The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1919-07-10

find any place in the japanese news
papers, thus the fire OF hatred Is
kept burning.
On the seventeenth of April we AZ
rived in Shanghai. We reached the
shores of China late the previous
evening, and proceeded up the river
to the dock early in the morning. 1t
was nice to see the city of Shanghai
once more. and to find that had not
forgotten the language but could un-
derstand What was said and make my
self understood. although the people
of Shanghai do not speak the clear
mandarine, but speak local dialect.
found Shanghai to be quite \ bit
larger than it was seven years ago.
! Owing to that our baby girl had
been infected with the measles, which
broke out on her body just as we
came to Shanghai, We were quaran-
tined at the hospital Of the China In
land Mission, so as to prevent the di-
sease to spread to others, there being
,ouite a number Of children at the mis-
sion home at this time. We however
were at liberty to 60 out and tend to
our business and prepare for our in
land Journey, so that when the time
of quarantine had passed, we were
ready to proceed.
On the evening of May 3rd, We went
on board a steamer bound for Han
kow. In our company were four
Norwegian missionaries bound for the
same province as we, and who also
came across the Pacific on the same
steamer as we did. We now travel
Chinese first class as that is much
cheaper than the European class.
The tables of course were spread in
Chinese fashion, and our new mission
aries had to take their first lesson in
the Chinese way of eating. When I
first came to China in 1891 it was
looked upon as real marks OF civil
ization to be able to use the chop
sticks as the Chinese Do, to have long
hair we'll braided into anice queue
hanging down the back, and the edge
of the hair well shaved away, to dress
in Chinese garments with snow white
socks, and the leggings neatly tied
above the ankles. 1t was obvious.
that many of these things were not
looked upon in the same way now. for
great number of Chinese dress in
European and American clothes, and
try to initiate foreigners as best they
can. In the open ports there are very
few women to be seen with small feet
now, and still fewer men who decor
ate themselves with queue.
With all this however, China is still
far from having accepted American
or European ways of living and the
process towards western civilization
is very slow As there were a great
Eumber of Chinese passengers on the
stamer, tried to use the opportunity
tn bring them the Gospel message.
They listened very attentively, and
showed remarkable interest therein.
Truly there is harvest time now
for the Kingdom of God in China. If
all the western nations, who have had
the truth SO long, had devoted their
lives to it, and now been ready to use
this great opportunity to show forth
this gospel truth in words and deeds
to the awakening heather nations,
what great harvest this would have
been. As it is the actions of the west
ern nations have only been hind
rance to the gospel. Their greedi-
ness, hatred and inhuman warfare are
great obstacles to the truth. After
a gospel message they naturally be-
gin to ask about the war and peace
termA and the position cf the differ
ent nAtions. They begin 70 see diff
ference in the position and attitude
F., of these natives and pass their criti-
cism over their actions. America is
always praised and acknowledged as
the only nation that has no selfish
aim but is. a protection for the weak
er nations and sacrifice the benefit
humanity.
AS We passed the different treaty
ports on the Yangtsi river, there were
more buildings of the western type to
be seen, than there were seven years
ago, westrn trade is increasing in
these business centers. The Standard
Oil Co.. seem to be the most promi-
nent of American firms. and have
large plants in everyone Of these
treaty ports. The Singer Sewing
Machine Co. is also well represented,
and have agents in the interior of
China. There was a Chinese agent
of this co. on board of the steamer,
who was a Christian. He seemed to
use great part of his income to pro-
mote Christianity and education. and
as. that company pays their agents
we'll. his income was good.
Some Of our party had been vacci-
mated before leaving Shanghai, owing
to that small pox are very common in
China. Vaccination however proves in
some cases to be almost as bad as the
disease itself. This seemed to be the