Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . less an opium-smoker is soundly converted, I have very little hope of per-manent benefit.—Rev. Hunter Corbett, (P. B. F. M. N.), Chefoo, China. Mr. Li, an opium-smoker for twenty years, renounced the opium habit, andreceived the Gospel while in the hospital [Hiau Kan] ; the period of his probationis nearly over; he has stood firm, and is expecting to be baptized in a few and morally he is a new man.—Report of the London MissionarySociety, 1897, p. 51. 1 His words were as follows : Before I br
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . less an opium-smoker is soundly converted, I have very little hope of per-manent benefit.—Rev. Hunter Corbett, (P. B. F. M. N.), Chefoo, China. Mr. Li, an opium-smoker for twenty years, renounced the opium habit, andreceived the Gospel while in the hospital [Hiau Kan] ; the period of his probationis nearly over; he has stood firm, and is expecting to be baptized in a few and morally he is a new man.—Report of the London MissionarySociety, 1897, p. 51. 1 His words were as follows : Before I bring my reply to a conclusion, I haveonly two things to mention. The first, the opium-smoking, being a great curse tothe Chinese population, your societies have tried their best, not only as anti-opiumsocieties, but to afford the best means to stop the craving for the opium; and alsoyou receive none as your converts who are opium-smokers.—Reported in The NewYork Tribune, September 2, 1896. 2 The new regulations are printed in full in The Friend of China, April, 1897,p. o O - 2 . - s£ « - THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 131 In India the question of opium has two important aspects. Oneof these relates to the government policy in establishing its ownmonopoly of production and sale, and especiallyof exportation to China and elsewhere. The other a complex problem inpertains to its use under licensed facilities in India India, itself. The opium policy maintained there by theGovernment is a public question which weighs heavily upon the con-sciences of a large portion of the British people. Ceaseless andstrenuous agitation having in view the withdrawal of the Governmentfrom its patronage of the opium traffic, and the entire repudiationof its dismal responsibility for the extensive manufacture and largeexportation of the drug, has been going on for many years. The re-port of the recent Parliamentary Commission was a disappointment inanti-opium circles, but the subject-matter
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