A Tour of the Missions: Observations and Conclusions

CONTENTS

I.	A Week in Japan	1-11
	An ocean truly pacific brings us to a rainy Japan	3
	The novel and the picturesque mingle in our first views of Yokohama	3
	Visit to the palace of a Japanese millionaire	4
	A museum of Japanese art and a unique entertainment	4
	Our host, an orthodox Shinto and Buddhist	5
	Conference of missionaries and their native helpers	5
	The pastor of the Tokyo church invites us to his home	5
	Reception at the Women's College of Japan, and an address there	5
	A distinguished company of educators at dinner	6
	We give a dinner to Rochester men and their wives	7
	A good specimen of missionary hilarity and fellowship	7
	The temple of Kamakura and its great bronze Buddha	7
	The temple of Hachiman, the god of war	8
	Supplemented by the temple of Kwannon, the goddess of mercy	8
	Japan enriched by manufacture of munitions	8
	A native Christian church and pastor at Kanagawa	9
	Immorality, the curse of Japan, shows its need of Christianity	10
	Wonders of its Inland Sea, and great gifts of its people	10
II.	A Week-end in China	13-22
	Hongkong, wonderful for situation and for trade	15
	Swatow, and our arrival there	15
	Chinese customs, and English collection of them	16
	The mission compound of Swatow, one of our noblest	16
	Dr. William Ashmore, and his organizing work	17
	William Ashmore, his son, and his Bible translations	17
	A great Sunday service in a native New Testament church	18
	The far-reaching influence of this mission, manned by many Rochester graduates	18
	Our expedition to Chao-yang, to see the heart of China	18
	Triumphal entry into that city of three hundred thousand inhabitants	19
	Impressed by the vastness of its heathen population	20
	Mr. Groesbeck, the only minister to its needs	21
	An address to the students of his school	21
	A great procession conducts us to our steamer at Swatow	21
	Shall we be saved if we do not give the gospel to the heathen?	22
III.	Manila, Singapore, and Penang	23-32
	A Yellow Sea, and white garments	25
	American enterprise has transformed Manila	25
	Filipinos not yet ready for complete self-government	26
	Visit to Admiral Dewey's landing-place, and also to Fort McKinley	26
	The interdenominational theological seminary and its influence	26
	Printed and spoken English is superseding native dialects	27
	Singapore, one of the world's greatest ports of entry	27
	British propose to hold it, in spite of native unrest	27
	Heterogeneous population makes English the only language for its schools	28
	Germans stir up a conspiracy, but it is nipped in the bud	28
	British steamer to Penang, an old but safe method of conveyance	28
	Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Malay Confederated States	29
	Penang furnishes us with a great Chinese funeral	29
	Its immense preparation and cost show worship of ancestors	29
	Mourners in white, with bands of hired wailers	31
	Glorification of man, but no confession of sin or recognition of Christ	32
IV.	Three Weeks in Burma	33-46
	Burma, the land of pagodas	35
	The Shwe Dagon of Rangoon is the greatest of these	35
	Its immense extent and splendor	35
	The religion of Burma is Buddhism, a religion of "merit," so called	36
	Pagoda-building in Burma, coeval with cathedral-building in Europe	36
	The desolation in which many pagodas stand shows God's judgment on Buddhism	36
	Burma is consecrated by the work of Adoniram Judson, and his sufferings	37
	Our visit to Aungbinle, and prayer on the site of Judson's prison	37
	Met and entertained by missionaries, our former pupils	37
	Fruitful Burma and its Buddhism attracts famine-stricken India with its Hinduism	38
	Baptist missions in Burma antedate and excel both Romanist and Anglican	40
	Far outstripping these in the number and influence of converts	40
	The work of our collegiate and other schools is most encouraging	41
	The Baptist College at Rangoon and the theological seminaries at Insein	42
	The lieutenant governor invites us to meet Lord Chelmsford, viceroy of India, at afternoon-tea	44
	A royal reception, with great conglomerate of races	44
	A demonstration of loyalty to the British Crown	45
	The dinner of our Rochester men at the house of Rev. Mr. Singiser, including representatives of the Mission Press and the Baptist College	45
	Our final reception at Dr. D. W. A. Smith's, on Mrs. Smith's birthday	46
V.	Mandalay and Gauhati	47-56
	Mandalay, in Burma, the type of Buddhism; Gauhati, in Assam, the type of Hinduism	49
	Visits to Maulmain and Bassein, in Burma, preceded both these	49
	King Thebaw's palace, at Mandalay, a fortress built wholly of wood	50
	The Hill of Mandalay and its pagoda, four pagodas in one	50
	We ascend eight hundred steps by taking extemporized sedan-chairs	51
	Four successive platforms and four images of Buddha	51
	Waxwork figures at the top depict the vanity of life	52
	The Kuthodaw in the plain below seen from this height	52
	Four hundred and fifty pagodas in one, each with its Buddha and his law engraved on stone	52
	The descent from Mandalay Hill more hazardous than the ascent	53
	Buddhism compared with the religion of Christ	53
	Gauhati, the capital of Assam, has also its temple on a hill	54
	This temple illustrates Hinduism as Mandalay illustrates Buddhism	54
	Its immoral cult claims to have an immoral origin in the wife of the god Siva	54
	Its priestesses a source of corruption to the British college and the whole country	55
	Vain attempts to interpret Hindu myth and worship symbolically	55
	The need of Christian teaching as to sin and atonement	56
VI.	Calcutta, Darjeeling, and Benares	57-64
	Calcutta, the largest city of India, so named from Kali, goddess-wife of Siva, the Destroyer	59
	The temple of Kali, its priestesses and its worship, an infamous illustration of Hinduism	59
	The temple of the Jains represents Hinduism somewhat reformed	60
	The real glory of Calcutta is its relation to modern missions	60
	The work of William Carey, and his college and tomb at Serampore	60
	Our ride northward to Darjeeling, and our view of the Himalayas	61
	A temple of Tibetan Buddhists on our mount of observation	61
	Benares, the Mecca and Jerusalem of the Hindus	62
	A hotbed of superstition and devotion	62
	Its Golden Temple, its bathing ghats and burning ghats on the sacred Ganges	62
	Our voyage of inspection in the early morning	63
	Thousands bathing and drinking in the same muddy stream	63
	Smallpox and plague in western lands traced back to this putrid river	64
	Some of the temples have toppled over, being built on sand instead of rock	64
VII.	Lucknow, Agra, and Delhi	65-76
	On Mohammedan ground, and the scene of the great mutiny	67
	Elements of truth in the Moslem faith make missions more difficult	67
	The defense of Lucknow, one of, the most heroic and thrilling in history	67
	The only flag in the British Empire that never comes down at night	68
	English missions and education are guaranties of permanent British rule in India	69
	The Isabella Thoburn College, under Methodist control	69
	We see the "mango trick" under favorable circumstances	70
	Agra, and the Taj Mahal, a wonder of the world, seen both at sunrise and at sunset	70
	The Pearl Mosque and the Jasmine Tower, surrounded and protected by the Fort	71
	A flowering out of art, like that of cathedral-building in England	72
	Moslem architects "designed like Titans, and finished like jewelers"	72
	Delhi, the capital of India before the reign of Akbar	72
	The British respect ancient tradition by transferring their central government from Calcutta to Delhi	73
	The progress of India under British rule in the last fifty years	73
	Indian unrest due in part to English mistakes in educational policy	74
	The Friday prayer service in the great mosque of Delhi	75
VIII.	Jaipur, Mt. Abu, and Ahmedabad	77-87
	The native states of India distinguished from the presidencies and the provinces	79
	Their self-government a reward of loyalty in the mutiny	79
	The rajas influenced by Western thought	79
	Jaipur, the capital of a native state, called "The Pink City"	80
	"A rose-red city, half as old as Time"	81
	The maharaja's town-palace and astronomical observatory	81
	A visit to Amber, the original metropolis, and his summer residence	81
	An elephant ride up the hill while hanging over the precipice	82
	The road to Mt. Abu, a wonderful piece of engineering	84
	We reach Dilwarra, the greatest temple of the Jains	84
	Their reformed Buddhism recognizes Buddha as only one of many incarnations	85
	The temple is almost a miracle of art, and illustrates the genius of the East	85
	Ahmedabad, a uniquely prosperous manufacturing and commercial city	86
	Factories needed by India more than farms	86
	Missions need employment for converts, to save them from famine	86
IX.	Bombay, Kedgaon, and Madras	89-99
	Bombay, second in population in the Indian Empire	91
	Hindus outnumber Moslems and Parsees	91
	The Caves of Elephanta, excavated in honor of Siva, god of reproduction as well as of destruction	91
	His temple a cathedral, hewn inside of a mountain	92
	The lingam, or phallus, gigantic, carved out of stone, in the innermost shrine	93
	Its worship a deification of man's baser instincts	93
	The Towers of Silence represent Parseeism	93
	The dead are exposed in them to be devoured by vultures	93
	Construction of the towers and details of the process	93
	Compared with Christian burial in hope of resurrection	94
	Kedgaon, a happy contrast and relief	94
	The center of the work of Pundita Ramabai	94
	The story of her life a romantic and thrilling one	94
	The pitiable condition of child-widows in India touches her heart	95
	In time of famine she furnishes a refuge for two thousand four hundred of them	95
	The wonders of her plant, in schools, hospital, printing office, factory, and farm	96
	A great scholar of the Brahman caste, she is recognized as the most influential woman in India	96
	Madras, the third largest Indian city, gives us our first tropical heat	97
	A center of mission work for the Telugus and their tribal conversion	97
	New Year's Day reception at Lord Pentland's, the governor of the Madras Presidency	98
	Followed by a reception from the Rochester men, my former pupils	99
X.	The Telugu Mission	101-113
	Madras, next to Calcutta and Bombay in thrift and importance	103
	Baptists have done most for the Telugus, as Congregationalists most for the Tamils	103
	Statistics of our mission are most encouraging	103
	Self-government, self-support, self-propagation, require time	104
	Conference at the house of Doctor Ferguson brings together men from four separate fields	104
	The theological seminary at Ramapatnam, in charge of Doctor Heinrichs	105
	Our reception by teachers and students, and value of their work	105
	Ongole and the work of Doctor Baker, the successor of Doctor Clough	107
	Laying the corner-stone of gateway to the new hospital	107
	Country tour into the heart of Telugu-land, and open-air preaching to the natives	107
	Vellumpilly, where 2,222 were baptized, and Sunset Hill, where Doctor Jewett prayed	109
	Kavali, and the work of Mr. Bawden for a hereditary criminal class	110
	Industrial education side by side with moral and religious	110
	Nellore, our first perm ent	185
	It gives us no assurance of Christ's deity, and ignores Old Testament proofs that he is Prophet, Priest, and King	185
	Value of the "historical method" when not exclusively inductive	186
	Effect of this method, as often employed, upon systematic theology	187
	If Scripture has no unity, no systematic theology is possible	187
	Unitarian acknowledgment that its schools have no theology at all	189
	Effect of this method upon our theological seminaries to send out disseminators of doubts	189
	Effect of this method upon the churches of our denomination to destroy all reason for their existence	191
	Effect of this method upon missions to supersede evangelism by education and to lose all dynamic both abroad and at home	193
	This method was "made in Germany," and must be opposed as we oppose arbitrary force in government	195
	The remedy is a spiritual coming of Christ in the hearts of his people	197
XVII.	The Theology of Missions	199-212
	Is man's religious nature only a capacity for religion?	201
	The will is never passive, the candle is always burning	201
	Moslem and Hindu alike show both good and bad elements in their worship	201
	Here and there are seekers after God, and such are saved through Christ, though they have not yet heard his name	202
	First chapter of Romans gives us the best philosophy of heathenism	203
	Heathenism, the result of an abnormal and downward evolution	204
	The eternal Christ conducts an evolution of the wheat, side by side with Satan's evolution of the tares	204
	All the good in heathen systems is the work of Christ, and we may utilize their grains of truth	205
	Illustrated in Hindu incarnations and Moslem faith in God's unity and personality	205
	Christ alone is our Peace, and he alone can unite the warring elements of humanity	206
	A moral as well as a doctrinal theology is needed in heathendom	208
	But external reforms without regeneration can never bring in the kingdom of God	209
	The history of missions proves that heart must precede intellect, motive must accompany example	210
	The love of Christ who died for us is the only constraining power	210
	Only his deity and atonement furnish the dynamic of missions	211
XVIII.	Missions and Missionaries	213-223
	Missionary work results in a healthy growth of the worker	215
	The successful missionary must be an all-round man	215
	He secures a training beyond that of any university course	216
	That training is spiritual as well as intellectual	216
	It tends to make him doctrinally sound as to Christ's deity and atonement	217
	Or convinces him that he has no proper place on a mission field	218
	A valuable lesson for our societies and churches at home	218
	New Testament polity, as well as doctrine, is tested by missions	Clyx.com