Norwich bulletin., 1912-12-30
CHINA IS WORTH SAVING.
0TTIINFN IN NOhT It ONNTTNO Rev. George H. Ewing Tells of Condi- tions There from Personal Exper- fence

China was the subject of an inter esting address by Rev. G. H. Ewing before the Sunday afternoon mems meeting at the '. NJ. c. A. President James L. Case presided at the meet ing and prayer was offered by H. w. Gallup. Swahn's orchestra gave an entertaining program of selections and accompanied the singing.
 If the religion of Jesus Christ, said Rev. Mir. Ewing, were united for any people it would be less fitted for us than for the people of China. One reason it is fitted for the Chinese lies in the fact that it is the product of related Oriental people. One of my strongest convictions from seven years of life in Chinese mission work, was that Christianity was a univer- sal religion and readily adapted to any people and not the least readily to the Chinese people. One might say that the Chinese are not a religious people and 1 could not disagree to this. but when the true religion is presented to these people in sane terms, they are most responsive, showing that the teachings of Christ were not alone fit ted to the small nation of the Jews :. Boys and girls gathered in the schools, under Christian influences for three or four years, leave with the stamp of Christianity upon them. voluntarily asking to be admitted to the Chris , ttan church. They are a thN king peo- { pie responsible to the call of Christ Another of my most earnest convic- ! tions was the power of the medical 1 mission in spreading the word of Christ. The preacher finds way into the hearts of the people through the free medical and surgical treatment administered.
 Will Be Powerful People. China is not only salvable, but is worth saving. We are dealing not with an abject, servile race, but with i precisely the opposite. The Chinese which we see in this country are not 1 fair examples of the Chinese people. i They represent China about as truly as does the ignorant Italian laborer represent Italy. The Chinese are a virile race; they have been asleep, but now they are awaking. They are adopting western methods of educa- ton and the inevitable result is the awakening of the country which is destined to stand forth as one of the most potent, powerful nations of the world.
 Mission work in China is fine sane
 business proposition. The missionary
 goes out there not on a wild goose
 chase led by some insane glamour, but
 under the conviction that over there are 400 million men, women and chil- dren who under God are our brothers
 and sisters, and to whom we owe q
 debt as we have stood so long in thu
 sunshine while they have been in tht
 shadows.
 Escaped Boxers by Chance.
 The speaker told of how by a chanc,
 he escaped the Boxer uprising in 19e0
 happening to be at a seaside summe
 resort, on account of i'll health in hi
 family. He was taken from this plac : by a British gunboat and returned t this country shortly afterwards.
 With scarcey a single exception tn
 native Chinese Christians came in fo l just as severe treatment at the hand ] of the Boxers. said the speaker, as di 3 the missionaries. They entered tn !, church because they believed in Chris ] and stood by their colors and lai :. down their lives by the score. Native Christians Trebled. 2 Today every one of the eightee provinces has been entered by tn missionary, who is carrying Christian lty to the hearts of the Chinese peopl, , with such success that the number (
 native Christians has been trebled i
 the past twelve years. If the appes
 of Christianity comes so strongly {
 these people in comparative darknes r how strong should be the call to u 7 who stand in the light?