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ON THE TRAIL OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS tlfc DMniIili«it Amaricu AmruJuI Is TOWELING Around tk« World (or the Purpose of Iwwtinlhi th* AaMfficMI FoniiB Miiiii«»»y from a Purely Disinterested, Secular and Non-Sectarian Standpoint. ^ Illustrated with Drawing and from Photograph*. Foreign Missions Useful But Inadequate Rome, Italy.--Here In the center of the world's religious interest, home­ ward bound, I look back over nearly a year's investigation of Christian missions in the orient for a final re­ view and summary. What is the con­ clusion of the whole matter? Are for- dfcn missions worth while? The answer must be in ther affirma­ tive. Considered only from the .stand­ point of humanitarian and philan­ thropic service, the entire missionary enterprise justifies its existence. Add to these great works of healing, edu­ cation and care for the orphaned and the needy, the beneficial influence which has been exerted upon the characters of thousands of native con­ verts, as. well as the more general, though none the less unmistakable influence wielded in behalf of civiliza­ tion, and it will be seen that the mis- alonarv agencies which the churches of Christendom maintain at an annual expenditure of many millions of dol­ lars is one of the tremendous twen­ tieth century forces making for the world's progress. Without amplifying this point, Jtliich has-surely been made plain in the preceding articles, let me suggest some general considerations and criti- cisms which appear to bd important enough to deserve the attention of the general public, as/ well as of that large constituency especially interest­ ed in missions. Where Churches Should Get Together. I know of no other undertaking any­ where at all approaching this one in magnitude which is managed in such a helter-skelter, disorganized fashion, or on such an unbusinesslike basis. I do. not here allude to the administra­ tion of the individual boards, but to the propaganda as a whole. Senti­ ment, mood and emotion, rather than tested principle and careful judgment, seem to be the foundation of most missionary activity; if a man or a body can display especial efficiency in stirring the feelings of the home con­ stituency he or it can be sure of plenty of funds and a free field to go where it will and do what it pleases In the mission world. There is at pres­ ent no sufficient method of checking up the work of foreign missions. This sort of thing, and worse mis­ takes, are in good part due to the help-yourself fashion in which the de­ nominations work. Only in the more recent fields has there been an appor­ tionment of territory among the churches, although everywhere the need for this is so urgent that the de­ nominations are now recognizing and yielding to it. Plainly, there is no suf­ ficient reason why the mission work of the Protestant churches in heathen lauds should not be done as one close- ly-cooperating body. The avowed aim la the conversion of the people, and not the perpetuation and extension of denominational names, creeds and au­ thority upon the mission field. The present arrangement is expensive, di­ visive and a hindrance to the end sought. What sense or reason is there, for instance, In establishing northern and southern Presbyterian churches In China, where the very existence of America is a nebulous matter to most of the people and the fact of the civil war is unknown to 999 persons out of every thousand? Left to themselves, the native Christians in the field I have visited would not be long In forming one Christian churclw Businesslike Methods Needed. fending the time of actual union, «very possible form of cooperation should be adopted. The commercial sagacity of the method which" keeps half a dozen expensive theologically- trained "business agents" in the same port city to do the purely secular work for separate boards which could all be done by one unordained busi­ ness man does not appeal lu the way­ farer. Neither does the zeal for planting new work in these outposts (often in competition with native churches) where expenses are high­ est, difficulties greatest and results fewest, when there are unlimited fa­ vorable openings in the untouched In­ terior. Most port cities, be it re­ marked, need a subtraction rather than an addition of missionaries. A closer and more vigorous super* vision of missions on the part of sen­ sible, courageous men of authority, will result in the weeding out of the occasional unfit missionary and in remedying tactical blunders in the lo­ cation of stations and in the character of the work. Two other Important services this businesslike supervision would accom­ plish: It would insure the sending of sane, well-balanced and accurate re­ ports to the homeland, and it would deal vigorously with the criticisms which are so common on the other side of the globe that they constitute a serious barrier to missionary suc­ cess. Criticisms whieh are even part­ ly true should be frankly admitted, and the evi.s remedied; those which are not true should be boldly chal­ lenged and silenced. The position can never be main­ tained that missionaries are impecca­ ble; and to answer careful, definite criticisms, as some which have ap­ peared in this correspondence have been answered, by the sweeping state­ ment that it is "morally Impossible" for a missionary to do wrong, is sim­ ply to put missionary defense beyond the pale of consideration by thinking men. In the one particular instance where my criticism had been definite­ ly disputed I had said that a certain northern Methodist missionary had lent his ability and influence to a cor­ poration seeking concessions from the Chinese government The board sec­ retary and certain denominational pa­ pers attacked me virulently for this, Muiof I did. not know what I was talking about. Then, to their ut­ ter confusion, along came the presid­ ing Methodist Episcopal bishop of China, fully substantiating the charge, but exonerating the missionary from Wrong intention and assuming respon­ sibility himself. Similarly, more effective adminis­ tration of the missionary propaganda will furnish the traveling public with the easily ascertained facts of the mis­ sion fields, and will put forth effort to introduce them to missions in actual operation. It will also grapple with the problem of the moral and spiritual condition of the port cities; for so long as the European portion of these ports remain as they are the work of missions is bound to be seriously hampered. , Missionary Mistakes. Before leaving this subject I must make a rather sweeping criticism which the board should have dealt with long ago. It is that an astonish­ ing proportion of missionaries display bad manners and bad taste on ship­ board. To deny this charge, which, in one form or another, has been made times without number, is to turn one's back on the facts. The conduct of some missionaries aboard ship is one of the most prolific sources of the antimissionary spirit which pervades passenger ships the world over, and practically all of the port cities of the orient. Some of the criticisms ritede in this connection are simply unan­ swerable. What is to be said, for example, in defense of the woman missionary whose place at the table had to be changed three times on the voyage across the Pacific last month? In the first place, her astounding meddle­ someness had brought upon her a re­ buke at which she felt offended and changed her seat; later, the passen­ gers with whom she was seated found her so uncomfortable a companion that they complained to the steward and insisted on having either her seat or theirs changed. The answer com­ monly made to stories like this is that the missionary's godliness no doubt rebuked the sinfulness of the other passengers, which is neither a modest nor a charitable rejoinder. In this case, the story was told me by a prom­ inent American business man, a church member, who himself had been attending a series of missionary meet­ ings in Omaha just before leaving home, and so could hardly be called a hostile critic. I could write literally columns of incidents concerning the conduct of missionaries on shipboard, whereby they have earned the disfavor of offi­ cers and fellow passengers. Summed up, though, they amount to this: Some missionaries seem inclined to flaunt their moral and spiritual superiority in the face of others; they ihsist on having an identity as missionaries, rather than as quiet, modest, well- bred ladies and gentlemen; they pro­ test, often in unseemly fashion, against the indulgence in tobacco or liquor or cards on the part of other passengers. All this may be compre­ hended in the word "provincialism." They forget that, as Kipling says: "There's a world outside the one you know," and that the people of this world have all the personal rights and liberties which are to be accorded to the mem­ bers of the missionary circle. Some­ times this provincialism goes to the length of stupidity, as when a Pacific liner crossed the meridian on Sunday, and so dropped that day from the cal­ endar, whereupon the missionaries appealed in a body to the captain to drop some other day, and save Sun­ day, as If the matter were optional with him! Not all missionaries are guilty of these things; far from It The ablest missionaries deprecate them serious­ ly, for they realize their far-reaching effects upon the cause they represent. In explanation, if not in extenuation, they point out that missionaries leav­ ing the homeland are still in the spirit M exaltation created by their farewell pieetings, by the glorification of their friends and by the role of saint, hero and martyr with which they have been Invested. For the time they are in a crusader mood, and they have not yet learned to view all things in pro­ portion. Their feet have not yet found the hard ground of actuality. One of these unwise missionaries can do more harm than a hundred sensi­ ble ones can undo. I must confess, moreover, that I do not see why a Pacific mail captain should forbid missionaries to sing hymns at the piano on the boat deck, except on Sunday, and yet allow other passengers to make the night vocal, on the same spot, with the latest "popular" songs, or why the mission­ aries should not be permitted to hold a prayer meeting in the saloon, while a noisy, drinking coterie is uproarious­ ly gambling in the smoking room. I freely criticise much in the condact of many missionaries aboard ship, but I believe in "a square deal." The man who drinks whisky on shipboard should be given no advantage over the man who drinks water, other things being equal, nor the man who gambles over the man who prays, nor the woman who sings "risque" songs over the one who prefers "Old Hun­ dred." Plain words need to be spoken to the missionaries, and other plain words to the officers of the steamship companies, especially the trans-Pacific lines. If a person has maintained a reason­ able familiarity with missionary re­ ports he goes to the foreign mission field expecting to see evidences of tremendous successes. Has h& not been told that Japan, China, India are ob verge of admittance l&to the Christian church? There is a sudden jolt to this expectancy when he findsi the blank wall of heathendom rising up before the missionaries as cold, aa strong and, at first sight, as scathlesS as ever. He learns later of the suc­ cesses in the line of mining and sap­ ping this wall, which, up to date, have been the principal missionary meth­ ods; but his general, impression is one of disappointment. He cannot but feel that the triumphs of missions have been overstated. At this point enters the need for better supervision, as 1 have already intimated. For example, the observer recalls the statement, printed times without number . in American publications, that China has made Sunday a legal holiday. This he finds to be utterly untrue. TSThere China touches the west the first day of the week has gradually become, in some measure, a holiday. But it is nowhere a Sabbath, except among the lew Christians. At another time it was widely reported that a certain city had thrown away its idols, but investigation shows the city as anti-Christian as ever, and the only basis for the tale* is the fact that one temple discarded its old idols for new. Here a great revival is reported to have swept over the community; the westerner naturally thinks of this in terms of a Moody and Sankey cam­ paign. Superficially, however, there are no signs of the revival, although closer search reveals an unusual earnestness on the part of the handful of Christians. * How may these missionary exagger­ ations be accounted for? I have talked with many missionaries upon this point. The expectation of the boards that the workers shall send in favor­ able reports, the necessity for show­ ing successes to stimulate gifts, the natural human tendency to enlarge upon the favorable side, alt have been given as reasons. "The fact Is," re­ marked one missionary, "when a man gets home and. begins to make speeches he finds himself saying what the people want to hear, and losing sight of the facts of the field. I know I have caught myself doing this. I have no hardships in my missionary work, yet the people at home were so determined to make me out a martyr that I almost came to believe myself one before I left Amrica." All the stronger men on the field re­ gret the distorted and misleading statements, that are so frequently made by interested enthusiasts con­ cerning missions and missionaries; they are far-sighted enough to know the consequences when these reports come back to the field. I have known more than one missionary to be serl ously embarrassed by being presented to the community In which he lives in the light in which he is seen by bis admirers at home. There is another side to the ques­ tion; dread of this sort of thing has kept more than one worker from send­ ing home reports of well-authenticated successes and endorsements. An American woman at the head of one of the Presbyterian mission schools for girls in China has been asked by the officials of the important province in which she works to take charge of the femal^ education in the province, but never a word of this has she writ­ ten home to her board. "It will %• time enough when I have actually been given the work," says this cau­ tious woman, who knows China; " 'there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.'" A Reconnaissance, Not a War. The most serious of all the unin­ tentional misrepresentations made by missionaries is that the whole heathen world is on the verge of becoming Christian. Faith, not facts, is the basis of the common asservation, "The world is being won for Christ" Making due allowance for rhetorical fervor, it still remains true that a (jseriously erroneous impression is left upon the Christian public's mind by the day's missionary representations. For a first-hand study of the field reveals that, with an occasional nota­ ble exception like Korea, heathendom has scarcely been budged by the mis­ sionaries' work. The great mass of the pagan world is as yet practically untouched by the gospel. If Chris­ tians are determined to bear their re­ ligion to the whole earth, as is appar­ ently their purpose, they n}ust^ do things on a vastly larger scale "than heretofore. Thus far only a mere be­ ginning has been made. Instead of a war, it is only a reconnaissance In force--a brave, brilliant and success­ ful reconnaissance, it is true, but, nevertheless, only a reconnaissance. The real fighting can hardly be said to have begun. (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowls*.) The Famine Saved Him. A remark made nearly 20 years ago, says a writer in the London Telegraph, is still numbered among the gem« in the king's collection of Irish bulls. 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Prodi Y f r i t !uetlvef*oU.nriid, lie&itby climate. Sp>«u<U<l marMfc rite tor cauio#. bah o> in * Commissioner Smith vs. The Standard Oil Co. • «\ A* VK j! From the Railway Worlds January J, 1908. , • Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, whose zeal In the Chicago. They terminate at Dolton, from which large shippers in cause of economic reform hag been In no wise point entrance is made over the Belt Line. Considering the fact that these shippers in- abated by the panic which he and his kind dfd Whiting, where the oil freight originates, is not eluded the packers and elevator men of Chi- so much to bring on, is out with an answer to on the lines of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, cago the action of the grand jury in calling President Moffett, of the Standard Oil Com- which receives its Whiting freight from the upon President Moffett to furnish evidence of pany of Indiana. The publication of this an- Belt Line at Dolton. The former practice, now their wrong-doing may be interpreted as a de- swer, it is officially given out, was delayed eev- discontinued, in filing tariffs was to make mand for an elaboration of the obvious; but eral weeks, "for business reasons," because it them read from a point on the line of the fil- the fact that a rate-book containing these was not deemed advisable to further excite ing road, and it was also general to state on freight fates for other shippers was offered in the public mind, which was profoundly dis- the same sheet, that the tariff would apply to evidence, during the trial and ruled out bjr turbed by the crisis. Now that the storm other points, e. g., Whiting. The Chicago & Judge Landis, was kept out of sight. Pre«l- clouds have rolled by, however, the Commis- Eastern Illinois followed this practice in filing dent Moffett would not, of course, accept the sioner rushes again into the fray. its rate from Dolton, and making a note on invitation of the grand jury although he might Our readers remember that the chief points the sheet that is applied to Whiting. This was have been pardoned if he had referred them in the defence of the Standard Oil Company, as in 1895 when this method of filing t&rlffs TU to various official investigations by the Inters presented by President Moffett, were (1) that in common use. state Commerce Commission and other de- the date of si* cents on oil from Whiting to Now let ug gee In what way the intending paiJme±lt8 th® tYia mn,lllrfM1 East St. Louis has been issued to the Standard 8hipper of oil could be misled and deceived by We come back, therefore, to the conclusion Oil Company as the lawful rate by employes the fact that the chicago & Eastern Illinois £,T £ matter, which is that the Stan of the Alton, (2) that the 18-cent rate on file ha(, not flled a rale reading from Whiting. ard 011 Co®p.anyo°f vlf with the Interstate Commerce Commission was Commissioner Smith contends that "conceal- amount equal to seven or a class and not a commodity rate, never being menj iB the only motive for such a circuitous "e ° . 8 ®n..^.e prPp t . _f Intended to apply to oil. (3) that oil was arrangement." i. e., that this method of filing ?®P*r,tm . thnt shipped In large quantities between Whiting tho rate wag intended to mislead intending JheAlton rate clerk, that the s x cent commod- and East St. Louis over the Chicago & East- competltors of the Standard Oil Company. |ty rate on °n had bee° pr0perb' filed wit the em Illinois at 6% cents per hundred pounds, guppose such a prospective oil refiner had ap- ^erstate Commerce Commission. There is no which has been filed with the Interstate Com- plled to the Interstate Commerce Commission evidence, and none was introduced at Retrial, taerce Commission as the lawful rate, and (4) {or the rate from Chicago to East St Louis I*1®4 ®ny 8[li(PP fr '°" ^ that the 18-cent rate on oil was entirely out of over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, he would J*? J tn rfL proportion to lawful rates on other commodi- have been lnf0rmed that the only rate flled t L h J r ties between these points of a similar char- wlth the commission by this company was 6% ® inwiln? SS acter, and of greater value, such, for example, cent8 from DoitoIlj and he wouid have been y as linseed oil, the lawful rate on which was further informed, if indeed he did not know tak® this °n the ™r.d T?lf,^ r eight cents. President MofTett also stated that thls already> that this rate applied throughout ? ,?°J[po,rfi ™ thousands of tons of freight had been sent by Chicago territory. So that whether he wished is ,.n,. f yf other shippers between these points under to locate his plant at Whiting, or anywhere ^ of rtSi substantially the same conditions as governed ejg6 about Chicago, under an arrangement of OU4.. n „n .. hnv_ . . . „ the shipments of the Standard Oil Company. long standing, and which applies to all the In- .. ° tA shin from Whit in* vl* This defence of the Standard Oil Company duatrial towns in the neighborhood of Chica- fhi !?««« nfth/ rhia was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exert- go> he could have his freight delivered over 00,1011 over the Mnes of the Chica8° & last­ ed a powerful influence upon the public mind, the Belt Line to the Chicago & Eastern Illi- Naturally the Administration, which has nojg &t Dolton and transported to East St. staked the success of Its campaign against Louis at a rate of 6% cents. Where then la the "trusts" upon the result of its attack upon the concealment which the Commissioner of _... .. Q. this company, endeavors to ofTset this influ- Corporations makes so much of? Any rate-- TWinnimr with ffco fnmnn« Rir« of ence, and hence the new deliverance of Com- fr0m Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chap- . ^ • »*, • (ti n( _ iDissloner Smith. „e„ on the Alton, or Hanrey on .be IlUnof, Z Uoyd 2 'We need hardly to point out that hlB rebut- Central or Bine Island on the Hock Lland. Aga, JJe c„mmonwealth dt.aMadlng bT tal argument Is eitrenwly weak, alttouih u appl ea throughout Chicago territory to ship- , lo K,M T„Mr, oBonslve strong, no doubt, as the circumstances would ments from any other point to the district a, # h th Ilrt,ier „ th of warrant. He answer, the points made by Presl- So tar from the Eastern Illinois Wing its rat. un(aIr'M(1 bas))le5s misrepresentation In d>. dent Wtt substantially as follows: (1) The from Dolton in order to deceive the shipper. Commissioner of Corporation. Standard Oil Company hartatrafflcdepartment, it is the Commissioner of Corporations who 'fhe*Sumdani has been charged with every and should have known that the >>x-<»°tir>h> either betrays his gross ignorance of transpor- ,orm commerclaI lra Med wlth mDat^J had not been Hied, (2) no answer, (3) the Chi- tation customs in Ch.cago territory or relies on (h<, ratIo„ deodar. After cago & Eastern Illinois rate was a secret rate on the public ignorance of these customs to . . strenuous attack, under the because It read, not from Whiting, but from deceive the public too apt to accept unques- leadershi of the President of the Untted Dolton, which Is described as "a village of tioningly every statement made by a Govern- g £ corporation is at last dra^tl to about 1.500 population just outside of Chicago, ment official as necessarily true, although, m h ba'r f jusUce to answer f it 1#d t - g}- 5 " '-fTf • •til 'f : "J ern Illinois to East St. Louis. In short. Presi­ dent Moffett's defence is still good, and we predict will be so declared by the higher court. The Standard Oil Company has been charged r 4 "-%l ' r ; $ * %l IU only claim to note is that it has been for in the present instance, a careful examtoation The whole',tresgUl o( ,h(i Government Is 41- rected against and at last, we aie told, the many years the point of origin for this and shows these statements to he false similar secret rates. The Commissioner ad- gnaj p^t made by President Moffett Standard Oil Company is to pay the penalty of mits in describing this rate that there was a that <fther commodities of a character similar its crimes, and It is finally convicted of ha*- note attached stating that the rate could also to 0jj were carrjed at much lower rates than ing failed to vmlfv the statement of a rate be used from Whiting. ^ jg cents> the Commissioner of Corporations clerk and'Is forAhwith fined a prodigious s\izb. The press has quite generally hailed this discusses only with the remark that "the measured by th** car. Untk?r the old criminal statement of the Commissioner of Corpora-- 'reasonableness' of this rate is not in question., law. the theft o* property worth more than a tions as a conclusive refutation of what is evi- The question Is whether this rate constituted shilling was punishable by death, t'ndt'r the dently recognized as the strongest rebuttal a discrimination as against other shippers of interpretation of the Interstate Commerce I*w argument advanced by the Standard. ' oil," and he also makes much of the failure of by Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Keaessw In fact, It is as weak and inconclusive as thq. President Moffett to produce before the grand Landis, a technical error of a traffic official l» remainder of his argument. The lines of the jury evidence of the alleged illegal acts of made the excuse for the confiscation of a *»ft Cbieafo & Eastern Illinois «ot cup into yfeijfe the Standard ofitaUl said tjiat otfeer aawuot of proytJ ty. - . i. > >JL* -i; 'r-y* MV