You say that mission took es an injury to China.
reply that what endanger tranquil is wot the missions, but that hatred of foreigners which when it breaks out in acts of ivlence causes danger to others and to those who are the perpetrators, You say that missionary teaching is an insult to China because the large staff of technical and educated foreigners who are now employed by the hish Chinese officials do not believe what the missionaries teach, Is it not true then that it isa insult for the missionaries to continue teaching fo this Lieply that that which is not believed by the western foreigners who ave employment in China is probably the miracles, and not the dogmatic teaching, or they look on the two xs combined. In this Ans. Inthisstatement yousfixa shame: is seen the admirable character of the fal imputation without any reason; every Scriptures. It is just as with fruit, It one has his own special calling. The mis- cannot grow without a rind, The taste of ies having made preparation for the rind is not good, Religion is like iiission work, their hearts are engaged in precious stone. Those who know its value its duties and it is their regular occupation, prize it, These why ure not among the How can they be called persons without discerning show contempt for hat occupation? They vive themselves here strange in is? It is what might sion work, leave their homes, say good-bye be expected, to friends and family, and put out of the You udd that the very cooties in the service calculation the thought of living for a of igners know that the missionaries as a longer or shorter time. Can th-y then be body are nut looked up to by the better class called men without vecupation You will of Joreiyners as their moral teachers. not say they gained their posts by study, remark on this that it is not quite clear but you most wantonly desert in order to! what is meant by the better class, Does it shame them that they undertook their wean those who have rank and wealth, or duties beewse they were idle pers ves it mean those who are high in morality? What was your idea, sir, in making sui In the world it is noticeable that some men an accusation who are very rich nnd high in station yet Again, you say that the missionary on-loud imnioral lives. Do you regard these terprise is an injury and insult to Chinn. as the better class? If sy you admire the T reply by asking can the mission: men of low type, nut those that Confucius aries in going abroad into the world, by Jand Mencius esteemed highly, much less the thought" of injuring those that the New Testament China? They th Vand patterns, Every man of elevated injured, They have to bexr what would virtue above other things, He esteems be to most. men intolerable. Both the others with sincerity, and represses every paries and their Eh thought of pride. He does not make use of wealth and station to act superei ivitsly to others, nur dues he on account of the insult and injure oth poverty of some despise them, You object that while the missionaries You, sir, in saying this, think that you talk of charity, they threaten. our people with ave honouring whet you represent as the shot and shell, better diss of western men, bat you ure in T reply that whenever gunboat are fact insulting them, Unhappily in the ordered to terrify, it is the Statee making world it is but too common with some peruse of their power, It is not within the sons to do as you do, honour only wealth competency of missionaries, nor dees it and station and not honour virtue wud true please them when Whenever the goodness. This is the reason that fashions rulers of my country (China) shall willingly
dangers, or punish attacks on them when protect them by force before threatened fower level. geow worse and morality sinks daily too
You way that the only too effective checks nine, according to the extent of crim'nnon wrongdoing of every kind are the law, and lity in exch ease without showing mercy, who is it that will make an attack with I would venture to ask who are the men gunboats? Why fear their coming to whose sentiments make up what you call alarm us with gunbuxte? Tf you really public opinion? Are the profligates, criminlook on the protection of the missi als, courtesans and gamblersall to be naked superfluous and regard attacks on ti What reply, sir, will you make to this "a8 no grent calamity, yet in question hidden hatred which has been more than Further you 80 that the converts who 3 join the missionaries are the outcasts of plainly Chinese society, men who have no lar before gunboat comes and causes alarm is it not their eyes.
Your own provocation You say that the late riots are the result Who would dare not obey the laws? If Sir! such an assertion i simply calumny. of excusable ignorance on the part of the there are clans which expel good citizens people. on their becoming Christian converts, and Treply by requesting you to ask yourself do not expel from the clan registers men conscientiously whether unprovoked rub- who are criminals, it is not the expelled bery, burning down houses, and murder who are in the wrong, but those who expel are or are not according to Law punishable them. When people haveamind tenet wrong. crimes. Are they trivial offences or acts of guilt of a high degree of criminality Did the rioters know that there are treaties magistrates, high rulers and emperors or did they not? Did they know that there is a law in the land? If men know the ly towards others there is nothing they will not do, You siao know these things. In the popular usages of the present day, there fare many peculiarities in the ancestral temples and lan regulations which trans. gress the rules of antiquity and good order,
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