Identifier: spiritofmissions74epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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no one could predictwhat their future relations would be.The cry was China for the Chinese.Hence in the native newspapers thetopics most discussed were measures forpromoting the strength and unity of ^theempire under some form of constitu-tional government; the creation and de-velopment of national industries; theeradication of such widespread andobnoxious practices as opium-smokingamong the men and foot-binding amongthe women; the fostering of the mili-tary spirit, notwithstanding its antagon-ism to the ethos of Confucianism. Inconclusion he urged the great im-portance, as well for the pea;ce andprogress of the world as for the welfareof China, of leavening this changingcivilization with iChristian ideals,whether the Chinese mean in the futureto work out their salvation by them-selves or continue to be guided by theirforeign teachers. It follows that, at this eritioaljuncture, all forms of missionary work,evangelistic, educational and medical,should be vigorously pushed, and the (37)
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(S8) China Aftei a Long Absence 39 necessity of carefully trained mencapable of becoming leaders in thistransitional period, who shall lead theirpeople wisely from the old to ihe new,must also be borne in mind. On thefirst day I entered Wuchang, I noticeda shop-sign with the inscription in Eng-lish : Foreign machine of weaning andspinning. Of course weaning is amistake for weaving. But weaningand spinning is no bad description ofthe foreigners work. It must be con-structive, yet necessarily there must bejudicious weaning from all that is weakand false in the systems which havenurtured the nation in the past. Mostof the weaning and spinning, however,must eventually be done by the Chinesethemselves, and so, .as we have alreadysaid, there is need of men whose train-ing is above the average. It is the policy of our mission to workon all these lines, with what measure ofsuccess, its marvellous growth bears wit-ness. When I left China a few years ago,in what is now the District of Hankow,th

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