Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-10-11
~hina Intellectually ErnanCipated
- and Morally EnthraIIed
BY BISHOP w. A. CANDLER.

for the forces of peace in the East. II
their numbers were as great as their
needs, they would assure the peace of
the Orient. And this is true, notwith
standing they have In some instances
been wrecked by mobs and burned by
Boxers. The unleerned and unthinking
! Chinese count every man dressed in
| Western costume a christian, and when
they go after one who has injured them
they lay hold of every man they meet
wearing clothes of that sort. The swind-
Eng trader and dishonest promoter"
dress In the same sort of garb as that
worn by missionaries. These often OPP
press and rob the Chinese, and when
their evil deeds have provoked the anger
of the populace, mission stations are at
-, tackled as being the most visible insti-
tutions belonging to the foreign devils"
Christianity is made, thereby. to receive
the wounds which are aimed really at the
''sons of BeliaP', which hurts the said
''sons of Belial' richly deserve in many
instances. There has seldom, If ever,
been a riot In China, which at bottom
was not provoked by some commercial or
political wrong committed by goddess
foreigners upon unofrending Chinese. The
bolod of innocent missionaries has been
made to flow In expiation of the mex
cusable sins of outrageous adventures.
/ The blood of martyrs has been thus
poured out on the basest affairs.
On the other hand, some riots. If we
may not say many riots, in China have
been averted by the presence of students
! educated in mission schools who were
| able to dissuade their misguided country
men from indiscriminate deeds of vio-
| lence. II there were a mission school in
every provincial capital in China, riots
would be uncommon and revolutions
would be forestalled. Nor would 1t cost
J the Christian world near as much to es-
| tablish such schools some might sup
/ pose The Chinese are willing and able
to pay tuition fees, and very many of
them do pay tuition fees at Christian
schools In order to acquire the western
| learning" Buildings can be erected In
China far more cheaply than in our coun-
| try. The teachers sent forth. going as
they do under Christian impulses, cost
less than men and women of similar
ability cost In the schools Of the United
States. The sum of 100000, therefore, will
do a greater educational work in China
| than twice that much would ordinarily
do here.
| The Christian Churches are we'll able
| to put the saving salt of Christianity
into China, If they will go about the
| business in earnest. The cost of our
| automobiles would redeem the Empire
and preserve the peace ON the Orient.
/ is awakened and is going to have 1.-The
Western learning at any cost. II they
can not get Christian schools enough
| TO give 1t to them, they are going TO
unchristian sources for it. But they are
going to have 1t in any event. And they
are going to have it soon.
This was said of Japan twenty five
= years ago, but the cry was little needed.
| Now we see Japan educated and with
/ guns in her hands, and men are running
!, hither and thither crying, Build a big
navy quick. Finish and fortify the canal
| at Panama at once. japan is awake and
; she may go to war" AS l have init
mated, 1 do not fear war with Japan
at any early day. The reasons already
/ given for this view are sufficient. But If
| Japan had been christianized as fast as
! she was enlightened perpetual peace
would have been insured in her and with
her.
Now the same state of things has come
| to pass In China as came to pass in
Japan quarter of a century ago. Chris
! tian missionaries and other informed
! people who have visited the East tell us
(, this is true. Again the missionaries are
crying for reinforcements to meet in
China the needs of the hour and master
| the situation. II we turn a deaf ear to
! their appeals we will do so at our peril.
| The case of China enlightened will not be
/ that of Japan; II will be a nation aroused
| which Is nearly ten times more populous.
| far more rich, and with far $ess CONNER
cial motives to keep the peace with the
| Western nations. What we do to Chris
tianize China must be done on a larger
scale and with greater speed than any
| missionary work that has ever been I'M
| dertaken in the history of the world
The men who decry this mission work,
| especially those who attack our Christian
schools in China, are utterly astray in
! their views. They know not what they
do. The mission stations in the Orient
| are the sentinel posts of Christianity
| which watch over the peace of the
| world. The men and women who fill
| them are the noblest martyrs of modern
, times. To assail THEN work, discourage
| their efforts, ALLEVIATE sympathy from
! them, and attack their good name is
/ scarcely less than treG son to civilization
| and hostility to mankind. If such evil
speaking were not so manlfestly the ut
| terance of invincible Ignorance, it would
deserve universal execration for it's mex
! cusable meanness. China is going to be
! intellectually emancipated, shall she ia
| left morally enthralled? This IS the
great and overshadowing question of the