Progressive Notions Side by Side with Old-World Beliefs:
The Expulsion of Missionaries A correspondent at Urga sends us, under date June 27, the following extract from the Mongol newspapers.
They have an tutorest of an indirect nature in themselves apart from that of the states nts made.
The Ministry of Finance, has} defined in 18 points, the situation of Mongolian agriculture. There a lack of provision for the future in ranching, the frequent destruc~ ion of cattle, causing famine, and in consequence the Mongols have no reserve left with which to purchase the first necessities for agriculture. The iden of the new Government project is not to make radical changes in the calling followed by Mongols for many centuries. but to teach them agriculture at the same time as working their ranches, that, in_the event of their cattle dying off they will have something to fall back on, and in this relation they will have avery important means of meeting their obligations.
After the Death of the Living Buddha, From various sources it is report ed that the population have become reconciled to the death of Djebtsun Damba Hutukhtu, The question of his Resurrection is now being Giseussed by the Conference of Aimaks, this body will also decide the place of search, either Thibet or Mongolia For the time being the highest authority in the Spiritual Hierarchy is the Khambo-Nomun-Khan.
The Executors have with decision protested against Bogdo's property. going ta the Exchequer. It is! decided to sell it by Auction, the Proceeds to go to the Lama Monastery Department. One of handed over to the Ministry of Endightenment of the People which will give this Department a piedaterre in the centre of the town. (This is the Ministry which issued the ordinance about Services for Rain).
The Protestant missionaries have lodged a complaint with the Swedish Consul in Peking.
Before the Consul takes up the matter with the Mongolian Government, we recommend for his information, the following points:
The Swedish missionaries came to Mongolia without first obtaining permission from the Government, 2 Without this permission, they proceeded to build a School for Propagating the Gospel; distributed. tracts amongst the Mongol soldiers and civilian population, persistently ave out that the Mongolian Government was Godless ete., ete, The Swedish mi ionones were "touch with the American YALCA,, in China and the Ameri" can Consul in Kalgan, My. well-known for his share in to foment a counter-revolution against the present Government, Working in Unga the mission: aries were under the patronage of Mr. F. A, Larsen, who is known to have been an Advisor to the Chinege Government in the Department for Mongol & Thibetan Affairs.
5. The missionaries, built for themselves, presumably for the purposes of agriculture, bases, which Put them in an ideal position for military espionage, Taking into consideration the rumours of Feng Vu Hsiang's (also a Protestant) preparations for the invasion of Outer Mongolia, it is impossible not to be suspicious of the Missionaries.
Presupposing that the Mongol people, least of all, were in nood of
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