Missionary Work and Chinese Morality
In an address before the Congregational Club at Washington, D. C., lately, Justice Brewer, of the United States Supreme Court, said:— The missionary's work is not at first agreeable to the Chinaman, and it is not strange that there is a feeling against him when the Chinaman considers the treatment he is receiving at our hands. But missionary work must go on. No man is so vicious as the man who is skilled in the arts and sciences, but has no morals. The Chinaman has no morals. The only hope is to send with the man that goes to China to speculate, the man of the gospel, the man of the Bible, so as to lift him up into the ways of morality and peace. Yes; if there were only some means of keeping morally straight the man who goes there to speculate, the chances of helping the Chinaman would be wonderfully increased. But what hope is there of keeping the speculator straight when he prides himself on belonging to a “Christian nation,” and by this sanctifies all his crookedness, and despises the Chinaman as only a heathen with no morals?