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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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markedly deeper sensitiveness to suffering or oppression in any
form. Such barbarities as those of the recent Armenian
atrocities are thought little of among Asiatics. Through the
Christian nations in Europe and America they send a thrill of
horror, and the sympathy evoked for the sufferers shows itself
in the practical form of active measures for preventing such
atrocities for the future. We have, again, the case of one
Christian nation spending millions of pounds to release slaves
owned by its subjects. Sympathy is, of course, not unknown
in Asiatic countries, and the devotion with which the natives
of India provide for their old or infirm relations is worthy
of all praise. But I think that every one who looks at an
Asiatic nation, as a whole, and at a Christian nation, will
agree that, in the latter, the sympathetic feelings are far more
highly developed generally.
If, then, European nations have in the main derived so much
benefit from the adoption of the Christian religion from one of
the peoples of Asia, surely they are justified in trying to impart
it to peoples of another part of the same continent. And they
are not only justified in doing so, but it is human nature that
they should. Christians cannot help feeling, when they are
brought in contact with men of other religions, that they have
a higher and truer idea of the Deity, and of their relations
to the Deity—which is religion—than have the devotees of any
other religion. They see that that portion of the human race
which has embraced the Christian religion has progressed more
than any other, and they naturally desire to impart to others
those doctrines which they feel have done so much good to
themselves. This is a natural and reasonable feeling, and is
the mainspring of all missionary enterprise.
It is, however, in the method of imparting their own con-
victions to those who profess other religions, that some
missionaries may be criticized. There are some whom we
might call fanatical missionaries, who imagine that the Christian
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