Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-13
100000 BIBLES
MAY Go I 0
Chinese
All Previous Records of Evan
gelicaf Endeayor Broken
in Orient
DEMAND IS MADE
FOR CHRISTIANITY
Purely Negative Doctrines OF.
ConiueiuS Are Rapidly
Being Rejected
IRy LAtest Nail

NEW YORK That the Chinese
people no longer spurn the spiritual
teachings of occidental missionaries
Is shown by. the fact that the China
agency Of the American Bible Society
disposed of nearly / 600 900 copies OF
the Scriptures during the first six
months of this year. The latest re-
port of the society. issued few days
ago from its headquarters In New
York City, shows the supply did not
equal the demand, and that the out
put in China for the second half OF
1913 will be at least another million.
This will be total OF 1000, 900 cop
les Of the Scriptures from one agency
for one year, and constitutes a record
In far eastern evangelical endeapors.
When it is known that the British and
Foreign Bible Society, and that the
Scottish Bible Society expects to dis
pose of fully 100000 during the
twelve months, 1t becomes patent that
at least 5.000.0 900 complete copies or
portions of the Bible will find their
way into the hands of at least 10000
600 Chinese in the year 1913.
In Touch With Gospel.
This is not too liberal estimate of
eight persons to each Chinese family,
which includes the revered parents as
well as the children OF a typical Chi
nese household. Thus, at the same
rate all of China's 100000, 900 people
within ten years will be brought in
touch with the Christian gospel.
1t seems that the time is soon to
come when the ten commandments
and the Sermon on the Mount Will
rank with the moral precepts Of Con.
fuciusa and the maxims Of Mencius In
the restless thought of New China.
To Christendom the most encourag-
ing phase of the present religious sit
uation in the big republic of Asia is
the fact that the Chinese themselves
are beginning to call for the teach
ings Of Christ From the purely mega
tive doctrine of Confucius DO not un-
to others as you w0lld not have them
do unto you, to the positive injunction
of Jesus Of Nazareth do unto others
as re would have them do unt0 Won.
is q great step, but 1t is one which
the Chinese people are taking with
considerable rapidity.
Demand Natural.
up to the revolution of 1911, which
established the republic of China, the
Chinese accepted the Christians
schools and the Christians hospitals,
but the vast majority of them PREFER
ed to ignore or to ridicule the Chris
tian's Bible Long before the revolu-
ton active hostility to the schools and
hospitals conducted for the benefit Of
the Chinese masses had ceased, but
it was not until after the upheaval
that they began to see Christianity IN
its true light They saw that their
republic, their freedom from the petrf-
fed procedure OF the past, had been
given them by leaders of their own
race who were either ayowed Chris
tians or who had been trained in
Christian institutions
The mature, thinking Chinese Of
today, wherever he may be found, and
practically all of the rising generation
of Asiatic republicans, see at last that
the schools and hospitals they have
accepted are in themselves an inte-
grail part of Christian thought, true
and typical endeayor Of Christian ma
TONS
Z. Thus it is not surprising to those
who know the situation in China
that there should be an unprecedent-
ed demand for the Bible before the
new republic is two years old.