Let us now consider that other very remarkable man, Dr. Robert Morrison. While he had much in common with Staunton, as is revealed by their correspondence, yet he was dominated by intense, possibly narrow, but most sincere, religious convictions. Staunton was the man of affairs who used his scholarship primarily for the benefit of his country. Morrison was of the stuff of which martyrs are made, and he used his scholarship primarily for spreading the Gospel of his Master. On the other hand, experience had espe Morrison that his earlier jit stages, and amongst an extremely \otber nations.
Thus the Russian There is something splendid, we habits at Canton which consisted of sagacious and singular People, whose living a life isolated from the manners and habits are acknowledged to admiral Krusenstern in the account may even say splendidly generous, of his voyage bestows a most flat-: Europgan community as a rigorous offer, in many respects in the hospitality—~@ffered "to all the most received ts, exceptions to all/tering eulogium on the character strangers of respectability by the ascetic in a godown,"' had endanprinciples among civi'}and conduct of Mr.
Drummond, 1 gered not only his health, but the lized nations; they are neith tec!
President of the Select Committee Com t Canton. lic table success of his work as a missionary by the physical force of arise, not by was maintained at the expense of a ces ce cee one that moral security which is deny ed Mo tht, cade a. eater grateful e Company to which the members, of Canton, during his visit there. ¢p, in China. It is true that he never from the plighted faith of treaties. They acknowledgement "for the impor-of the Factory could at all times lost his rigid, dogmatic, religious have "not even that petty personal secutiresort. This table was served in a outlook; he never was and never ty, which almost all other persons placed tant public services that had been spacious and elegant apartment and could have been in any sense a con-under similar circumstances of responsi-rendered to the Russians by the vivial companion, or as we say, ''a bility possess; that of takin ''with all other proprieties and g their mea- British Factory." good fellow."" But after a time he sures, in all critical cases, under the external accompaniment which are did mix with the British community sanction of the opinions and advice of suitable to the due presentation of in Canton, and there cannot be the Advocates general, or of any other des-The Days of Spacious Opulence. the British name and nation in cription of officers learned in the law. slightest doubt that he did succeed The critics of the Company, and China.'' We may be sure that after for the purpose of entrenching themselves e in introducing into the community specially an anonymous critic in the privations of a long sea voyage as much as possible, on such occasions, a spirit of respect and reverence for within the technical formalities of our the Edinburgh Review for Feb-the strangers of respectability'. the name of Almighty God which own legal provisions. In cases of the ruary, 1918, brought charges of who were entertained at Canton ap-_ seems to have been almost entirely very highest emergency, the gentlemen of opulence and magnificence of estabpreciated and were delighted..with' absent in the years before his arri-the Factory must act, and irrevocably lishment against the Select Com-the lavish hospitality which they val at Canton. In addition, he decide, with nothing but sound sense mittee at Canton. It was stated by received. succeeded in arousing an interest, and sober discretion for their guide, him that the average annual amount The emoluments were good; there though the safety of all the vested inter-outside of the ordinary trading of their salaries in the aggregate was little temptation or necessity ests in the trade, the millions in value affairs, in general subjects concern-was £120,000 sterling. This would for expense; there were slack sea-of property embarked in it, and even the ing China and the Chinese. An have been a princely remuneration sons and the change at, Macao, but lives of the individuals engaged in carry-! evangelist by conviction, he became ing it on, should be involved in the} in those days of 100 years ago. But there were also privations. In the a great scholar, because he finally question at issue."'
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