own There Is |
a reflex movement here today. Two |
years ago laymen would not notice the |
mission business. They are doing so |
now.
A Good Investment.
I'm every place in the world where |
business has been opened up, the |
has been there first and |
paved the way. / challenge anyone |
10 name a place where this is not |
so. In China, a few years ago, a |
person could not buy a cents worth |
Of American goods. Now there are
stores at which nothing |
but American goods are sold. All |
put two of the ports Of China were /
opened by the missionary. The mis-
'ionaTy is the best hired hand the
business interests of this country
ever had and he is being paid less
han any other servant The mis-
work is the finest investment
/ farmer or manufacturer can find
,oday.
But this should not be the only
L
rom the viewpoint of the brother
hood, Garry the gospel to all people.
'At the time of the Boxer upris-
ng. was in China and expected for
wo months that ! would be executed.
But through the efforts of one of the
governors, 1 was protected. 1t was
10 more than a case of mob rule,
such as you have had in your own
state. Eighty per cent of the Chi
lese people were against the upris-
ng. During the entire time the
Christian Chinese played their part.
When threatened with financial ruin
Ind death If they would not revert
o their idolatrous customs, they
stuck Loyalty to Christ and Chris
ianity. 1t is worth while to save
'uch souls as these.
ut was not great number Of
-ears ago that there were no schools
or girls in China. They were thought
o be ignorant and incapable of