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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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women, be they in their own or in a strange country, men
of culture and learning, who do their best to carry out in
their daily lives the precepts which they know to be good,
will be able slowly to raise the moral standard of those
among whom they live, and give those who are more ignorant
a higher conception of the Deity and of the relation of man
to the Deity. They will be able to disabuse the untutored
of the gross ideas of God which are so often formed—of such
ideas, for instance, as that of an inhuman monster who is
prepared to consign to eternal torture of the most barbarous
description those whose faults are so trivial as not to meet
with special punishment even here on earth; and by the daily
example of well-lived lives they will be able to afford an
ideal which cannot but be helpful to those who would wish
to practise the precepts which they know so well are true, but
only so difficult to carry out in daily life.
This is what the best missionaries really are doing in
China, and have been doing for years and years. Little effect
may have been produced in so short a time as a couple of
centuries upon over three hundred millions of the most
stationary and unimpressionable race in the world. But that
was to be expected. In the first two centuries after Christ
only the most infinitesimal effect had been produced upon
Europe, and it would have been perfectly marvellous if in
so short a time any great effect had been produced upon
so vast and hard a mass as China; but that some effect is
being produced I can vouch for from personal experience. I
can testify to the fact that, living quietly and unostentatiously
in the interior of China, there are men who, by their lives of
noble self-sacrifice and sterling good, are slowly influencing
those about them; men who have so influenced not only a
few, but many thousands of these unenthusiastic Chinese, as
to cause them to risk life itself for their religion. And if this
good work is going on, if Christians are willing to give up
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