Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . demoralise, corrupt, and destroyour fellow-men in China and the Straits Settlements amounted to 263,404 tons, orhalf a ton for every hour of the day and night of the whole of that period. Theycould not wonder that the missionaries on the spot who knew the result of the opiumtraffic should be loud in their expressions of indignation against any Governmentwhich encouraged that which spreads desolation, moral and social, amongst the mil-lions of China. The revenue derived from the traffic by the Government of India
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . demoralise, corrupt, and destroyour fellow-men in China and the Straits Settlements amounted to 263,404 tons, orhalf a ton for every hour of the day and night of the whole of that period. Theycould not wonder that the missionaries on the spot who knew the result of the opiumtraffic should be loud in their expressions of indignation against any Governmentwhich encouraged that which spreads desolation, moral and social, amongst the mil-lions of China. The revenue derived from the traffic by the Government of Indiaduring the past sixty years was ^253,975,382, or more than one third—four tenths,to be more precise—of the amount of the present National Debt.—The Friend ofChina, July, 1897, pp. 81, 82. Cf. also ibid., October, 1897, p. 98. 2 The Friend of China, July, 1897, p. 83. 3 Printed in full in The Chronicle, of the London Missionary Society, July,1894, p. 153; The Friend of China, August, 1894, p. 19; and The MissionaryHerald, August, 1894, p. 323. / // 1 *» /* / * / / / / ?. u a ;? Si r- S 2 V- s <8 . -? J. C^ THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 127 represents, might be given. Such men as the late Dr. William Lockhart,Dr. Colin S. Valentine, Dr. James L. Maxwell, Dr. A. Lyall, the John, , Archdeacons Arthur E. Moule and John , the Rev. Arnold Foster, the Rev. Jonathan Lees, the Muirhead, , Dr. Duncan Main, Dr. S. R. Hodge, Swallow, Dr. J. A. Otte, Dr. W. A. P. Martin, and others, mightbe called not unwillingly to the The attitude of Christian society in China is uncompromising—in fact, every native church in the empire may be called an anti-opiumguild. Formal utterances on the part of missionconferences and ecclesiastical synods indicate The uncompromising • • i o attitude of Christian clearly the inflexible stand which has been society in china. The Church in China, writes the Rev. Joseph (
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