Excerpt from Report on the China Missions of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions 6. A word should be said about these unavoidable products of Confucianism. The Chinese are selfish. It is misleading to think that the altruistic nature of the missionary's mission appeals much to them. They do not understand it so. _he lives, be it never so meanly, above them. He has come from a barbarian country to the Celestial _empire. At worst he is laying up great merit for himself in heaven. He has his ends to gain. The Chinese ...
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Excerpt from Report on the China Missions of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions 6. A word should be said about these unavoidable products of Confucianism. The Chinese are selfish. It is misleading to think that the altruistic nature of the missionary's mission appeals much to them. They do not understand it so. _he lives, be it never so meanly, above them. He has come from a barbarian country to the Celestial _empire. At worst he is laying up great merit for himself in heaven. He has his ends to gain. The Chinese have theirs and will encourage whatever has profit' m it for themselves, but a religion whose spirit is, It is more blessed to give than to receive, ' 'does not at first com mend itself. At the same time the idea of charity is quite familiar to the Chinese. But it is scarcely like Christian chari ty, for it almost invariably contemplates the earning of merit. Pure, unselfish benevolence is almost unknown. The Chinese are materialistic. Millions of them are pinched tight in the great struggle for life. Bodily hunger is a poor preparation for spiritual aspiration. The Chinese are unsentimental, without spiritual nerves, and with the afl'ections of human nature chilled by the artificialities of Confucianism. The women of the land are servants with 'no place in true sentiment. The language has no word for kiss, and I met no one who would say that what we call love between husband and wife was more than the rarest thing. N 0 human gospel could find such a foothold as Christianity has gained on such hopeless soil. On the other hand, there is no other race in the world that can compare with the Chinese in patience, cheerfulness, industry, frugality, endurance, capacity for work and suffering - qualities out of which the Spirit of God can make such a Church as has not been built up yet in the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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