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MISSIONARIES IN CHINA.

REPLIES TO SIE HIRAM MAXIN.

afford to laugh at such rashi statements and treat RECORD GRAND NATIONAL RACE them with the contempt they deserve. Your correspondent seems to imagine (and I am afraid

A ONE-ETED VICTOR.

is not alone iu this) that the main purpose of EVERY TORSE FALLS EXCEFT THE WINNER- and vilify the Chinese religions. Would it be missionary work in China is to attack, ridionle, possible to made a greater mis-statement than this? A missionary respect for the people and their

To Chins has far too much

wo

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99, Jorningham-coat, Now Cross, March 18. Following is Bir Hiram Maxim's final

by the good wholesome living sad dis. they would on any other minet. It is

The following report of this rase will doubt- less infart many rendera who follow the

line when Mr. Coventry dropped the fag.

The twenty-six started in an almost unbroken Every one was somebody's favourite. Even the "handrod-to-one chanços" carried some still. ings, haply to be changed into sovereigns. Bat the first fence brought disaster. The grey French horse, Trianon III, fell, subsequently trotting bappily up and down the dry ditch into which he had fallen

the

teresting fact that none of your correspondents appearance, and before the fearsome Bocher's

Bir-It is certainly a very various and in-

At the next fence there was another dis. who are making lame attacks upon my article Brook, with its "rait, fenos; and ditch," was are able to reason on the missionary question as passed the field had sadly thinned. We all certain that the Chineso am the party most spectators being the tackers of Trianon III, waited in a tingling suspense, perhaps the concerned; why, then, should we not consider who had so quickly been assured of defeat

very happiest among the tens of thousands of their wishes! They certainly have some rights in their own country: why should we not treat all nations alike?

Away in distance, between Beecher's and the right-angled oanal turn, where oven the tear III: the favourite, whom the crowds of strongest glosses could barely read what was

Frenchs visitors had journeyed to so seora. happening, the worst trouble occurred. fut.

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The following are among the replies to Sir Hiram Maxim'a aitsek on missionariesia Chine published in a London contemporary →→

Six The attack made by Sir Hiram Marin in your issue of Friday apon the work of do anything of this kind, and would never think Sport of Kings":

grast, mages missionaries in Chian is part of an unhappy of doing any such thing. Ho proaches the True At eleven minutes past three this afternoon a grosade in which he persistently engages. Itis Faith, with all ita ingrop away from the mouth, ambled past the wianing post of tho hardly necessary to follow in detail all Bir and

uplifting touching, weary horse, with his tongue lolling out of his and he all. Ining Hiram's wild soousations, which are apparently people, as the sere leaves drop off in the spring Liverpool racecourse at Aintree. He was Glou based on no personal knowledge. May I how time to make room for the bursting bads side, and he had won the Grand National, tho ever, call the attention of your readers to the beneath. Again and again, do we point out to greatest of all steeple-chases and perhaps the following extracts, which afford pertinent our audiences in China how nearly Confacias most thrilling race in the world. Glenside is rejoicing. The first is from mi interview with came to the Golden Rule of Christ when he ouseyed. He was very weary-but he was

grast authority on China, Dr. G. E wrote: Do not do unto others which

victorious. Morrison, which appeare in this London would not wish done to youself. Bat we also Magazine for February of this year. Asked remind them how Contusios invariably shelved tiful as their riders many-coloured jackets Twenty six horage started, pay and bean- What have you to say of missionaries! he religious questions as beyond him, and how the

in. caps glistened the myleding but what is favoneable. I have visited on a Christ te jako ovary fold. of after the other, and failon by the way

bright apring religion of fits into shine. Only four finished: The rest, ons hundreds missionery homes. The men them other religion can; and despite Bir Hiram selves are of a fine type, well qualified for their Maxim ond thow who think with him, we shall difficult work. The surgical skill of the medical continue to do this whil God gives us the missionaries arouses universal admiration. The necessary health and strength.-Year", ko., presonce of the missionaries and their families brings into China to-day an element of the groptest value for civilisation. Their enthusiasm, their energy and devotion, help not only China, but the prestige of England in the Far East. Itistter: is well for us that in a largo part of the Far East the people should mainly know England by the honourable sendust of our official classes, of our merchants, and by the example interested devotion presented by the missionaries. The extract is from a report of

Beoord speech delivered by Mr. W. Meyrick Hewlett, of H.B.M. Consular Service, China, at a Zansas Missionary Exhibition at Doal. It is taken from the Deal Mercury of January 28, 1911

It was often said of the British Consular stage of civilisation where the ignorant classes The Russians have reached that particular Service that its members had never a good word as most strecaptible to religious influences. If to asy for missionaries. He, as a member of the misionaries were allowed free entrance into that service, was glad to be able to say that he Russia they would very soon stir up religions had the highest admiration for the work done strife, which would lead to much disorder and in China by missionario, whom he had found to bloodshed, but the Russian authorities appre. be men and women worthy to uphold the best ciste this and wisely keep the missionaries out. tmditions of the British rese. In view of the China ware allowed to do the same thing there awakening of Chios missionary work among would be no more missionary troubles in China, women was of great importanos... He should like t

to answer two questions that were often put have the same kind of a religion. During the Thore is no reason why all nations should to him-1. What good, if any, do the missionaries last few hundred years we have evolved a do? There sooned something pasulinely brutal about that question, asked chiefly by people who seligion in England that seems vory well simply know Shanghai or Hongkong, and allt to satisfy some of our people, but it thought they know China. If these people,

would not do at all on the Continunt of Europe. instead of spending the money they also could not enforce our Bunday laws there luxurious travel, would live for two months into force objectionable religious ideas upon the aven if we tried. Why, then, should we attempt the interior, away from the big cities, and say the missionaries working there as he had done,

Chiness?

The Chinese papers are now at hand, and we they would be better able to answer their find that the prosecution of Mr. Jackson, that question, and their answer would be a very led to this correspondence, was due, not to the there was a great outburst of cheering. different one from that so often given, that article I had written, but to something totally to do all he could to tell everybody emphatically fores of my arguments, sut

Away again they went, the gallant soven, the truth and soon, alaa! to become six, and fivo, and four. what good missions did in China. It seemed to bim almost

became interested, and attempted to make the three to appear no more, while two-Rathnally wicked thing to ask what good Chinens understood what I had written. Ho and Shady Girl-manated to finish, And + was being done by 3,807 men who gave up prac tically everything, certainly many of the English", to

therefore translated my English into "pigeon the four struggled hous-Glenside roll in luxuries of civilised life, and lived under:

coolie who knew no Chiness front, as I have said, the weariest of victors, conditions which we at home would not excapt of the vulgar Billingsgato type, and it Rathnally galloping with spirit and speed, and for

6 moment tolerato,

can be It was inconceiv

imagined what the result was. It is

again away behind the indomitable Foolhardy, able that anything but good could come from the living among the people of men whom he had always found to be perfect examples of men leading the simple life, and seeking to realise as far as possible the example see by Christ, and ho made that statement without qualification. In the second place, the was asked: Are not rainsionaries the cause of all question the trouble? They were the cause of trouble to the extent that if there were no missionaries, there would not be trouble, of a particular kind, just as if there were no merchants there would be no tresties, and no troubles orar treaties. Probably such dialike to missionaries as there was, had been due to the fact that in order to obtain a clear title to land for their settlements in the interior. they Lad been obliged to apply to the Consalur authorities." gevorning class in China considered the The quisition of land by foreigners in the inferior an infringement of rights, and honce were hostile. The poor song the Chinese were not anti-foreign, but they were very superstitious, and the clever literati well know how to play upon their minds so as to ing the missionary propaganda in China, I

honest desire to find out the exact truth regard the stands was an island that recalled the BEWARE oF IMPURE WATER. course was parapetted with poople. Opposito produce an anti-forolgn

feeling.

If instead of advise them strongly to read the unique and 3,800 missionaries there were 3,800 engineers incomparable work ("A Chinees Appeal to coated hookinskers

hill at Epsom with coaches and red- there would be just the same trouble. Hailway Christendom Concerning Christian Missions," in the distance to the left a long line of targes to produce the perest, freshest Soda Water

and booths. Акву engineers lad Been

"PRAXA" SPARKLET Syphons enable you, Accused of maing babice for Watts and Co.) just published, written by Lin every barge had become a grand stand at six-

was drawn up by the side of the canal, and obtainable.

4 RIDRELESS KORSKY. that remained to jump Valentine's Brook and We waited almost in agony for the Lornos

with two horses without riders; Caubeen and come well into sight. Seven only were loft, Precontor II galloping together, then Rail ly, then Glenside, Shady Girl, and Mount Prospset's Fortune, and then right behind, himself, Foolhardy, with his young owner p

and stubbornly ponuding along by Rathnally had both been woll backed, and are Latteur III had gone, but Cauben and both owned by Liverpool mou, and whoa tho latter stumblod in taking the "water jump in front of the stand and then cleverly recovered

missions did no good. He wanted white at home different. Mr. Jackson, see on the spot, Five of them foll bofors wo saw thew again,

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through the agendy of pigeon, were Foolbardy's guerdon." defenders I have always found that if you plaos, have been acacterod ng every fence, tho and the In my dealings with missionaries and their in, and despite the money that may be said to Mrs. Bibby, radiantly smiling, led the winner before then argumenta and data which they see horse, the only one of the twenty-six that kept completely unable to reply to they get over the his feet all the time, were enthusiastically impossibility, by denouncing it as a farrage of cheered. nonsense unworthy of notice. This "xpressi Aintree to-day has been a splendid'spectaolo.

WAS

is universal, and applies equally well to all un. The orowd was almost of Derby proportions auswerable statements and arguments and the melod with people-Irishmen in scores, with

There are many people in United States that are able to write English not a few priests among them, Frenchmen and

The paddock before the Grand National fairly well. how many are able to write like Shakespears, lish women looking splendidly attractive in the We have many learned men, but French ladies in dainty Paris costumes, Eng Gibbon, Macaulay, Professor John Draper, and short skirts and cons that they wear so well, Professor Andrew White? It is safe to say peery and north-country squires in gaiters and understand the English that there are not many learned Chinamen who riding-stocks, hersey men and men without

ad among this for Englis language still we bores fore and merely out for a holiday.

composition which in English historical literature, Chinese le quite equal to the very best that can be found

SCENE ON THE COURSE.

When the parade took place there was not a

If anyone has an inquiring mind and au vacant foot in the long line of stands. The

the foundations of their bridges! It was unfair Shao-Yang, a Chinesa official. The reasoning,pering shouted the odds with that amazing

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Although I am

surely the mark of extra- These are the opinions of men who know written relating to the East that is equal to this

great reader, Persistance that cannot think of anything that has over beez ordinary vitality. China intimately and therefore deserve to be rai

Princo

Arthur of Cannaght and the Austrian. heard with respect. Yous, &e,

grost work.

It should be read by everyone Ambassador were among Lord Derby's party B. BARING GOULD Secretary,

Caking any interest in Chinese affairs. Tngtond his private bor, and butors the Grand National Church Missionary Society, March 18.

of replying to the numerous correspondents they drove round the course with an escort of who disagree with me, I can only say that this mounted police. I had walked round earlier in SI-I notice that in your issue of yesterday work is much better than anything I the day, and the mero sight of the sixteen Six Hiram Maxin once more attacks Chinese produce; read it, and then compare it with the obstacles, firm, wide, embattled-each, by the 246 & 248, Des Voeux Rd. Cont., HONGKONG missions and missionaries.

billy and senseless twaddle of the missionaries.

way, as it wore guarded by a cinematograph Annihilate this learned Chinese official, who machino-made one realise the nacommon

can

I have lived in close touch with the Chinese is on the spot and has all the facts at his finrers people since 1876, and have naturally learnt a good deal about them, and I have no hesitation ends, who is able to put his views into a higher in saying that touch whish Sir Hiram Maxim type of English than any missionary has ever writes cannot be proved, and is as far as possible been able to use, and abstain from writing any removed from the actual state of things existing more foolish letters to me until you have finished in Chius. I am afraid it is quite useless to with this learned Chinaman and his epoch- appeal to the spiritual side of the question, upon making book,-Yuues, do

HIRAM 9. MAXIM.

which

your correspondent is entirely silent.

The missionary to China is simply

out his Divine Master's command. He

that God is the God of the whole world and

Christ the Saviour of all mankind, and he dares

WEATHER REPORT.

not exclude the four hundred millions of Chinese On the 17th at 11.55 am.-The depression from the sphere of his operations. Whether lying off the E. coat of Japan yesterday has his message is accepted or not, whether the moral sway over the Pacific Chinese like him or dislike him, whether he

A now depression formed over the Yellow

is treated well or ill, all these guestions are of Sea is moving into the W. part of the Sea of

small moment beside the command given him

Japan,

by Divine pa, that he is to do his best to make A high pressure ares now lies over Yangtze disciples of all nations, and be a witness for valley. Chiriat unto the ends of the earth.

Fresh to strong N.E. winda may be expected

Sir Hiram asserts that every convert won to over the N. part of the China Sea Christianity in Chine has cost at least a

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending

thousand lives. This is a most astounding at 10 am. to-day, 0.09 inches. starement and utterly at variance with the

truth. There are now between five and sixto-day is as follows:- hundred thousand converts connected with the Hongkong & Neighbourhood missions of the Reformed Churches working in Formosa Channel Chins, and does your correspondent mean to

The forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon

Hongkong and Hainan. Same as No. 1. N. to N.E. winds moderate to fresh; fair.

Bame a No. 1. assert seriously that to win these to Christ has South coast of China between Sume se No. 1. past five hundred million lives? Why, the Bouth coast of Chins between

Hongkong and Lamooks. ( statement is utterly incredible and daunot

be believed by any reasonable man. I myself have been privileged to baptise some two thousand people in the Fakin province of China, and where are the two million Chinese for whose, deaths I am responsible according to Bir Hiren Maxim P

They are simply non-existent. One

or two deaths have taken place,, it is true, bat they have been on the other side-Christians persecuted to the death for confessing Christ and refusing to deny Him.

or

Bir Hiram is of course quite at liberty to call For our work in China & mischievous and murderous propaganda, "hard words break no bones," but we who live at peace and stity with the Chinese people of all classes, who are rejoicing in the wonderful rapprochement which has lately taken place between the Chiness and ourselves, cau

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