CHINESE MISSIONS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 242, 29 September 1911, Page 6

CHINESE MISSIONS.

TO THE EDITOR.

Sir. I see that our missionaries in China are ome again flying for their lives. The Chinese have a religion of their own with which the/ seem to be well pleased. therefore, what excuse have our good people for trying to upset their beliefs Of course I know that the missionary claims that he has the truth and desires to impart it to his Chinese brother, but every religionist holds that his own religion is the only true one. anti that those who do not worship as he does are infidels; we Christians believe that. The Chinese, Mohammidans. Buddists. in fact all others, say the same tiling, and have they not a perfect right to stand up for the particular religions they and their ancestors have found to suit them for thousands of years.’ The Chinese have over and over again told our missionaries that they are not wanted, ami that if they persist in interfering with their reli gion they must be prepared to take the consequences. Let our Christian brethren put it to themselves : suppose the Chinese kept sending batches of missionaries to New Zealand and established mission halls with the object of making converts to Confucianism, and in addition opened schools (as Christian missionaries do in China) to train our children in their beliefs, would our priesthood welcome them ? Would the general public welcome them ? No. Why even thosr who never give a thought to religion, who never enter a church, would join in helping the clergy in chasing them out of New Zealand. Well, let the Christian “Do unto others, as they would that others would do unto them. ’ and don’t meddle with other nations’ religions. They don’t meddle with ours. There are heaps of work for . our clergy to do in our own lands amongst our own people. Reforms innumerable are waiting to be tackled. The Chinese. Hindoos, etc., etc., can stand over. Let the Christians take Christ's advice and ‘ Remove the beams from their own eyes before trying to remove the motes from their neighbours.—l am. etc., W. P. GREY. Hastings. Sept. 2S, 191.