Morning Oregonian., April 20, 1908, Page 5, Image 5

THE 3IORXTXG OREGOXTAV, MONDAY, ArRIL 20, 1D0!.
CHINESE AWAKEN
UNDER RELIGION
Returned Missionary Tells of
Advance of Chris
tianity. . -
NEED FUNDS AND WORKERS
Efforts to Abolish Binding of
Women's Feet and l'e of
Opium by Men Meet With
Promised Success.
"The. Resurrection of China," was the
subject of the address delivered at the
Y. M. C. A. men's meeting yesterday
afternoon by Rev. F. W. Bible, a Pres
byterlRn missionary, who has Just re
turned from Hang-Chow, China. He
wa compelled to leave his field of labor
on account of his wife's health. A
chorus of 24 children from the First
Christian Church sans a number of
Kaster selections preceding; the address.
Mr. Bible said that, with Sir Robert
Hart, Commissioner of Customs, he be
lieves the only thing; that can keep
China from becoming; a menafe to the
world is the rapid spread of Christian
ity. Mr. Bible said further that the
strongest objection the Chinese have to
Christianity is-that It is a foreign re
ligion. He believed the best plan would
be for the missionaries to flrmly plant
Christianity in Chinese soil, as it were,
and then leave It to propagate Itself.
"Give us the funds and the workers
we need for the next SS years," said
he, "and we will leave China with
Christianity so firmly rooted that it
will propagate itself without further
effort on our part. In the province .in
which I have been working there are
between 10.000 and 12,000 Christians.
Among them are to be found leaders
who are as well qualified for their
work ae any you will find in America."
China Has Awakened.
He said the Chinese had awakened to
the fact that if they were to preserve
their country and their rights from for
eigners they must create and maintain
an army and navy. This, he said, they
have done, and there are now 100,00
men in army, which has been trained by
Japanese officers to the polnt,of perfec
tion. Mr. Bible said some might believe
that the Chinese cannot fight, but that
this was a misconception. He referred
to the time limit of the treaty between
lapan and Great Britain. As this treaty
expires in 1914, it was Incumbent upon
China to prepare for that 'time,
that she might protect herself from the
possible Inroads of other nations.
During the last eight years. China
has been making rapid strides toward a
ilvlllzatlon in keeping with that of the
other nations of the world. Under the
old educational system, about 10,000
men took the government examination
every year, which lasted from 36 to 72
hours. This has all been done away
with. Mr. Bible said there was no year
when several of the students did not
die from the continued mental strain
which the old examination caused. Mr
.Bible said:
. JI!!l.,..'dU'""ona, v"- "f whfeh the n
hin r amI wh,c"
i , wa foun"le. hu been swept
aatde In a single year.
..'J i!0"1 '."I" n avr American and
lt mm (mentions relative to rubiects he
u.d"Jn rr,00' ,,B " before. hi
could probably tell me very little, for he
would haw forgotten a great deal. But not
so with the Chinee. The edWtlonal
tern and the severity with which he has
S ' ' hZUsh ,"! ",udl" na. (lxed the
i h mlnd- '" that ,h average
MJ" 'm,",t " """" abot his
JVL. ,ne "m he Ped hl exsmlna-
Make Prominent Lawyers.
U has been said that th Chinese are Imi
tative, and that thy do not reason. Whils
this may bs true In some instances, it Is not
true, of the Chinese mm a nation, for some
of the most able lawyers graduated from
prominent colleges of the Eastern United
ftlatu4hav ben Chln- On the whole.
In ninese mind is not one whit inferior
to the American Intellect. When China has
ahsoroed this education of ours, and tha
same is true of Japan, you will wake up to
the fact that the greatest thins; that has
liJSTt. 0n ,hl lob 18 happening
riffht no, before your very eyes
ux k is not aione in its education that
your
the
had adopted our nresent form
to meft modern conditions. Then think of
the siimmcance of the edict from the Chi
nese throne that the Chinese will in ten
years formulate constitution, call for a
parliament, and establish a democracy
Think of what this means In a country
where an absolute monarchy has held sway
for thousands of years, and In which there
::xa 400.0tXV.000 people, if the task of re
modeling the government to mwt modern
conditions, which those about the throne
have set for themselvei, meets with success
without plunging the nation Into a revolu
tion it will be the greatest diplomatic
achievement the world has ever seen. China
:hen will have placed herself la the lead of
ail the nations of the globe.
China is making rapid strides Lt yo
minde run bck a few years and recall t
struggle our Nation went throuah before
Sell Many Foreign Goods.
Formerly you could buy hardly anything
of foreign manufacture In Hang Chow. Now.
In thore little ahops you can buy almost any
thins in the way of Imported goods, from a
knitting needle to a piano. The trouble Is
that America Is not alive to the opportuni
ties for Oriental trade, and Is leaving Japan,
Germany ancf Rngland to take the cream.
For Instance, the people of china use manv
washbasins. But they were obliged to use
either a basin of wood, which was cheap,
or a basin of brass, which was expensive.
The wooden basins were not very good, so
the Austrian set about furnishing a cheap
basin. This basin now sells in China for
25 cents. There Is a demand In China for
American hats and shoes. They have not
Lcrn to ue American c!oth!ng very much
yi, but that will come in time. There will
be a greater demand for American cotton
cloth; in fact almost anythtng of American
or European manufacture can be made
profitable through exportation to China.
I would call your attention to two great
social movements which are having a mar-
elous influence toward the awakening of
the sleeping aiant. The first is the cessation
of foot-binding among women, the second
15 the edict cutting down the Importation of
opium, and prohibiting Its use In the empire.
In connection with the first movement the
name of Archibald Tattle deserves to be
passed into history with that of Frances .
Willard. Jt has now become unfashionable
to bind the feet of the E-irls. and as fashion
counts as much in China as it does here,
that great curse will soon be abolished.
Pince two years ago the missionaries in
' china had been working toward the abol
ishment of opium smokins; in the em
pire. We called ourselves the Anti-Opium
League A year afto we sent up a petition,
with signatures several miles long, asking
that something be done to put a stop to the
traiTlc. 'lthln two weeks after It reached
the throne the announcement came that an
agreement had been reached by which Great
Britain agreed to cut down the importation
of opium from India 10 per cent a month
Then came the edict that all Chinese sol
diers mut cesse the use of the drug at
once; that all officials In the employ of the
sovernment must cease in nine months and
that all opium dens of the empire must
clone on N.ufrutt .
It also provided that less land be de
moted to the cultivation of the poppy. Then
the officials gathered up all the opium pipes
&d 4il U tWi;, eMUi declared a holiday!
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Wherever civilization has
Schlitz beer has followed.
has been known in
since the white man
It
Africa
went there,
quantities to
gone,
South
first
It is shipped in' large
the frigid wilds of
I,
Siberia. It is advertised in the quaint
newspapers of China and Japan.
Since Dewey captured the Philippines
Schlitz goes there in solid train
loads. - . - . .
Schlitz has won against the com
petition of the whole world.
The reason is we go to extremes
s
in cleanliness. Our materials are
chosen from among the best grown
by one of our partners. Our brewing
is watched by another,
cooled in filtered air.
months in glass lined
Every bottle is sterilized. There are
no impurities, no biliousness in Schlitz.
It keeps in. any
climate and always
retains its
delicious
flavor..
The beer is
It is aged for
steel tanks.
2f
Ask for the Brewery Bottling.
Common Beer is sometimes substituted for Schlits.
To avoid being imposed upon, see that the cork or f
eroum ts branded Sc hilts.
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In Hang- Chow the pipe, and tray, col
lected were burned publicly. The lampa
were melted, and the metal molded into a
bell, which now bears an Inscription giving
the date, stating that this was the day
when China threw off opium. Thia is before
Christianity has gotten bold et them. Jlkat
will they be when the majority of them
have accepted the principles of Christianity?
Banks Do Not Fall.
When Mr. Bible gave opportunity for
those present to ask questions follow
ing his address, a member of the audi
ence created considerable merriment by
asking: "Are there any bank-failures
in China? "What do they do with the
bank-wreckers over there? I have al
ways beard they cut their beads off.".
Mr. Bible replied that he had never
heard of a bank-failure in China, as
they had not yet completely adopted
our civilization.
Jans! Tails! Tans! at Rosenthal's.
Liodges Give Tokens.
Holmes Lodge. Knights of Pythias, of
St. John, at Its last regular meeting,
presented C. W. Potter with a beautiful
watch charm and G. G. Gould with a
gold ring bearing the'emblems of the
order. Mr. Potter and Mr. Gould are
soon to leave for their new home in
Southern Oregon, where they will con
duct a large orchard. Both have be.n
in business in JL John,