Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . ry House, Blomfield Street). Under the auspices and fostering care of the East India Company the tradegrew year by year so as to reach in 1800 as much as 4570 chests, and in 1854 notless than 78,354 chests, each chest containing 133^ pounds avoirdupois. The aver-age import of foreign opium into China for the past ten years (1880-90) is 72,012chests. The Persian and Turkish trade in opium is comparatively insignificant, theaverage being only 4159 chests. Thus the average import from India alone is 67,418chests. B
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . ry House, Blomfield Street). Under the auspices and fostering care of the East India Company the tradegrew year by year so as to reach in 1800 as much as 4570 chests, and in 1854 notless than 78,354 chests, each chest containing 133^ pounds avoirdupois. The aver-age import of foreign opium into China for the past ten years (1880-90) is 72,012chests. The Persian and Turkish trade in opium is comparatively insignificant, theaverage being only 4159 chests. Thus the average import from India alone is 67,418chests. But this is not all. Prior to the introduction of the drug by foreigners itwas not used by the Chinese as an article of luxury. They were not ignorant of itsexistence and medicinal properties, but there is not a particle of evidence to showthat it was smoked or abused in any other way in those days. Now, however, thenative growth exceeds the foreign at least six times. Whilst the demand for opiumhardly existed in China one hundred and fifty years ago, the Chinese at present con-. THE SOCIAL EVILS OF THE NON-CHRISTIAN WORLD 81 cwts. annually, and of this amount the annual exportation, almost ex-clusively to China, reaches 49,512 cwts., or per The revenueof the British Government in India from opium has decreased of years ago it was fully twice what it is to-day. Its victims in China,however, are constantly increasing in number, and are estimated atpresent to be over 20,000,000, and by some as high as 4o,ooo,ooo,3while the expense to China is about ^25,000,000 The real points at issue in the conflict are the extent of the evil re-sulting from the use of opium, and the responsibility of the BritishGovernment in the matter. The British administration in India, forreasons of expediency and revenue, is inclined to defend itself byminimizing both these considerations. It is on the defensive, andcontends vigorously and recklessly that the evils are insig
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