The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-27

Adventures, explorers, hunters, trav-
elers. authors, inguists, naturalists
botanists, BIOLOGISTS, archaeolOgists,
Orienta1ists-what an array of dis
tinguished and interesting men have
borne the tag, Missionary. There are
few livelier biographies than those to
be found in a well-stocked missionary
library. All sorts of men, from roll
licking Chalmers. of the South Seas,
whom Stevenson called. 'the biggest
human he had ever met" to the cru
dite and interchangeable DR.. Post, of
Syria, adorn the pages of literature
One is perplexed to know how to make
a choice, as the topic indicates
From the standpoint of VastnesS OF
vision. indOmitable endedvor in the
face of hardship and persecution, ac-
tual effectiveness in results, and charm
and sanctity of character, there has
been no later missionary to equal the
first, Saul of Tarsus; whose tours of
Asia Minor still remain the high wa
ter mark in missionary history.
One need not go to tie book shelf
for great missionaries. Many are alive
today. It is absurd to contemplate
the good old days" so intently that
one is blind to the meaning of his
own times and his contemporary work
ers- During this present month of
January there sailed back frorr New
York to her field in Sqria-she is still
en- roulette only licensed woman
physician in Turkey, Dr. Mary Eddy,
and the Lebanon Doctor Mary, as she
is affectIOnateIy called, has won fame
and greatness in the remote land which
the world calls Holy; and by all the
standards of our time she ranks in the
forefront of distinguished American Wo-
men. She has ltinerated amid the
Arabs Of the desert, with only her rep
utatiOn and her own pistols to safe
guaI her; she has carried to burial
with her own hands the dead from
whose malady the natives have fled in
-h =
losis work in Turkey that will yet be-
come national: and she has been friend,
teacher and spiritual guide to hundreds
Ct young Sy1ians. What she has done
she is still doing; a notable instance OF
missionary womanhood.
A tall, ra.w-boned, gentIe-faced Qua
ker missionary in Toxic is the greatest
time in that nation. He is Gilbert
Bowles. of the Philadelphia Friends
Mission, and the founder of the Japan
Peace society and the American Peace
society in Japan.
Up in Mukden there lives a soft
spoken little Scotch missionary, DR.. D. |
Christie. who is admittedly the fore
most personality in the city, and in all
Manchuria. He has been decorated by I
the emperor Of Great Britain and In
dia, and by the emperor of China; he /
has been given a magnificent watch /
and he was given large money by the |
japanese for his hospital work during
the Russian war. Dramatic stories
could be told of the part he then
played. and of how greatly he has
borne himself and served his people in
the game of nations that is being
played in Manchuria. It was he who
led the great fight against the pneu-
monte plague in north China last year.
Still young man. but a great pio-
neer missionary nevertheless, is Rev
Samuel Moffet of Pyeng Yang. Korea.
He. along with Graham Lee, and sup
ported ably by later members of the
same group, as Underwood, Gale, Jones
and Adams, established what is known
as tthe Korea idea' of self supporting,
self propagating, evangelistic missions
No tale of modern Korea is fully told
which does not bear the names of
these missionaries, who are with US to
the present day.
Turkey and Northumberland have
been much in print of late; but no
body has seen in the secular journals
mention of the greatest living author