This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...it will not require any words of mine to show what an obstacle this opium traffic is to the spread of the gospel. Many of the lower d orders imagine that our missionaries are directly interested in the sale of opium; but the more intelligent, who give the missionaries credit for the best intentions towards their race, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 Excerpt: ...it will not require any words of mine to show what an obstacle this opium traffic is to the spread of the gospel. Many of the lower d orders imagine that our missionaries are directly interested in the sale of opium; but the more intelligent, who give the missionaries credit for the best intentions towards their race, say, 'What is your religion worth? Your countrymen bring us in one hand the drug that debases and kills us. We did not know its use till you brought it: and when we found out its evil effects, we tried to prevent its getting into our country. But your gains were at stake, and you cared not for our bodies or our souls. Now, with the other hand, you bring us your gospel, which you tell us will bless us both in body and soul You tell us yours is a gospel of love to God and man; your countrymen can neither love one nor the other; they only love themselves. Take your gospel to them, for they need to be taught to do to others as they would others should do to them.' "Let me just quote a few words from some of our missionaries--men, who have given an earnest of their disinterestedness by giving up all worldly prospects for the sake of benefiting the Chinese, and who, therefore, have a right to speak about any great hindrance to their work. "The Eev. Griffith John, of the London Missionary Society, who has been fifteen years in China, writing concerning the people of Szchuen, says: 'Opium is fast eating up the stamina of these sturdy people, and it only requires one or two more decades to convert them into a comparatively imbecile race. Moreover, the opium trade has created a strong prejudice against the missionary and the gospel. The Chinese cannot see how the same people can dispense to them a destructive poison with the one hand, and a sa...
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