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THE 
 NEARER AND FARTHER EAST 
 
 OUTLINE STUDIES OP MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 AND OF 
 
 SIAI, BUBIA, AND KOREA 
 
 BY 
 
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 THIS, the eighth text-book issued by the Central Commit- 
 tee on the United Study of Missions, while it begins a new 
 series, is closely allied with the seven volumes previously 
 published under Latin titles. These are now issued in library 
 edition with English titles, as follows : "The Beginnings of 
 Missions," Louise Manning Hodgkins ; " India," Caroline 
 Atwater Mason; "China," Arthur H. Smith; "Japan," 
 William Elliott Griffis ; " Africa," Ellen C. Parsons ; " The 
 Island World of the Pacific," Helen Barrett Montgomery; 
 " Missions and Social Progress," Anna Kobertson Brown 
 Lindsay. 
 
 Our present volume, " THE NEARER AND FARTHER EAST," 
 consists of two parts, " Moslem Lands," by Rev. Samuel 
 M. Zwemer, D.D., and " Siam, Burma, and Korea," by 
 Rev. Arthur Judson Brown, D.D. 
 
 Dr. Zwemer presents the terrible need and marvellous 
 opportunity of the vast almost untouched Mohammedan 
 fields, while Dr. Brown paints a picture of progressive mis- 
 sionary effort in comparatively small but important countries. 
 
 The study offers greater variety than those heretofore 
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OUTLINE STUDIES 
 
 Moslem Lands 
 
 Siam, Burmah, and Korea 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 PAGE 
 
 ISLAM : ITS CHARACTER AND ITS CONQUESTS . 1 
 
 The scene around the Kaaba Many races 
 and many languages A world-wide religion 
 
 The extent of Islam from Sierre Leone to 
 Canton Present numbers and distribution 
 The situation in Africa and its peril The 
 strength of Islam in Asia In India The 
 Philippines Russia Languages spoken by 
 Moslems Bible translations The govern- 
 ments under which Moslems live The signifi- 
 cance of this fact Turkish misrule British 
 rule in India How Islam became a world re- 
 ligion Causes Mohammed's great commis- 
 sion Moslem conquest Xo caste What 
 Moslems believe The man and the book 
 The Moslem idea of God The spirit world 
 
 Jinn The Books of God The Koran 
 Verses Its defects The prophets major and 
 minor Jesus Christ Denial of Atonement 
 Mohammed The day of judgment Heaven 
 and hell Predestination E very-day religion 
 
 The confession of the creed Prayer The 
 Moslem Lent Legal alms The pilgrimage 
 A Mohammedan funeral Without Christ and 
 without hope. 
 
 CHAPTER II 
 
 THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM .... 37 
 
 Why missions to Moslems Mrs. Bishop's 
 testimony Low ideals of conduct and char- 
 acter Moslem ethics Un truthfulness 
 vii 
 
Vlll CONTENTS 
 
 FAGB 
 
 When a lie is justifiable Livingstone's testi- 
 mony Lying a fine art Immorality The 
 seclusion and degradation of women Poly- 
 gamy and divorce Women regarded as a 
 chattel Laws of divorce Slavery The 
 slave market Cruelty and intolerance Igno- 
 rance and illiteracy Paucity of literature 
 General ignorance Superstition and quackery 
 
 Charms and amulets Tree worship The 
 Gospel the only remedy. 
 
 CHAPTER in 
 
 THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS . . 71 
 The centuries of neglect Lull's complaint 
 
 Henry Martyn Dr. Jessup's classic Islam 
 passed by Typical pioneers and typical fields 
 
 Need of brevity in treatment Occupied 
 lands Three great pioneers Raymund Lull 
 
 His birth and early life Call Service 
 Martyrdom Henry Martyn His character 
 and call Voyages Controversy Death 
 Pfander A master of languages At Ker- 
 manshah Expelled from Russia His method 
 and success The Gospel in North Africa 
 Marks of early Christianity The North Africa 
 Mission Morocco Algeria Tunis Tri- 
 poli Converts in these lands Egypt and the 
 Christian Crusade The Church Missionary 
 Society The Nile press The Cairo Confer- 
 ence The Turkish Empire Moslems neg- 
 lected But much accomplished The Arabic 
 Bible Present status Arabia Long neg- 
 lected Keith Falconer and the Scotch Mission 
 
 The Danish Church Bishop French The 
 American Arabian Mission Peter J. Zwemer 
 
 Other martyrs Missions in Persia Early 
 efforts Growth of the C. M. S. Mission 
 The American Presbyterian Mission Work 
 
CONTENTS IX 
 
 PAGE 
 
 for Moslems in India Results Converts 
 Gospel triumphs in the Dutch East Indies 
 Sumatra and Java Hester Needham Saint 
 and martyr Converts in Sumatra Java. 
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 
 THE WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE . . 113 
 
 The unoccupied fields Where work has be- 
 gun Where it has not yet been attempted 
 Darkest Africa The Sudan Its call to-day 
 
 The Moslem peril Islam or Christ Pastor 
 Wurz's testimony Uganda Moslem women 
 in the Central Sudan and their condition 
 Immorality Darkest Asia Neglected oppor- 
 tunities Kafiristan Afghanistan and Balu- 
 chistan Neglected Arabia Russia and 
 Bokhara A pen-picture Victory is certain 
 
 Mohammedans in China Long neglected 
 
 Early entrance Present numbers Tur- 
 kestan The land and the people A mar- 
 riage ceremony Difficulties of work for 
 Moslems Divorce between morality and re- 
 ligion Intolerance Persecution Objec- 
 tions to Christian teaching The temporal 
 power No free press Encouragements 
 Change in the Moslem mind Thirst for a 
 Mediator Many opportunities A trumpet- 
 call from Algiers A challenge to faith 
 Fling out the banner. 
 
 CHAPTER V 
 SIAM 157 
 
 Siam Boundaries Area Climate 
 Physical Geography Flora Products Ex- 
 ports and imports Races Population 
 The people of Laos Chinese the strongest ele- 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 ment in Siam Characteristics of the Siamese 
 
 Remarkable progress Police Schools 
 Railroads Desire for education Government 
 
 Unstable foundation of society Intemper- 
 ance Gambling Bangkok, the capital 
 Lack of sanitation Population Roads and 
 canals Commerce The white elephants 
 Ayuthia Important cities and towns His- 
 tory and government Boasted antiquity 
 Early wars Enlightened policy of present 
 king His commissioners Constitutional 
 features of government Protestant missions 
 
 Period of beginnings First missionaries 
 The Congregational Mission Early discour- 
 agements Lack of apparent success With- 
 drawal of mission to China American Baptist 
 Missionary Union Converts Disasters 
 Closing of mission Permanent results Pres- 
 byterian Missions Difficulties End of oppo- 
 sition Progress Proclamation of religious 
 liberty Stations Scope of the work Be- 
 ginnings in Laos Persecution Religious 
 liberty Present status Work at Chieng Mai 
 and Lakawn Results of missionary effort 
 Social reforms Favorable testimony Indif- 
 ferent attitude toward religion a great obstacle 
 
 Encouragements Religious expectation 
 Great opportunity. 
 
 CHAPTER VI 
 BURMA 209 
 
 Area Position Physical features Cli- 
 mate Flora Population Characteristics 
 of the race No caste Dress Comparative 
 freedom of women Vices The Karens 
 Their traditions Ready acceptance of the 
 Gospel The Talaings, or Mons The Shans 
 
 The Kachins and Chins Demon -worship- 
 pers Chinese East Indians Rangoon 
 
CONTENTS XI 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Commercial importance Other cities Gov- 
 ernment Wars British rule Religions 
 Buddhism Missionary Societies China In- 
 land Mission Missionary Society of the Metho- 
 dist Episcopal Church Wesleyan Methodist 
 Missionary Society Society for the Propaga- 
 tion of the Gospel Their work among the 
 Karens Results American Baptist Mission- 
 ary Union Persecution Heroism of mis- 
 sionaries Success of work among the Karens 
 
 Difficulties of Buddhism Work among Te- 
 lains, Shans, and Kachins Converts among 
 the Chins Medical missionaries Educa- 
 tional work Efficient service of women mis- 
 sionaries Hopefulness of the field. 
 
 CHAPTER VII 
 KOREA 257 
 
 Korea Physical features Soil and scenery 
 
 Population Important cities Language 
 
 Characteristics of the people Position of 
 women Dress Customs Revolutions 
 Religions Buddhism Confucianism Sha- 
 manism, the prevailing religion Superstition 
 
 Sorcery Government Russo-Japanese 
 War Japanese Reforms Period of Recon- 
 struction The Presbyterian Mission The 
 Methodist Mission Persecution Effect of 
 War of 1894 Revival Sorai Christian 
 Village Life Important stations Work for 
 women Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel Southern Presbyterian Mission Co- 
 operation of Missionary Workers Canadian 
 Presbyterian Mission Other Workers Causes 
 for Spread of the Gospel Obstacles Koreans 
 an example to Christians A Tonic to Faith 
 
 Call for immediate evangelization. 
 
 INDEX 317 
 
FOUR CHAPTERS 
 
 ON 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 UNITED STUDY TEXT-BOOK (1908) 
 
 BY 
 SAMUEL M. ZWEMER, F.R.G.S. 
 
"Mohammedanism is a profound theme, and one 
 which has occupied the minds of many accomplished 
 scholars. It has been the subject of much patient re- 
 search and careful thought by some of the greatest stu- 
 dents of history. Dr. Johnson once remarked that ' there 
 are two objects of curiosity the Christian world and 
 the Mohammedan world ; all the rest may be considered 
 as barbarous.' The subject is worthy of a careful exami- 
 nation, both for its own sake as one of the enigmas of 
 religious history, and also to prepare our minds for an 
 intelligent understanding of the amazing task to which 
 God is leading the Church ; viz. the conversion of the 
 Moslem world to, Christianity. The duty of Christianity 
 to Mohammedanism, the enormous difficulties in the 
 way of discharging it, the historic grandeur of the con- 
 flict, the way in which the honor of Christ is involved in 
 the result, and the brilliant issues of victory all combine 
 to make this problem of the true relation of Christian 
 missions to Islam one of the most fascinating and mo- 
 mentous themes which the great missionary movement 
 of the present century has brought to the attention of 
 the Christian church." REV. JAMES S. DENNIS, D.D. 
 
MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 ISLAM : ITS CHARACTER AND ITS CONQUESTS 
 
 The Scene around the Kaaba. Let us imagine Scene 
 that we are standing among the vast throng of ~ ou ? d 
 worshippers facing the Kaaba in the sacred City 
 of Mecca, Anno Domini 1907. It is the month 
 of the pilgrimage, the twelfth of the lunar cal- 
 endar, and this is the second day of our pilgrim- 
 age. Yesterday the thousands on camels and 
 horseback and the ten thousands on foot reached 
 Mecca and, having assumed the garb of pil- 
 grims, a strip of white cloth, entered the 
 mosque, kissed the Black Stone and made the 
 circuit of the Kaaba seven times. They drank 
 from the holy well of Zem Zem and ran the 
 race between the hills Safa and Merwa like 
 Hagar of old in search of water. To-day, facing 
 the place where Abraham stood when he built 
 the house, as they believe, the mighty throng 
 recite with one accord : 
 
 " There is no god but Allah. 
 
 " God is great. 
 
 " There is no god save Allah alone. 
 
 " He hath performed His promise and hath aided His 
 servant and put to flight the hosts of infidels by Himself 
 alone. There is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is His 
 apostle." 
 
 B 1 
 
MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Many 
 Languages 
 
 A World- 
 wide Reli- 
 gion 
 
 The tongue spoken is Arabic, but those who 
 speak it all around us are surely not only Arabs, 
 but Moslems from every nation under heaven, 
 who show by feature and form that when at 
 home they speak Russian, Turkish, Persian, 
 Pashtu, Bengali, Urdu, Chinese, Malay, Swaheli, 
 Hausa, and other languages. Around the same 
 Kaaba diverse lands and civilizations meet 
 every year to profess one religion and repeat 
 the same ritual. 
 
 On the streets of Mecca one may see, drawn 
 together by a common faith, the Turkish effendi 
 in Paris costume with Constantinople etiquette; 
 the half-naked Bedouin of the desert ; the fierce 
 Afghan mountaineer ; the Russian trader from 
 the far north; the almond-eyed Moslem from 
 Yunnan ; the Indian graduate from the Calcutta 
 universities ; blue-eyed Persians, black Somalis, 
 Hausas, Javanese, Sudanese, Egyptians, Ber- 
 bers, Kabyles, and Moors, representatives of 
 the Mohammedan World. 
 
 A World-wide Religion. If we regard num- 
 bers, Islam is perhaps the mightiest of all the 
 non-Christian religions ; as regards its geo- 
 graphical distribution, it is the only religion 
 besides Christianity which holds a world-empire 
 of hearts in its grasp ; and its wonderful and 
 rapid spread proves beyond a doubt that it is a 
 great missionary religion and aims at world- 
 conquest. Mohammed's word has been ful- 
 filled : " So we have made you the centre of 
 the nations that you should bear witness to 
 men." 
 
ISLAM 3 
 
 The old, almost unknown, pagan pantheon 
 at Mecca has become the religious capital and 
 the centre of universal pilgrimage for one- 
 seventh of the human race ! Islam in its 
 present extent embraces three continents, and 
 counts its believers from Sierra Leone in Africa 
 to Canton in China, and from Tobolsk, Siberia, 
 to Singapore and Java. In Russia, Moslems 
 spread their prayer-carpets southward toward 
 Mecca ; at Zanzibar they look northward to the 
 Holy City ; in Kansu and Shensi millions of 
 Chinese Moslems pray toward the west, and in 
 the wide Sudan they look eastward toward 
 the Beit Allah and the Black Stone, a vast 
 Moslem brotherhood. 
 
 Present Numbers and Distribution. The best Moslem 
 estimates of the total Mohammedan population p P ulatlon 
 of the world lead to the belief that there are 
 between 200,000,000 and 250,000,000 who are 
 at least nominally followers of Mohammed. At 
 the Cairo Conference, held in 1907, carefully 
 prepared statistics gave the total number of 
 Mohammedans as 232,966,170. 
 
 Islam has covered the largest area in Africa, 
 where its conquest and missionary propaganda 
 has resulted in a stronghold of Mohammedan- 
 ism along the whole Mediterranean. North of 
 twenty degrees north latitude the Moslems 
 constitute ninety-one per cent of the total 
 population ! Thirty-six per cent of Africa's 
 entire population is Mohammedan, or nearly 
 59,000,000 souls out of the whole number of 
 164,000,000. South of the equator there are 
 
4 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 already over 4,000,000 Mohammedans, and in 
 the Congo Free State there are said to be nearly 
 2,000,000. 
 
 Islam in The situation in Africa, as regards Islam, is 
 
 alarming, and can be summarized in the words 
 of Rev. Charles R. Watson, D.D., " The mis- 
 sionary problem of Africa is not paganism, 
 which fast crumbles away before the Gospel of 
 Christ, but Islam, which resists like adamant the 
 appeals of the herald of the cross." 1 Dr. W. 
 R. Miller, for many years a missionary in West 
 Africa, states that "Islam seems to be spreading 
 in Lagos, the Yoruba country, Sierra Leone, 
 and the French Sudan ; but in most of these 
 places, as also in the Nupe country, it is of a 
 very low order, and in the presence of a vigorous 
 Christian propaganda it will not add strength 
 finally to Islam. Still the number of Moslems 
 is undoubtedly increasing greatly. Islam and 
 Christianity between them are spoiling heathen- 
 ism, and will probably divide the pagan peoples 
 in less than fifty years." 2 
 
 in Asia In Asia there are 169,000,000 Moslems, one- 
 
 seventh of the entire population, while in Eu- 
 rope Islam has been crowded back through the 
 centuries, since it was defeated in Spain, and now 
 numbers less than 6,000,000 adherents. 
 
 The following countries in Asia are predomi- 
 nantly or wholly Moslem : Arabia, Asia Mi- 
 nor, Mesopotamia, Turkestan, Bokhara, Khiva, 
 Afghanistan, Baluchistan, Java, Sumatra, Cele- 
 
 1 "The Mohammedan World of To-day, " p. 47. 
 
 2 Ibid., p. 285. 
 
ISLAM 
 
 bes, and the southern islands of the Philippine 
 group. 
 
 The chief numerical strength of the Moham- India 
 medan faith, however, is in India, which has a 
 larger Moslem population than all Africa and 
 far more than the total populations of Arabia, 
 Persia, Egypt, and the Turkish Empire com- 
 bined. By the last government census the 
 number of Moslems in India is 62,458,077. In 
 Bengal alone there are 25,495,416, and in the 
 Punjaub, 12,183,345. In the Dutch East Indies 
 there are nearly 30,000,000 Moslems out of a 
 total population of 36,000,000. The number 
 of Moslems in China is variously given from 
 20,000,000 to 30,000,000, the largest number 
 being in the province of Kansu, in the extreme 
 northwest, where 8,350,000 are reported. Some 
 6,500,000 are found in Shensi in the north, and 
 3,500,000 in Yunnan in the extreme south- 
 west. In Peking there are 100,000 Moslems, 
 and Canton has four mosques. 
 
 In the Philippines there are about 300,000 Philippines 
 Mohammedans, men of courage and wild fa- 
 naticism, who fought for their faith with 
 splendid devotion against the American troops 
 in 19021903, but suffered ignominious de- 
 feat. 1 
 
 In the Russian Empire there are 13,889,421 Russia 
 Moslems, most of them in Asia. It is re- 
 markable that we hear much more of the Rus- 
 sian Jews, who form only four per cent of the 
 population, than of Russian Moslems, who form 
 1 See pp. 221-226 in " Christus Redemptor." 
 
6 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 over eleven per cent of the total population in 
 that great empire. 
 
 Language Languages spoken by Moslems. The sacred 
 language of the Moslem is Arabic, and the 
 Arabic Koran is the text-book in all Moslem 
 schools from Morocco to Canton and from 
 Bokhara to Zanzibar. As a written language, 
 the Arabian tongue has millions of readers, 
 and yet to over three-fourths of the " true 
 believers" Arabic is a dead language. Sixty- 
 three million Moslems speak the languages of 
 India ; 30,000,000 speak Chinese, and as many 
 more the Malay tongue ; others Turkish, Per- 
 sian, Slavonic, and the languages of Africa. 
 All of which shows the polyglot character of 
 the Mohammedan world. 
 
 The Bible, in whole or in part, has been 
 translated into nearly every language spoken 
 by Moslems ; but not the Koran, their own 
 sacred book. This is generally circulated only 
 in the original Arabic. Interlinear translations 
 of the Koran with the original text exist, how- 
 ever, in Persian, Urdu, Pushtu, Turkish, Java- 
 nese, Malayan, and two or three other languages. 
 A missionary among the 25,000,000 Moslems 
 of Bengal is preparing a translation into Ben- 
 gali, with notes, so that the Moslems may see 
 for themselves the real character of their spuri- 
 ous revelation ! 
 
 To the bulk of the Mohammedans Arabic is 
 a dead language, and the ritual and prayers 
 are no more understood by the people than 
 the Latin prayers are by the Roman Catholic 
 
ISLAM 1 
 
 peasantry in Europe. The chief literary Ian- Literary 
 guages of Islam next to Arabic are Turkish, Lan g ua s es 
 Persian, Urdu, and Bengali. In all of these 
 languages there is a large religious literature, 
 dogmatic, apologetic, and controversial. Even 
 in Chinese there is a considerable amount of 
 Mohammedan literature. Some works are 
 published under the imprimatur of the Em- 
 peror, but a translation of the Koran is not 
 permitted. 
 
 From all these facts in regard to race and 
 language and the world-wide distribution of 
 the peoples that follow this greatest of non- 
 Christian religions, it is very evident that the 
 environment and conditions differ widely in the 
 Mohammedan world. Perhaps the most im- 
 portant factor that differentiates the Moslem 
 masses as regards their accessibility to the 
 missionary is government. 
 
 The Governments under which Moslems Live. Government 
 These may be grouped into three classes : 
 the Moslem lands, which are still under a purely 
 Mohammedan government; those where Mos- 
 lems live under the rule of those who are 
 neither Moslem nor Christian; and the lands 
 actually or nominally under Christian rule. To 
 the first class belong Turkey in Europe and in 
 Asia, parts of Arabia, Afghanistan, Persia, 
 Morocco, and Tripoli; to the second class, the 
 Moslems in China and in a few independent 
 states of Africa and Asia. All the other Mo- 
 hammedans in the world are under Christian 
 rule, protection, or suzerainty to the number of 
 
8 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 God's hand 
 in History 
 
 Turkish 
 Rule 
 
 161,000,000, or nearly three-fourths of the total 
 number in the world. 
 
 This fact is a startling evidence of the finger 
 of God in history and a wonderful challenge of 
 opportunity. Once the empire of Islam was 
 co-extensive with the faith of Islam. In the 
 year 907 A.D. the caliphate included Spain, 
 Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, Egypt, Asia 
 Minor, Syria, Arabia, Persia, Turkestan, Afghan- 
 istan, Baluchistan, and the region around the 
 Caspian Sea. To-day the Sultan, Abdul Hamid, 
 from his lordly palace on the Bosphorus, rules 
 over a smaller Moslem population by one-half 
 than does the Protestant Queen Wilhelmina in 
 her island possessions in Malaysia with their 
 29,289,440 Mohammedans. The balance of 
 political power throughout the whole Moham- 
 medan world is coming to be more and more in 
 the hands of Christian governments, and it is 
 no wonder that this has resulted in political 
 unrest on the part of Moslem leaders who are 
 zealous of their lost prestige and anxious to 
 strengthen the empire of Turkey as represent- 
 ing the old caliphate. 
 
 Turkey is perhaps as well governed as any 
 other state under Mohammedan rule, but of the 
 system of civil tyranny that obtains there, Dr. 
 James S. Dennis says : " A volume might be 
 written upon this one subject of Turkish mis- 
 rule. Would that some Dante of contemporary 
 literature might present it in its realistic 
 hideousness ! although we fear no touch of art 
 could sufficiently relieve the revolting ghastli- 
 
ISLAM 9 
 
 ness of this hell upon earth to save the reader 
 from a shuddering misery in its perusal." 1 
 The actual condition of affairs was summed up 
 by a writer in the Congregationalist (April 8, 
 1897) as follows : 
 
 " Turkey skilfully and systematically represses what 
 Christian nations make it their business to nurture in all 
 mankind as manhood. In her cities there are magnifi- 
 cent palaces for her sultans and her favorites. But one 
 looks in vain through her realm for statues of public 
 benefactors. There are no halls where her citizens could 
 gather to discuss policies of government or mutual 
 obligations. Their few newspapers are emasculated by 
 government censors. Not a book in any language can 
 cross her borders without permission of public officers, 
 most of whom are incapable of any intelligent judgment 
 of its contents. Art is scorned. Education is bound. 
 Freedom is a crime. The tax-gatherer is omnipotent. 
 Law is a farce. Turkey has prisons instead of public 
 halls for the education of her people. Instruments of 
 torture are the stimulus to their industries." 
 
 Contrast these conditions with British rule British 
 in India or the freedom of the press and of Rule 
 speech in Egypt, and it is plain that govern- 
 ment can be a great help or a great hinderance 
 in the work of missions. Add to this that ac- 
 cording to Mohammedan law the death penalty 
 should be imposed on any one who becomes an 
 apostate from the state church of Islam, and 
 the contrast between different Moslem lands as 
 mission fields becomes very apparent. Thank 
 God the door of opportunity and of liberty is so 
 wide to-day that three-fourths of the Moharn- 
 
 1 " Christian Missions and Social Progress," Vol. I, p. 
 256. 
 
10 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 God's 
 Plough 
 
 Reasons for 
 Spread of 
 Islam 
 
 medaii world are entirely accessible to the col- 
 porteur, the preacher, and the teacher, man or 
 woman. God's providence, in the course of 
 history, is God's ploughshare to prepare the 
 soil for the sowing of His Word. 
 
 " Wise men and prophets know not how, 
 But work their Master's will; 
 The kings and nations drag the plough 
 His purpose to fulfil." 
 
 How Islam became a World- wide Religion. 
 The faith of Islam was once in a minority of 
 one, and Mohammed himself fled as an exile 
 from Mecca to Medina in A.D. 622, the year 
 of the Hegira, which dates the Moslem era. 
 What were the causes for its rapid spread and 
 wide conquest ? Many theories have been given, 
 and the true explanation of the spread of Islam 
 is probably the sum of all these theories. The 
 condition of Arabia before Mohammed ; the 
 weakness of the Oriental churches; their corrupt 
 state ; the condition of the Roman and Per- 
 sian empires ; the easy-going character and low 
 moral standards of the new religion ; the power 
 of the sword and of fanaticism ; the great truths 
 of Islam ; the genius of Mohammed and of his 
 successors ; the hope of plunder and the love of 
 conquest, such are some of the causes given 
 for the growth of the new religion from a mi- 
 nority of one into an army of 200,000,000 in 
 thirteen centuries. 
 
 Each one of these many factors played an 
 important part in the rapid spread of the new 
 faith as preached by Mohammed. In this brief 
 
ISLAM 11 
 
 outline study of so large a subject we must 
 leave them to be worked out by reference to 
 the many books on this subject. 1 
 
 The last commission of Mohammed was in 
 accord with his whole life, and Sir Edwin Ar- 
 nold follows Moslem tradition when, in his 
 poem on the "Passing of Mohammed," he 
 makes the dying Prophet say to Osama, his 
 general, ready for the march: 
 
 "I, here consuming, cheat my fever's flame 
 Praising the Lord : but thou, why tarriest thou ? 
 Smite me the unbelievers ! Fall at dawn 
 Upon those dogs of Obna ! Let attack 
 Sound the first tidings of thee ! Send forth scouts, 
 And Allah give thee victory ! Guide my palm 
 That I may lay it on thy head, and leave 
 A blessing there. Go in God's peace ! " 
 
 By the example and precept of its apostle, The Early 
 Islam is one of the few aggressive religions Con( i uest 
 of the world. It began with the Saracen 
 conquest and continued for thirteen centu- 
 ries until the Wahhabi revival and the Pan- 
 Islamic movement of to-day. In the words 
 of the Koran, the Moslem must " fight against 
 infidels till strife be at an end and the religion 
 be all of God." And Mohammed said, "He 
 who dies and has not fought for the religion 
 of Islam, nor has even said in his heart, 'Would 
 to God I were a champion that could die in the 
 road of God,' is even as a hypocrite." And 
 again, still more forcibly, "The fire of hell 
 
 1 See Bibliography at the end of this chapter ; also u Lux 
 Ckristi," pp. 48-51 ; " Christus Liberator," pp. 58-62. 
 
12 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 shall not touch the legs of him who is covered 
 with the dust of battle in the road of God." 
 In spite of cruelty, bloodshed, dissension, and 
 deceit, the story of the Moslem missionary con- 
 quest, as given by Haines and Arnold, 1 is full 
 of heroism and inspiration. If so much was 
 done in the name of Mohammed, what should 
 we not dare to do in the name of Jesus Christ I 
 
 And before we consider what kind of creed 
 was carried by fire and sword, by force and by 
 persuasion, over three continents, it is well to 
 remember what is already evident from its- 
 No Caste world-conquest, that Islam is a religion without 
 caste. It extinguishes all distinctions founded 
 upon race, color, or nationality. All unbelievers 
 are out-castes, all believers belong to the high- 
 est caste. The Hindu who turns Mohammedan 
 loses his caste, but becomes a member of the 
 great brotherhood of Islam. Slaves have held 
 thrones and founded dynasties. The first one 
 who led the call to prayer was Bilal, a Negro of 
 Medina. There is no sacerdotal class of min- 
 isters in Islam. Each man offers prayer to 
 God himself ; the leader of prayers in a mosque 
 has no spiritual authority. 
 
 What Moslems Believe. Islam was a revolt 
 against paganism and idolatry and therefore 
 cannot, in a sense, be classed with the heathen 
 religions. Its popular creed, " There is no god 
 but Allah and Mohammed is Allah's apostle," 
 
 i" Islam as a Missionary Religion, 1 ' C. R. Haines, 
 S.P.C.K., London, 1889 ; " The Preaching of Islam," T. W. 
 Arnold, London, 1896. 
 
ISLAM 13 
 
 emphasizes monotheism with violent fanaticism. 
 The true Moslem man or woman is intolerant 
 of error in this matter. Even an Arab child 
 will grow hot-tempered when he hears a word 
 from the Christian missionary that seems to Belief 
 conflict with the Moslem idea of God's unity. 
 This Puritan spirit is a praiseworthy trait in 
 any religion. Islam has in it the stuff that 
 martyrs and reformers are made of ; its pro- 
 fessors are valiant for the truth, as they 
 understand it, and have the spinal column 
 of conviction. 
 
 The Koran is not the word of God, but the The Koran 
 Moslem believes it is, and believes it with his 
 whole heart. While their belief is unreasoning, 
 and though the Koran is anything but divine, 
 it is no small matter to realize that in these 
 days of universal doubt and irreverence there 
 are millions of Moslems who believe that God 
 has spoken to man by the prophets ; that His 
 word contains neither errors nor untruths ; 
 and that the end of all disputation is a "Thus 
 saith the Lord." Converts from Islam love the 
 Bible with a passionate love, and respect its 
 authority. But the Koran is not the only 
 source for Moslem teaching. Far more impor- 
 tant than the book is the man who gave it. 
 Mohammed's life and teaching, his table-talk, Mohammed 
 his manners, his dress, his behavior, to the 
 most childish details are the foundation of what 
 is called Tradition. And Moslem tradition is 
 the warp and woof of their creed and their 
 conduct. What Mohammed believed, they 
 
14 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 must believe, too, and believe it because he did. 
 The prophet said, " It is incumbent upon the 
 true believer to have a firm faith in six arti- 
 cles; viz., in God, His Angels, His books, His 
 prophets, the day of judgment, and the predes- 
 tination for good and evil." Let us see what 
 this belief includes. 
 
 idea of God (1) The Moslem Idea of God. St. James in 
 his epistle gives us a test as regards the 
 ethical and religious value of mere monotheism 
 apart from the Trinity in the words : " Thou 
 believest that there is one God ; thou doest 
 well ; the devils also believe and tremble." 
 Jews, Christians, and Mohammedans believe in 
 the only God, and yet differ very widely in their 
 interpretation of this idea. 
 
 James Freeman Clarke, writing of this " worst 
 form of monotheism," sums up the distinction 
 thus : " Islam saw God but not man ; saw the 
 claims of deity but not the rights of humanity; 
 saw authority but failed to see freedom there- 
 fore hardened into despotism, stiffened into 
 formalism, and sank into death. Mohammed 
 teaches a God above us, Moses teaches a God 
 above us, and yet with us ; Jesus Christ teaches 
 God above us, God with us and God in us." 
 Another writer calls Allah, the God of Islam, 
 "an absentee landlord, who, jealous of man, 
 wound the clock of the universe and went away 
 forever ! " 
 
 The Koran shows that Mohammed had a 
 measurably correct idea of the physical attri- 
 butes of God, but an absolutely false conception 
 
ISLAM 15 
 
 of His moral attributes. The Koran concep- 
 tion of God is negative. Absolute sovereignty 
 and ruthless omnipotence are His chief at- 
 tributes, while His character is loveless as 
 a Despot. The Christian truth that " God 
 is love " is to the learned Moslem blasphemy 
 and to the ignorant an enigma. Islam is " the 
 Pantheism of Force." God is a Pasha arid not 
 a Father. 
 
 (2) The Spirit World. With God's name Spirits 
 always on their lips, and yet with so deistic and 
 fatalistic an idea of God (who is more of a 
 tyrant than a father), it is no wonder that Islam 
 makes much of other spiritual beings who are 
 God's ministers for good and for evil. Moslems 
 believe in angels, jinn, and devils, and their 
 belief in these spirits is not a matter of theory, 
 but intensely practical. They say angels were 
 created out of light and are endowed with life, 
 speech, and reason. Of the four archangels, 
 Gabriel reveals the truth, Michael is patron of 
 the Jews, Israfil will sound the last trumpet, 
 and Azrael is the angel of death. Angels are 
 inferior to the prophets (Surah 2 : 32). There 
 are two recording angels for each person, who 
 write down his good and his ill. Munkar and 
 Nakir are two black angels with blue eyes who Angels 
 interrogate men after burial in the grave and 
 mete out terrible blows to those whose replies 
 prove them not Moslems. Therefore, at a 
 funeral, parting instructions are given the 
 deceased in the grave. 
 
 One can go to the stories of the Arabian 
 
16 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Nights to learn how large a place the belief in 
 jinn or genii occupies to-day in the Moslem 
 mind. There is no pious Moslem who doubts 
 that these spirits exist and are continually 
 the cause of many things that seem to be super- 
 natural or startling in nature. The Koran tells 
 how they helped Solomon to build the temple and 
 how they carried his throne ; how Mohammed 
 preached to a company of them and converted 
 them ; and how we are to pray that their evil 
 influence may not hurt us. 
 
 They were created from fire, are of diverse 
 shapes, often invisible, and of great number ; 
 they marry and propagate, but are morta" T ^or 
 the latter reason, the Arabs, after a mea, 
 throw away their date stones violently, for 
 jinn fear they might unconsciously hurt some jinn I 
 
 Solomon sealed some of them up in brass bot- 
 tles. The chief abode of jinn is in the moun- 
 tains of Kaf, which encompass the world. They 
 also frequent baths, wells, ruined houses, and 
 graveyards. For fear of jinn, millions of the 
 ignorant, especially the poor women and chil- 
 dren, are all their lifetime subject to bondage. 
 This article of the creed is the mother of a 
 thousand foolish and degrading superstitions, 
 yet it is fixed forever in the Moslem faith and 
 cannot be abandoned until the Koran itself is 
 rejected. 
 
 A third class of spiritual beings are the 
 devils. They believe in a personal Devil and 
 his demonic host. Noteworthy among the lat- 
 ter are Harut and Marut, two evil spirits that 
 
ISLAM 17 
 
 teach men sorcery, and live near Babylon. No Demons 
 Moslem begins to read the Koran or starts a 
 prayer without " seeking refuge in God from 
 Satan, the pelted." The reason for this epithet 
 is that Mohammed said Satan used to be an 
 eavesdropper at the door of heaven until God 
 and the angels drove him back by pelting him 
 with shooting stars ! 
 
 (3) The Books of God. Islam is decidedly The Books 
 a bookish religion, for Moslems believe that ofGod 
 God "sent down" one hundred and four sa- 
 cred books. Their doctrine of inspiration is me- 
 chanic al. Adam, they say, received ten books; 
 Seth i fifty ; Enoch, thirty ; and Abraham, ten ; 
 but jll of these are utterly lost. The four 
 books that remain are the Torah (Law), which 
 came from Moses ; the Zabur (Psalms), which 
 David received ; the Injil (Gospel), of Jesus ; 
 and the Koran. The Koran is uncreated and 
 eternal ; to deny this is rank heresy. And 
 while the three other books are highly spoken 
 of in the Koran, they now exist, Moslems say, 
 only in a corrupted form, and their precepts 
 have been abrogated by the final book to the 
 last prophet, Mohammed. 
 
 The Koran is a little smaller than the New Koran 
 Testament in extent; it has one hundred and 
 fourteen chapters bearing fanciful titles bor- 
 rowed from some word or phrase in the chap- 
 ter. The book has no chronological order, 
 logical sequence, or rhetorical climax. Its 
 jumbled verses throw together piecemeal, fact 
 and fancy, laws and legends, prayers and im- 
 
18 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 precations. It is unintelligible without a com- 
 mentary, even for a Moslem. Moslems regard 
 it as supreme in beauty of style and language, 
 and miraculous in its origin, contents, and au- 
 thority. From the Arab's literary standpoint it 
 is indeed a remarkable book. Its musical jingk 
 and cadence are charming, and, at times, highly 
 poetical ideas are clothed in sublime language. 
 
 Here are two typical quotations given with 
 the Arabic jingle as far as possible : 
 
 " By the star when it passeth away, your countryman 
 does not err, nor is he led astray, in what he preaches; 
 he has not his own way, but a revelation he does say ; 
 a Mighty One, of great sway, personally appeared to him 
 in open day, where there rises the sun's ray ; high in the 
 sky, he did fly ; then he drew nigh in his array, and only 
 two bows' distance from him he did stay, that the reve- 
 lations, which he had to say, he might to his servant 
 convey. How can Mohammed's heart a falsehood state ? 
 Why do you with him on his vision debate V He saw 
 him another time, in the same state, at the sidrah tree 
 of the limit he did wait; there to the garden of repose is 
 the gate; and whilst the tree was covered, with what at 
 the top of it hovered, Mohammed attentively looked, and 
 his eyes from the sight did not deviate ; for he saw the 
 greatest of the signs of his Lord." . . . 
 
 " I swear by the splendor of light 
 
 And by the silence of night 
 
 That the Lord shall never forsake thee 
 
 NOT in His hatred take thee ; 
 
 Truly for thee shall be winning 
 
 Better than all beginning. 
 
 Soon shall the Lord console thee, grief no longer control 
 
 thee, 
 
 And fear no longer cajole thee. 
 Thou wert an orphan-boy, yet the Lord found room for 
 
 thy head. 
 
ISLAM 19 
 
 When thy feet went astray, were they not to the right 
 
 path led ? 
 
 Did He not find thee poor, yet riches around thee spread ? 
 Then on the orphan-boy, let thy proud foot never tread, 
 And never turn away the beggar who asks for bread, 
 But of the Lord's bounty ever let praise be sung and 
 
 said." 
 
 One must read the remarkable book in the 
 original to learn to admire its style. Much of 
 its teaching, too, is remarkable. But the Koran 
 is remarkable most of all, not because of its 
 contents, but for its omissions ; not because of 
 what it reveals, but for what it conceals of 
 "former revelations." 
 
 The defects of its teaching are many: (a) it Defects of 
 is full of historical errors ; (6) it contains mon- Koran 
 strous fables ; (<?) it is full of superstitions ; 
 (d) it teaches a false cosmogony; (e) it per- 
 petuates slavery, polygamy, divorce, religious 
 intolerance, the seclusion and degradation of 
 women ; and (/) petrifies social life. All this, 
 however, is of minor importance compared with 
 the fact that the Koran ever keeps the supreme 
 question of salvation from sin in the back- 
 ground and offers no doctrine of redemption 
 by sacrifice. In this respect the Koran is in- 
 ferior to the sacred books of Ancie-ut Egypt, 
 India, and China, though unlike them it is 
 monotheistic. 
 
 (4) The Major and Minor Prophets. Mo- 
 hammed is related to have said that there were 
 124,000 prophets and 315 apostles. Six of the 
 latter are designated by special titles, and are 
 the major prophets of Islam. They are as 
 
 [UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF A 
 
20 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Prophets follows : Adam is the chosen of God ; Noah, 
 the preacher of God ; Abraham, the friend of 
 God ; Moses, the spokesman of God ; Jesus, 
 the word of God ; and Mohammed, the apostle 
 of God. In addition to this common title, 
 Mohammed has 201 other names and titles of 
 honor by which he is known ! 
 
 Only twenty-two others minor prophets 
 are mentioned in the Koran besides these six, 
 although the host of prophets is so large. 
 They are : Idris, Hud, Salih, Ishmael, Isaac, 
 Jacob, Joseph, Lot, Aaron, Shuaib, Zacharias, 
 John the Baptist, David, Solomon, Elias, Elijah, 
 Job, Jonah, Ezra, Lokman, Zu'1-Kifl, and Zu'l 
 Karnain. 
 
 Some of these are easily identified, although 
 the names seem unfamiliar in form. Others 
 are not easily identified with historical person- 
 ages even by the Moslems themselves. Zu'l 
 Karnain signifies " the One of the two-horns," 
 and is Alexander the Great. The account 
 given in the Koran of these prophets is con- 
 fused, yet we must give credit to some Moslem 
 commentators for doubting whether Lokman 
 and Alexander were really prophets ! Moslems 
 say that they make no distinction between the 
 prophets, but love and reverence them all. 
 Mohammed, however, supersedes all and sup- 
 plants all in the hearts and lives of his followers. 
 
 Jesus Christ Jesus Christ is always spoken of with respect, 
 and is one of the greater prophets. But the 
 idea Moslems have of Christ is after all a very 
 degrading caricature instead of a true portrait. 
 
ISLAM 21 
 
 They say He was miraculously born of the 
 Virgin Mary ; performed great, and also puerile, 
 miracles ; was an apostle of God strengthened 
 by Gabriel, whom they call the Holy Spirit; 
 he foretold the advent of Mohammed as Para- 
 clete ; the Jews intended to crucify him, but 
 God deceived them, and Judas was slain in his 
 stead. He is now in one of the inferior stages 
 of celestial bliss ; he will come again at the last 
 day, will slay Antichrist, kill all swine, break 
 the crosses that are found on churches, and 
 remove the poll-tax from the infidels. He will 
 reign justly for forty-five years, marry, and 
 have children, and be buried in a grave ready 
 for him at Medina, next to Mohammed. 
 
 Islam denies the incarnation and the atone- NO incarna- 
 ment. Therefore, with all the good names and S r I l. ai ? dno 
 
 . Mediator 
 
 titles it gives our Saviour, Islam only proves 
 itself the Judas Iscariot among false religions 
 by betraying the Son of Man with a kiss. Mo- 
 hammed has usurped Christ's place in the hearts 
 and lives of his followers. His word is their 
 law, and his life their ideal. Every religion 
 has its ideals, and seldom rises above them. All 
 pious Moslems consider their prophet as the 
 ideal of perfection and the model of conduct. 
 To be perfect is to be like Mohammed. The 
 great sin and guilt of the Mohammedan world 
 is that it gives Christ's glory to another. All 
 the prophets that came before are supplanted. 
 In the Koran, Mohammed is human ; tradition 
 has made him sinless and almost divine. He is 
 called Light of God, Peace of the World, and 
 
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 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 First of all Creatures. What history calls the 
 faults of Mohammed's character, Moslems con- 
 sider his perfections or privileges, and therefore 
 the Mohammed of sober history and the Mo- 
 hammed who has all the halo of tradition are 
 two different persons. Koelle's life of Moham- 
 med shows this very plainly, and should be read 
 by all who want to know why Moslems admire 
 their prophet. 1 
 
 Moham- They believe he now dwells in the highest 
 
 med's Place h eaven an( j j s several degrees above Jesus, our 
 Saviour, in honor and station. His name is 
 never uttered or written without the addition 
 of a prayer. Yet a calm and critical study of 
 his life proves him to have been an ambitious 
 and sensual enthusiast, who did not scruple to 
 break nearly every precept of the moral law to 
 further his ends. (See Muir, Koelle, Sprenger, 
 and Weil ; but also the earliest Moslem biog- 
 raphy by Ibn Hisham.) 
 
 (5) The Day of Judgment. This occupies a 
 large place in the Koran. It is called the Day 
 of Resurrection, of Separation, of Reckoning, or 
 simply the Hour. Most graphic and terrible 
 descriptions portray the terror of that day. 
 
 1 As an example of the thousand fantastic stories related, 
 take this: "If the prophet put his hand on the head of a 
 child, one could recognize it by the exquisite perfume 
 which his hand had imparted to it. One day the prophet 
 was sleeping in the house of Annas, and he was perspiring. 
 The mother of Annas collected the drops of perspiration ; 
 and when the prophet asked her why she did so, she said, 
 4 We put this into our smelling bottles, for it is the most 
 refreshing perfume.' " 
 
 The 
 Judgment 
 
ISLAM 23 
 
 Moslems believe in a literal resurrection of the 
 body. The bone called os sacrum, they say, 
 does not decay in the grave, and before the 
 resurrection day God will impregnate it by a 
 forty days' rain ! 
 
 Moslems believe also in an everlasting life of Heaven 
 physical joys or physical tortures. The Mos- and Hel1 
 lem paradise in the words of the Koran is a 
 "garden of delight, . . . with couches and 
 ewers and a cup of flowing wine ; their brows 
 ache not from it nor fails the sense ; theirs shall 
 be the Houris . . . ever virgins." What com- 
 mentators say on these texts is often unfit for 
 translation. The orthodox interpretation is 
 literal, and so was that of Mohammed ; because 
 the traditions give minute particulars of the 
 sanitary laws of heaven, as well as of its sexual 
 delights. The Moslem hell is sevenfold, and 
 "each portal has its party." All the wealth 
 of Arabic vocabulary is exhausted in describ- 
 ing the terrors of the lost, and Dante's Inferno 
 is a summer garden compared with the Moslem 
 hell. 1 
 
 (6) Predestination. This last article is the Fatalism 
 keystone in the arch of Moslem faith. It is the 
 only philosophy of Islam, and the most fertile 
 article of the creed in its effects on every-day 
 life. As in the Christian Church, this doctrine 
 has been fiercely discussed, but what might be 
 called ultra- Calvinism has carried the day. 
 
 God wills both good and evil; there isnoescap- 
 
 !Read Chapter X on the " Hell of Islam" in Stanley 
 Lane Poole's u Studies in a Mosque." 
 
24 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 ing from the caprice of His decree. Religion is 
 Islam, i.e. resignation. Fatalism has paralyzed 
 progress ; hope perishes under the weight of 
 this iron bondage; injustice and social decay 
 are stoically accepted; no man bears the burden 
 of another; and the deadening influence of this 
 fatalism can be seen and felt in every Moslem 
 land. One of their own poets has summed it 
 up in the lines which we might call their Psalm 
 of Life : 
 
 " 'Tis all a chequer-board of nights and days 
 Where Destiny with men for pieces plays, 
 Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, 
 And one by one back in the closet lays." 
 
 Every-day Religion. Such a creed as we 
 have briefly given in outline is matched by 
 certain practical duties which every Moslem, 
 man or woman, must perform to show faith by 
 The Five works. These practical duties are five, and 
 Duties constitute the ritual or every-day religion. 
 
 Mohammed said: " A Moslem is one who is re- 
 signed and obedient to God's will, and bears 
 witness that there is no god but God and that 
 Mohammed is His Apostle ; and is steadfast in 
 prayer, and gives alms and fasts in the month 
 of Ramazan, and makes a pilgrimage to Mecca, 
 if he have the means." We give a summary of 
 these five duties : 
 
 (1) The Confession of the Creed. It is the 
 shortest creed in the world, has been oftener 
 repeated, and is so brief that it has needed no 
 revision for thirteen centuries. It is taught to 
 infants and whispered in the ears of the dying. 
 
ISLAM 25 
 
 Five times a day it rings out as the call to 
 
 prayer in the whole Moslem world : " There is The Creed 
 
 no god but God and Mohammed is God's 
 
 Apostle." On every occasion this creed is 
 
 repeated by the believer. It is the key to 
 
 every door of difficulty ; one hears it in the 
 
 bazaar and the street and the mosque ; sailors 
 
 sing it as they raise their sails ; hammals groan 
 
 it to raise a heavy burden; it is a battle-cry 
 
 and a cradle song, an exclamation of delight 
 
 and a funeral dirge. There is no doubt that 
 
 this continual, public repetition of a creed has 
 
 been a source of strength to Islam for ages, as 
 
 well as a stimulus to fanaticism. 
 
 (2) Prayer. The fact that Moslems pray Prayer 
 often, early, and earnestly has elicited the admi- 
 ration of many travellers, who, ignorant of the 
 real character and content of Moslem prayer, 
 judge it from a Christian standpoint. What 
 the Bible calls prayer and what the Moslem 
 means by the same name are, however, to a 
 degree, distinct conceptions. 
 
 A necessary preliminary to every Moslem 
 prayer is legal purification. Whole books have 
 been written on this subject, describing the 
 occasions, method, variety, and effect of ablu- 
 tion by water or, in its absence, by sand. The 
 ritual of purification is one of the chief shibbo- 
 leths of the many Moslem sects. In Mohamme- 
 dan works of theology there are chapters on 
 the proper use of the toothpick, on the different 
 kinds of water allowed for ablution, and on all 
 the varieties of uncleanness. After washing 
 
26 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 various parts of the body three times according 
 to fourteen rules, the Moslem is ready to begin 
 prayer. 
 
 The five proper times for prayer are at dawn, 
 just after high noon, two hours before sunset, 
 at sunset, and again two hours later. It is 
 forbidden to say morning prayers after the sun 
 
 Posture is risen. Posture is of prime importance, and 
 includes facing Mecca, as well as a series of 
 prostrations more easily imitated than de- 
 scribed. 
 
 The words repeated during this physical ex- 
 ercise consist of Koran phrases and short chap- 
 ters, which include praise, confession, and a 
 prayer for guidance. Often the chapters chosen 
 have no connection with the topic of prayer. 
 Personal private petitions are allowed after the 
 liturgical prayers, but they are not common. 
 The least departure from the rule in purifica- 
 tion, posture, or method of prayer nullifies its 
 effect, and the worshipper must begin all over 
 again. Special prayer is obligatory at an 
 eclipse of the sun or moon and on the two 
 Moslem festivals. 
 
 Lent (3) The Moslem Lent. The chief Moslem 
 
 fast is that of the month of Ramazan. Yet it 
 is a fact that Mohammedans, rich and poor, 
 spend more on food in that month than in any 
 other month of the year ; and it is also true that 
 physicians have a run of patients with troubles 
 from indigestion at the close of this religious 
 fast. The explanation is simple. Although 
 the fast extends an entire lunar month, it only 
 
ISLAM 27 
 
 begins at dawn and ends at sunset each day. 
 During the whole night it is usual to indulge 
 in pleasure, feasting, and dinner parties. This 
 makes clear what Mohammed meant when he 
 said that " God would make the fast an ease and 
 not a difficulty." On the other hand, the fast is 
 extremely hard upon the laboring classes when, 
 by the changes of the lunar calendar, it falls in 
 the heat of summer when the days are long. 
 Even then it is forbidden to drink a drop of 
 water or take a morsel of food. 
 
 (4) Legal Alms. Compulsory alms were in Alms 
 the early days of Islam collected by the reli- 
 gious tax-gatherer, as they still are in some 
 Mohammedan countries. Where Moslems are 
 under Christian rule, the rate is paid out by 
 each Mohammedan according to his own con- 
 science. The rate varies greatly, and the 
 different sects disagree as to what was the 
 practice of the prophet. Moreover, it is difficult 
 
 to find a precedent in the customs of pastoral 
 Arabia for the present methods of acquiring 
 and holding property in lands touched by civ- 
 ilization. One-fortieth of the total income is 
 about the usual rate. The tithe of the Old 
 Testament was a much larger portion and 
 was supplemented by many free-will offerings. 
 Charitable offerings are also common in Islam, 
 but generally speaking, the Moslem who gives 
 his legal alms is satisfied that he has fulfilled 
 all righteousness. 
 
 (5) The Pilgrimage. The Pilgrimage to Pilgrimage 
 Mecca is not only one of the pillars of the 
 
28 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 religion of Islam, but it has proved one of the 
 strongest bonds of union and has always exer- 
 cised a tremendous influence as a missionary 
 agency. Even to-day the pilgrims who return 
 from Mecca to their native villages in Java, 
 India, and West Africa are fanatical ambas- 
 sadors of the greatness and glory of Islam. 
 For the details of the pilgrimage one must read 
 Burckhardt, Burton, or other travellers who 
 have risked their lives in visiting the forbidden 
 cities of Islam. 
 
 Other The Mecca pilgrimage is incumbent on every 
 
 Pilgrimages f ree Moslem who is of age and has sufficient 
 means for the journey. Many of them, unwill- 
 ing to undergo the hardships of the journey, 
 engage a substitute, and thus purchase the 
 merit for themselves. Most Moslems also visit 
 the tomb of Mohammed at Medina and claim 
 the Prophet's authority for this added merit. 
 Pilgrimages to tombs of local saints and the 
 ancient prophets, to "footprints" of the Apostle, 
 or to graves of his companions are exceedingly 
 common. But none of these pilgrimages equals 
 in merit that to the House of God in Mecca. 
 Death A Mohammedan Funeral. The nations that 
 
 are without Christ are without hope. At no 
 time is this so evident as in the hour of death. 
 Christ has brought life and immortality to light 
 in the Gospel, but, as Mrs. Bishop said, in Mos- 
 lem lands there is " only a fearful looking for 
 in the future of fiery indignation from some 
 quarter they know not what." At the hour 
 of death you may hear the same hopeless cry 
 
ISLAM 29 
 
 of the Moslem women, whether in Morocco or 
 in Persia ; it is a mourning without hope. 
 
 One does not live long in an Arab town 
 without seeing funerals pass. Even at mid- 
 night you can often hear the loud wailing for 
 the dead. As soon as a person dies in Arabia, 
 he is washed and wrapped in a white shroud. 
 The funeral takes place as soon as possible ; 
 not only because of the climate, but because 
 they believe that the sooner a Moslem is buried 
 the sooner he will reach heaven. The body is Burial 
 put on a wooden bier which, in the case of a 
 man, has only a cloth put over it ; but in the 
 case of a woman a sort of arched cradle is 
 placed over the body and covered with a cur- 
 tain. Women and children are not generally 
 allowed to attend a funeral ; and if they do, 
 they follow far behind and must not approach 
 the grave until the men leave. The bier is 
 carried from the house on the men's shoulders, 
 and instead of going slowly, they run fast with 
 it. Every passer-by and neighbor tries to give 
 a lift, as they think such an act meritorious; 
 this makes the funeral procession very confused. 
 On the way to the grave the bearers cry out, 
 " There is no god but God and Mohammed is 
 His Apostle." A short prayer service is held 
 in a neighboring mosque or outside of the 
 graveyard. But the prayers are formal, and 
 scarcely a word is spoken of a resurrection 
 or of victory over death nor prayer for the 
 mourning ones. All is dreary and comfortless. 
 
 The grave is dug so that the body, lying on 
 
30 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 one side, shall have its face toward Mecca, or 
 rather toward the temple in Mecca. A niche 
 is dug on one side of the grave for the body 
 to rest in. This is done because Mohammed 
 taught his people that a dead person was con- 
 scious of pain, and therefore great precautions 
 are taken to prevent pressure on the body ! 
 
 At the grave the Moslem teacher or leader 
 gives instructions in a loud tone of voice to 
 the dead person, putting his mouth close to the 
 ear of the corpse. These instructions are to 
 prepare the dead for the visit of the angels, 
 Without Munkar and Nakir, already mentioned. All 
 Hope Arabs believe that as soon as the grave is 
 
 covered in and the mourners depart, these two 
 black angels come to judge the dead. They 
 have blue eyes, and carry an iron club. If the 
 answers given to their questions are satis- 
 factory, the grave expands, and the dead person 
 is told to sleep on until the resurrection. But 
 if the answers are doubtful or wrong, the angels 
 proceed to pound with a club, and the dead 
 person roars out. All Moslems believe these 
 foolish teachings, and they say that animals are 
 often frightened away from the tombs by the 
 cries of the wicked dead. 
 
 "Without Christ, without hope." Nowhere 
 is this clearer than when you stand in a Mos- 
 lem graveyard, and how many millions of these 
 Christless graves dot the landscape in many 
 lands! Around Mecca there are acres upon 
 acres of the dead. The graveyards in Arabia 
 are generally very untidy ; one never sees 
 
ISLAM 31 
 
 plants or trees or flowers in them. Only the Graves 
 rich have gravestones ; a Bedouin grave is on 
 the open desert, and his last resting-place is 
 marked by a camel's rib or a date-stick stuck 
 up in the dry sand. And every Thursday even- 
 ing many of these graveyards of the Moslem 
 world present a picture of Moslem womanhood 
 come to mourn their dead : 
 
 " Sorrowful women's faces, hungry yearning 
 Wild with despair, or dark with sin and dread ; 
 Worn with long weeping for the unre turning 
 Hopeless, uncornforted. 
 
 " * Give us/ they cry, ' your cup of consolation 
 Never to our outstretching hand is passed. 
 We long for the Desire of every nation, 
 And oh, we die so fast.' " 
 
 AUTHOR'S NOTE. A few of the paragraphs in this chap- 
 ter were adopted from my summary of Mohammedanism 
 in " Religions of Mission Fields" (Chapter IX). Student 
 Volunteer Movement, 1905. 
 
 HELPS FOR LEADERS 
 Lesson Aim : 
 
 To give a bird's-eye view of the Mohammedan world 
 and show the strength and the weakness of Islam in faith 
 and practice. 
 Scripture Lesson : 
 
 Dan. 8 : 9-26 ; Matt. 24 : 11 ; Matt. 6 : 5-9. 
 Suggestive Questions : 
 
 1. Why did Islam not enter Japan ? 
 
 2. What religions did Islam meet in its early con- 
 quests V 
 
 3. Give a picture of Arabian home life in the Middle 
 Ages ("The Arabian Nights"). 
 
 4. How do the requirements of prayer and fasting 
 prove that Islam cannot be a universal religion ? 
 
32 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 5. Describe Mohammedan art and architecture in 
 Spain and in India. 
 
 6. The route, purpose, and probable effect of the pro- 
 posed railway to Mecca. 
 
 7. Was Islam a blessing to pagan Africa? 
 
 8. How are faith and works related in the Moslem 
 system ? 
 
 9. Which articles of the Apostle's Creed would be ac- 
 cepted by a Moslem ? 
 
 10. In praying for the Mohammedan World, what 
 special petitions does this chapter suggest? 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 The standard Encyclopaedias, art. Mohammed and Mo- 
 hammedanism. Also, " Arabia, the Cradle of Islam," 
 for a bibliography on the subject. 
 
 The Koran. Translations by Sale, Rod well, or Palmer. 
 
 " The Mohammedan World of To-day." Fleming H. 
 Revell Co. New York, 1906. 
 
 W. St. Clair Tisdall, " The Sources of the Quran/' 
 S. P. C. K. London, 1905. 
 
 H. H. Jessup, " The Mohammedan Missionary Prob- 
 lem." Philadelphia, 1879. 
 
 Hughes, "Dictionary of Islam." London, 1885. 
 
 S. M. Zwemer, " The Moslem Doctrine of God." Ameri- 
 can Tract Society, 1905. 
 
 S. M. Zwemer, " Islam : A Challenge to Faith." Stu- 
 dent Volunteer Movement, 1907. 
 
 ILLUSTRATIVE SELECTIONS 
 
 The Sword of Islam. " This contempt for the lives of 
 the rebellious or vanquished was exemplified over and 
 over in the history of Islam in India. The slave Emperor 
 Balban once slew forty thousand Mongols, whom he sus- 
 pected of disloyalty, notwithstanding that they professed 
 the Moslem religion. Timur (Tamerlane) felt encum- 
 bered by one hundred thousand Hindu prisoners, taken 
 at the capture of Delhi. He ordered them to be slain in 
 
ISLAM 33 
 
 cold blood. The Bahmanid Mohammed I, son of Hassan 
 Gangu, once avenged the death of his Moslem garrison at 
 Mudkall, by the slaughter of seventy thousand men, 
 women, and children. Such were the deeds of the prose- 
 lyting sword, which was unsheathed against the unbe- 
 lieving world by the mandate of the Prophet." 
 
 WHERRY'S "Islam and Christianity," p. 49. 
 
 Moslem Pride. " Personal pride, which like blood in 
 the body, runs through all the veins of the mind of Mo- 
 hammedanism, which sets the soul of a Sultan in the 
 twisted frame of a beggar at a street corner, is not cast on 3 
 in the act of admiration. These Arabs humbled them- 
 selves in the body. Their foreheads touched the stones. 
 By their attitudes they seemed as if they wished to make 
 themselves even with the ground, to shrink into the 
 space occupied by a grain of sand. Yet they were proud 
 in the presence of Allah, as if the firmness of their belief 
 in him and his right dealing, the fury of their contempt 
 and hatred for those who looked not toward Mecca 
 nor regarded Ramadan, gave them a patent of nobility. 
 Despite their genuflections, they were all as men who 
 knew, and never forgot, that on them was conferred the 
 right to keep on their head-covering in the presence of 
 their King. With unclosed eyes they looked God full in 
 the face. Their dull and growling murmur had the 
 majesty of thunder rolling through the sky." 
 
 The Garden of Allah," p. 153. 
 
 The Call to Prayer, heard from minarets five times 
 daily in all Moslem lands, is as follows. The Muezzin 
 cries it in a loud voice, and always in the Arabic lan- 
 guage : " God is most great ! God is most great ! God 
 is most great ! God is most great ! I testify that there 
 is no god but God ! I testify that there is no god but 
 God ! I testify that Mohammed is the Apostle of God I 
 Come to prayer ! Come to prayer ! Come to prosperity ! 
 Come to prosperity ! God is most great I God is most 
 great ! There is no god but God." In the call to early 
 morning prayer, the words, " Prayer is better than sleep," 
 are added twice after the call to prosperity. (For further 
 
34 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 details of the prayer-ritual, see Klein's " The Religion of 
 Islam," pp. 120-156.) 
 
 The Five Pillars of Practice. " The five pillars of the 
 Mohammedan faith are all broken reeds by the solemn 
 test of age-long experience ; because their creed is only a 
 half truth, and its 'pure monotheism* does not satisfy 
 the soul's need of a mediator, and an atonement for sin. 
 Their prayers are formal and vain repetitions, without de- 
 manding or producing holiness in the one that uses them. 
 Their fasting is productive of two distinct evils wherever 
 observed : it manufactures an unlimited number of hypo- 
 crites who profess to keep the fast and do not do so, and 
 in the second place the reaction which occurs at sunset 
 of every night of Ramadan tends to produce revelling 
 and dissipation of the lowest and most degrading type. 
 Their almsgiving stimulates indolence, and has produced 
 that acme of social parasites the dervish or fakir. 
 Finally, their pilgrimages to Mecca and Medina and Ker- 
 bela are a public scandal even to Moslem morality, so 
 that the holy cities are hotbeds of vice and plague-spots 
 in the body politic." 
 
 Missionary Review of the World, October, 1898. 
 
 The Moslem Paradise. According to Al-Ghazali 
 (4 : 337) Mohammed said, " The believer in Paradise will 
 marry five hundred houris, four thousand virgins, and 
 eight thousand divorced women." Al-Ghazali (A.H. 450) 
 is one of the greatest theologians of Islam, and no ortho- 
 dox Moslem would dispute his statement. In this very 
 connection Ghazali quotes the words, " things which the 
 eye saw not, and which did not enter into the heart of 
 man 1 " Ghazali 4 : 338. 
 
" When travelling in Asia it struck me how very little 
 we had heard, how little we know as to how sin is en- 
 throned and deified and worshipped. There is sin and 
 shame everywhere. Mohammedanism is corrupt to the 
 very core. The morals of Mohammedan countries are cor- 
 rupt and the imagination very wicked. . . . These false 
 faiths degrade women with an infinite degradation. The 
 intellect is dwarfed, while all the worst passions of hu- 
 man nature are stimulated and developed in a fearful 
 degree ; jealousy, envy, murderous hate, intrigue running 
 to such an extent that in some countries I have hardly 
 ever been in a woman's house, or near a woman's tent 
 without being asked for drugs with which to disfigure 
 the favorite w r ife, to take away her life, or to take away 
 the life of the favorite wife's infant son. This request 
 has been made to me nearly two hundred times. . . . 
 It follows necessarily that there is also an infinite degra- 
 dation of men. The whole continent of Asia is corrupt. 
 It is the scene of barbarities, tortures, brutal punish- 
 ments, oppression, official corruption (which is the worst 
 under Mohammedan rule) ; of all things which are the 
 natural products of systems without God in Christ. 
 There are no sanctities of home ; nothing to tell of 
 righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, only 
 a fearful looking for in the future of fiery indignation 
 from some quarter, they know not what." 
 
 MRS. ISABELLA BIRD BISHOP. 
 
 86 
 
CHAPTER II 
 
 THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 
 
 Why Missions to Moslems? Two views have Why 
 been widely prevalent and held for a long Missions? 
 time regarding missions to Mohammedans. 
 Although diametrically opposed, they agree that 
 it is waste of time and effort to carry the 
 Gospel to Moslems. The one view is that the 
 work is impossible ; the other that it is un- 
 necessary. The one holds that Islam is too 
 hopeless to be meddled with ; the other that 
 Islam is so hopeful that it does not need 
 our help, but will work out its own salvation. 
 The one considers the Moslem so utterly un- 
 approachable that it is useless to go to him ; 
 the other says it is needless to go because 
 the Moslem himself is approaching to Christ 
 through Mohammed. The former view treats 
 Islam, as the foe of Christianity, with the 
 hatred of neglect ; the latter, considering " Is- 
 lam the handmaid of Christianity," welcomes 
 her cooperation for the redemption of Africa 
 from the evils of paganism, an opinion voiced 
 by Canon Taylor, Doctor Ely den, and others. 1 
 
 1 Ely den, " Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race," 
 London, 1888. Ameer All, " The Spirit of Islam," Cal- 
 cutta, 1902. 
 
 37 
 
38 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 This chapter is intended to prove that the 
 latter view is surely at fault and that Moslem 
 lands and Moslem peoples sorely need the Gos- 
 pel. The next chapter will show that the 
 Gospel is not impotent over against Islam, but 
 victorious wherever it has entered. 
 
 Testimony Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, who travelled with 
 of Mrs. opened eyes through many Moslem lands, wrote 
 from Kirmanshah, Persia : " I have learned 
 two things ; one I have been learning for 
 nine months past, the utter error of Canon 
 Taylor's estimate of Islam. I think it has the 
 most blighting, withering, degrading influence 
 of any of the false creeds." 1 And when she 
 visited Morocco there was no doubt in her 
 mind about Islam being " a handmaid of Chris- 
 tianity." "It is at once the curse of Morocco, 
 and the most formidable obstacle in the way 
 of progress, chaining all thought in the fetters 
 of the seventh century, steeping its votaries in 
 the most intolerant bigotry and the narrowest 
 conceit, and encouraging fanaticism which re- 
 gards with approval the delirious excesses of 
 the Aissawa and the Hamdusha." 2 
 
 The present social and moral condition of 
 Mohammedan lands and of Moslems as a class 
 in all lands is not such as it is in spite of, but 
 because of, their religion. The evils are in- 
 herent in it. The law of cause and effect 
 has operated for over a thousand years under 
 every possible physical and ethnic environ- 
 
 1 "Life of Isabella Bird Bishop," p. 221. 
 
 2 Ibid., p. 365. 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 39 
 
 ment, among Semites, Aryan races, Negroes, 
 and Slavs. The results, are so sadly similar 
 that they form a terrible and unanswerable 
 indictment of the social and moral weakness Morals 
 of Islam. " By their fruits ye shall know 
 them," and the fruit always depends upon the 
 root. 
 
 Low Ideals of Conduct and Character. The The ideal of 
 measure of the moral stature of Mohammed is Character 
 the root and foundation of all moral ideals in 
 Islam. His conduct is the standard of charac- 
 ter. We need not be surprised, therefore, that 
 the ethical standard is so low. Raymund Lull, 
 the first missionary to Moslems, used to show 
 in his bold preaching that Mohammed had none 
 of the seven cardinal virtues, and was guilty of 
 the seven deadly sins. He may have gone too 
 far. But it would not be difficult to show that 
 pride, lust, envy, and anger were prominent 
 traits in the prophet's character. 
 
 To read the story of Mohammed's life as 
 given by Muir, Sprenger, or Weil is convincing 
 enough. 
 
 The three fundamental concepts of Christian Ethics 
 ethics are all of them challenged by the teach- 
 ing of Islam. The Mohammedan idea of the 
 Highest Good, of Virtue, and of the Moral 
 Law are not in accord with those of Chris- 
 tianity. " The highest good is the very out- 
 wardly and very sensuously conceived happiness 
 of the individual." Ideal virtue is to be found 
 through imitation of Mohammed. And the 
 moral law is practically abrogated because of 
 
40 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Ceremonial 
 Law 
 
 Untruthful- 
 iiess 
 
 loose views as to its real character and teach- 
 ing and finality. 
 
 There is no distinction between the cere- 
 monial and the moral law even implied in the 
 Koran. It is as great an offence to pray with 
 unwashen hands as to tell a lie, and " pious " 
 Moslems who nightly break the seventh com- 
 mandment (according to their own lax inter- 
 pretation of it) will shrink from a tin of 
 foreign meat for fear they be defiled by eating 
 swine's flesh. The lack of all distinction be- 
 tween the ceremonial and the moral law is very 
 evident in many traditional sayings of Moham- 
 med, which are of course at the basis of ethics. 
 Take one example : " The Prophet, upon whom 
 be prayers and peace, said 4 One dirhem of 
 usury which a man takes, knowing it to be so, 
 is more grievous than thirty-six fornications, 
 and whosoever has done so is worthy of hell- 
 fire.'" 
 
 Dr. Dennis sums up the real character of 
 Moslem ethics as an "adoption of religious 
 ideas and social customs which are saturated 
 with error, loathsome with immorality and 
 injustice, antagonistic to both natural and re- 
 vealed ethics and stale with the provincialism 
 of the desert." In enumerating the social evils 
 which are the dead-rot of Moslem society, we 
 begin with that which saps the very roots of 
 character, untruthf ulness. 
 
 Untruthfulness. One of the ninety-nine names 
 of God in the Koran is that of M Hak, The 
 Truth, but of the absolute inviolability of truth 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 41 
 
 in the Deity or in ethics the Moslem mind has 
 no conception. To begin with, there is the 
 teaching of orthodox Islam that nothing is 
 right or wrong by nature, but becomes such 
 by the fiat of the Almighty. 
 
 What Allah or His Prophet forbids is sin, even 
 should He forbid what seems right to the con- 
 science. What Allah allows is not sin and can- 
 not be sin at the time He allows it, though it may 
 have been before or after. One has only to 
 argue the matter of polygamy with an intelli- 
 gent Moslem to have the above confirmed. 
 
 According to Moslem tradition, there are two 
 authenticated sayings of Mohammed on the 
 subject of lying : " When a servant of God 
 tells a lie, his guardian angels move away to 
 the distance of a mile, because of the badness of 
 its smell." That seems a characteristic denun- 
 ciation, but the other saying contradicts it : 
 "Verily a lie is allowable in three cases, to When a Lie" 
 women, to reconcile friends, and in war" (El is Allowable, 
 Hidayah, Vol. IV, p. 81). And the great theo- 
 logian of Islam, Abu Hanifa, alleges that if a 
 man should swear " by the truth of God," this 
 does not constitute an oath ! while the whole 
 subject of oaths and vows in Moslem theology 
 exhibits the crookedness of their moral legerde- 
 main in dealing with truth. 
 
 " The dastardly assassination," says Muir, " of 
 his political and religious opponents, counte- 
 nanced and frequently directed as it was in all 
 its cruel and perfidious details by Mohammed 
 himself, leaves a dark and indelible blot upon 
 
42 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 his character." With such a Prophet it is no 
 wonder that among his followers and imitators 
 " truth-telling is one of the lost arts," and that 
 perjury is too common to be noticed. Since 
 Mohammed gathered ideas and stories from the 
 Jews of Medina and palmed them off as a new 
 revelation from God, it is no wonder that 
 Arabian literature teems with all sorts of pla- 
 giarisms, or that one of the early authorities of 
 Islam laid down the canon that it is justifiable 
 to lie in praise of the Prophet. Dr. St. Clair 
 Tisdall says in regard to the Mohammedans of 
 Persia, " Lying has been elevated to the dignity 
 of a fine art owing to the doctrine of Kitman- 
 ud-din which is held by the Shi ah religious 
 community." 1 
 
 This doctrine, held by nearly ten million 
 Moslems of the Shiah sect, only adds one more 
 loophole for lies to those Mohammed made, and 
 permits a lie "to conceal one's true religion." 
 
 What the standard of truth is among the 
 Moslems of the Dark Continent, we know from 
 the testimony of David Livingstone : 
 
 Living- " The men sent by Dr. Kirk are Mohammedans, that 
 
 stone's is, unmitigated liars. Musa and his companions are fair 
 
 Testimony, specimens of the lower class of Moslems. The two head- 
 men remained at Ujiji, to feast on my goods, and get pay 
 without work. Seven came to Bambarra, and in true 
 Moslem style swore that they were sent by Dr. Kirk to 
 bring me back, not to go with me, if the country were bad 
 or dangerous. Forward they would not go. I read Dr. 
 Kirk's words to them to follow wheresoever I led. ' No, 
 by the old liar Mohammed, they were to force me back to 
 
 1 " The Mohammedan World of To-day," p. 117. 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 43 
 
 Zanzibar.' After a superabundance of falsehood, it turned 
 out that it all meant only an advance of pay, though they 
 had double the Zanzibar wages. I gave it, but had to 
 threaten on the word of an Englishman to shoot the ring- 
 leaders before I got them to go. They all speak of Eng- 
 lish as men who do not lie. ... I have travelled more than 
 most people, and with all sorts of followers. The Chris- 
 tians of Kuruman and Kolobeng were out of sight the 
 best I ever had. The Makololo, who were very partially 
 Christianized, were next best honest, truthful, and 
 brave. Heathen Africans are much superior to the 
 Mohammedans, who are the most worthless one can 
 have." x 
 
 What was true of the Moslems Livingstone 
 met, seems to be the case almost universally in 
 Moslem lands. In Syria, we are told, it was Syria 
 rare to find a Moslem who could be believed 
 under oath, and perjury is too common to be 
 noticed. 2 To be called a liar in the Levant is 
 considered a very mild insult. Lord Curzon, 
 in his authoritative book on Persia, remarks, " I 
 am convinced that the true son of Iran would 
 sooner lie than tell the truth, and that he 
 feels twinges of desperate remorse when upon 
 occasions he has thoughtlessly strayed into 
 veracity." 
 
 In Turkey and Egypt the whole routine of 
 daily life is filled with dishonesty and double- 
 dealing; while among the Arabs, oaths are 
 divided into two classes : those which one may 
 use in asserting a lie without fear of perjury, 
 and those which are sacred to affirm the truth. 
 
 1 Quoted from his journals in " Christus Liberator," p. 60. 
 
 2 H. H. Jessup, " The Mohammedan Missionary Prob- 
 lem," p. 50. 
 
44 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 immorality Immorality. On this topic it is not possible 
 to speak plainly nor to be wholly silent. One 
 must live among Moslems to see the blasting 
 and corrupting influence of an immoral religion 
 on its followers. " He that soweth to the flesh 
 shall of the flesh reap corruption." 
 
 Moslems have changed the truth of God in 
 their consciences for a lie, and for this cause 
 they -are given up to vile affections from the 
 day their Prophet married Zainab until now. 
 Many of the masses are past feeling, and " have 
 given themselves over unto lasciviousness to 
 work all uncleanness with greediness." In 
 consequence, the majority seem to have " con- 
 sciences seared with a hot iron " and minds too 
 full of the sensual to admit of a spiritual con- 
 ception. There is no mental soporific like the 
 Koran, and there is nothing so well designed 
 to hush all heart-questioning as a religion that 
 denies the need of an atonement. There is no 
 spiritual aspiration even for the Moslem, who 
 longs for heaven, because even there he can 
 only picture the " houris " of paradise and the 
 goblets of wine and rivers of milk. "To be 
 carnally -minded is death." Islam proves it by 
 the effect of its teaching on the lives of Mos- 
 lems. 
 
 Literature The sensuality of Islam is as deeply carved in 
 the Mohammedan literature as the immorality 
 of Hinduism is carved on their idol-temples. 
 Both are too deeply cut into the symbols of 
 their religion to be removed without destroy- 
 ing it. The Koran, the commentaries, the 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 45 
 
 traditions, Moslem theology, and the entire 
 range of Arabic literature, as written by and 
 for Moslems, contain passages and whole sec- 
 tions that are untranslatable. 
 
 And this kind of fireside literature breeds 
 a coarse vocabulary and corrupt conversation 
 among men, women, and children, to a degree 
 that is incredible. The very strongholds of 
 religion are strongholds of immorality in the 
 Moslem world. Mecca, Kerbela, and Meshed 
 Ali are examples of " holy cities " without Holy Cities 
 morality. " The Meccans," writes Burton 
 (the man who did not shrink from the unex- 
 purgated "Arabian Nights"), "appeared to me 
 distinguished even in this foul-mouthed East 
 by the superior licentiousness of their lan- 
 guage." 1 
 
 One who has been a missionary for years 
 in India testified: "However the phenomenon 
 may be accounted for, we, after mixing with 
 Hindus and Mohammedans for nineteen years, 
 have no hesitation in saying that the latter are, 
 as a whole, some degrees lower in the social and 
 moral scale than the former." 2 
 
 Polygamy has not diminished licentiousness Polygamy 
 in any Moslem land, but everywhere increased 
 it. " Immorality among African Mohamme- 
 dans is commonly indescribable. It is worse 
 among the Arabs of the intensely Mohammedan 
 
 1 Cf. "The Mohammedan World of To-day, " pp. 117, 
 139-141. 
 
 2 The Rev. J. Vaughan in Dr. Jessup's " Mohammedan 
 Missionary Problem," p. 47. 
 
46 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 countries to the north than it is among the 
 Negro races to the south." 1 
 
 The Seclusion and Degradation of Women. 
 The origin of the veil in Islam and the conse- 
 quent seclusion of women was one of the 
 marriage affairs of Mohammed himself with 
 its appropriate revelation from Allah. In the 
 twenty-fourth Surah of the Koran women are 
 The Veil forbidden to appear unveiled before any member 
 of the other sex with the exception of near 
 relatives. And so by one verse the bright, 
 refining, elevating influence of womanhood was 
 forever withdrawn from Moslem society. 
 
 The evils of the harem, the seraglio, the 
 purdah, or the zenana, by whatever name it is 
 called, are writ large over all the social life of 
 the Moslem world. And Moslems enlightened 
 by the torch of Christian civilization are them- 
 selves beginning to see the fact. At a Moham- 
 medan conference held in Bombay, in 1904, Mr. 
 Justice Telang spoke of the evils of the purdah 
 system, and named it as the chief cause for the 
 backwardness of the Moslem community. 
 
 After showing that the religious aspect of 
 the question was a delicate one for Moslems to 
 discuss, he remarked : 
 
 " As to the social aspect of the question, we have been 
 so accustomed to it from our infancy, we have seen it 
 prevail more or less amongst all the Mussulman coun- 
 tries of the world, and, therefore, we are naturally 
 prejudiced in its favour, and strongly prejudiced against 
 any modification of its rigour. Being so prejudiced, we 
 
 i " The Mohammedan World of To-day," p. 284. 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 47 
 
 magnify and exaggerate whatever advantages or benefits 
 there may be in it, and we strongly close our eyes to the 
 advantages of its abolition. 
 
 " Whether purdah is good or bad from a social point Moslem 
 of view, whether it is or is not entirely in accordance with Testimony 
 the religious doctrines as interpreted by some people, may 
 be a question, but there can be none, I think, as to the 
 effect of the purdah system on the health and physique 
 of our women. Gentlemen, if there is one thing more 
 clear than another in science it is that the human consti- 
 tution requires pure air and healthy exercise. How are 
 these possible if the present system of purdah is main- 
 tained ? How and where are our women to get pure air? 
 How and where are they to get healthy exercise ? And 
 consider the fact of the absence of pure air and the absence 
 of exercise on the constitutions of our women. Compare 
 their constitutions with the constitutions of the women of 
 other communities who, untrammelled by the purdah, go 
 into the open and move freely and give exercise to the 
 various parts of their body. Compare the health of 
 our women with the health of the women of other 
 classes. 
 
 " Look at the statistics, consider the vast proportion of 
 our women who die from consumption due to confinement 
 in the house, impure air, and want of exercise. Gentle- 
 men, we cannot ever hope to have healthy, strong, and 
 vigorous women among us so long as we confine them in 
 the way we have done for years and years ; and we can- 
 not hope to have strong, healthy, and vigorous children 
 so long as our women are weak and unhealthy and of 
 delicate constitutions." 
 
 And the learned barrister would have 
 strengthened his argument, had he spoken of 
 the effect of this loss of God's sunlight and 
 God-given liberty on the moral health of Mos- 
 lem women, and of the impure air that is the 
 only breath for their souls in the Moslem 
 zenana. 
 
48 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Position of As regards the position of women in Islam 
 Women to-day, a perusal of the unimpeachable evidence 
 found in the recent symposium, " Our Moslem 
 Sisters," will make the most callous-hearted 
 hear a cry of distress from these lands of dark- 
 ness that appeals for help. In nearly every 
 Moslem land woman is held to be " a scandal 
 and a slave, a drudge and a disgrace, a temp- 
 tation and a terror, a blemish and a burden." 
 And this is shown " by the estimate put upon 
 her, by the opportunity given her, by the func- 
 tion assigned her, by the privilege accorded her 
 and by the service expected of her." l 
 
 We need not go for testimony outside of the 
 Koran and the Moslem theology. Al-Ghazali 
 sums up the question of women's rights in 
 Islam when he says, " Marriage is a kind of 
 slavery, for the wife becomes the slave of her 
 husband, and it is her duty absolutely to obey 
 him in everything he requires of her except in 
 what is contrary to the laws of Islam." Wife- 
 beating is allowed by the Koran, and even the 
 method and limitations are explained by the 
 law of ethics. 2 
 
 Polygamy and Divorce. A Moslem who 
 lives up to his privileges and who follows the 
 example of " the saints " in his calendar can 
 have four wives and any number of slave-con- 
 cubines; can divorce at his pleasure; hecanre- 
 
 1 Dennis, " Christian Missions and Social Progress," 
 Vol. I, p. 104. 
 
 2 See Klein, "The Keligion of Islam," p. 190, and Mos- 
 lem Commentaries on Surah 4 : 38. 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 49 
 
 marry his divorced wives by a special abominable 
 arrangement ; and in addition to all this, if he 
 belong to the heterodox Shiah sect, he can con- 
 tract marriages for pleasure (Metaa) which are 
 temporary. 1 
 
 " The very chapter in the Mohammedan Bible 
 which deals with the legal status of woman, 
 and which provides that every Mohammedan 
 may have four legal wives, and as many con- 
 cubines or slave girls as his right hand can 
 hold," says Robert E. Speer, " goes by the title 
 in the Koran itself of 'The Cow.' One could Degradation 
 get no better title to describe the status of 
 woman throughout the non-Christian world." 
 
 This trampling the honor of womanhood is 
 only one of the evil results. A system that 
 puts God's sanction on polygamy, concubinage, 
 and unlimited divorce, that hellish trinity, 
 brings a curse on every home in the Moham- 
 medan world by degrading manhood. But, 
 alas, these social and domestic evils cannot be 
 
 1 " As to the degradation of women, one does not know 
 where to begin. You have heard a little about it ; but the 
 most horrible thing I have ever known is the system of tem- 
 porary marriages practised in the valley of the Tarirn, espe- 
 cially in Kashgar. The Russian Consul told me that during 
 the five years he had lived there, he had known many girls 
 to have twenty husbands before they were twelve years oldl 
 Temporary marriages are sanctioned for a week. I am not 
 sure whether they are not for a day, and it is common for 
 men there to change their wives five or six times a year ; 
 and that, be it observed, is in a place where Mohammedan- 
 ism has had full sway for a great many years, and where, if 
 the system were good, it ought certainly by this time to have 
 shown itself." DR. HENRY LANDSELL, M.R.A.S. 
 
50 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 rebuked or deplored by better-class Moham- 
 medans without reflecting on the career of 
 Mohammed and without contradicting the re- 
 vealed word of God and the consensus of the 
 theologians of Islam. 
 
 Moham- The Prophet in this respect, also, was to 
 
 med's Moslems the paragon of perfection. Although 
 
 when Khadijah died he found his own lax law 
 insufficient to restrain his lusts, and indulged 
 in at least ten additional marriages, it is not 
 put down as a disgrace, but as a "dignity in 
 the biographies of God's Apostle. No wonder 
 that some of his followers have aspired to a 
 like privilege. Among the Nomad chiefs of 
 Arabia polygamy is the invariable rule. One 
 Sheikh in North Arabia has more than forty 
 wives and concubines and does not know many 
 of his own children. 
 
 In Baluchistan concubinage is so common 
 that a missionary says he knows " several 
 chiefs who have thirty, forty, fifty, and sixty 
 women." Still darker shadows fall on the 
 picture of the life of our Moslem sisters in that 
 part of the world, if we open the government 
 of India census report: 
 
 " Owing to the system of buying wives, in vogue among 
 Afghans, a girl as soon as she reaches nubile age is, for 
 all practical purposes, put up for auction and sold to the 
 highest bidder. Her father discourses in the market on 
 her beauty or ability as a housekeeper, and invites offers 
 from those who desire a wife. Even the more wealthy 
 and more respectable Afghans are not above thus laud- 
 ing the female wares which they have for sale. Even 
 the betrothal of girls who are not yet born is frequent. 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 51 
 
 It is also usual for compensation for blood to be ordered 
 to be paid in the shape of girls, some of whom are living, 
 whilst others are yet unborn." 
 
 And again: 
 
 "Among Afghans and their neighbors, polygamy is Afghanistan 
 only limited by the purchasing ability of the man, and 
 a wife is looked on as a better investment than cattle ; 
 for in a country where drought and scarcity are continu- 
 ally present, the risk of loss in animals is great, whilst 
 the female offspring of a woman will fetch a high price. 
 Woman's tutelage does not end with widowhood. In the 
 household of a deceased Afghan she is looked on as an 
 asset in the division of his property. It is no uncommon 
 thing to find a son willing to sell his own mother." 
 
 Where woman is thus regarded as a mere 
 chattel, it is no wonder that every marriage 
 bond is easily broken, and that where, by 
 reason of poverty, polygamy is impossible, 
 caprice or lust is satisfied by frequent divorce. 
 The facility, the legality, and the universality of 
 divorce in the Moslem world is without a parallel 
 under any other religion. 
 
 The law of divorce is based on express in- Divorce 
 junctions contained in the Koran, and the 
 subject is deemed of such importance that it 
 occupies one of the largest sections in works on 
 jurisprudence. A husband may divorce his 
 wife for any cause whatsoever, at any time and 
 without any misbehavior on her part. Burk- 
 hardt tells of an Arab, forty -five years old, who 
 had had fifty wives, and history tells of early 
 Moslem leaders who far exceeded him in con- 
 jugal unfaithfulness. In Egypt, ninety-five per 
 cent of all Moslem marriages are followed by 
 
52 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 divorce. In West Africa, polygamy is the rule 
 among all Moslems, and only limited by lack of 
 wealth, while divorce is so frequent that " it is 
 rare to find a woman, past the prime of life, 
 living with her husband." 1 
 
 It is heart-rending to hear some of the cries 
 of suffering that ring out to heaven from the 
 lands of perpetual divorce. A lady missionary 
 Algiers in Algiers tells of the cruel treatment of three 
 cases, one of whom, a mere girl, was already 
 twice divorced from drunken, dissolute hus- 
 bands, and continues : 
 
 " Yet they have gone under without tasting the bit- 
 terest dregs of a native woman's cup ; for (save a baby 
 of the eldest girl's who lived only a few weeks) there 
 were no children in the question. And the woman's 
 deepest anguish begins where they are concerned. For 
 divorce is always hanging over her head. The birth of 
 a daughter when a son had been hoped for, an illness 
 that has become a bit tedious, a bit of caprice or counter- 
 attraction on the husband's part any of these things 
 may mean that he will " tear the paper " that binds them 
 together, and for eight francs the kadi will set him free. 
 This means that the children will be forced from the 
 mother and knocked about by the next wife that comes 
 on the scene; and the mother-heart will suffer a constant 
 martyrdom from her husband if only divorce can be 
 averted." 
 
 Slavery Slavery. This might as well have been the 
 
 heading of the previous paragraph. But in 
 Moslem law a separate section is given to the 
 traffic in human flesh, although the lot of Negro 
 slaves in the Mohammedan world has never 
 been much worse than the daily slavery of 
 i " The Mohammedan World of To-day," p. 49. 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 53 
 
 women (with its Damocles sword of divorce 
 hanging over every bridal couch) and is often 
 better. 
 
 Mohammed found slavery an existing institu- 
 tion both among the Jews and the idolaters of 
 Arabia, recognized it, and by legislating for its 
 continuance, perpetuated it. The teaching of 
 the Koran is very explicit. (See the follow- 
 ing Surahs: 4: 3,29; 33:49; 23:5; 16: 77; 
 24 : 33.) All male and female slaves taken as 
 plunder in war are the lawful property of their 
 master ; the master has power to purchase any 
 number of female slaves, either married or 
 single ; the position of a slave is compared to 
 the helplessness of the stone idols of pagan 
 Arabia ; yet slaves must be treated with kind- 
 ness and be granted their freedom when they 
 are able to purchase it. 
 
 The slave traffic is not only allowed, but Slave 
 legislated for by Mohammedan law and made Traffic 
 sacred by the example of the Prophet (Mish- 
 kat, Book 13, Chapter XX). In Moslem books 
 of law the same rules apply to the sale of animals 
 and slaves. There is absolutely no limit to 
 the number of slave girls with whom a Mos- 
 lem may cohabit, and it is this consecration 
 of carnal indulgence which so popularizes the 
 Mohammedan religion among uncivilized tribes 
 and so popularizes slavery in the Moslem state. 
 
 Some Moslem apologists of the present day 
 contend that Mohammed looked upon the cus- 
 tom as temporary in its nature ; but slavery is 
 so interwoven with the laws of marriage, of 
 
54 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 sale, of inheritance, and with the whole social 
 fabric, that its abolition strikes at the foun- 
 dations of their legal code. Whenever and 
 wherever Moslem rulers have agreed to the 
 abolition or suppression of the slave trade, they 
 have acted contrary to the privileges of their 
 religion in consenting to obey the laws of 
 humanity. 
 
 Arabia, the Holy Land of Islam, is still a 
 centre of the slave trade. It is also prevalent 
 in Morocco, although decreasing in Tripoli and 
 Zanzibar. Where Moslems live under Chris- 
 tian rule, the traffic in slaves has been pro- 
 hibited, but in no case has this been due to a 
 reformation in Islam itself. 
 
 The Mecca Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje describes the public 
 Slave Mar- s i ave market at Mecca in full swing every day 
 during his visit in 1879. It is located near 
 Bab Derebah and the holy mosque, and open to 
 everybody. Although he himself apologizes for 
 the traffic, and calls the anti-slavery crusade 
 a swindle, he yet confesses to all the horrible 
 details in the sale of female slaves and the 
 mutilation of male slaves for the markets. 
 And we know that conditions have not changed 
 for the better to this day. 
 
 A book recently published describes the pil- 
 grim journey of Hadji Khan to Mecca in 1902, 
 and in the Appendix is a plea to stop the cruel 
 trade in slaves. 
 
 " Go there," says the writer, " and see for yourself the 
 condition of the human chattels for purchase. You will 
 find them, thanks to the vigilance of British cruisers, 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 55 
 
 less numerous, and consequently more expensive, than 
 they were in former years ; but there they are, flung 
 pell-mell in the open square. . . . The dealer standing 
 by, cried out : i Come and buy, the first fruits of the 
 season, delicate, fresh and green ; come and buy, strong 
 and useful, faithful and honest. Come and buy." 
 
 " The day of sacrifice was past, and the richer pilgrims 
 in their brightest robes gathered around. One among 
 them singled out the girl. They entered a booth to- 
 gether. The mothei was left behind. One word she 
 uttered, or was it a moan of inarticulate grief ? Soon 
 after, the girl came back. And the dealer, when the 
 bargain was over, said to the purchaser : i I sell you this 
 property of mine, the female slave, Narcissus, for the 
 sum of 40.' Thus the bargain was clinched. . . . Men 
 slaves could be bought for sums varying from 15 to 40. 
 The children in arms were sold with their mothers, an 
 act of mercy ; but those that could feed themselves had 
 to take their chance. More often than not, they were 
 separated from their mothers, which gave rise to scenes 
 which many a sympathetic pilgrim would willingly forget 
 if he could." l 
 
 Cruelty and Intolerance. Islam is a hard intolerance 
 religion toward those that do not embrace it 
 the " infidel " must be brought low ; and a 
 heartless religion toward all who abandon it 
 the apostate must be put to death. There is 
 neither precept nor example enjoining love to 
 one's enemies. Islam knows nothing of a uni- 
 versal benevolence or of a humane tolerance, 
 nor did Mohammed. 
 
 The Koran does not reveal a God of love. NoGoa 
 Allah is too rich, too proud, and too indepen- of Love 
 
 1 " With the Pilgrims to Mecca, The Great Pilgrimage of 
 A.H. 1319, A.D. 1902," by Hadji Khan. John Lane, London 
 and New York, 1905. 
 
56 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 The Sword 
 of Islam 
 
 El Azhar 
 
 dent to need or desire the tribute of human 
 love. In consequence, the loveless creed pro- 
 duces loveless character. That the element of 
 love was lacking in Mohammed's idea of God 
 is perhaps the reason also why the Koran, in 
 contrast with the Bible, has so little for and 
 about children. Of such is not the kingdom 
 of Mohammed. His was a kingdom of the 
 sword and for warriors who could spill blood. 
 And the lessons learned during the long wars 
 of conquest and the bitter strife of Moslem sect 
 with sect have never been forgotten. 
 
 The Armenian massacres, the condition of 
 Turkish prisons, the barbarities of Morocco, 
 the cruelties of the African slave-trade, the 
 excruciating tortures practised on criminals in 
 Persia, and the methods of self-torture used by 
 the Dervish orders, all these are topics that 
 would require volumes to include all the evi- 
 dence of their horror. Yet all these things 
 are connected directly or indirectly with the 
 Moslem religion and would cease in these lands, 
 if it did. 
 
 In the great Mohammedan University of El 
 Azhar at Cairo with its thousands of stu- 
 dents from every part of the world, we might 
 expect some little breadth of sympathy and 
 some breath of tolerance. But there is neither. 
 This missionary prayer was offered there, for 
 many years past, every evening : 
 
 " I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the accursed ! 
 In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Mercif u.1 ! 
 O Lord of all creatures, O Allah 1 destroy the infidels 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 57 
 
 and polytheists, thine enemies, the enemies of the re- 
 ligion ! O Allah ! make their children orphans and de- 
 file their abodes ! Cause their feet to slip ; give them 
 and their families, their households and their women, A Prayer 
 their children and their relations by marriage, their 
 brothers and their friends, their possessions and their 
 race, their wealth and their lands, as booty to the Mos- 
 lems, O Lord of all creatures ! " 
 
 And where could we find stronger and more 
 recent instances of Moslem intolerance than in 
 the reports of many missionary societies labor- 
 ing in Moslem lands ; unless we care to listen 
 to Sheikh Abd ul Hak, of Bagdad, and his 
 "Final Word of Islam to Europe"? 1 
 
 Ignorance and Illiteracy. It is a disputed ignorance 
 question whether Mohammed could read and 
 write. Moslems themselves are not agreed, and 
 Western scholarship is still undecided as to 
 the evidence, 2 although Mohammedans gener- 
 ally speak of their Prophet as the "Illiterate." 
 But there can be no dispute in this respect 
 about the followers of the Prophet. The illit- 
 eracy of the Mohammedan world to-day is as 
 surprising as it is appalling. One would think 
 that a religion which almost worships its sacred 
 Book, and which once was mistress of science 
 and literature, would, in its onward sweep, have 
 enlightened the nations. But facts are stub- illiteracy 
 born things. Careful investigations show that 
 seventy-five to one hundred per cent of the 
 Moslems in Africa are unable to read or write. 
 
 1 See end of this chapter. 
 
 2 See the list of writers pro and con in "The Moslem 
 Doctrine of God," p. 92. 
 
58 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 In Tripoli ninety per cent are illiterate , 
 in Egypt eighty-eight per cent ; in Algiers 
 over ninety per cent. In Turkey there has 
 been improvement in recent years, yet even 
 now it is forty per cent of the population. 
 Persia now has a constitution, but it has no 
 public-school system, and ninety per cent of 
 the people can neither read nor write. In 
 Baluchistan, according to the British census, 
 only 117 per thousand of the Mohammedan 
 men, and only 23 per thousand among the 
 women, can read. 
 
 illiteracy But the most surprising facts are in re- 
 
 gard to India, where the Mohammedans are 
 still put down in the census as a " backward 
 class." After over a century of British rule 
 and Christian missions and religious agitation, 
 over ninety-six per cent of the Mohammedans 
 in India are illiterate ! The figures given are 
 59,674,499 unable to read or write among a 
 Mohammedan population of 62,458,077 ! It is 
 almost incredible. 
 
 paucity And this widespread illiteracy is sometimes 
 
 oi Books ( j ue o a p auc it v o f literature of a character 
 suited for the home and for common people. 
 The literary style of Arabic, for example, has 
 become so artificially stilted and obscure that 
 only highly educated people can read some of 
 the daily papers, and poetry generally requires 
 footnotes to make it intelligible. " The paucity 
 of literature of all kinds in Turkey, where gov- 
 ernment press regulations prohibit any general 
 output of publications," we are told by a lady 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 59 
 
 missionary, " combined with the general poverty 
 of the people, makes many a home bookless and 
 the great majority of lives barren." 
 
 The Moslem village school is a caricature 
 of what lower education should be, and the 
 Moslem Mullah, with all his learned-ignorance 
 and fanaticism, is the finished product of the 
 higher education. In all Moslem schools not 
 yet influenced by Western civilization, the 
 Ptolemaic system is taught, not only in astron- 
 omy (as indeed the Koran compels), but the 
 whole realm of thought is made to revolve 
 around the little world of Mohammed and his 
 book. 1 
 
 For five hundred years Islam has been su- Turkey 
 preme in Turkey, one of the fairest and richest 
 portions of the Old World as regards natural 
 resources. And what is the result ? The 
 Mohammedan population has decreased ; the 
 treasury is bankrupt ; progress is blocked ; 
 instead of wealth, universal poverty ; instead 
 of comeliness, rags ; instead of commerce, beg- 
 gary, a failure greater and more absolute 
 than history can elsewhere present. 
 
 In most Mohammedan countries, the general NO Arts 
 ignorance of the people is plainly evident in 
 the rude and crude methods of agriculture, 
 building, and transportation. Wheeled car- 
 riages or carts are unknown in Arabia, Persia, 
 and Afghanistan, save as they are imported 
 from other lands. The first pump ever seen in 
 
 1 See The Missionary Review of the World, February, 
 1908. 
 
60 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 eastern Arabia was imported by the mission- 
 aries, and in Oman many children still use the 
 bleached shoulder-blades of camels instead of 
 slates at school. 
 
 No Banking The Algeciras Conference made much ado 
 about the new bank for Morocco, but a resident 
 of the country writes in the North American 
 Review : " And in regard to the bank. The 
 Moors have not the least comprehension of 
 the workings of a bank, and, moreover, their 
 religion forbids them to deposit their money in 
 one. Moors who have money bank it in the 
 ground. Many of them die without disclosing 
 to any one else their place of deposit. No 
 Moor dares to appear rich for fear of being cast 
 into prison and despoiled by the officials of his 
 Government, or for fear of assassination at the 
 hands of other robbers. The Government has 
 no public works, and the mass of the people 
 have no arts and trades. The bank will find 
 it next to impossible to deal with the Moors." 
 
 " Of other robbers " ! How eloquent is that 
 phrase to describe the condition of "life, lib- 
 erty, and the pursuit of happiness " in darkest 
 Morocco! 
 
 Superstition Superstition and Quackery. These twin- 
 sisters of Ignorance are also a curse in Moslem 
 lands. And both of them trace their lineage 
 back to the Koran and the traditions of Islam. 
 A volume might be written on the superstitions 
 of Mohammed, and a volume has been compiled 
 on all his ignorant quackery by a learned 
 Moslem and entitled " The Science of Medi- 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 61 
 
 cine according to the Prophet" (Et-Tub en 
 Nebawi) . 
 
 Mohammed gave instructions to his follow- Omens 
 ers in regard to omens, charms, talismans, and and Dreams 
 witchcraft. " If a fly falls into a dish of vict- 
 uals," he said, "plunge it in completely, then 
 take it out and throw it away ; for in one of its 
 wings is a cause of sickness, and in the other a 
 cause of health ; and in falling it falls on the 
 sick wing ; and if it is submerged, the other 
 will counteract its bad effect." To make a bad 
 drearn harmless, he thought it necessary to spit 
 three times over the left shoulder. He was 
 very careful to begin everything from the right 
 side, and to end with the left ; and he smeared 
 the antimony first in his right eye. His idea 
 of omens, however, was more sensible: he 
 admitted lucky omens, but forbade belief in 
 unlucky ones. 
 
 These are only single paragraphs from a 
 whole literature of superstition that has been 
 collected, treasured, augmented, and believed 
 for thirteen centuries. 
 
 A large part of current medical practice Medicine 
 among Mohammedans rests on superstition. 
 Kei) or actual cautery, is, according to Mo- 
 hammed, the last cure for all sorts of diseases ; 
 so also is Klielal, or perforating the skin surface 
 with a red-hot iron and then passing a thread 
 through the hole to facilitate suppuration. 
 Scarcely one Arab or Persian in a hundred who 
 has not some kei-marks on his body ; even in- 
 fants are burned most cruelly in this way to 
 
62 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Amulets 
 
 The 
 Child-witch 
 
 relieve diseases of childhood. Where kei fails, 
 they have recourse to words written on paper 
 either from the Koran, or, by law of contra- 
 ries, words of evil, sinister import. These the 
 patient " takes " either by swallowing them, 
 paper and all, or by drinking the ink-water in 
 which the writing is washed off. 
 
 The following are used as amulets in many 
 Moslem lands : a small Koran suspended from 
 the shoulder ; a chapter written on paper and 
 folded in a leather case ; some names of God 
 and their numerical values; the names of the 
 Prophet and his companions ; greenstones with- 
 out inscriptions ; beads, old coins, teeth, holy 
 earth in small bags. Amulets are not only 
 worn by the Moslems themselves and to pro- 
 tect their children from the evil eye, but are 
 put on camels, donkeys, horses, fishing-boats, 
 and sometimes over the doors of their dwellings. 
 The Arabs are very superstitious in every way. 
 
 In Hejaz, if a child is very ill, the mother 
 takes seven flat loaves of bread and puts them 
 under its pillow; in the morning the loaves 
 are given to the dogs and the child is not 
 always cured. Rings are worn against the in- 
 fluence of evil spirits ; incense or evil-smelling 
 compounds are burned in the sick-room to drive 
 away the devil ; mystic symbols are written on 
 the walls for a similar purpose. Love-philtres 
 are everywhere used and in demand ; and name- 
 less absurdities are committed to insure child- 
 birth. The child-witch, called Um-es-subyan, 
 is feared by all mothers; narcotics are used 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 63 
 
 freely to quiet unruly infants and, naturally, 
 mortality is very large. Of surgery and mid- Surgery 
 wifery the Moslems, as a rule, are totally igno- 
 rant, and if their medical treatment is purely 
 ridiculous, their surgery is piteously cruel, al- 
 though never intentionally so. In all eastern 
 Arabia, blind women are preferred as midwives, 
 and rock-salt is used by them against puerperal 
 hemorrhage. Gunshot wounds are treated in 
 Bahrein by a poultice of dates, onions, and tam- 
 arind ; and the accident is guarded against in 
 the future by wearing a " lead-amulet." 
 
 There are many other superstitions in no 
 way connected with the treatment of the sick. 
 Tree-worship and stone-worship still exist in Tree- 
 many parts of Arabia in spite of the so-called worship 
 "pure monotheism" of Islam. Both of these 
 forms of worship date back to the time of idol- 
 atry, and remain as they were partly by the sanc- 
 tion of Mohammed himself, for did he not make 
 the black stone in the Kaaba, the centre of his 
 system of prayer ? Sacred trees are called Man- 
 ahil, places where angels or jinn descend ; no 
 leaf of such trees may be plucked, and they are 
 honored with sacrifices of shreds of flesh, while 
 they look gay with bits of calico and beads 
 which every worshipper hangs on the shrine. 
 Just outside of the Mecca gate at Jiddah stands 
 one of these rag trees with its crowd of pil- 
 grims ; in Yemen they are found by every way- 
 side and also in Baluchistan and southern Persia. 
 
 The Gospel the Only Remedy. It is very 
 evident that no remedy for these great social 
 
64 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Islam 
 Bankrupt 
 
 We are 
 Debtors 
 
 evils can be found in Islam. The Moslem 
 world has long since suspended payment, it 
 never had reserve capital, and is socially bank- 
 rupt. There is no power of reform from within. 
 Falsehood, immorality, slavery, the degradation 
 of marriage, the pollution of the home, the crush- 
 ing yoke of universal ignorance and supersti- 
 tion, all these can be uprooted and destroyed 
 only by Him who is the Way, the Truth, and 
 the Life the Light of the world and the Sav- 
 iour of men. 
 
 " As a social system," writes Stanley Lane 
 Poole, " Islam is a complete failure : it has 
 misunderstood the relation of the sexes, upon 
 which the whole character of a nation's life 
 hangs, and by degrading women has degraded 
 each successive generation of their children 
 down an increasing scale of infamy and cor- 
 ruption, until it seems almost impossible to 
 reach a lower level of vice." But there is no 
 level of vice so low that the Gospel cannot 
 reach and uplift men and women from it. 
 There is hope for the Mohammedan home and 
 Mohammedan society and Mohammedan hearts 
 in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Because we know 
 this and they are ignorant of it, we are debt- 
 ors. And who can read of such social evils 
 without a thought of the Christ in His relation 
 to them and to us ? 
 
 "My God, can such things be? 
 Hast thou not said, that whatso'er is done 
 Unto Thy weakest and Thy humblest one 
 Is even done to Thee ? 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 65 
 
 " Hoarse, horrible and strong 
 Rises to heaven that agonizing cry, 
 Filling the arches of the hollow sky, 
 How long, O God, how long?" 
 
 HELPS FOR LEADERS 
 
 Lesson Aim : 
 
 To show the hopeless character of Islam for the pres- 
 ent life and its moral bankruptcy. 
 Scripture Lesson : 
 
 Rom. 1 : 18-32 ; Phil. 3 : 18, 19 ; Matt. 7 : 15-20. 
 Suggestive Questions : 
 
 1. Write a short paper on Child-life in Persia. 
 
 2. What are the chief amusements forbidden by the 
 Moslem religion ? 
 
 3. Has any land under Moslem rule a public-school 
 system or public libraries ? 
 
 4. Contrast the rights of women according to the 
 Mosaic law and according to the Koran. 
 
 5. What is the present commercial condition of 
 Morocco ? 
 
 6. Draw a map of the railroads in the Turkish 
 Empire. 
 
 7. Give instances of cruel native medical practice in 
 Arabia, Tripoli. Morocco. 
 
 8. Was Mohammed a kind husband? 
 
 9. Locate the present centres of the slave trade on 
 the map. 
 
 10. Describe zenana life in Hyderabad, India. 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 " Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of 
 Darkness " (Papers by Missionaries). Fleming H. Revell 
 Co., 1907. 
 
 Dr. James S. Dennis, " Christian Missions and Social 
 Progress," Vol. I, pp. 79, 91, 93, 98, 105-110, 115, 275- 
 277, 334, 335, 389-391. Vol. II, 375, etc. 
 
66 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 "The Mohammedan World of To-day." (Consult 
 index.) 
 
 Robert E. Speer. "Missionary Principles and Prac- 
 tice" (Chapters XXIV, XXV). 
 
 Hughes, " Dictionary of Islam." Articles on Divorce, 
 Marriage, Slavery, Women, Jihad. 
 
 Major Osborne, " Islam under the Arabs." London, 
 1876. 
 
 Major Osborne, " Islam under the Caliphs." London, 
 1878. 
 
 Lane, " Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians." 
 
 ILLUSTRATIVE SELECTIONS 
 
 The Most Degraded Religion. " Mohammedanism is 
 held by many who have to live under its shadow to be 
 the most degraded religion, morally, in the world. We 
 speak of it as superior to the other religions because of 
 its monotheistic faith, but I would rather believe in ten 
 pure gods than in one God who would have for his 
 supreme prophet and representative a man with Moham- 
 med's moral character. Missionaries from India will tell 
 you that the actual moral conditions to be found among 
 Mohammedans there are more terrible than those to be 
 found among the pantheistic Hindus themselves; and 
 the late Dr. Cochran, of Persia, a man who had unsur- 
 passed opportunities for seeing the inner life of Moham- 
 medan men, told me, toward the close of his life, that he 
 could not say, out of his long and intimate acquaintance 
 as a doctor with the men of Persia, that he had ever met 
 one pure-hearted or pure-lived adult man among the 
 Mohammedans of Persia. Can a religion of immorality, 
 or moral inferiority, meet the needs of struggling men ? " 
 ROBERT E. SPEER, at the Nashville Convention, 1905. 
 
 The Pride of Fanaticism. Only five years ago Sheikh 
 Abd ul Hak, of Bagdad, a Moslem of the old school, 
 wrote an article on behalf of the Pan-Islamic league. It 
 appeared in a French journal, and was entitled " The 
 Final Word of Islam to Europe." From this remark- 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 67 
 
 able, outspoken, and doubtless sincere defiance, we quote 
 the following paragraph : 
 
 " For us in the world there are only believers and unbe- 
 lievers; love, charity, fraternity toward believers; con- 
 tempt, disgust, hatred, and war against unbelievers. 
 Amongst unbelievers, the most hateful and criminal are 
 those who, while recognizing God, attribute to Him 
 earthly relationships, give Him a son, a mother. Learn 
 then, European observers, that a Christian of no matter 
 what position, from the simple fact that he is a Chris- 
 tian, is in our eyes a blind man fallen from all human 
 dignity. Other infidels have rarely been aggressive 
 toward us. But Christians have in all times shown 
 themselves our bitterest enemies. . . . The only excuse 
 you offer is that you reproach us with being rebellious 
 against your civilization. Yes, rebellious, and rebellious 
 till death ; but it is you, and you alone, who are the 
 cause of this. Great God ! are we blind enough not to 
 see the prodigies of your progress ? But know, Christian 
 conquerors, that no calculation, no treasure, no miracle 
 can ever reconcile us to your impious rule. Know that 
 the mere sight of your flag here is torture to Islam's 
 soul ; your greatest benefits are so many spots sullying 
 our conscience, and our most ardent aspiration and hope 
 is to reach the happy day when we can efface the last 
 vestiges of your accursed empire." l 
 
 Mohammed's Ideas about Women. " The fatal blot in 
 Islam is the degradation of women. Yet it would be 
 hard to lay the blame altogether on Mohammed. . . . 
 His ideas about women were like those of the rest of 
 his contemporaries. He looked upon them as charming 
 snares to the believer, ornamental articles of furniture 
 difficult to keep in order, pretty playthings ; but that a 
 woman should be the counsellor and companion of a man 
 does not seem to have occurred to him. It is to be won- 
 dered that the feeling of respect he always entertained 
 
 1 Quoted in Der Christliche Orient, Berlin, Vol. IV, p. 
 145. And also at the time, in other papers from the French 
 original. 
 
68 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 for his first wife, Khadijah (which, however, is partly 
 accounted for by the fact that she was old enough to 
 have been his mother), found no counterpart in his gen- 
 eral opinion of womankind : < Woman was made from 
 a crooked rib, and if you try to bend it straight, it will 
 break ; therefore treat your wives kindly.' 
 
 " Kind as the prophet was himself to wards bonds wo men, 
 one cannot forget the unutterable brutalities which he 
 suffered his followers to inflict upon conquered nations in 
 the taking of slaves. The Muslim soldier was allowed to 
 do as he pleased with any * infidel' woman he might 
 meet with on his victorious march. When one thinks of 
 the thousands of women, mothers and daughters, who 
 must have suffered untold shame and dishonour by this 
 license, he cannot find words to express his horror. And 
 this cruel indulgence has left its mark on the Muslim 
 character, nay, on the whole character of Eastern life." 
 
 STANLEY LANE POOLE. 
 
 A Lawsuit in Morocco. " Moorish judges respect no 
 law in their decisions, but twist and turn the code to their 
 own private gain. To the mind of a modern judge, the 
 cleverest and most convincing argument is a goodly 
 bribe. Litigants are often forced to abandon their cases 
 because they find themselves unable to satisfy the greed 
 of the judges. The following is an example of modern 
 justice : Two adversaries present themselves before the 
 judge. The plaintiff states his case. The defendant 
 (who has already sent to the judge's house a handsome 
 mirror) states his case, at the same time casting a signifi- 
 cant glance at the judge. The judge is about to decide in 
 favor of the defendant, when the plaintiff (who is not at 
 law for the first time) gives the judge a knowing look, 
 and begs that judgment may be deferred until the follow- 
 ing day. The request is granted. The following morn- 
 ing, the plaintiff goes personally to the judge's house 
 with a magnificent mule. He finds the judge has already 
 gone to the court, so he leaves the mule and instructs the 
 servants to inform the judge of the animal's arrival. The 
 plaintiff then goes on his way to the court, where he finds 
 
THE SOCIAL EVILS OF ISLAM 69 
 
 the judge and the defendant. While the adversaries are 
 standing before the judge, a servant of the latter enters, 
 and announces that i The mule has smashed the mirror 1 ' 
 Judgment is at once rendered in favor of the plaintiff." 
 ASAAD KALARJI KARAM (in the North American Re- 
 view, November, 1906). 
 
" There are weak points in Islam which, if persistently 
 attacked, must lead to its eventual overthrow, while 
 Christianity has forces which make it more than a match 
 for Mohammedanism or any other religion. From its 
 birth Islam has been steeped in blood and lust, blood 
 spilt and lust sated by the sanctions of religion. The 
 Koran is doomed." ION KEITH FALCONER. 
 
 " I long for the prayers of your band of intercessors, 
 offering this simple request that, as the Arab has been so 
 grievously a successful instrument in deposing Christ 
 from His throne (for this long season only) in so many 
 fair and beautiful regions of the East ... so the Arab 
 may be, in God's good providence, at least one of the 
 main auxiliaries and reinforcements in restoring the great 
 King, and reseating Him on David's throne of judgment 
 and mercy, and, above all, God's throne of righteousness ! " 
 BISHOP T. VALPY FRENCH (Muscat, 1891). 
 
 "I believe we are in the midst of a great battle. We 
 are not ourselves fighting, we are simply accepting every- 
 thing that comes. But the powers of light are fighting 
 against the powers of darkness, and they will certainly 
 prevail." HESTER NEEDHAM (in Sumatra). 
 
 70 
 
CHAPTER III 
 
 THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 
 
 The Centuries of Neglect. Not without rea- Long 
 son did Raymimd Lull, even in the thirteenth Neglect 
 century, pour out his complaint of the utter 
 indifference in his day toward the spiritual 
 need of the Saracens. 
 
 " I see many knights," he wrote, " going to the Holy 
 Land beyond the seas and thinking that they can acquire 
 it by force of arms ; but in the end all are destroyed be- 
 fore they attain that which they think to have. Whence 
 it seems to me that the conquest of the Holy Land ought 
 not to be attempted except in the way in which Thou and 
 Thine apostles acquired it, namely, by love and prayers, 
 and the pouring out of tears and of blood." 
 
 And at another time he prays : 
 
 " Lot d of Heaven, Father of all times, when Thou didst Lull's 
 send Thy Son to take upon Him human nature, He and Prayer 
 His apostles lived in outward peace with Jews, Pharisees, 
 and other men ; for never by outward violence did they 
 capture or slay any of the unbelievers, or of those who 
 persecuted them. Of this outward peace they availed 
 themselves to bring the erring to the knowledge of the 
 truth and to a communion of spirit with themselves. And 
 so after Thy example should Christians conduct them- 
 selves toward Moslems ; but since that ardour of devotion 
 which glowed in apostles and holy men of old no longer 
 inspires us, love and devotion through almost all the world 
 have grown cold, and therefore do Christians expend 
 their efforts far more in the outward than in the spiritual 
 conflict." 
 
 71 
 
72 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Henry 
 Martyn 
 
 Dr. Jes- 
 sup's Plea 
 
 But his was a voice as of one born before his 
 age and crying in the wilderness. Had the 
 spirit of Raymund Lull filled the Church, we 
 would not to-day speak of over two hundred 
 millions unevangelized Moslems. Even as Islam 
 itself arose a scourge of God upon an unholy 
 and idolatrous Church, so Islam grew strong 
 and extended to China on the east and Sierra 
 Leone on the west, because the Church never so 
 much as touched the hem of the vast hosts of 
 Islam to evangelize them. The terror of the 
 Saracen and Turk smothered in every heart even 
 the desire to carry them the Gospel. When the 
 missionary revival began with Carey, the idea 
 was to carry the Gospel to the heathen. 
 
 Henry Martyn was the first modern mission- 
 ary to preach to the Mohammedans ; he met 
 them in India, Arabia, and Persia ; his contro- 
 versial tracts date the beginning of the conflict 
 with the learning of Islam. 
 
 The tiny rill that flowed almost unnoticed has 
 gathered volume and strength with the growth 
 of missionary interest, until in our day it has 
 become a stream of thought and effort going out 
 to many lands and peoples of the Moslem world. 
 
 When Dr. Jessup wrote his little classic, " The 
 Mohammedan Missionary Problem," in 1879, 
 there were no missionaries in all Arabia, Tunis, 
 Morocco, Tripoli, or Algiers. Christendom 
 was ignorant of the extent and character of Is- 
 lam in Central Africa ; little was known of the 
 Mohammedans in China, and the last chapter in 
 the history of Turkey was the Treaty of Berlin. 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 73 
 
 The problem has greatly changed; old factors 
 are cancelled and new factors have appeared. 
 But we can still say with the writer, although we 
 must add twenty-five million to the estimate 
 then made of the number of Mohammedans : 
 " It is our earnest hope and prayer that this re- 
 vival of interest in the historical, theological, 
 and ethical bearings of Islam may result in a 
 new practical interest in the spiritual welfare 
 of the Mohammedan nations. It is high time 
 for the Christian Church to ask seriously the 
 question whether the last command of Christ 
 concerns the one hundred and seventy-five 
 millions of the Mohammedan world." 
 
 There has been the work of illustrious pio- what has 
 neers, and wherever Protestant missions came been done 
 in contact with Islam, whether laboring for 
 the reformation of the Oriental Churches or in 
 heathen lands, a great work of preparation has 
 been accomplished. But the fact remains that 
 no part of the non-Christian world has been so 
 long and so widely neglected as Islam. The 
 task has either appeared so formidable, the ob- 
 stacles so great, or faith has been so weak, that 
 one might think the Church imagined her great 
 commission to evangelize the world did not 
 apply to Mohammedans. 
 
 There are to-day eighty-eight societies organ- 
 ized for the conversion of the Jews ; but no great 
 missionary society has yet been organized to 
 convert Mohammedans, and scarcely a dozen 
 missions are professedly working directly among 
 and for Moslems. In a recent sumptuous volume 
 
74 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 of six hundred pages, published in Germany, on 
 the history of Protestant missions, work for 
 Moslems is dismissed in a single paragraph and 
 labelled hopeless. 
 
 "Christendom," says Keller, "accustomed 
 itself, ever since the time of the Crusades, to' 
 look upon Islam as its most bitter foe and not 
 as a prodigal son, to be won back to the Father's 
 house." Islam had rooted itself for centuries 
 in every land before modern missions came to 
 grapple with the problem. The Church was 
 
 Lost ages behind time, and lost splendid opportunities. 
 
 Opportunity Christian missions came to Persia one thousand 
 years after Islam entered. In Arabia and North 
 Africa twelve centuries intervened. 
 
 The fatalism attributed to Mohammedans is 
 not one-half so fatalistic in its spirit as that 
 which for centuries has been practically held by 
 the Christian Church as to the hope or necessity 
 of bringing the hosts of Islam into the following 
 of Jesus Christ. There may have been reasons 
 in time past for this unreadiness or unwilling- 
 ness, such as political barriers and fear of death 
 from Moslem fanaticism. To-day we cannot 
 plead such excuse, for we have already seen how 
 large a part of the Mohammedan world is under 
 Christian rule and protection. 
 
 Typical Typical Pioneers and Typical Fields. It is 
 
 Pioneers impossible within the limits of a chapter to tell 
 the whole story of the conflict between Chris- 
 tianity and Islam in the wide Moslem world 
 during the past centuries. The work of the il- 
 lustrious pioneers in each of the fields now occu- 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 75 
 
 pied would alone require many books. Whose 
 life, for example, was more worthy of an elabo- 
 rately written biography in two volumes, than 
 that of the seven-tongued Bishop of Lahore, Bishop 
 who labored for Moslems in India and laid French 
 down his life for them at Muscat ? Yet here 
 we can scarcely give him a paragraph. 
 
 The same is true of each mission field in the 
 Levant or in North Africa. The story is so 
 full of interesting material, and so eloquently 
 sets forth " the work of faith and labor of love 
 and patience of hope " of those who are toiling 
 on Moslem soil with plough and seed-basket, 
 that it seems almost impossible to condense it. 
 We have, however, attempted the impossible by 
 selecting typical cases, both of early pioneer 
 effort and of present activity. 
 
 Some of the Mohammedan lands have already 
 been treated or touched on in previous text- 
 books of this series. 1 Others require special 
 treatment ; and still others belong to the un- 
 occupied fields of the world where live the un- 
 reached millions for whom Christ died. A 
 following chapter treats of the last named ; this 
 chapter treats of the lands that are in a sense 
 " occupied," although nowhere the forces at 
 work are at all commensurate with the needs 
 and opportunities. 
 
 Three pioneers stand out prominently in the 
 
 i " Via Christi," pp. 47-51 ; "Lux Christi," pp. 48-52 ; 
 " Rex Christi," pp. 76, 222; " Christus Liberator," pp. 57-72, 
 61,62,69, 168, 178, 281; "Christus Redemptor," pp. 222- 
 226 ; "Gloria Christi," pp. 2, 11, 72, 259. 
 
76 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 story of missions to the Mohammedan world. 
 Three Raymund Lull was the pioneer martyr and the 
 
 Leaders g rgt o ur g e by WO rd and work the supreme 
 need of special training for the evangelization 
 of Moslems. Henry Martyn was the pioneer 
 of the Modern Missionary Century, and led the 
 way in the great task of giving the Mohammedan 
 world the Bible. Karl Gottlieb Pfander was a 
 pioneer in the preparation of controversial liter- 
 ature, and became a champion for the truth 
 whose message reaches the Moslem literati even 
 to-day, from Constantinople to Calcutta. All 
 three were preeminently missionaries to the 
 Mohammedans, and stand out, like Saul in 
 Israel, higher than any of their contemporaries 
 from their shoulders and upward in this respect. 
 Lull Raymund Lull. Eugene Stock, formerly 
 
 editorial Secretary of the Church Missionary 
 Society, declares " there is no more heroic 
 figure in the history of Christendom than that 
 of Raymund Lull, the first and perhaps the 
 greatest missionary to Mohammedans." 
 
 " Of all the men of his century," says another 
 student of missions, " of whom we know, Ray- 
 mund Lull was most possessed by the love and 
 life of Christ, and most eager accordingly to 
 share his possession with the world. It sets 
 forth the greatness of Lull's character the more 
 strikingly to see how sharply he rose above the 
 world and the Church of his day, anticipating 
 by many centuries moral standards, intellectual 
 conceptions, and missionary ambitions to which 
 we have grown only since the Reformation." 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 77 
 
 Raymund Lull was born at Palma in the His Early 
 island of Majorca, in 1235, of a distinguished Llfe 
 Catalonian family, and when of age spent several 
 years at the court of the king of Aragon. He 
 was a court poet, a skilled musician, and a gay 
 knight before he became a scholastic philosopher 
 and an ardent missionary to the 'Mohammedans. 
 The manner of his conversion at the age of 
 thirty-two reminds one of the experience of Saul 
 on his way to Damascus, and of St. Augustine 
 under the fig tree at Milan. After his vision of 
 the Christ, he sold all his property, gave the 
 money to the poor, and reserved only a scanty 
 allowance for his wife and children. He entered 
 upon a thorough course of study, mastered the 
 Arabic language, using a Saracen slave as 
 teacher, and began his life work at the age of 
 forty. 
 
 The work to which he felt called and for Call 
 which he gave his life with wonderful persever- 
 ance and devotion was threefold. He worked 
 out a philosophical system to persuade non- 
 Christians, especially Moslems, of the truth of 
 Christianity ; he established missionary colleges 
 for the study of Oriental languages ; and he 
 himself went and preached to the Moslems, 
 sealing his witness with his blood. 
 
 In his fifty-sixth year, after vain efforts to 
 arouse others to a missionary enterprise on be- 
 half of the Mohammedans, he determined to set 
 out alone and single-handed preach Christ in 
 North Africa. On arriving at Tunis, he invited 
 the Moslem literati to a conference. He an- 
 
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 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 nounced that he had studied the arguments on 
 both sides of the question, and was willing to 
 submit the evidences for Christianity and for 
 Islam to a fair comparison. The challenge was 
 accepted, but the Moslems being worsted in 
 argument, and fanaticism being aroused, Lull 
 
 imprisoned was cast into a filthy dungeon by order of the 
 Sultan, and narrowly escaped death. After 
 bitter persecutions, he returned to Europe, 
 where he made other missionary journeys. 
 
 In 1307, he was again on the shores of Africa, 
 and at Bugia in the market-place stood up boldly 
 and preached Christ to the Moslem populace. 
 Once again his pleadings were met with violence, 
 and he was flung into a dungeon, where he re- 
 mained for six months, preaching to the few 
 who came, and befriended only by some mer- 
 chants of Genoa and Spain, who took pity on 
 the aged missionary of the Cross. 
 
 Banished Although banished for a second time, and 
 
 with threats against his life if he returned, 
 Lull could not resist the call of the Love that 
 ruled his life. " He that loves not, lives not," 
 said he, " and he that lives by the Life cannot 
 die." So in 1314 the veteran of eighty years 
 returned to Africa and to his little band of 
 Moslem converts. 
 
 For over ten months he dwelt in hiding, talk- 
 ing and praying with those who had accepted 
 Christ, and trying to win others. Weary of 
 seclusion, he at length came forth into the open 
 market and presented himself to the people as 
 the man whom they had expelled. It was 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 79 
 
 Elijah showing himself to a mob of Ahabs. 
 Lull stood before them and threatened them 
 with God's wrath if they still persisted in their 
 errors. He pleaded with love, but spoke the 
 whole truth. Filled with fanatic fury at his 
 boldness, and unable to reply to his arguments, 
 the populace seized him and dragged him out 
 of the town. 
 
 There, by the command, or at least the His 
 connivance of the Moslem ruler, he was stoned Mart y rdom 
 on the 30th of June, 1315. And so he became 
 the first martyr missionary to Islam. To be 
 stoned to death while preaching the love of 
 Christ to Moslems, that was the fitting end 
 for such a life. 
 
 Yet his was a voice crying in the wilderness, 
 and his loneliness was the loneliness of leader- 
 ship when there are none awake to follow. 
 " One step further," says George Smith, " but 
 some slight response from his church or his 
 age, and Raymund Lull would have anticipated 
 William Carey by exactly seven centuries." 
 
 Henry Martyn. Between the death of Ray- Henry 
 mund Lull and the year 1806, when Henry Martyn 
 Martyn, the first modern missionary to the 
 Mohammedans, reached India, five centuries 
 intervened. During these five hundred years, 
 Islam was spreading in all directions through- 
 out Africa, receiving a new lease of life through 
 the Turk in the Levant and taking root in new 
 lands and on the Malaysian islands, which had 
 not even a name or place on the maps of the 
 Middle Ages. While there were no missions to 
 
80 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Moslems, the Moslems were themselves mission- 
 aries and propagandists. 
 
 After reading the story of the spread of Islam 
 during these long years, one cannot help feel- 
 ing that the sloth of the Church was the oppor- 
 tunity of the false faith. After five centuries 
 of inactivity, the mantle of Raymond Lull fell 
 upon Henry Martyn, saint and scholar, mission- 
 ary and martyr. 
 
 His " His life," says Dr. George Smith, " is 
 
 influence the perpetual heritage of all English-speak- 
 ing Christendom and of the native churches 
 of India, Arabia, Persia, and Anatolia in all 
 time to come." Born at Truro, Cornwall, on 
 February 18, 1781, he entered Cambridge in 
 1797 and was graduated with the highest aca- 
 demical honor of "senior wrangler." It was 
 his intention at one time to devote himself 
 to law, but the sudden death of his father 
 and the faithful preaching of Mr. Simeon led 
 to his conversion; and afterward, the perusal 
 of the life of David Brainerd brought the 
 decision to become a missionary. 
 
 Purpose He knew the struggle that was before him, 
 
 and wrote : " I am going upon a work exactly 
 according to the mind of Christ, and my 
 glorious Lord, whose power is uncontrollable, can 
 easily open a way for His feeble followers 
 through the thickest of the ranks of His enemies. 
 And now let me go, smiling at my foes ; how 
 small are human obstacles before this mighty 
 Lord." 
 
 And going out in that dauntless spirit, with 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 81 
 
 his heart on fire for the benighted peoples of 
 the East, he sailed as chaplain of the East India 
 Company, and arrived in India in 1806. No 
 wonder that before his arrival and on the long 
 journey he had already studied Sanscrit, Per- 
 sian, and Arabic. He labored unceasingly by 
 tongue and pen, by preaching and by prayer, Burning out 
 " to burn out for God. " for God J 
 
 In 1808 he completed a version of the New 
 Testament in Hindustani, and later into other 
 languages of India. With a special desire to 
 reach the Mohammedans of India, he perfected 
 himself in Persian, the court language, and 
 began a version of the New Testament in that 
 language. In 1811 he sailed from Calcutta to 
 Bombay and for the Persian Gulf, partly be- 
 cause of his broken health, but more so, as is 
 evident from his journals, that he might give 
 the Mohammedans of Arabia and Persia the 
 word of God. On his voyage from Calcutta to 
 Bombay, he composed tracts in Arabic, spoke 
 with the Arab sailors, and studied the Koran. 
 He stopped at Muscat on April 20, and we can 
 tell what his thoughts then were in regard 
 to this Cradle of Islam, for a year earlier Journeys 
 he wrote in his diary : " If my life is spared, 
 there is no reason why the Arabic should not 
 be done in Arabia and the Persian in Persia. 
 . . . Arabia shall hide me till I come forth 
 with an approved New Testament in Arabic. 
 Will Government let me go away for three 
 years before the time of my furlough arrives ? 
 If not, I must quit the service, and I cannot 
 
82 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 devote my life to a more important work than 
 that of preparing the Arabic Bible." 
 
 He reached Shiraz by way of Bushire in June, 
 1811, and there revised his Persian translation, 
 also holding frequent discussions with the Mos- 
 lem Mullahs. One year after entering Persia, 
 he left Shiraz and proceeded to the Shah's camp 
 near Ispahan, to lay before him the translation 
 he had made. 
 
 With clamorous controversy and fanatic ha- 
 tred, they received his message and his book. 
 
 His Witness "My book," he writes in his diary, "which I had 
 for Christ brought, expecting to present it to the king, lay before 
 Mirza Shufi. As they all rose up, after him, to go, some 
 to the king, and some away, I was afraid they would 
 trample upon the book, so I went in among them to take 
 it up, and wrapped it in a towel, before them while they 
 looked at it and me with supreme contempt. Thus I 
 walked away alone, to pass the rest of the day in heat 
 and dirt. What have I done, thought I, to merit all 
 this scorn? Nothing, thought I, but bearing testimony 
 to Jesus. I thought over these things in prayer, and 
 found that peace which Christ hath promised to His 
 disciples." 
 
 From Shiraz Martyn went to Tabriz and there 
 arranged for the presentation of his New Testa- 
 ment to the Shah of Persia, through the Brit- 
 ish Ambassador. Unable to recover strength 
 after much fever, he left Tabriz on horseback, 
 September 12, 1812, with two Armenian ser- 
 vants for England, via Constantinople, a land 
 journey of one thousand miles. At Tokat, he 
 was compelled to stop from utter prostration, 
 and after a week's illness died, October 16, 
 
THE STOET OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 83 
 
 1812. He had " burned out for God," but be- Last Jour- 
 fore the flame died it had kindled a hundred 
 lives and still burns on. 
 
 His testimony was not wholly in vain, even 
 in those early days. We read of one, at least, 
 who accepted the truth and, as Martyn him- 
 self said, " Even if I never should see a native 
 converted, God may design, by my patience 
 and continuance in the work, to encourage fu- 
 ture missionaries." Only the Last Day will 
 reveal the extent of the influence of this man, 
 who, with no Christian to tend or comfort him 
 in his last illness, laid down his life for the 
 Mohammedan world. 
 
 The monument erected to him by the East 
 India Company at Tokat, bearing on its four 
 sides an inscription in English, Armenian, Tur- 
 kish, and Persian, is a fitting symbol of the 
 breadth of his life, which lay four-square to the 
 love of God and the service of humanity. 
 
 Karl Gottlieb Pfander. This great mission- Pfander 
 ary, linguist, and controversial writer, who left 
 so wide and permanent an impression through- 
 out the Mohammedan world, was born at Waib- 
 lingen, Germany, in 1803. He prepared for 
 missionary work at the Basel Training Institu- 
 tion, and was sent out in 1825. 
 
 Although only twenty -two years old, he be- 
 gan the study of three difficult languages, Tur- 
 kish, Armenian, and Persian. In 1829, he went 
 to Bagdad to learn Arabic, and two years later 
 to Ispahan. On a missionary journey to the 
 town of Kermanshah, after a discussion with 
 
84 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 the Mullahs, he came near to winning the same 
 martyr's crown that Lull received at Bugia. 
 He knew the danger of publicly preaching the 
 truths that opposed the teaching of Islam, but 
 putting his trust in God, he preached Christ 
 boldly. On this account the enraged Moslem 
 priesthood held a council that night, and it was 
 announced the next day in the mosques that 
 Life and his books must all be destroyed (because they 
 were bound in pigskin, which was unclean), 
 and that he must be killed. But God spared 
 his life and he labored on, first in Russia, then 
 in India, and finally in Constantinople. Every- 
 where his tongue and pen were mighty forces 
 in the proclamation of the truth. He died at 
 Richmond-on-the-Thames, December 1, 1865. 
 An Apology Pfander, when expelled from Russia in 1835, 
 Christianity s P ent/ mu ch of his time in making a revised 
 edition of his remarkable book, u Mizan-ul-Hak," 
 The Balance of Truth, and wrote some other 
 books on Sin, Salvation, and the Trinity for 
 Moslems. The "Mizan-ul-Hak" is a wonderful 
 apology for Christianity, and has been trans- 
 lated into many languages. It proves the need 
 of a revelation, the integrity of the Bible, and 
 the necessity of the Atonement. The last chap- 
 ter refutes Islam and the claims of Mohammed 
 as Prophet. 
 
 Pfander felt, as many have since his day, 
 that the judicious use of such tactful literature 
 is one of the best ways of evangelizing Moslems. 
 It is often better to persuade a Moslem to read 
 a portion of Scripture or a book or tract than 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 85 
 
 to speak to him directly. Ink is cold. A 
 written argument appeals to the mind and con- 
 science in solitude. There is no pride in an- 
 swering back glibly or irreverently to a printed 
 page. It was said of the old Romans that " as 
 they shortened their swords they lengthened 
 their territories." So will it be in the conflict 
 with Islam. The way for the Church to con- 
 quer is to come to close quarters with the foe. 
 
 And in the irrepressible conflict with Islam, The Use of 
 Pf ander's life and writings teach the truth of Such Books 
 Wolseley's war maxim, " Find out your enemy's 
 weakest and most vulnerable point and hit him 
 there as hard as you can with all your might." 
 Islam's strength is to be left alone ; put on the 
 defensive, its weakness is evident even to those 
 who defend it. Controversy is not evangeliza- 
 tion, and must not take its place, but in Moslem 
 lands especially it holds somewhat the same 
 relation to evangelization that ploughing does to 
 seed-sowing. Books like " Mizan-ul-Hak " break 
 up the soil, stir thought, kill stagnation, con- 
 vince the inquirer, and lead him to take a 
 decided stand for the truth. 
 
 The Gospel in North Africa. The unbroken North 
 phalanx lines of Moslem countries along the Afnca 
 Mediterranean were once the centres of Chris- 
 tian teaching. Origen, Tertullian, Athanasius, 
 Cyprian, and Augustine were all from North 
 Africa. But Islam swept across this region 
 like a desert simoom and withered the garden 
 of God. Yet there exist to the present day 
 among these Berber or Kabyle tribes of North 
 
86 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Africa various customs which have come down 
 to them through twelve long centuries of Mo- 
 hammedanism, and which speak of the time 
 when they were a Christian people. For ex- 
 ample, the Kabyle women refuse to wear the 
 veil, and certain of these Kabyle tribes, al- 
 though they are Mohammedans, observe the 
 Christian Sabbath as a day of feasting. 
 
 The mark of a cross is tattooed on the fore- 
 head of many of the boys and men at Biskra, as 
 well as in other places. One such Mohamme- 
 dan in the town of Setif, being asked what was 
 the meaning of the cross on his forehead, 
 answered, " Jesus." Miss Seguin, in her most 
 interesting book, " Walks in Algiers," asserts 
 that the Kabyle women are in the habit of 
 Relics of the tattooing the form of the Christian cross on 
 their forehead. Sir Lambert Playfair writes 
 regarding the Kabyles of the Aures Mountains, 
 which lie immediately to the north of the 
 Sahara : " Their language is full of Latin words 
 and in their daily life they retain customs un- 
 doubtedly derived from their Christian ances- 
 tors. They observe December 25 as a feast, 
 under the name of Moolid (the birth), and keep 
 three days festival both at springtime and 
 harvest. They use the solar instead of the 
 Mohammedan lunar year, and the names of the 
 months are the same as our own." 
 
 Are not these interesting facts in themselves 
 a loud call to send the Gospel to North Africa ? 
 Yet all this region was neglected for twelve 
 centuries in a most unaccountable way. In 
 
THE STOEY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 87 
 
 1880 Mr. George Pease began investigations in why this 
 Algiers which led to the formation of the North LcmgNeg- 
 African Mission. At that time there were only 
 three Protestant missionaries between Alexandria 
 and the Atlantic coast of Morocco, and not any 
 southward from the Mediterranean almost to the 
 Niger and the Congo. 
 
 Now this one mission, which works very Present 
 largely among Moslems, has eighteen stations Forces 
 in Egypt, Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, and Morocco, 
 manned by eighty-six missionaries. A hospital 
 and dispensary are established at Tangier and a 
 dispensary at Fez. There are also other smaller 
 independent missions working in North Africa, 
 and very recently work was begun in the Sudan. 
 " But," says Dr. Charles A. Watson, " for every 
 missionary to the Mohammedans in Africa you 
 can find twenty missionaries to the pagans of 
 Africa, and for every convert from Mohamme- 
 danism in Africa I think you can find one thou- 
 sand converts from paganism in Africa. And 
 if this does not prove that the real missionary 
 problem in Africa is Mohammedanism, I scarcely 
 see how that point could be proved at all." 
 
 Darkest Mohammedan Africa, nearest to Eu- 
 rope, is the healthiest part of Africa, and yet 
 has by far the fewest mission stations. 
 
 Morocco has an area of about 260,000 square Morocco 
 miles (equal to five times the size of England), 
 and a population estimated at from 4,000,000 to 
 8,000,000. It is governed by a Sultan, whose 
 name is Abd ul Aziz. The country is divided 
 into districts, each of which is under the super- 
 
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 intendence of a Kaid. The semi-independent 
 hill tribes are ruled by their own chiefs, and 
 scarcely acknowledge the authority of the 
 Sultan. At present the whole country is dis- 
 turbed by revolutions and rebellion. 
 
 Algeria Algeria is the most advanced in civilization 
 
 of all the countries of North Africa, having been 
 held by the French since 1830. After great ex- 
 penditure of life and money, it is now thoroughly 
 subject to their rule. Its extent is about three 
 times that of England, and its population, 
 4,500,000, principally Moslems, with some hun- 
 dreds of thousands of French, Spaniards, Ital- 
 ians, Jews, etc. The country has a good climate 
 and much beautiful scenery; there are excellent 
 roads and extensive railways. 
 
 Tunis Tunis is under French protection, and practi- 
 
 cally under French rule, and has a population 
 of about 2,000,000, nearly all of whom are 
 Mohammedans. 
 
 Tripoli Tripoli is a province of the Turkish Empire, 
 
 several times larger than England. It has a 
 population of about 1,350,000, who, with the ex- 
 ception of a few thousands, are all Moslems. 
 They are more intelligent and better educated 
 than farther west, but much opposed to the 
 Gospel. 
 
 The soil in all these lands is hard, the plough- 
 ing was too late and the sowing of the seed was 
 in tears, but God is already giving the first- 
 fruits of the future harvest. 
 
 The latest reports of the North African Mis- 
 sion tell us that, at almost all the stations, there 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 89 
 
 have in past years been some converts. At Fez 
 there is a band of Christians, nine or ten of 
 whom are employed as colporteurs ; at Djemaa 
 Sabridj there is another band, and these meet 
 in two stone halls, one built for men and one 
 for women. At Tangier, Alexandria, Shebin el- 
 Kom, and Tunis there are also some who regu- 
 larly meet with the missionaries to partake of 
 the Lord's Supper. 
 
 During 1906 some thirty Moslems were con- Results 
 verted at Fez, and two men and one woman were 
 baptized. At Algiers a Kabyle young man was 
 baptized and another converted. At Bizerta a 
 man was baptized. At Alexandria a well-edu- 
 cated man, long under instruction since his 
 conversion, was baptized. Several young men 
 were converted at Djemaa Sabridj. At Tripoli 
 a convert of many years' standing died, after 
 long proof of trusting Christ for salvation and 
 after preaching quietly to many others. At 
 Shebin el-Kom, on New Year's Eve, ten out of 
 a meeting of eighteen met around the Lord's 
 Table at midnight, and dedicated themselves 
 afresh to God ; seven years ago there was not 
 a single convert there. In addition to these 
 pronounced cases, most of whom have had 
 to bear persecution, there are many secret 
 disciples. 
 
 Egypt and the Christian Crusade. Among strategic 
 all Moslem lands to-day, perhaps the most 
 notable strategic point is Egypt. In Lower 
 Egypt the Moslems form about ninety -eight per 
 cent of the population, and in Upper Egypt about 
 
90 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 eighty-eight per cent. The need of the country 
 is therefore the need of the Moslems. 
 
 Egypt is under British rule and connected by 
 regular rail and steamboat service with distant 
 
 Cairo points in Africa. Cairo is the literary capital 
 
 of the Mohammedan world, as Mecca is its reli- 
 gious, and Constantinople its political capital. 
 And the streams of Moslem thought through 
 the printed page go out from Cairo to the utter- 
 most confines of the Moslem world. A book 
 sold at Cairo may be read the next month by 
 the camp-fires of the Sahara, in the market-place 
 of Timbuktu, or under the very shadow of the 
 Kaaba. 
 
 Early Effort Realizing this strategic importance, the 
 Church Missionary Society, as early as 1825, 
 sent a band of five Basel men to Egypt, one 
 of them the famous Samuel Gobat. There 
 were schools and distribution of the Scripture 
 and conversations with thoughtful Copts and 
 Moslems, but the encouragement was small. 
 Mohammedanism appeared unassailable. The 
 first American missionaries reached Egypt in 
 1854, and every student of missions knows how 
 their mission has spread along the entire Nile 
 Valley and grown in numbers, influence, and 
 results chiefly among the Copts, but also among 
 the Moslems. 1 For example, last year over 
 three thousand Moslem pupils were attending 
 the American mission schools, and for the past 
 
 1 See Charles R. Watson, " Egypt and the Christian Cru- 
 sade," for the story of this splendid mission and of the 
 other missions in Egypt. 
 
THE STOET OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 91 
 
 five years meetings for public discussion of The Ameri- 
 the difference between Islam and Christianity can Mission 
 have been held twice a week in Cairo. Spe- 
 cial literature for Moslems has also been printed 
 and distributed. 
 
 In 1882 the Church Missionary Society re- 
 sumed its work, especially among Moslems, 
 through medical and literary agencies, with 
 very encouraging results. Special effort is be- 
 ing made to reach the ten thousand students 
 of the Mohammedan University, El Azhar. 
 Other societies, too, are laboring in Egypt, and 
 the Nile Mission Press is scattering leaves of 
 healing. All the Protestant missions working other 
 in Egypt report one hundred and seven per- Workers 
 manent foreign workers regularly engaged in 
 mission work. This makes a parish of eighty 
 thousand souls for each missionary. The evan- 
 gelical church counts nearly nine thousand 
 members, most of them gathered from the 
 Copts. For every Protestant Christian in 
 Egypt there are : one Jew, about three Roman 
 Catholics, over twenty-six Copts, and three 
 hundred and sixty-nine Moslems. 
 
 Yet it is encouraging that Moslem life and The Future 
 thought in Egypt are undergoing great changes. 
 The leaven of the Gospel is reaching the Mos- 
 lem masses, and there are more inquirers and 
 converts from year to year. The first Ecu- 
 menical Conference of workers among Moslems, 
 held in Cairo in 1906, was a prophecy of the 
 day when this stronghold of Islam shall become 
 the possession of Jesus Christ. 
 
92 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Turkey The Turkish Empire. The territory of the 
 
 Turkish Empire is well covered by mission 
 societies. The American Board is the oldest 
 in the field, and occupies European Turkey, 
 Asia Minor, and eastern Turkey. The Pres- 
 byterian Church (North) occupies Syria. The 
 Methodist Episcopal Church has work in Bul- 
 garia, the Reformed Presbyterians in northern 
 Syria, and the Church Missionary Society occu- 
 pies Palestine. These are the chief agencies 
 at work, and count a total of 637 foreign mis- 
 sionaries. Yet, according to the " Encyclopaedia 
 of Missions," " the Church Missionary Society is 
 the only one that has made a special effort to 
 establish mission work distinctively for Moham- 
 medans" ! 
 
 indirect Until recent years the difficulties of the prob- 
 
 Work i em an( j the terror of the Turk seem to have 
 
 prevented direct work for Moslems, although 
 by printing press, schools, colleges, and hos- 
 pitals, many Mohammedans were reached indi- 
 rectly and incidentally. 
 
 " The missionaries have devoted a relatively small 
 part of their time and strength to the Moslem work," 
 writes Robert E. Speer. " In Egypt, Syria, Turkey and 
 Persia the greater portion of the energy of the mission- 
 aries has been devoted to work for Copts, Maronites, 
 Greeks, Armenians, Jews and Nestorians. Apart from 
 the schools (and the number of Mohammedan pupils in 
 schools in Turkey is almost inconsiderably small), com- 
 paratively little has been done. Through medical mis- 
 sionaries many have been made accessible, and some 
 have been reached, but we do not have and have not 
 had for years a systematic and aggressive, though tactful 
 and quiet campaign for the evangelization of Moslems." 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 93 
 
 The early ideals of direct work for Moslems, Early ideals 
 as held by Smith, Perkins, Grant, Pfander, and 
 others, seem to have been lost sight of, or more 
 probably they were crushed by the political 
 restrictions and continued persecutions in Tur- 
 key ; nevertheless, a world of work has been ac- 
 complished in the face of tremendous difficulty 
 and determined opposition for the future evan- 
 gelization of Moslems. 
 
 " Protestant missions have given the entire population Results 
 the Bible in their own tongue ; have trained hundreds To-day 
 of thousands of readers; published thousands of useful 
 books ; awakened a spirit of inquiry ; set in motion edu- 
 cational institutions in all the sects of all parts of the 
 Empire, compelling the enemies of education to become 
 its friends, and the most conservative of orientals to de- 
 vote mosque and convent property to the founding of 
 schools of learning. They have broken the fetters of 
 womanhood. . . . Every evangelical church is a living epis- 
 tle to the Mohammedans with regard to the true nature of 
 original apostolic Christianity. Encouraged by the spirit 
 of reform and modern progress, even the Mohammedan 
 doctors of Constantinople have issued orders that all edi- 
 tions of old Mohammedan authors which recount the 
 fabulous stories of Moslem saints and Welys are to be 
 expurgated or suppressed and not to be reprinted." l 
 
 As a single striking example, among hun- The Arabic 
 dreds, of this work for Moslem evangelization, Blble 
 take the Arabic version of the Scriptures by 
 Drs. Eli Smith and Cornelius Van Dyck. This 
 arduous task was begun in 1848 and not finally 
 completed until 1865. The completion of this 
 matchless version marked an epoch in missions 
 
 1 Dr. H. H. Jessup in the " Encyclopaedia of Missions," 
 
 p. 757. 
 
94 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 for the Mohammedan world greater than any 
 accession or deposition of sultans. That Bible 
 made modern missions to Arabia, Egypt, Tunis, 
 Tripoli, and the Arabic-speaking world possible. 
 For an excellent account of all "the Chris- 
 tian forces now at work in the Turkish Em- 
 pire," see the article with this title in the 
 Missionary Review of the World for October, 
 1901, by Dr. Edward Riggs. He concludes 
 that 
 
 " The Christian forces now at work are not at present 
 in any sense arrayed against Mohammedanism. The 
 attitude of the state religion would not tolerate that. 
 During the Crimean War the Turkish government was 
 so deeply indebted to the Christian powers of Western 
 Europe that there came about a considerable relaxation 
 of the rigidity of this attitude. Religious discussion 
 was very free between Mohammedans and Christians. 
 It was to be heard openly in the market-places and on 
 the Bosphorus steamers. Preaching-places were opened 
 for the presentation of the Gospel to Mohammedans, 
 with some small net results. But this could not long 
 continue, and private persecution was later followed up 
 by an ill-disguised attitude of fanaticism on the part of 
 the authorities. This spirit of haughty intolerance has 
 been steadily growing for a quarter of a century, and 
 renders practically impossible all effort to influence Mo- 
 hammedans in favor of Christianity." 
 
 If this is true, how much more urgent is the 
 call to prayer. All things are possible with G-od. 
 
 Arabia the Cradle of Islam. Except for the 
 small colony of Sabeans on the Euphrates, and 
 the Jews of Bagdad, Busrah, and Yemen, all 
 Arabia is Mohammedan. With an area of over 
 one million square miles and four thousand 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 95 
 
 miles of coast, the population is about eight Political 
 millions. Three-fourths of Arabia is under Dfrisioii 
 independent rulers, many of them under Brit- 
 ish protection. The remainder belongs, at least 
 nominally, to Turkey. Although Christianity 
 flourished in Arabia before Mohammed's time, 
 the form of the faith was not pure enough to 
 be permanent, and the Arabian Christians, as 
 far as we know, did not have the Bible in their 
 own tongue. 
 
 Mohammed's dying injunction was that his 
 native country might be inhabited solely by 
 " believers," and it was rigorously enforced in 
 the caliphate of Omar. Even before his death, 
 the Christians of Arabia had, through force 
 or gain of worldly goods, become apostate. 
 Wright says, " Whether any Christians were 
 left in the peninsula at the death of Moham 
 med, may be reasonably doubted." This was 
 in 632 A.D. From that date until the day of Long Neg- 
 Keith Falconer, the whole of Arabia was utterly, lect 
 continuously, and inexplicably neglected by the 
 Church of Christ in its work of evangelization. 
 The false prophet held undisputed sway in the 
 whole peninsula. 
 
 The story of Ion Keith Falconer's life is Keith Fai- 
 well known. He was, in the true sense of coner 
 the word, the pioneer missionary of Arabia 
 (for the Roman Catholic mission, founded at 
 Aden, in 1840, was not intended to reach the 
 Arabs, and even now confines its efforts to 
 the mixed population of Steamer Point). 
 Keith Falconer called attention to the neg- 
 
96 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Mackay's 
 Appeal 
 
 The Re- 
 sponse 
 
 lected Arabs by the appeals of his voice and 
 pen and the sacrifice of his life. Being dead, 
 he yet speaks to all Christendom of that vast 
 region "shrouded in almost utter darkness," 
 whose " millions suffer the horrors of Islam," 
 and pleads for Arabia. The mission so nobly 
 begun has been faithfully continued by the 
 Free Church of Scotland, but, from lack of 
 laborers, the work has not yet extended beyond 
 Sheikh Othman (Aden) except through the 
 potent influence of their hospital. 
 
 The Danish Evangelical Church has recently 
 sent out missionaries who cooperate with the 
 Scotch Mission at Sheikh Othman and plan to 
 occupy some other station. 
 
 From Usambiro, Central Africa, Alexander 
 M. Mackay, 1888, sent forth his remarkable 
 appeal for a mission to the Arabs of Oman. 
 It was the trumpet-call to duty for the aged 
 Bishop French. After thirty-seven years of 
 mission labor in India, he resigned his bishop- 
 ric at Lahore, "moved by an inexpressible 
 desire to preach to the Arabs." He arrived at 
 Muscat on February 9, 1891, and died on May 
 14 of the same year. His plans never reached 
 execution, and he never reached the interior, the 
 goal of his desires. But the few months he spent 
 at Muscat were full of the work of faith and the 
 patience of hope, as well as the labor of love 
 in wonderful self-denial. Was it to shame the 
 Church that a lonely, aged man was permitted 
 to raise the King's banner in response to Mac- 
 kay's plea, and to die in doing it ? 
 
STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 97 
 
 The Arabian Mission of the Reformed Church The Arabian 
 in America (1890) occupies Busrah, Bahrein, and M* 881011 
 Muscat on the Persian Gulf. It was at Busrah 
 that Kamil Abd el Messiah, a Moslem convert 
 of the Syrian mission, laid down his life in 
 earnest witness for the truth. He was the first 
 Mohammedan convert who preached Christ to 
 the Arabs of Hadramaut and East Arabia. 
 Beyond Busrah this mission has out-stations 
 at Nasariyeh and Amara northward, and at 
 Nachl in Oman. 
 
 Bahrein was entered in 1892, and offers 
 splendid opportunities because of the great 
 freedom enjoyed. It now has a hospital, a 
 chapel, and school building. Muscat station 
 owes its start and early development to the 
 devotion, practical energy, and patient endur- 
 ance of Peter John Zwemer. Alone he pene- Peter J. 
 trated far inland to plant the banner, which Zwemer 
 fell from the dead hand of Bishop French, on 
 the heights of Jebel Achdar. In the face of 
 stupendous difficulties and a most trying cli- 
 mate, he persevered in holding the fort, while 
 appealing in vain for the sinews of war and a 
 comrade in arms. He translated a tract for Mos- 
 lems, set it up in type, and struck off on a hand- 
 press, turned by one of his band of rescued slave 
 lads, the first Christian leaflet ever printed in 
 Arabia. The school for rescued slaves was the 
 outcome of his individual effort and enterprise. 
 Worn out by fevers and six years of toil, he went 
 on furlough ; after a wearisome journey and 
 three months in the hospital at New York, 
 
MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Other Wit- 
 nesses 
 
 Open Doors 
 in Persia 
 
 ever looking forward to recovery and to further 
 service in Arabia with patient expectancy (so 
 unwilling was he to lay off the harness), he fell 
 asleep on October 18, 1898. 
 
 In addition to those named, Arabia holds as a 
 heritage of promise the graves of other American 
 missionaries : George E. Stone, Harry Wiersum, 
 Dr. Marion Wells Thorns, and Mrs. Jessie Vail 
 Bennett. The Arabian Mission of the Reformed 
 Church in America, organized in 1889, now has 
 nineteen missionaries on the field, with twenty 
 native helpers. There have been converts and 
 baptisms, but the full harvest is not yet, although 
 the work is encouraging, and doors are opening 
 into the interior. 
 
 Missions in Persia. In many respects Persia 
 presents a weak point for our conquest of Islam. 
 The Persians themselves are sectarians and the 
 enemies of the orthodox school of Islam ; Per- 
 sia has always been Aryan rather than Semitic 
 in its thought, and therefore is more tolerant and 
 willing to discuss religious matters ; and in no 
 Moslem land are there so many sects and schools 
 of thought, rationalists and mystics. Add to 
 this that Persia has for the last fifty years been 
 convulsed by the new religion of the Bab and 
 its daughter faith, Behaism both halfway stop- 
 ping-places toward Christianity, or away from 
 it. 
 
 Persia has an area of 648,000 square miles and 
 a population of 9,500,000. Of these, 8,800,000 
 are Moslems. 
 
 After the pioneer journey of Henry Martyn. 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 99 
 
 and the work of Pfander and his associates, 
 Frederick Haas, another German missionary, 
 came to Tabriz in 1833, and in 1838 Dr. William 
 Glenn, a Scottish missionary, began the transla- 
 tion of the Old Testament into Persian, thus 
 completing the work begun by Henry Martyn. 
 In 1869, Rev. Robert Bruce, D.D., located at Robert 
 Ispahan and awakened a deep interest in the Bruce 
 evangelization of Persia, so that in 1876 the 
 Church Missionary Society opened a station 
 at Julfa, a suburb of Ispahan. The wonderful 
 growth of this mission in one man's lifetime is 
 thus described in the Church Missionary He- 
 view : 
 
 " When Bishop Stuart went to Julfa in 1894 that was Wonderful 
 the only Church Missionary Society station in the Shah's Success 
 dominions, and it was an Armenian station outside the 
 Moslem citadel. Now Ispahan itself is occupied, and so 
 are Yezd and Kirman and Shiraz, all ancient and impor- 
 tant cities, and there are bands of converts in all of them. 
 Over a hundred adult converts have been baptized in 
 Persia since the new century commenced. In Ispahan 
 last Christmas Day some sixty converts knelt together at 
 the Lord's Supper, a sight to cheer the heart indeed, 
 to see converts from Mohammedanism, Babism, and 
 Parsiism, kneeling side by side with Armenians and 
 Europeans and receiving the tokens of the Saviour's 
 dying love. 
 
 " Dr. Carr, who has just come home from Ispahan, tells 
 the committee how the workers are cheered by the evi- 
 dent signs of reality and depth of conviction in the con- 
 verts, especially the women. They have borne the most 
 deadly persecution, and they show a readiness to bear 
 the loss of all things in loyalty to Christ. Moslem oppo- 
 sition is yielding before Christian benevolence, and the 
 medical mission is now not only a tolerated institution in 
 
100 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Ispahan, where the work was a few years since so bitterly 
 opposed, but it is welcomed. Mohammedans themselves 
 subscribe nearly 100 a year toward its up-keep, and gave 
 lately a further 200 to extend the hospital buildings, 
 the land on which they stand having been provided by a 
 leading Mohammedan." 
 
 The Ameri- In 1827 Dr. Joseph Wolf visited Persia, and 
 can Mission ag a resu j^ o f n i s wr itmgs the American Board 
 determined to begin work among the Nestorians. 
 In 1834 Rev. J. L. Merrick went out under the 
 same Board and attempted work among Mos- 
 lems, but the way was not open. For many 
 years the work of the American missionaries 
 was chiefly among the Nestorians. In 1871 this 
 mission came under the Presbyterian Board, and 
 in more recent years there has been work also 
 among Moslems. Some have professed Christ 
 openly and several have suffered martyrdom, 
 among them Mirza Ibrahim. 1 
 
 In Eastern Persia this mission occupies Te- 
 heran, Kazvin, Resht, and Hamadan, with many 
 out-stations ; in Western Persia, Urumia and 
 Tabriz. The report of the mission for 1906 
 contains some very interesting accounts of 
 evangelistic work among Moslems. It is the 
 day of opportunity in Persia, and there is cry- 
 ing need for reinforcements. 
 
 Moslem Work for Moslems in India. The study of 
 
 India missions in India, " Lux Christi," has so well 
 
 covered the general work of missions that a 
 
 brief summary of work among Mohammedans 
 
 1 See sketch of his life in Robert E. Speer's u Men who 
 Overcame." 
 
THE STOEY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 101 
 
 must suffice here. Henry Martyn was the fore- 
 runner of many other missionaries in India who 
 endeavored to give the Gospel to the Moslem as 
 well as to the Hindu. The Scriptures were Work of 
 translated into Bengali, Hindi, Punjabi, Kash- Fre P aration 
 miri, Sindhi, and Baluchi to reach every Moslem 
 tongue of India. A large vernacular literature 
 specially suited to Moslems was prepared. And 
 through hospitals, schools, colleges, and itinerant 
 preaching, many Mohammedans were reached. 
 Some societies have made special effort in this 
 direction, among them the Church Missionary 
 Society, the American Presbyterian Missions in 
 North India, and the Australian Baptist Mission. 
 
 In more recent years a few missionaries have 
 been set apart specially by their societies for this 
 important work, as it has become evident that 
 the successful worker among Moslems must 
 know Arabic and the Koran. But on the whole, 
 even in India, the Mohammedans have been 
 neglected more than any other race or religion 
 among its millions of people. This is evident 
 from the literature of missions on India, which 
 often gives scant notice of the Mohammedan 
 problem; but it is even more evident from the 
 fact that there are so few societies or mission- 
 aries that give themselves wholly to this work. 
 Is there not a call to-day for a special mission The Present 
 or special mission work on a large scale to reach Cal1 
 the largest Mohammedan population in any land 
 62,458,077 souls larger than that of all 
 Mohammedan Africa ? 
 
 The results of work for Moslems have been 
 
102 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Indian Con- 
 verts 
 
 The East 
 Indies 
 
 considerable. Indirectly the whole attitude of 
 Islam toward Christianity has changed. The 
 literati have abandoned controversial positions 
 once thought impregnable, and thousands are 
 studying the Scriptures. And there have been 
 many converts. 
 
 " The accessions from Islam," says Dr. Wherry, "espe- 
 cially in northern India, have been continuous during all 
 the years since the death of Henry JVlartyn. One here 
 and another there has been added to the Christian 
 Church, so that now as one looks over the rolls of 
 Church membership, he is surprised to find so many 
 converts from Islam, or the children and children's chil- 
 dren of such converts. In the North, especially in the 
 Punjab, and the Northwest Frontier Province, every con- 
 gregation has a representation from the Moslem ranks. 
 Some of the churches have a majority of their member- 
 ship gathered from among the Moslems. In a few cases 
 there has been something like a movement among Mos- 
 lems towards Christianity, and a considerable number 
 have come out at one time. But perhaps the fact which 
 tells most clearly the story of the advance of Christianity 
 among Moslems in India is this, that among the native 
 pastors and Christian preachers and teachers in North 
 India, there are at least two hundred who were once 
 followers of Islam." 
 
 Gospel Triumphs in the Dutch East Indies. 
 It has been well said that " the Moslem propa- 
 ganda has accomplished its masterpiece in the 
 East Indies." Entering this region only four 
 hundred years ago, the result is that out of a 
 total population in Java of twenty-eight and a 
 half million, twenty-four and a quarter million 
 once heathen have become Moslems. And in 
 Sumatra, among its four million inhabitants, 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 103 
 
 three and a half million profess the religion 
 of Islam. Similar conditions exist, or would 
 soon have existed in Celebes, Borneo, and the 
 other islands, had Christian missions not en- 
 tered and raised barriers to the Moslem con- 
 quest. Yet it is on these very islands, Java Signal Tri- 
 and Sumatra, that the most signal triumphs um P hs 
 of the Gospel have been won among Moslems 
 and the greatest number of converts gathered 
 into the Church of Christ. 
 
 The population of the entire Malay Archi- 
 pelago is equal to that of South America, yet 
 there are few parts of the world less known to 
 the average student of missions. The records 
 of the trials and triumphs here are largely 
 locked up in the Dutch and German languages, 
 for the most populous islands are Dutch posses- 
 sions, and the work is mostly carried on by their 
 societies and those of Germany. 
 
 Sumatra and Java are the principal and the Sumatra 
 typical fields of work for Moslems in Malay- 
 sia. A Baptist missionary reached Sumatra as 
 early as 1820, and in 1834 Munson and Lyman 
 went out under the American Board, but were 
 brutally murdered. The Rhenish Missionary 
 Society entered the field in 1861 and has had 
 marvellous success. Other societies from the 
 Netherlands also labor on the island. Dr. 
 Schreiber, the Inspector of the Rhenish Mis- 
 sion, says, " I do not know if there is any other 
 part of the mission field, with the exception of 
 some parts of Java, where such large numbers 
 of Mohammedans have been won for Christ as 
 
104 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 among the Battaks of Sumatra." The attitude 
 of the Dutch government, which was once bit- 
 terly hostile or critically neutral, has, in recent 
 years, greatly changed, and is now favorable to 
 missions. In Sumatra the issue between Chris- 
 tianity and Islam was boldly faced from the 
 outset; there was neither fear nor compromise 
 in mission methods, and this, together with con- 
 siderable freedom to preach, perhaps accounts 
 for the great success in winning converts. 
 Borneo A mutiny in Borneo was the means of start- 
 
 ing this wonderful mission among the Battak 
 people. In May, 1859, heathen Dyaks, incited 
 and led by Mohammedan fanatics, attacked 
 the Borneo mission, killing seven missionaries, 
 several children, and destroying schools and 
 churches. Four little children from one mis- 
 sionary's home were taken captive to the jungle 
 and treated cruelly, but afterward ransomed. 
 The survivors of the mission left for Sumatra 
 and began work among heathen and Moham- 
 medans there with many early hardships, but 
 finally with great success. 
 
 Hester Hester Needham, the Saint of Sumatra, was 
 
 Needhara one o f those wno u ma( j e U p that which was 
 
 behind of the sufferings of Jesus Christ " for 
 His elect among the Mohammedans. The story 
 of her life is like that of Henry Martyn, Allen 
 Gardiner, or David Brainerd. Her letters and 
 diaries glow with love for souls and show 
 clear evidence that she walked with God. Her 
 foreign missionary labor began when she heard 
 of " a place in Sumatra where for forty years 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 105 
 
 the heathen had been asking for a missionary, 
 and none have gone, and now the Mohamme- 
 dans are going, but no missionary for Christ." 
 This was her call, and she at once went to Ger- 
 many to offer herself to the Barmen Mission. 
 
 She entered upon the work among the Bat- A Noble 
 taks of Sumatra at the age of forty-six, and for Llfe 
 eight years she labored there. Then, from a 
 life of arduous toil, in the teeth of extreme 
 physical suffering and debility, she entered her 
 eternal rest on May 12, 1897, in her own words, 
 " Thankful to stay, but delighted to go." 
 
 Money, social position, and gifts, and even a 
 sphere of great usefulness she forsook, knowing 
 that her place could be supplied, and at an age 
 when many consider their working days over, 
 and already suffering from spinal complaint, 
 she braved a life of incessant hardship and 
 humiliation, in a trying climate. 1 
 
 In Sumatra the Rhenish Mission now has Results 
 6500 converted Moslems, 1150 catechumens, 80 
 churches, 5 native pastors, 70 lay preachers, 
 while they baptized 153 Mohammedans in 1906. 
 In the district of Si Perok, a Christian convert 
 from Islam has become chief in place of a 
 Mohammedan. 
 
 Java is the richest and largest of Dutch j av a 
 colonial possessions. Six Dutch missionary 
 societies labor on the island, which has a dense 
 population of 28,746,688; of these, 24,270,600 
 are Moslems. Surely a large and difficult 
 
 1 " A Saint in Sumatra," Missionat-y Review of the World, 
 January, 1900. 
 
106 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 field. Yet by preaching, the sale of Scriptures, 
 and medical work, great numbers have been 
 won to Christ. The work in Sumatra is a 
 miracle of missions, but in Java there have 
 been still greater numerical results. Accord- 
 ing to latest statistics, there are now living in 
 Java over 18,000 who have been converted to 
 Christianity from Islam, and the converts from 
 Islam amount to between 300 and 400 adults 
 every year. 1 
 
 Results Although living in the larger coast cities, the 
 
 missionaries have succeeded in organizing many 
 churches in the interior of the island for Mos- 
 lems. The average number of missionaries for 
 the past twenty-five years who devote all their 
 attention to the Mohammedans was only about 
 twenty for this island. Surely God's rich bless- 
 ing has rested on their labors in giving so abun- 
 dant a harvest, and these miracles of grace 
 prove that the Gospel is the power of God unto 
 salvation to the Mohammedan as well as to the 
 heathen world. 
 
 HELPS FOR LEADERS 
 Lesson Aim : 
 
 To make vivid the long and general neglect of the 
 Church, and the work of preparation now accomplished ; 
 to show also that work for Moslems, though difficult, is 
 not hopeless. 
 Scripture Lesson : 
 
 Ps. 2; 1 Sam. 17:4-11; 41-50. 
 Suggestive Questions : 
 
 1. Trace Raymund Lull's missionary journeys on 
 the map. 
 
 i "The Mohammedan World of To-day, " p. 237. 
 
THE STOEY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 107 
 
 2. In what sense were the Crusades a missionary 
 movement ? 
 
 3. Give an account of Henry Martyn's last journey 
 through Persia. 
 
 4. What influence has Robert College exerted on 
 Turkish Mohammedanism ? 
 
 5. Give the story of the Arabic Bible translation. 
 
 6. Give the story of Bishop French at Muscat. 
 
 7. Name all the missionary societies laboring in 
 Persia and Arabia. 
 
 8. Who was Imad-ud-Din? Mirza Ibrahim? Kamil? 
 
 9. What are the opportunities for medical work in 
 Turkey? 
 
 10. Where are the chief mission printing-presses for 
 the Mohammedan World located ? 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 Herbert Birk's "Life and Correspondence of Bishop 
 T. V. French." London, 1895. 2 vols. 
 
 H. H. Jessup, " The Setting of the Crescent and the 
 Rising of the Cross, or Kamil Abd ul Messiah." Phila- 
 delphia, 1898. 
 
 Robert Sinker, "Memorial of Ion Keith Falconer." 
 Cambridge, 1886. 
 
 George Smith, "Life of Henry Martyn, Scholar and 
 Saint, First Modern Missionary to the Moslems." 
 
 W. A. Essery, " The Ascending Cross : Some Results 
 of Missions in Bible Lands, 1854-1904." The Religious 
 Tract Society, London, 1905. 
 
 Andrew Watson, " The American Mission in Egypt." 
 Pittsburg, Penn., 1897. 
 
 Cyrus Hamlin, "My Life and Times." New York, 
 1893. 
 
 H. O. D wight, " Constantinople and its Problems." 
 
 Charles R. Watson, " Egypt and the Christian Cru- 
 sade." Philadelphia, 1907. 
 
 E. M. Wherry, " Islam and Christianity in India and 
 the Far East." New York, 1907. 
 
108 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Samuel G. Wilson, " Persian Life and Customs." New 
 York, 1895. 
 
 James L. Barton and others, " The Mohammedan 
 World of To-day." New York, 1906. 
 
 Annie Van Sommer, " Our Moslem Sisters." (A Sym- 
 posium.) New York, 1907. 
 
 J. Rutherford and E. H. Glenny, The Gospel in 
 North Africa." London, 1900. 
 
 Mary R. S. Bird, " Persian Women and their Creed." 
 C. M. S., London, 1899. 
 
 S. M. Zwenier, " Raymund Lull : First Missionary to 
 the Moslems." New York, 1905. (Funk and Wagnalls.) 
 "Arabia the Cradle of Islam." New York, 1900. (Re- 
 vell.) "Islam: A Challenge to Faith." New York, 1907. 
 (S.V.M.) 
 
 ILLUSTRATIVE SELECTIONS 
 
 A HUMAN DOCUMENT 
 
 DEAR EDITOR : I have read with astonishment your 
 leading article in the Egyptian Gazette of the 7th inst. 
 on "Missions to Mohammedans," in which you conclude 
 that Egypt's great need is not religion but sanitation. I 
 don't want to enter into a controversy with you, but 
 would like to tell you in a few words my own experience 
 as a Moslem. I was a strict follower of the religion of 
 Islam, and was educated thoroughly in all its precepts, and 
 that in lands where no other religion is known or taught, 
 the Hadramaut and the Yemen. Eventually I became 
 Kadi al Islam, and so zealous was I, that not only did I 
 observe all that was imposed upon me by the Koran, but 
 many things in addition, such as the pilgrimage to 
 Medina, the opening of my house to all Moslem strangers, 
 the spending of many of the nights of Ramadan in prayer 
 and reading of the Koran, and the supplying of the wants 
 of the poor to the utmost of my ability. 
 
 All that I did, in order to find peace with God and rest 
 for my soul ; but the only result was increased fear and 
 trouble of conscience, till I could find no pleasure in any- 
 thing. I thought that this state must arise from our neg- 
 lecting, as Moslems, the sacred duty imposed upon us by 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 109 
 
 our religion, of waging war against the unbelievers, and 
 as I had not the power to do that, I tried to make amends 
 for it by hating them with all my heart, till I could hardly 
 bear the sight of a Christian. 
 
 And so I remained without hope and without rest, 
 until, coming to Aden, I met a friend who had a very dif- 
 ferent feeling towards me and my fellow-Moslems from 
 what you have. Having tasted the joy and blessing of a 
 living Saviour, he was anxious that all the world should 
 know Him too ; for the Christian religion differs from all 
 other religions in the world in this, that it consists in the 
 knowledge of a person, a living person, and not in the 
 holding of dogmas and creeds. He preached to me Jesus, 
 and I believed in Him as my Saviour, and found peace. It 
 meant that I lost everything, that my name was defamed, 
 my life attempted, and I became a poor outcast and 
 wanderer from my native land. Everybody forsook me, 
 and I have been at times without bread to eat, but in the 
 midst of it all my heart has been full of joy and love to 
 God and all men, especially my own people. 
 
 I am afraid, dear sir, from your article, that you know 
 not yet in your heart the presence of this Saviour, or you 
 would have a better Gospel to preach than the gospel of 
 sanitation. Is it possible that I, the poor Moslem, have 
 entered into the Kingdom of Heaven before you, the 
 learned citizen of a Christian nation ? even as He said of 
 old to the Pharisees, "the publicans and harlots shall 
 enter into the Kingdom of Heaven before you." 
 Yours sincerely, 
 
 SALEM EL KHAMKY. 
 
 SUEZ, February 9, 1905. 
 
 " WHO BEING DEAD YET SPEAKETH." 
 
 " While vast continents are shrouded in almost utter dark- 
 ness, and hundreds of millions suffer the horrors of heathen- 
 ism and of Islam, the burden of proof rests on you to show 
 that the circumstances in which God has placed you were meant 
 by God to keep you out of the foreign field." ION KEITH 
 FALCONER, Cambridge University Scholar and Pioneer 
 Missionary in Arabia. 
 
110 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 THE OLD ARGUMENT OF FORCE AT CAIRO 
 
 "Mr. Michael Mansoor, a convert from Mohammedan- 
 ism, who is in the service of our mission, and who has 
 been doing most acceptable work among Moslems, was 
 attending, by invitation, a Mohammedan literary society. 
 At the invitation of the president of the society, he gave a 
 brief address, praising the object of the society. There 
 were about a thousand present. He concluded his ad- 
 dress with a few verses of poetry of his own composition, 
 at which he was loudly cheered. He was scarcely seated 
 when a sheikh of the Azhar, the Mohammedan University 
 of Cairo, jumped to his feet and commenced speaking, 
 immediately bringing up the subject of religion, praising 
 Islam and making invidious comparisons with Christian- 
 ity. When he sat down, Mr. Mansoor leaned over and 
 whispered in his ear that if circumstances permitted, he 
 would not hesitate to reply. 
 
 " The sheikh then arose, and repeated in the hearing 
 of the audience what Mr. Mansoor had whispered to him. 
 Then Mr. Mansoor arose and made an explanation, saying 
 that this society is not for the discussion of religious ques- 
 tions, but if the sheikh wished to discuss with him any of 
 these subjects, he might come to the hall of the American 
 Mission on Monday night, when and where there were 
 such discussions. The sheikh invited every person he 
 met for the following four days, without our missionaries 
 having any suspicion of what was being concocted. 
 
 "On the following Monday, before the hour for the 
 meeting had fully arrived, a crowd had gathered at the 
 mission building. The doors of the chapel were opened, 
 and the room was soon packed, with men standing and 
 sitting in the windows ; the platform was packed as well. 
 Still they came, pressing in and crowding upon one an- 
 other, so that those who had occupied the seats got up and 
 stood on them. They broke in the back door of the court 
 and filled the court behind ; there must have been at least 
 one thousand people. 
 
 "It was manifestly impossible to keep such a crowd 
 quiet, and they were in no mood for a calm religious dis- 
 
THE STORY OF MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 111 
 
 cussion. The missionaries realized that for Mr. Mansoor 
 to attempt his usual meeting would doubtless occasion a 
 riot. The word was passed that a meeting, under the 
 circumstances, was impossible. But the audience was in 
 no mood to leave, and many still pressed in. Appeal to 
 the police was also without avail. 
 
 "At length, weary of waiting, and finding no prospect of 
 a meeting, one after another, they left. The room was 
 found quite the worse for the incident : benches broken, 
 seats scratched and smeared with mud. The entire inci- 
 dent was a display of usual Moslem tactics. The crowd 
 had come determined to win, if not by argument, then 
 by display of force. . . ." REV. C. R. WATSON in The 
 United Presbyterian, February 15, 1906. 
 
 A GOOD FOUNDATION FOR A BIBLE HOUSE 
 
 " When the foundations of the Bible House at Constan- 
 tinople were laid, the removal of the surface soil revealed 
 the broken walls of a Christian church built on that site 
 fourteen hundred years ago. Upon the foundations of 
 that ancient church edifice rests a part of the Bible House 
 walls to-day. The site is holy ground, consecrated by 
 the prayers of the Christians of that sixth century, which 
 sent its missionaries to heathen Britain in the West, and 
 to Central Asia and China in the East. Is it an acci- 
 dent, think yon, that after all these years the prayers 
 offered in that old church for the coming of the King- 
 dom have begun to be answered by the establishment 
 again of witnesses for Jesus Christ upon this very spot? 
 There are no accidents in God's administration of His 
 Kingdom. Then the missionary century of the hoary 
 past joins its plea to the present missionary century for 
 Christians everywhere to rally to the effective endow- 
 ment of this mission publishing work, which is rooted 
 in the broad principles of Jesus Christ himself, even as 
 its material habitation is established upon the rock-like 
 foundations for Christian service laid by the earliest colo- 
 nies of his followers in this city." 
 
 REV. HENRY O. DWIGHT, LL.D. 
 
THE MOSLEM BEGGAR 
 
 [NOTE. Poor destitute men, many of them deprived of 
 their eyes as punishment for law-breaking, infest the towns 
 of Morocco and other lands of the East. Their common cry 
 is " Ya Mai Allah," " Give me what belongs to God 1 " J 
 
 " In shadow of a crumbling mosque he stands, 
 An aged mendicant with want outworn, 
 
 Eyes from their shrunken sockets ruthless torn, 
 For crimes in lawless youth, for so demands 
 
 The cruel Moslem code. With trembling hands 
 Outheld for aid he only lives to mourn, 
 Till kindly Death beyond the earthly bourne 
 
 Shall carry him at last, and loose his bands. 
 
 * To motley crowds that careless come and go 
 
 He murmurs, < Give me what belongs to God/ 
 That cry proclaims the debt that Christians owe 
 His country where Mohammed's legions trod, 
 And with the sword their creed unholy spread, 
 Bobbing her children of the Living Bread." 
 
 S. S. McCuRRY. 
 
 112 
 
CHAPTER IV 
 
 THE WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 
 
 The Unoccupied Fields. In the previous Unoccupied 
 chapters we have seen something of the work Fields 
 of missions for Mohammedans direct and in- 
 direct in lands like Egypt, Turkey, Persia, 
 India, Sumatra, and Java, where for many years 
 the Moslem populations have, more or less, 
 come in contact with the missions. These 
 lands and others more recently entered may, in 
 a sense, be considered occupied. Yet there is 
 not a single one of them where the total 
 number of laborers is in any sense adequate 
 for the work of evangelization. Even in 
 Egypt, for example, only a small fraction of 
 the Moslem population is reached in any way 
 by the Gospel. 
 
 In Turkey, where there are many missionary 
 agencies at work, the bulk of the Mohammedan 
 population is either inaccessible or neglected. 
 And even in India, where there is an open India 
 door to 62,000,000 Moslems, the number of 
 those specially qualified and set apart for work 
 among them is altogether too few. 
 
 Aside, however, from the vast work that 
 
 remains to be done in these lands, in which 
 
 the strategic centres of population are already 
 
 mission stations, and whose territory has been 
 
 i 113 
 
114 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 divided among various societies by the laws 
 of comity, there are lands wholly untouched 
 or almost entirely unreached by the Gospel. 
 These unoccupied lands and regions are those 
 where nothing has yet been done, and where 
 there are neither mission stations nor mission 
 workers. 
 
 Our Watch- In our study of missions we must never for- 
 get that " the evangelization of the world in 
 this generation," which has become the battle- 
 cry of missions, is an impossible ideal unless 
 these unoccupied fields, hitherto utterly neg- 
 lected, are entered and evangelized. The field 
 is the world. Therefore the perfect cultivation 
 of one section, however large or important, to 
 the neglect of other corners of the field, cannot 
 be the fulfilment of the will of the Great Hus- 
 bandman. 
 
 Darkest Darkest Africa. The darkest part of Africa 
 
 Africa to-day is Mohammedan Africa and those great 
 
 border-marches of Islam where paganism is 
 rapidly and surely giving way before the 
 Moslem advance. In the point of numbers, 
 Mohammedanism claims thirty-six per cent of 
 Africa's population, or 58,864,587 souls out of 
 a total population of 163,736,683. 
 
 Of this Mohammedan population, the over- 
 whelming majority, or 54,790,879, are to be 
 found north of the equator. Of these, again, 
 two-fifths, roughly speaking, are north of 
 twenty degrees north latitude, and three-fifths 
 are south of that latitude. 
 
 "While in actual numbers there are more 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 115 
 
 Mohammedans between the latitude indicated 
 and the equator than north of that latitude, 
 yet, in proportion to the population of the 
 countries involved, Mohammedanism is far Islam's 
 stronger north of twenty degrees north lati- stron g hold 
 tude; for, north of this latitude, the Moham- 
 medans constitute ninety-one per cent of the 
 population, while between twenty degrees 
 north latitude and the equator, the Moham- 
 medan population is only forty-two per cent." 
 
 If these statistics, given by Dr. Charles R. 
 Watson at the Cairo Conference, are compared 
 with a map of mission stations in Africa, we 
 find that the centres of light are " like a little 
 candle burning in the night" of Islam. So 
 few and far between are the points occupied. 
 
 " Taking the parallel of latitude that would touch the A Great 
 northern bend of the Niger as the northern limit, and 
 that which would touch the northern bend of the Congo 
 as the southern limit, and modifying these boundaries at 
 either side of the continent so as to omit the mission 
 stations on the West Coast and on the upper courses of 
 the Nile, we find a territory about equal to that of the 
 United States, and far more densely populated, without 
 a single representative of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 
 With a mission station just established by the United 
 Presbyterians of America on the Sobat River, of the 
 Upper Nile basin, and with stations opened by the 
 Church Missionary Society and the United Sudan Mis- 
 sion in the Niger basin, 1500 miles to the west, the situa- 
 tion presented is as if the United States, with her 85,000,000 
 of people, had one missionary in Maine and another in 
 Texas and no Gospel influence between." l 
 
 1 Nay lor' s ''Unoccupied Mission Fields in Africa," The 
 Missionary Review, March, 1906. 
 
116 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Growth of 
 Islam 
 
 The Sudan The Call of the Sudan. The great central 
 and thickly peopled Sudan is one of the most 
 needy fields in the world, and only the merest 
 beginnings have been made in its evangelization. 
 According to Professor Beach, " we have here 
 a population numbering two-thirds that of the 
 United States who cannot by any possibility 
 reach a Protestant Mission Station." Taken 
 in its widest extent, this " Country of the 
 Blacks," for that is the Arabic meaning of the 
 name, includes almost a fourth of the continent 
 both as to area and population. 
 
 And the problem in all this vast region is to- 
 day the problem of Islam. Hear the testimony 
 of the Rev. J. Aitken: " When I came out in 
 1898, there were few Mohammedans to be seen 
 below Iddah. Now they are everywhere, ex- 
 cepting below Abo, and at the present rate of 
 progress there will scarcely be a pagan village 
 on the river banks by 1910. Then we shall 
 begin to talk of Mohammedan missions to these 
 people, and any one who has worked in both 
 heathen and Mohammedan towns knows what 
 that means." 1 If Dr. Karl Kumm's estimates 
 are trustworthy, this great destitute district 
 of the Sudan, one of the most strategic and the 
 most important unoccupied territories in the 
 world, has a population of at least fifty millions. 
 And yet less than a score of missionaries are 
 found in the entire area. 
 
 Ten of the fifteen great provinces have not 
 one mission station or missionary. If a new 
 i " The Call of the Sudan," Missionary Review, January, 1907. 
 
WOEK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 117 
 
 worker was sent out every day, and each one 
 took a parish of 10,000 people, it would take 
 over sixteen years to occupy the Sudan. 
 
 Dr. Karl Kumm gives the following summary The Situa- 
 of these unoccupied fields : 
 
 tion 
 
 THE LAND 
 
 SIZE 
 
 GOVERNMENT 
 
 MISSIONARIES 
 
 Kordofan 
 Daffur 
 
 England 
 France 
 
 British 
 British 
 
 None 
 None 
 
 
 Wadai 
 Bagirmi 
 
 f Italy and 
 [Ireland 
 Switzerland 
 Holland 
 
 French 
 French 
 
 None 
 None 
 
 
 
 - Belgium 
 and 
 
 
 
 
 
 Tasmania 
 
 
 
 
 Kanem 
 
 J Greece and 
 
 French 
 
 None 
 
 
 Adamawa 
 
 Bornu 
 Sokoto 
 Gando 
 
 \ Denmark 
 J Turkey in 
 \ Europe 
 England 
 Japan 
 {Scotland 
 
 German and 
 British 
 British 
 British 
 British 
 
 None 
 
 None 
 5 C.M.S. 
 
 None 
 
 Workers 
 
 
 and 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ireland 
 
 
 
 
 Nupe 
 
 Bulgaria 
 
 British ' 
 
 6 Canadian Workers 
 
 Islam or Christ. It is true that these countries 
 are not wholly Moslem, but Islam is becoming 
 more and more predominant in them all. And 
 one point to be emphasized is that if the Church 
 does not go now to these pagan tribes in Africa 
 that are threatened with a more or less forced 
 conversion to Islam, it will find the task of evan- 
 gelizing them in the future a most difficult one. 
 
 Islam or 
 Christ 
 
118 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 After visiting the Sierra Leone Missions, 
 Canon Smith writes : 
 
 Now or " The Christian Church in Africa needs to wake up 
 
 never and take alarm, if she would even hope to maintain a 
 
 place in the Hinterland ! Everywhere you turn, be it on 
 the byway or on the high road, you find the < Mori ' men 
 thrusting themselves among the people and gaining ad- 
 herents. They gather together a few children and with 
 the aid of wooden tablets, inscribed with Arabic sentences 
 from the Koran, succeed in teaching these children the one 
 great doctrinal < fact ' of the Mohammedan faith. It is 
 useless for Christians to try to weaken the effect of the 
 warning by saying that these children do not understand 
 what they are taught ; look to the net result, which is, 
 that over the whole land determined Mohammedans are 
 being made every day." 
 
 Instead of the pliant pagan villager, with his 
 grotesque idols and simple religion, there will 
 be opposing us a people with their faith fixed 
 on Mohammed's ability to save all his followers, 
 and with fanatic hostility to the proclamation 
 of Jesus as the one true God. 
 
 The Peril The Moslem Peril in Africa. It is for this 
 
 to-day reason that missionaries and students of mis- 
 
 sions speak of a Mohammedan peril in the Dark 
 Continent. Those who know of the conditions 
 in West Africa, for example, say every effort 
 should be made to forestall the entrance of 
 Islam into the border-lands before this religion 
 renders evangelization tenfold more difficult 
 than it is among African pagans. In Western 
 Africa, Islam and Christianity between them 
 are spoiling heathenism, and will probably divide 
 the pagan peoples in less than fifty years. 
 Pastor F. Wurz, Secretary of the Basel Mis- 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 119 
 
 sion, in a recent pamphlet speaks with dread of 
 this Mohammedan aggression as a peril to the 
 Native Church. He states that the situation on 
 the Gold Coast is alarming. In one village a 
 native preacher and his entire congregation went 
 over to Islam. " Missions will scarcely be able 
 to prevent the entrance of Islam among a single 
 tribe, much less into large districts. Islam is 
 spreading with the certainty and irresistibleness 
 of a rising tide. The only question is whether How to be 
 it will still be possible for missions to organize met 
 Christian Churches, like breakwaters, able to 
 resist the flood and outweather it, or whether 
 everything will be carried away headlong." 
 
 The Sudan United Mission calls the attention Hausa-land 
 of Christendom to the present crisis in Hausa- 
 land. All the heathen populations of the Cen- 
 tral Sudan will go over to Islam unless the 
 Church awakes to its opportunity. It is now or 
 never ; it is Islam or Christ ! In other parts 
 of Africa, the situation is one full of peril to the 
 Native Church. This aspect of the problem 
 was treated in a masterly paper, by Professor 
 Carl Meinhof, of the University of Berlin, at a 
 recent conference, under the title, " Do Missions 
 to the Pagans of Africa Compel us to Carry on 
 Work for the Moslems as well?" His argu- 
 ment proves that every mission in Africa, north 
 of the equator, will be compelled sooner or later 
 to do direct work for Moslems or imperil its 
 very existence. 
 
 A writer in Uganda Notes gives the same 
 testimony : 
 
120 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Islam in 
 Uganda 
 
 Can Islam 
 be a Bless- 
 ing? 
 
 " Egypt draws perceptibly nearer to Uganda. The most 
 northerly station of the Uganda Mission at Condokoro, 
 whither two Baganda evangelists were sent in February, 
 is distant only one hundred and twelve miles from Bori, 
 where the Sudan party are settled. Lower Egypt is a 
 stronghold of Islam, and the followers of that religion are 
 ever busy carrying their creed southward through Upper 
 Egypt towards the confines of this Protectorate. Many 
 of the Nile tribes have already embraced Islam, though 
 the tribes to the north of our missions in Bunyoro are 
 still heathen. If these tribes are left to accept Moham- 
 medanism before the Gospel is carried to them, the diffi- 
 culty of our work in these regions will undoubtedly be 
 seriously enhanced. ... As far as Uganda is concerned, 
 Islam is, of course, infinitely less a power than it once 
 was, when, in the troublous early days of Christianity it 
 threatened to overwhelm the combined heathen and 
 Christian forces arrayed against it. But it is not only 
 from the north that the followers of Islam are threaten- 
 ing an invasion. 
 
 " From the eastern side the railway has brought us into 
 intimate association with coast influence ; Swahilis and 
 Arabs coming up the line leave Islamism in their wake, 
 for almost every Moslem is more or less of a missionary 
 of his faith. Would that the same might be said of 
 Christians ! Not a few Moslems are holding important 
 positions in Uganda, while the larger number of those in 
 authority in Busogo are, or were till quite recently, also 
 Mohammedans. The followers of the false prophet have 
 a great influence among the natives, which does not give 
 promise of becoming less as time goes on. There is a dis- 
 tinct danger of the Eastern Province becoming nominally 
 Moslem before Christianity has made for itself a favorable 
 impression on the minds of the people." 
 
 Mohammedan Women in the Central Sudan. 
 
 Whether Islam is a blessing to Africa in ele- 
 vating the pagan races to a higher level or is 
 not, was once thought an open question. Un- 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 121 
 
 doubtedly the entrance of Islam has in many 
 regions developed a desire for clothing and 
 certain social comforts ; occasionally it has dis- 
 couraged cannibalism, promoted personal clean- 
 liness through its prayer ritual, and given the 
 ability to read Arabic. But we must not leave How far it 
 out of account the blighting influence of Islam civilizes 
 in its sensual teaching and the horrors of the 
 slave traffic which .has been the trade-mark of 
 the system. Canon Taylor, Reclus, Thomson, 
 and Blyden were strong advocates of the re- 
 forming power of Islam, but equally strong and 
 more competent authorities, like Livingstone, 
 Stanley, Schweinfurth, and Burton, contradict 
 their conclusions. The reason why Islam found 
 favor among the Negro races was just because of 
 its low moral standards. As a Moslem once 
 said to a European : " You must not wear our 
 clothes. They are given us of God to set forth 
 the character of our religion, as yours set forth 
 the character of your own. Our clothes are 
 wide, easy, flowing ; so is our religion. We can 
 steal, lie, commit adultery, and do as we wish, 
 and our Prophet will make it all right for us at 
 the last day. Your clothes are like your re- 
 ligion : tight-fitting, narrow, and restraining." 
 
 The condition of Mohammedan women in the A Hopeless 
 Central Sudan is sufficient proof of the utter s y stem 
 hopelessness of such religion for African woman- 
 hood. We read the testimony of a missionary: 
 
 " Social and moral evils, which may have a thin cloak 
 thrown over them in the East as well as in those lands of 
 Islam in the North of Africa, are openly and boldly un- 
 
122 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Cruelty 
 
 Darkest 
 Asia 
 
 covered in the Hausa States. The late Emir of Zaria was 
 terribly severe to all his people, and cruel to a degree with 
 any of his wives who transgressed in any way, or were 
 suspected of unfaithfulness. In one instance in which a 
 female slave had assisted one of his wives to escape, both 
 being detected, the wife was immediately decapitated, and 
 the slave given the head in an open calabash, and ordered 
 by the Emir to fan the flies off it until next night ! 
 
 " There is a very vicious and terribly degrading habit 
 amongst the Hausas, which is known as ' Tsaranchi.' 
 One cannot give in a word an English equivalent and 
 one does not desire to describe its meaning. It has the 
 effect of demoralizing most of the young girls and mak- 
 ing it almost certain that very few girls of even eleven 
 or twelve have retained any feelings of decency and 
 virtue." l 
 
 Such are some of the everyday conditions in 
 the unoccupied Moslem lands of Africa. 
 
 Darkest Asia. Turning from darkest Africa 
 to Asia, we find in this continent a situation 
 hardly less needy and with even greater, be- 
 cause more varied, opportunity. In Asia the 
 following lands and areas of Moslem popula- 
 tion are still wholly unreached: 
 
 ESTIMATED 
 MOSLEM POPULATION 
 
 Afghanistan 4,000,000 
 
 Hejaz, Hadramaut, Nejd, and Hassa (Arabia) . 3,500,000 
 
 Southern Persia 2,500,000 
 
 Kussia in Caucasus 2,000,000 
 
 Russia in Central Asia 3,000,000 
 
 Bokhara 1,250,000 
 
 Khiva , 700,000 
 
 Mindanao (Philippines) . . , ^ 250,000 
 
 Siberia (East and West) 6,100,000 
 
 China, unreached sections 20,000,000 
 
 43,300,000 
 
 i" Our Moslem Sisters," pp. 119, 121. 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 123 
 
 These unevangelized millions in Asia, all of 
 them under the yoke of Islam, are in some cases 
 a rebuke for the neglect of the Church. Kafir- 
 istan, one of the five provinces of Afghanistan, 
 is a sad example : 
 
 " It was a sorrowful day for them, " writes Colonel G. Rebuke for 
 Wingate, " when by a stroke of the pen in the British Neglect 
 foreign office eleven years ago, their country was brought 
 within the boundaries of Afghanistan. At last the 
 Kafirs were the subjects of the Ameer. In consultation 
 with Ghulam Haider, his commander-in-chief, he deter- 
 mined to convert them and bring them into the fold of 
 Islam. The distasteful offices of the mullah were offered 
 at the muzzle of the breech-loader, the rites of the Mo- 
 hammedan belief were enforced upon an unwilling peo- 
 ple, mosques took the place of temples, the Koran and 
 the traditions of the Caliphate would be the spiritual 
 regeneration of the pagan Kafir. Yet twenty-five years 
 ago a message from the Kafirs of the Hindu Kush stirred 
 the Christian church ; they asked that teachers might 
 be sent to instruct them in the religion of Jesus Christ. 
 It is a sad example of how an opportunity may be lost, 
 for to-day there is imposed between the ambassador for 
 Christ and the eager Kafir the hostile aggression of a 
 Mohammedan power intensely jealous of the entrance of 
 the foreigner." 1 
 
 Afghanistan and Baluchistan. Although not 
 at all the largest in area or in population, yet Af- 
 ghanistan is of strategic importance among the 
 unoccupied regions of Asia. It lies in the heart The Heart 
 of the continent, the kernel of a vast Mos- ofAsia 
 lem domain and the objective of foreign influ- 
 
 1 " Unevangelized Regions in Central Asia," by Colonel G. 
 Wingate, C.I.E., in the Missionary Review of the World, 
 May, 1907. Kafiristan signifies " Land of unbelievers," and 
 the name was given to the province by Moslems. 
 
124 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Strategic 
 Location 
 
 Area and 
 Population 
 
 ence from several quarters. On the west is 
 Persia, with its copious language and polite peo- 
 ple, influencing Afghanistan through its speech 
 so that Persian has become the court language; 
 during the progress of his tour in India the 
 Amir made all his speeches in that language. 
 On the east is Mohammedan India; on the 
 south, Baluchistan; and on the north the classic 
 Oxus divides Afghanistan from Russian Tur- 
 kestan, with its millions of Mohammedans and 
 the ancient city of Bokhara. To the celebrated 
 Moslem schools of Bokhara, the youths of 
 Kabul, Herat, and other cities of Afghanistan 
 are sent to join the thousands of students who 
 are receiving education. From its orthodox 
 schools, teachers also have gone out to all parts 
 of Asia to preach the very letter of the Koran. 
 It will thus be seen that in the midst of Mo- 
 hammedan Asia lies this mountainous country 
 of Afghanistan, with a people who love to be 
 free and yet show hospitality to the stranger. 
 
 Having an area of 215,400 square miles and 
 a population of about 4,000,000, but without a 
 Christian missionary, surely this land is a chal- 
 lenge to faith ! The door seems closed at present, 
 and yet Colonel Wingate writes : l 
 
 " The Amir, on his recent tour in India, stated in his 
 address to the students of the important Mohammedan 
 College at Aligarh, that in his dominions there were re- 
 siding Sunnis and Shiahs, Hindus, and Jews and others, 
 to all of whom he had given full religious liberty, and he 
 begged them not to give credence to the report that he 
 
 !In the Bombay Guardian, May 11, 1907. 
 
WOEK THAT EEMAINS TO BE DONE 125 
 
 was a bigot. The time is perhaps opportune to commence 
 a Medical Mission in North-Eastern Afghanistan, where 
 the climate is suitable for Europeans, and the attitude 
 of the people is favourable." 
 
 Baluchistan is nominally a part of the Indian Baluchistan 
 Empire, of which it forms the extreme western 
 border. The northeastern part of the country 
 is directly administrated by British officials 
 and garrisoned by British troops. Another sec- 
 tion is under native government, with British 
 supervision, and a third part is inhabited by no- 
 mad tribes. Out of a population of 1,050,000 
 there are 995,000 Mohammedans. The only 
 mission station in Baluchistan is at Quetta, 
 where the Church Missionary Society has nine 
 missionaries, men and women; schools and a 
 hospital. 
 
 The social and moral conditions in Baluchis- 
 tan, as well as in Afghanistan, are indescribable, 
 as we have seen in a previous chapter. But the 
 people are many of them Moslems in name only, 
 and are willing to hear the Gospel if only 
 there were messengers of the truth. 
 
 In regard to the district of Khelat in Baluchis- Kheiat 
 tan, the Rev. A. D. Dixey testifies that the in- 
 habitants are still only nominal Mohammedans, 
 and not bigoted. " They will listen now, but 
 in a few years they will have become fanatical." 
 
 Neglected Arabia. The cradle of Islam is Arabia 
 still a challenge to Christendom, a Gibraltar 
 of fanaticism and pride that awaits the conquest 
 of the Cross. The present missionary force 
 in Arabia is utterly inadequate to supply the 
 
126 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 A Neglected needs even of that small portion of the field they 
 Land have occupied. There are only four points on 
 
 a coast of four thousand miles where there are 
 resident missionaries. There is not a single 
 missionary over twenty miles inland from this 
 coast. No missionary has ever crossed the pen- 
 insula in either direction. The total number of 
 foreign missionaries in Arabia to-day is thirty- 
 one, for a population of 8,000,000 souls. 
 
 The Keith Falconer Mission is scarcely as 
 strong in numbers as when Keith Falconer died. 
 The Arabian Mission has only recently received 
 enough reenforcement to man its three stations 
 adequately and permanently. The only part 
 of Arabia that is fairly well occupied is the 
 River-country ; that is, the two vilayets of Bag- 
 dad and Busrah. Here there are two stations 
 and two out-stations on the rivers ; colporteurs 
 and missionaries regularly visit the larger vil- 
 lages ; several native workers are in regular 
 employ, and the Bible Society is active. Yet 
 in these two vilayets scarcely anything has yet 
 been done for the large Bedouin population. 
 Unoccupied Looking at Arabia by provinces : Hejaz has 
 Provinces no m i ss i onar y; Hadramaut has no missionary; 
 Jebel Shammar and all the northern desert have 
 no missionary ; Nejd has no missionary ; Oman 
 has two missionaries. Again, the following 
 towns and cities are accessible, but have not one 
 witness for Christ : Sana, Hodeidah, Menakha, 
 Zebid, Damar, Taiz, Ibb, with forty smaller 
 towns in Yemen ; Makallah, Shehr, and Shiban 
 in Hadramaut ; Rastak, Someil, Sohar, Sur, Abu 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 127 
 
 Thubi, Sharka, and other important towns in 
 Oman ; not to speak of the important towns of 
 Nejd and " the holy cities," Mecca and Medina, 
 still closed to the Gospel. 
 
 Arabia is in truth a neglected field, even now. 
 Thus far the work has been largely preliminary ; 
 the evangelization of Arabia is the goal; not 
 until every province is entered and every one of 
 the strategic points specified is occupied can we 
 truly speak of Arabia as occupied. 
 
 Russia and Bokhara. These are also typical Kussia 
 cases of unoccupied fields and neglected millions 
 in the Mohammedan world. The great empire 
 of Russia, convulsed with social and religious 
 unrest and in the throes of a new political birth, 
 will soon be an empire of missionary opportunity 
 and responsibility. Among its population of 
 126,666,000 there are 13,889,000 Mohammedans, 
 mostly in Asiatic Russia and Siberia. Mission 
 work has been attempted at different times in 
 different parts of the empire by the Moravians, 
 the Basel Mission, the London Missionary Society, 
 etc., but the attempts made were futile because 
 of the repressive action of the Russian gov- 
 ernment. The Bible societies, however, enjoy 
 great freedom, have many privileges, and accom- 
 plish much. There is little special work done 
 for the Mohammedans. 
 
 Bokhara is a Russian dependency in Central Bokhara 
 Asia, with a population of over a million, nearly 
 all Turkish Mohammedans. There are no es- 
 tablished missions in the country, and no for- 
 eigner is allowed entrance without a Russian 
 
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 passport. Yet from the Swedish missionary, 
 Rev. E. John Larsen, who visited the capital, 
 we have this interesting pen picture : 
 
 A Wonder- " The capital city of Bokhara, which is a state vassal 
 ful City to Russia, is a stronghold at present for the spiritual 
 
 power of Islam in Central Asia. From all Moslem coun- 
 tries in Central Asia young men come for their higher 
 education to the celebrated Moslem schools of Bokhara. 
 Generally there are several thousands of students in these 
 schools. Bokhara is one of the most interesting cities 
 in the Orient. It is remarkable that a large proportion 
 of the Moslems in the city can read. The reason, I think, 
 is the number of schools. 
 
 " Once I remained in Bokhara two months. From our 
 bookstore in the city, our native helpers distributed the 
 New Testament even among the people of Afghanistan. 
 One old professor in the high school of Bokhara received 
 from us the Bible in Arabic. He was very thankful, and 
 early in the morning he used to come to visit us for read- 
 ing, prayer, and conversation. One morning he said, 1 1 
 am convinced that Jesus Christ will conquer Mohammed. 
 There is no doubt about it, because Christ is king of 
 heaven and on the earth, and His kingdom fills heaven 
 and will soon fill the earth.' " 
 
 The Gospel 
 Victorious 
 
 Such testimony from the heart of Moham- 
 medan Asia is full of encouragement. 
 
 " Say not the struggle naught availeth, 
 The labor and the wounds are vain, 
 The enemy fainteth not, nor faileth, 
 And as things have been they remain. 
 
 " If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars ; 
 
 It may be in yon smoke concealed, 
 
 Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers, 
 
 And, but for you, possess the field. 
 
WOEX THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 129 
 
 " For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, 
 
 Seem here no painful inch to gain, 
 Far back, through creeks and inlets making, 
 Comes silent, flooding in, the main. 
 
 " And not by eastern windows only, 
 
 When daylight comes, comes in the light, 
 In front, the sun climbs slow, how slowly, 
 But westward, look, the land is bright." 
 
 The Mohammedans in China. The thirty isiamin 
 (some say forty) million Mohammedans in China 
 China are a neglected problem in the evan- 
 gelization of the Middle Kingdom. There is 
 not a single society that has yet made them 
 the objective of a special effort, and there are 
 scarcely any missionaries in China who have 
 qualified themselves to deal with the Moham- 
 medans through knowledge of their literature 
 and religion. There is, for example, a large 
 Mohammedan literature in Chinese, but no 
 Christian literature prepared specially to reach 
 these monotheists, who live among the vast 
 heathen population as distinct, religiously, as 
 the Jews were from the Gentiles in the Roman 
 Empire. 
 
 Dr. Timothy Richard, who is at the head of Need for 
 " the Society for the Diffusion of Christian and 
 General Knowledge" among the Chinese," wrote 
 in a recent letter : " In China there is no one at 
 present writing for the Mohammedans. One 
 or two tracts were written in Chinese some 
 thirty-three years ago by a friend of mine, but 
 none since." It seems almost incredible. No 
 wonder that a missionary doing literary and 
 
130 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 A Bengal evangelistic work for the Mohammedans of 
 Volunteer Bengal, when he heard these facts, wrote: 
 "When I think of all those millions of Chi- 
 nese Moslems without a Christian literature 
 specially suited for them, I feel like packing 
 up and going to China. And Chinese Mos- 
 lems are the most tolerant and un-Moham- 
 medan of any in the world, too." 
 
 The Mohammedan religion entered China 
 very early. For centuries preceding Moham- 
 med there was commercial intercourse by sea 
 between Arabia and China, and when the Arab 
 merchants, the Sindbads of history, became Mos- 
 lems, it was only natural that they carried 
 their religion with them on their long voyages 
 for silk, spices, and gold. We read that Mo- 
 hammed utilized these early trade-routes in the 
 When Islam sixth year of the Hegira by sending his mater- 
 nal uncle Wahab bin Kabsh with a letter and 
 suitable presents to the Emperor of China, ask- 
 ing him to accept the new religion. Arriving 
 at Canton the next year, he went to the capi- 
 tal and preached Islam for two years. His 
 preaching, which is mentioned in an inscription 
 on the mosque at Canton, produced consider- 
 able and permanent results. 
 
 The first body of Arab settlers in China was 
 a contingent of four thousand soldiers de- 
 spatched by the Caliph Abu Jafer in 755 (or, 
 according to others, by the Caliph Al Mansur 
 in 758) to the assistance of the Emperor Hsuan- 
 Tsung. These soldiers, in reward for their ser- 
 vices and bravery, were allowed to settle in 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO bti DONE 131 
 
 China, where, by intermarriage and preaching, 
 they won over many to their faith. In. the fol- 
 lowing century we read that many thousands of 
 Moslems were massacred in China, and Marco 
 Polo speaks of the large Moslem population 
 of Yunnan. 
 
 The chief centres of Moslem population to- Numbers 
 day are the provinces of Kansu, Shensi, and 
 Yunnan. Regarding the present growth of 
 Islam in China and the total number of Mos- 
 lems in the empire, there is the greatest dis- 
 agreement among writers. In 1889, Dr. Happer, 
 of Canton, thought the numbers given by De 
 Thiersant very excessive, and estimated the 
 total Moslem population at not more than 
 three millions. De Thiersant, who secured his 
 data from Chinese officials, put it at twenty 
 millions. A. H. Keane, in his geography of 
 Asia, and in accordance with the Statesmen's 
 Year Book, one of the best authorities on 
 statistics, says that China has thirty million 
 Mohammedans ; while an Indian writer, Surat 
 Chandra Das, C.I.E., in the Journal of the 
 Asiatic Society, estimates it at fifty millions ; 
 and Seyyid Suleiman, a prominent Moslem offi- 
 cer in Yunnan province, states that there are 
 now seventy million Moslems in China! l 
 
 Some missionaries are not at all apprehensive 
 of Islam in China, and look upon this faith as 
 a negligible factor in the evangelization of the 
 empire. But those who have studied its prog- 
 ress in other lands in the past may well pon* 
 
 1 Wherry, u Islam and Christianity," pp. 21 and 22. 
 
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 der the following account of its methods as 
 given by Arnold in his interesting chapter: 
 
 " In the towns, the Mohammedans tend little by little 
 to form separate Mohammedan quarters, and finally do 
 not allow any person to dwell among them who does not 
 Islam in go to the mosque. Islam has also gained ground in China, 
 China because of the promptitude with which the Mohamme- 
 
 dans have repeopled provinces devastated by the various 
 scourges so familiar to China. In times of famine they 
 purchase children from poor parents, bring them up in 
 the faith of Islam, and when they are full-grown, provide 
 them with wives and houses, often forming whole villages 
 of these new converts. In the famine that devastated 
 the province of Kwangtung in 1790, as many as 10,000 
 children are said to have been purchased in this way 
 from parents who, too poor to support them, were com- 
 pelled by necessity to part with their starving little ones. 
 " Seyyid Suleiman says that the number of accessions 
 to Islam gained by this every year is beyond counting. 
 Every effort is made to keep the faith alive among the 
 new converts, even the humblest being taught, by means 
 of metrical primers, the fundamental doctrines of Islam. 
 To the influence of the religious books of the Chinese 
 Moslems, Seyyid Suleiman attributes many of the con- 
 versions that are made at the present day. They have 
 no organized propaganda, yet the zealous spirit of pros- 
 elytism with which the Chinese Mussulmans are ani- 
 mated secures for them a constant succession of new 
 converts, and they confidently look forward to the day 
 when Islam will be triumphant throughout the length 
 and breadth of the Chinese Empire." l 
 
 Turkestan Turkestan or Tartary. These terms are 
 loosely applied to all the region east of the 
 Caspian Sea, south of Siberia, west of Man- 
 churia, and north of Afghanistan and India. 
 It includes three divisions, West Turkestan, 
 
 1 T. W. Arnold, "The Preaching of Islam," p. 357. 
 
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 Jungaria, and East Turkestan. The former 
 belongs to Russia, the other two are Chinese 
 dependencies. West Turkestan has an area 
 of about 1,600,000 square miles and a popula- 
 tion of eight and a half million, Aryans, 
 Mongols, and Turanians. The bulk of the 
 population is Moslem. 
 
 The physical features of this large area vary 
 from mountain peaks of perpetual snow to deep 
 gorges and valleys, some marvellously fertile, 
 and others barren desert. East Turkestan has 
 a small area and a much smaller population, 
 The climate is severe, and there is no great 
 fertility. The chief cities are Yarkand and 
 Kashgar. The Swedish Missionary Society 
 began work among Moslems at Kashgar in Two Mission 
 1894 and later at Yarkand the only light- stations 
 houses in all this region of the shadow of 
 night. 
 
 Chinese Turkestan was long counted one of Chinese 
 the inaccessible fields of the world, as were so 
 many other Moslem lands before pioneer faith 
 knocked at their doors to find that Christ 
 had opened. Paster Hogberg describes the 
 entrance to this stronghold of Islam as "a 
 journey on horseback over the mountains be- 
 tween Osch and Kashgar, most interesting, but 
 most difficult. One must cross some ranges of 
 mountains which reach an elevation of from 
 11,800 to 13,200 feet, and many times the road 
 is very narrow, with a mountain on one side 
 and a precipice on the other." Nature in this 
 part of Asia is wild and grand. The Russian 
 
134 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 side of the mountains is more or less covered 
 with verdure and shrubs, and trees are to be 
 seen here and there ; but the Chinese side 
 is barren and desolate. During spring and 
 summer the traveller must frequently ford large 
 rivers, often at the risk of his life. 
 
 And the mission work surely is also " with a 
 mountain on one side and a precipice on the 
 other." Concerning the home life of the people, 
 he says : 
 
 Home Life " The rich man lives in ease and luxury, surrounded 
 
 by his harem, but sluggishness and idleness are the 
 characteristics of the poor. . . . Babies spend their lives 
 in a cradle, and are seldom taken up in the arms. Many 
 a poor child is frozen to death in winter because of its 
 being left alone, tied up in its baby basket. In summer 
 the little ones run naked until they reach eight or ten 
 years of age. 
 
 "In the city, children of both sexes begin to go to 
 school rather early, but the instruction is so poor that very 
 few have learned to read and write, even w^hen they have 
 attended school for five or six years. Instead of a spell- 
 ing-book, they use a piece of board on which the mollahs 
 write the characters, or the passage of the Koran which 
 the child is expected to learn. 
 
 " Young men are expected to be married in their six- 
 teenth or seventeenth year, and the girl at ten or thirteen. 
 Here is an account of a marriage ceremony told by a 
 native woman : * I was twelve years old. The friends of 
 my mother and of my intended had settled the prelimi- 
 naries of marriage. I knew nothing about it. One day 
 a man arrived, bringing with him rice, flour, a sheep, 
 clothes, etc., and then a great feast was prepared. I was 
 peeling carrots, and this being finished, I ran into the 
 garden, playing with my comrades. We were just run- 
 ning into the street when my brother gave me a severe 
 blow on my ear. Upon complaining to my mother, she 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 135 
 
 said that it did not suit me going on to play in that way A Child 
 when it was my wedding day. Hearing this, I began to Wife 
 cry bitterly. The guests were assembled, and I was clad 
 as a bride. The mollah, being in another room, had al- 
 ready asked my intended whether he would marry me, 
 and now it was my turn to be questioned. When, not 
 saying a word, he repeated his question again and again, 
 until I must whisper my "makbool" (yes, or accepted). 
 The day after, I and one of my playmates mounted a horse 
 and went to the home of my husband, where the marriage 
 festivities were continued. My husband was thirty- two 
 years old.' "... 
 
 This pen picture of "things as they are" 
 in darkest Asia may well close our brief and 
 partial survey of the great occupied and unoc- 
 cupied lands under the curse of Islam. 
 
 It remains to consider the special difficulties 
 of work for Moslems and the encouragements in 
 the coming conflict. 
 
 The Difficulties of the Work. The evangel- Difficulties 
 ization of these Mohammedan lands of which we of the Work 
 have had glimpses in the foregoing paragraphs 
 and chapters so great in their extent, so deep 
 in their degradation, so hopeless without the 
 Gospel and so long neglected is one of the 
 grandest and most inspiring tasks to which 
 Christ calls His Church. It has, however, because 
 of its manifold difficulties, long been spoken of as 
 the Mohammedan Missionary problem. Every 
 land and people has its own angle of approach, 
 its own peculiar environment, its own speech 
 and climate and government. In this respect 
 the Moslem mission fields also differ from one 
 another. And yet in each and all of them the 
 
136 
 
 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Divorce be- 
 tween Reli- 
 gion and 
 Morals 
 
 Intolerance 
 
 Mohammedan problem has practically the same 
 factors. 
 
 There is, first of all, the utter divorce be- 
 tween morality and religion. Islam is a for- 
 mal religion, and the Koran is a soporific for the 
 conscience. It is hard to arouse the moral sense 
 after so many centuries of formalism and bar- 
 ren ritual. All workers among Mohammedans 
 speak of this condition. A good illustration is 
 given by Dr. H. H. Jessup : "An Arab high- 
 way robber and murderer was once brought for 
 trial before a Mohammedan pasha, when the 
 pasha stepped down and kissed his hand, as the 
 culprit was a dervish or holy man who had been 
 on several pilgrimages to Mecca, and had been 
 known to repeat the name of God (Allah) more 
 times in a day than any other man." The tale 
 is not incongruous to a Moslem. 
 
 Then there is the intolerance and pride of the 
 Moslem creed which stands diametrically op- 
 posed to the broken heart and humble spirit 
 demanded by the Gospel. Mohammedan arro- 
 gance is encouraged by the words of the 
 Koran (Surah 3 : 106), " Ye are the best nation 
 that hath been raised up unto mankind." 
 Doughty, the traveller, gives a characteristic 
 illustration of how the average Moslem in Ara- 
 bia regards a " Nasrany " or Christian : " Our 
 train of camels," he writes, " drew slowly by 
 them ; but when the smooth Mecca merchant 
 heard that the stranger riding with the camel- 
 men was a Nasrany, he cried, 6 Akhs ! A Nas- 
 rany in these parts ! ' and with the horrid inur- 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 137 
 
 banity of their jealous religion, he added, * Allah 
 curse his father ! ' and stared on me with a face 
 worthy of the Koran." The typical mullah of 
 the Moslem faith, whether in India or Persia or 
 the Sudan, often stares at the missionary " with 
 a face worthy of the Koran." 
 
 Another difficulty is the almost universal hos- 
 tile attitude of Moslems toward a convert from 
 their religion to Christianity, and even to all 
 inquirers who begin to abandon Islam. What 
 Adoniram Judson said of Burma is the rule in 
 nearly every Moslem land. " When any person Hard to win 
 is known to be considering the new religion, all Converts 
 his relations and acquaintances rise en masse ; so 
 that to get a new convert is like pulling the eye- 
 tooth of a live tiger. " A veteran missionary in 
 Egypt writes, " Even in this land occupied with 
 British troops and governed by British brains, 
 it is next to impossible for one of a Moslem 
 harem to come out and profess her faith in the 
 Saviour of men." 
 
 Again there are the hundred and one intellec- intellectual 
 tual difficulties which must be met, the popular 
 Mohammedan objections to Christianity and 
 Christian doctrine, nine-tenths of which are due 
 to the ineradicable tendency on the part of Mos- 
 lems to look upon everything carnally. They 
 misunderstand the Bible, grossly misinterpret 
 its spiritual symbolism, and make stumbling- 
 blocks of the Trinity, the Incarnation, the 
 Atonement, and the Deity of our Saviour ; 
 while the Moslem's belief that the gospels are 
 abrogated by the Koran, or have become so cor- 
 
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 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Death for 
 Apostates 
 
 Passports 
 
 rupted that they are not reliable, is a funda- 
 mental difficulty in all argument. 
 
 All these difficulties are common in every 
 Moslem land in greater or less degree. 
 
 Finally, in Turkey, Morocco, Persia, Tripoli, 
 Afghanistan, and parts of Arabia, the union 
 between the temporal and spiritual power in Islam 
 blocks evangelization. Apostasy in Turkey is 
 treason against the state. Wherever Moslem 
 rule obtains, every convert runs the risk of 
 martyrdom. Death is the only legal right of the 
 apostate according to the Koran; and the Koran 
 is the only Magna Charta of liberty in such 
 lands. Not only are converts persecuted, but the 
 missionary is terribly handicapped in his work. 
 
 The first part of our Lord's last command is, 
 " Go ye ' '/ but Turkey has tried to put all pos- 
 sible obstacles in the way of obedience even to 
 this. It is the only country claiming a species 
 of civilization where an American passport is 
 worthless away from the sea-coast. A Turkish 
 tezkere* or permit to travel, not only requires a 
 fresh vis for each journey, but must be regis- 
 tered a half dozen times during each trip, with 
 a corresponding loss of time. Yet an American 
 missionary can hardly reckon his difficulties in 
 this regard as worthy of mention in comparison 
 with those of a native preacher or colporteur. 
 
 No missionary physician can practise medicine 
 in Turkey without a diploma obtained (or with- 
 out valid reason often refused) at the capital. 
 No book or newspaper can be printed or circu- 
 lated without official permit ; no school opened 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 139 
 
 or church service held or hospital erected with- 
 out a special license. The hinderances placed 
 in the way of publishing Christian literature 
 are such as would have commanded the respect 
 of the Spanish Inquisition. So many stories of 
 Turkish press censorship have been told that Censorship 
 a quarto volume of them might be gathered 
 together. The American Bible Society was 
 recently publishing a revised edition of the 
 Turkish Scriptures when a zealous censor de- 
 manded that such verses as Prov. 4 : 1417 ; 
 19:29; 20:21; 21:7; 22:28; 24:15,16; 26: 
 26, be omitted, as bearing too pointedly on the 
 present condition of affairs in Turkey. It 
 took some exertion to convince him that the 
 right to publish the Word of God intact had 
 been secured by treaty. 
 
 The editor of the weekly religious paper 
 Avedaper was recently publishing a series of 
 articles about Christ's Second Coming, but was 
 forbidden to use the word millennium, as that 
 seemed to intimate that there could be a more 
 blessed period than the reign of Abd-ul- 
 Hamid II. I 
 
 Encouragements. In spite of all these diffi- Encourage- 
 culties, the outlook is not hopeless but hopeful. ments 
 We are on the winning side, and have nothing 
 to fear save our own sloth and inactivity. The 
 love of Jesus Christ, manifested in hospitals, in 
 schools, in tactful preaching, and incarnated in 
 the lives of devoted missionaries, will irresistibly 
 win Moslems and disarm all their fanaticism. 
 It has done so in the hardest fields, is doing so, 
 
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 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Doors Open and will do so more and more when the Church 
 realizes her unprecedented opportunities in the 
 Moslem world and seizes them. " Altogether," 
 says Dr. Rouse, the author of a series of tracts 
 for Moslems and the veteran missionary of 
 Bengal, " the situation is most interesting and 
 encouraging. It would be much more so if I 
 saw any sign of appreciation on the part of the 
 Church of Christ of the special opportunities 
 for missionary work among Mohammedans 
 which are now to be seen everywhere." Three- 
 fourths of the Moslem world is wholly accessi- 
 ble. Distances and dangers have become less, 
 so that the journey from London to Bagdad 
 can now be accomplished with less hardship 
 and in less time than it must have taken Lull 
 to go from Paris to Bugia. Henry Martyn 
 spent five long months to reach Shiraz from 
 Calcutta ; the same journey can now be made 
 in a fortnight. There will soon be a railway 
 to Mecca built by Moslems themselves. 
 
 The Mohammedans themselves seem to real- 
 ize that their religion is disintegrating and losing 
 ground. The frantic efforts at reform are evi- 
 dence of the widespread dissatisfaction with 
 their system. In India Islam has abandoned, as 
 untenable, controversial positions which were 
 once thought impregnable. Instead of denying 
 the integrity of the Bible and forbidding its use, 
 they now read it and write commentaries on it. 
 Mighty and irresistible forces are at work in 
 Islam itself to prepare the way for the Gospel. 
 Thousands of Moslems have grown weary of 
 
 Railway to 
 Mecca 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 141 
 
 their old faith, and of ten thousands it is true Hunger for 
 
 that they are thirsting for a living Mediator. 
 
 The Babis, the Behais, the Shathalis, the Sufis, 
 
 and other sects and schools of thought, are 
 
 all examples of this unconscious search for our 
 
 Redeemer, whom Mohammed and the Koran 
 
 have so long eclipsed. 
 
 " Far and wide though all unknowing, 
 Pants for Thee each human breast ; 
 Human tears for Thee are flowing, 
 Human hearts in Thee would rest." 
 
 Even where fanaticism forbids open preach- 
 ing, the opportunities for medical mission work 
 among Moslems are unprecedented because there 
 is a demand for Christian physicians on the 
 part of Moslems themselves, and, of all the 
 methods adopted by Christian missions in Mos- 
 lem lands, none have been more successful in 
 breaking down prejudice and bringing large 
 numbers of people under the sound of the Gos- 
 pel. The work at Sheikh Othman, Busrah, Medical 
 and Bahrein in Arabia, at Quetta in Balu- Missions 
 chistan, and at Tanta in Egypt are examples. 
 Regarding the latter place, Dr. Anna Watson 
 reports that ninety per cent of the cases treated 
 are Moslem women who come from villages 
 scattered far and wide, untouched by any other 
 missionary agency. The medical missionary 
 carries a passport of mercy which will gain 
 admission for the truth everywhere. All the 
 vast unoccupied territory in the Mohammedan 
 world is waiting for the pioneer medical mis- 
 sionary, man or woman. 
 
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 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Education In many Moslem lands also there are unpre- 
 cedented opportunities for educational work. 
 The spread of the New-Islam, the increase of 
 journalism, the political ambitions of Pan- 
 Islamism l and the march of civilization are all 
 uniting to produce a desire for higher education. 
 Then there is the world-wide opportunity 
 even in the most difficult fields for the distri- 
 bution of the Word of God among Moslems 
 by colporteurs and missionaries. Not without 
 reason does the Koran always speak of Chris- 
 tians and Jews as "the people of the Book." 
 Ours is the opportunity to prove it by carrying 
 the Book to every Moslem in the world. We 
 can safely leave the verdict on the Book to the 
 Moslem himself. In 1905 there were issued 
 from the Christian presses at Constantinople 
 and Beirut, in languages read by Mohammedans, 
 over fifty million pages of Christian literature. 
 A Trumpet-Call from Algiers. The power 
 
 A Trumpet- of prevailing prayer must be applied to this 
 mighty problem. And who can better call us, 
 at the end of our study, to this service for 
 the King than one of His faithful soldiers in 
 Algiers, who is giving her life to this conflict. 
 Miss Lillian L. Trotter writes : 
 
 "A few years ago all was dormant: the Church 
 acquiesced in the fact that Missions to Mohammedans 
 were a barren affair, and the powers of hell were satisfied 
 
 1 See articles on this subject in the North American 
 Review for June, 1906, and in the Nineteenth Century for 
 October, 1906, by Archibald R. Colquhoun and Professor 
 Vambery. 
 
 The Press 
 
 Call 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 143 
 
 with her decision. There was therefore nothing to fight 
 over; and the tiny band of sappers and miners at the 
 front could only plod away doggedly, often for years 
 together, without the impetus of seeing a skirmish, let 
 alone a victory. 
 
 " Now, some of the most far-sighted of God's servants The Battle 
 tell us that the Moslem question may be the very crux is on 
 of the whole battle in non-Christian lands ; and the throb 
 of faith at home pulses to one after another on the field. 
 
 " And the result of growing faith and prayer is this : 
 the Prince of Darkness has already felt its touch, and 
 has moved; that is an immense point gained. We 
 have drawn the enemy's fire. In a vantage-ground 
 which he has held in massive, motionless power for 
 ages, he would not move unless forced : mental inertia, 
 spiritual torpor, were the spell he has used in Moslem 
 lands. To allow this spell to be broken by a breath of 
 active resistance, such as the rally of Pan Islam shows, 
 means a change of tactics. Such resistance is the first 
 phase of victory. 
 
 "The powers against us have accepted our challenge. The Chal- 
 Praise God ! Their counter-challenge is the clearest call lenge Ac- 
 to our faith to press on. In the late war the Japanese ce P te< * 
 were storming an all but impregnable fort, falling in 
 crowds in the trench, as they knew how to fall ; and the 
 pile of bodies rose higher and higher up the glacis. 
 Suddenly for one instant the Japanese flag waved at the 
 summit only for one instant, before the bearer was 
 cut down. But all had seen it. Where the flag had 
 swung for a moment was its place. Over the backs of 
 the dead, on the shoulders of the living, the host swarmed 
 in one great onset that overpowered the defenders, and 
 the flag rose to stay. 
 
 "We have seen the flag wave; we have seen that 
 Christ can save Moslems. It may be that in many cases 
 it has seemed but a hardly earned, momentary victory, 
 scarcely worth calling by the name. Shall not that very 
 fact fire us, as it fired those Japanese heroes? for that 
 Christ has had the least foretaste of His triumph in a 
 crucial point like this, is a challenge to His soldiers to 
 
144 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Shall we make it good. Shall we not fling ourselves up the glacis 
 Win? in a reckless passion of loyalty a passion that shall 
 
 make giving, or praying, or going, a mere easing of our 
 hearts, if only we may have our share in the setting up 
 His banner on the hardesi^to-be-won of the enemy's 
 fortresses ? " 
 
 HELPS FOR LEADERS 
 Lesson Aim : 
 
 To show something of the perplexing difficulties and 
 dimensions of the Mohammedan Problem and to give a 
 clear idea of the vast regions and populations still un- 
 touched. Or the lesson can be used to set forth the need 
 of many more especially qualified missionaries for pio- 
 neer work in Moslem lands. 
 Scripture Lesson : 
 
 Matt. 28 : 16-20 ; Rev. 19 : 11-21 ; Gen. 21 : 14-20. 
 Suggestive Questions : 
 
 1. What is the total area of the Moslem lands still 
 wholly unoccupied by missions ? 
 
 2. Mention the chief difficulties in work for Moslems 
 under Turkish rule ? Under British rule in Egypt ? 
 
 3. What are the opportunities for medical missions 
 in Afghanistan, Bokhara, Turkestan, western Arabia? 
 
 4. What opportunities are there for literary work on 
 behalf of the Mohammedans of China? 
 
 5. What opportunities are there for women as medi- 
 cal missionaries in the following cities : Hyderabad, 
 Kabul, Bagdad, Sanaa, Fez, Timbuktu, Muscat? 
 
 6. What Bible promises are there for the final and 
 complete success of missions in Moslem lands? (Zwe- 
 mer's " Arabia," pp. 396-407. 
 
 7. Which large denominations in America have no 
 missionary work whatever among Moslems ? 
 
 8. Mention seven Mohammedan objections to Chris- 
 tianity or the Gospel. 
 
 9. What is the relation between the national move- 
 ment in Egypt and Pan-Islamism ? 
 
 10. Write out a brief missionary prayer for the needs 
 of unoccupied Moslem lands. 
 
WOEK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 145 
 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY 
 
 In addition to several of the books given in previous 
 chapters and standard books of travel on the unoccupied 
 fields, the following are suggested : 
 
 W. St. Clair Tisdall, " A Manual of the Leading Mo- 
 hammedan Objections to Christianity." London, 1904. 
 
 "Islam and Christianity," Anon. (Most Interesting 
 Letters by a Lady Missionary.) American Tract Society, 
 1903. 
 
 " Sweet First Fruits." (A story.) Translated from 
 the Arabic by Sir William Muir. London, 1893. 
 
 " Methods of Mission Work among Moslems." Flem- 
 ing H. Revell Co., New York, 1906. (Report of Cairo 
 Conference and discussions.) 
 
 Nay lor, " Unoccupied Mission Fields in Africa," in The 
 Missionary Review, March, 1906. 
 
 Karl Kumm, " The Call of the Sudan," in The Mission- 
 ary Review, January, 1907. 
 
 Karl Kumm, " The Sudan." London, 1907. 
 
 Colonel G. Wingate, " Unevangelized Regions in Cen- 
 tral Asia," in The Missionary Review of the World, May, 
 1907. 
 
 Harlan P. Beach, " Geography and Atlas of Protestant 
 Missions." See pp. 493-515 in the Geography. 
 
 SOME RECENT ARTICLES ON MOHAMMEDAN 
 LANDS AND WORK IN THE MISSIONARY 
 REVIEW OF THE WORLD. 
 
 Islam and Christian Missions, Rev. Jas. S. Dennis, D.D., 
 August, 1889. 
 
 A Glimpse of Moslem Homes, Rev. Geo. E. Post, De- 
 cember, 1901. 
 
 Notes on Islam in India, James Monro, May, 1903. 
 
 The Malay Archipelago, H. Grattan Guinness, D.D., 
 May, 1898. 
 
 Moslem Women, Mrs. S. G. W r ilson, December, 1901. 
 
 Islam in Persia, Rev. S. Lawrence W r ard, May, 1903. 
 
 Signs of the Times in Islam, Henry Otis Dwight, LL.D., 
 November, 1903. 
 
146 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 The Effort to Reform Islam, Mohammed Sarfaraz Khan, 
 August, 1902. 
 
 The Moslem Attitude toward Christian Missions in the 
 Holy Land, Rev. Arthur J. Brown, D.D., December, 
 1902. 
 
 In Darkest Morocco, George C. Reed, June, 1902. 
 
 The Gospel in North Africa, Rev. John Rutherfurd, B.D., 
 June, 1893. 
 
 Christian Forces at Work in the Turkish Empire, Rev. 
 Edward Riggs, D.D., October, 1901. 
 
 Fifteen Years of Progress in Egypt, Rev. J. K. Giffen, 
 October, 1904. 
 
 A Mohammedan View of the Mohammedan World, 
 Anon., October, 1899. 
 
 A Saint in Sumatra (Hester Needham), January, 1900. 
 
 The Gospel in Persia, Rev. W. St. Clair Tisdall, M.A., 
 October, 1898. 
 
 An Appeal for Hadramaut, Arabia, Rev. S. M. Zwemer, 
 October, 1902. 
 
 The Revival of Islam, Canon Edward Sell, D.D., Octo- 
 ber, 1902. 
 
 How to Win Moslems for Christ, various authors, Octo- 
 ber, 1904. 
 
 The Normal State of Affairs in Turkey, Its Bearing on 
 Missionary Work, Anon., October, 1904. 
 
 Open Doors in Oman, Arabia, Rev. S. M. Zwemer, May, 
 1901. 
 
 How Abd-ul-Hamid II. became the Great Assassin, Octo- 
 ber, 1898. 
 
 Babism The Latest Revolt from Islam, October, 1898. 
 
 ILLUSTRATIVE SELECTIONS 
 
 A Moslem " Endless Chain Letter." The following 
 curious epistle was brought to West Africa and into the 
 Gold Coast Colony by a pilgrim from Mecca, and is now 
 being passed from hand to hand among the people. It 
 attracts much attention. Whoever reads it is expected to 
 pass it on to his next friend, or to copy it and hand it on 
 to several. The people, like those who receive u endless 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 147 
 
 chain " letters in this country, feel constrained to send 
 the document on, because the letter insists that they may 
 not break the chain : 
 
 "In the name of God, the Merciful and Compas- 
 sionate : 
 
 " Blessed be Mohammed, his family and his people, on 
 whom with all holy prophets may peace rest. 
 
 " This letter is written for all true believers living on 
 the west of the desert. It comes from the holy men of 
 Mecca, who seek to follow the paths of righteousness, 
 from the disciples of the holy Abd ul Kadir, to whom be 
 glory forever, and from those who walk in the footsteps 
 of Abd Illahi and Abd-ur-Rahman. 1 
 
 " Take heed to its contents. 
 
 " During his long sleep our Lord Mohammed has seen 
 that our world and all that is in it will certainly be de- 
 stroyed. 
 
 " We beseech Thee, O Almighty God, for the sake of 
 Mohammed and his family, save us ! ... (Here follow 
 promises and threats to accept Islam.) 
 
 "In conclusion : Whoever receives this letter must 
 needs pass it on to another district under pain of hell 
 fire. Before long the gate of repentance will shut itself 
 forever. Repent ! The day of Judgment is near ! 
 Fast; give alms; pray. Whoever reads this letter to his 
 brother shall be rewarded for it; paradise shall be his 
 portion ; in the Day of Judgment he shall not be judged. 
 Whoever, on the other hand, neglects to do it, shall be 
 sent with the idolaters into the seventh hell. Pray; 
 fast ; and pay tithes, without which you will not be re- 
 ceived into paradise. God will not disappoint those who 
 follow His paths. It is finished." Condensed from 
 The Missionary Review of the World, September, 1905. 
 
 Our Duty. "The Church must awake to her duty 
 towards Islam. Who will wake her and keep her 
 awake, unless it be those who have heard the chal- 
 lenge of Islam, and who, going out against her, have 
 
 1 These are names of saints of the Dervish orders. 
 
148 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 found her armour decayed, her weapons antiquated, and 
 her children, though proud and reticent, still unhappy ; 
 stationary or retrogressive in a day of progress and life. 
 Happy are we to have a share in this great movement. 
 Woe unto us if we are timid and fearful, on the one hand, 
 or tactless and imprudent, on the other. We are those 
 who need wisdom and zeal the wisdom that will do 
 nothing unwise, the zeal that will not let wisdom be so 
 cautious as to do nothing." ROBERT E. SPEER. 
 
 Why the Gospel is a "Hard Saying "to Moslems. "The 
 manifold and irksome ceremonies that constitute part of 
 the daily life of a Mohammedan, not only mean a return 
 to that bondage from which mature man should be free, 
 but they are thought to constitute an obligation to be 
 repaid by the Deity. The fact that a Mohammedan will 
 probably have performed them regularly from boyhood, 
 constitutes a serious bar to missionary effort ; for it turns 
 him who would fain bring good tidings into a messenger 
 of bad news. His message is that all this credit is imagi- 
 nary ; the sum amassed by such long exertions does not 
 exist. Go and tell the bankers in Lombard Street that 
 the gold coin in their vaults and those of the Bank of 
 England is all counterfeit ; that the slightest test will ex- 
 pose it; that in a few days or hours no one will give 
 commodities in exchange for it. He who brought such a 
 message now would simply incur ridicule ; for the owners 
 of the coin could immediately convince themselves that 
 the tale was false. But supposing that they knew in their 
 secret hearts that it was true ; that they dare not go down 
 into the vaults or test the coin, for fear it should show 
 base color ; that numerous incidents coming into their 
 memory all confirmed the news. What in that case 
 would happen to such a messenger? Even to-day he 
 would not be safe from pistol or dagger. 
 
 "And it is precisely such a message as that which the 
 Christian missionary brings to those who all their lives 
 have supposed that the five daily prayers, and the fasting 
 month, and the pilgrimage to Mecca, are the service 
 which God desires. They have to be told that all this is 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 149 
 
 of no value ; that what God requires of them is something 
 very different, and far less flattering to their vanity ; and 
 that even so, what their discharge of it will represent is 
 not assets, but a deficit. < When ye have done all, say, 
 " We are unprofitable servants." ' 
 
 " And if the message of the Gospel be in any case that of 
 bankruptcy before it can tell of the greater and truer riches, 
 what must be the character of the message to those whose 
 lives have been spent in discussing the minutiae of those 
 childish rites, and whose profession is thought to be the 
 most honourable that a man can follow ? Truly it can 
 only be the grace of God that makes the blind to see and 
 the deaf to hear." PROFESSOR MARGOLIOUTH, of Ox- 
 ford, rn the C. M. S. Intelligencer. 
 
 THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISHMAEL 
 
 " ' O tender Shepherd, climbing rugged mountains, 
 
 And wading waters deep, 
 
 How long would'st Thou be willing to go homeless 
 To find a straying sheep ? ' 
 
 " ' 1 count no time,' the Shepherd gently answered, 
 
 ' As thou dost count and bind 
 The days in weeks, the weeks in months ; My 
 
 counting 
 Is just until I find. 
 
 " l And that would be the limit of My journey. 
 
 I'd cross the waters deep, 
 
 And climb the hillsides with unfailing patience 
 Until I found My sheep.' " 
 
 Selected. 
 
 " Ask and Ye shall Receive." " Let us have another 
 triumph of prayer. If the Church of Christ will march 
 around this mighty fortress of the Mohammedan faith, 
 sounding her silver trumpets of prayer, it will not be long 
 before, by some intervention of divine power, it will be 
 overthrown. Let it be one of the watchwords of the 
 
150 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 Church, that Christ, the Child of the Orient, and the divine 
 Heir of her tribes and kingdoms, shall possess His inherit- 
 ance. The Moslem world shall be open to the gracious 
 entrance of the Saviour and the triumphs of the Gospel. 
 The spell of twelve centuries shall be broken. That voice 
 from the Arabian desert shall no longer say to the Church 
 of the living God, Thus far and no farther. The deep 
 and sad delusion which shadows the intellectual and 
 spiritual life of so many millions of our fellow-men shall 
 be dispelled, and the blessed life-giving power of Christ's 
 religion shall supplant all the dead forms and the out- 
 worn creed of Islam." JAMES S. DENNIS, D.D. 
 
 Men Wanted. "We need the best men the Qhurch 
 can afford men who, in the spirit of Henry Martyn, 
 Isidor Loewenthal, Ion Keith Falconer, Bishop French, 
 Peter Zwemer, and many others gone to their reward, 
 hold not their lives dear ; men who carry the burden 
 of these millions of Moslems upon their hearts, and 
 with Abraham of old cry out: O, that Ishmael might 
 live before thee ! " EDWARD MORRIS WHERRY. 
 
 An Appeal. " The number of Moslem women is so 
 vast not less than one hundred million that any 
 adequate effort to meet the need must be on a scale far 
 wider than has ever yet been attempted. 
 
 " We do not suggest new organizations, but that every 
 church and Board of Missions at present working in 
 Moslem lands should take up their own women's branch 
 of the work with an altogether new ideal before them, de- 
 termining to reach the whole world of Moslem women in 
 this generation. Each part of the women's work being 
 already carried on needs to be widely extended. Trained 
 and consecrated women doctors, trained and consecrated 
 women teachers, groups of women workers in the villages, 
 an army of those with love in their hearts to seek and 
 save the lost. And with the willingness to take up this 
 burden, so long neglected, for the salvation of Mohamme- 
 dan women, even though it may prove a very Cross of 
 Calvary to some of us, we shall hear our Master's voice 
 afresh, with ringing words of encouragment : ' Have faith 
 
WORK THAT REMAINS TO BE DONE 151 
 
 in God ; for verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say 
 unto this mountain, " Be thou removed, and be thou cast 
 into the sea," and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall 
 believe that these things which he saith shall come to pass, 
 he shall have whatsoever he saith/" Appeal of the 
 Women Delegates at the Cairo Conference. 
 
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF SOME IMPOR- 
 TANT EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF ISLAM 
 AND MISSIONS TO MOSLEMS 
 
 A.D. 
 
 570. Birth of Mohammed at Mecca. 
 
 595. Yemen passes under Persian rule. 
 
 610. Mohammed begins his prophetic career. 
 
 622. The Hegira or flight of Mohammed from Mecca 
 
 to Medina. (A.H. 1.) 
 
 623. Battle of Bedr. 
 
 624. Battle of Ohod. 
 
 628. Reputed mission of Abi Kabsha to China. 
 
 630. Mecca entered and conquered. 
 
 632. Death of Mohammed. Abu Bekr, first Caliph. 
 
 634. Omar Caliph. Jews and Christians expelled from 
 Arabia. 
 
 636. Capture of Jerusalem by the Caliph Omar. 
 
 637. Conquest of Syria. 
 
 638. Kufa and Busrah founded. 
 
 640. Capture of Alexandria by Omar. 
 
 642. Conquest of Persia. 
 
 644. Othman Caliph. 
 
 661. Ali assassinated. Hassan becomes Caliph. 
 
 711. Tarik crosses the straits from Africa to Europe, 
 
 and calls the mountain, Jebel Tarik = Gibraltar. 
 711. Mohammed Kasim overruns Sindh (India) in the 
 
 name of Walid I. of Damascus. 
 732. Battle of Tours. Europe saved from Islam. 
 742. First mosque built in North China. 
 754. Mansur. 
 
 756-1258. Abbasid Caliphs at Bagdad. 
 786. Haroun er-Rashid Caliph of Bagdad. 
 153 
 
154 MOSLEM LANDS 
 
 A.D. 
 
 809. Amin. 
 
 813. Mamun. 
 
 833. Motasim. Islam spread in Transoxania. 
 
 847. Mutawakkel. 
 
 889. Rise of Carmathian sect. 
 
 930. Carmathians take Mecca and carry away the .Black 
 
 Stone to Katif. 
 
 1000. Islam invades India from the North. 
 1005. Preaching of Sheikh Ismail at Lahore, India. 
 1019. Mahmud Ghazni, champion of Islam in India. 
 1037-1300. Seljuk Turks. 
 1055. Togrul Beg at Bagdad. 
 1063. Alp Arslan, Seljukian Turkish Prince. 
 1077. Timbuktu founded. Islam in western Sudan. 
 1096-1272. The Crusades. 
 1169-1193. Saladin. 
 
 1176-1206. Mohammed Ghori conquers Bengal. 
 1276. Islam introduced into Malacca. 
 1299-1326. Reign of Othman, founder of Ottoman 
 
 dynasty. 
 
 1305. Preaching and spread of Islam in the Deccan. 
 1315. Raymund Lull, first missionary to Moslems, stoned 
 
 to death at Bugia, Tunis. 
 1330. Institution of the Janissaries. 
 1353. First entrance of the Turks into Europe. 
 1369-1405. Tamerlane. 
 1389. Islam begins to spread in Servia. 
 1398. Tamerlane invades India. 
 1450. Missionary activity of Islam in Java begins. 
 1453. Capture of Constantinople by Mohammed II. 
 1492. Discovery of America. End of Moslem rule in 
 
 Spain by defeat of Boabdil at Grenada. 
 1500. Spread of Islam in Siberia. 
 1507. The Portuguese take Muscat. 
 1517. Selim I. conquers Egypt and wrests caliphate from 
 
 Arab line of Koreish for Ottoman sultans. 
 1525-1707. Mogul Empire in India. 
 1538. Suleiman the Magnificent takes Aden by treachery. 
 1540. Beginning of Turkish rule in Yemen. 
 1556. Akbar the Great rules in India. 
 
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 155 
 
 A.D. 
 
 1603. Islam enters Celebes and New Guinea. 
 
 1627. Shah Jehan, Mogul ruler in India. 
 
 1630. Arabs drive out Turks from Yemen. 
 
 1659-1707. Aurangzeb in India. 
 
 1683. Final check of Turks at gates of Vienna by John 
 Sobieski, king of Poland, September 12. Eastern 
 Europe saved from Islam rule. 
 
 1691. Mohammed bin Abd ul Wahab born. 
 
 1739-1761. Afghan Mohammed invasion of India and 
 sack of Delhi. 
 
 1740-1780. Wahabi reform spreads over all southern and 
 central Arabia except Oman. 
 
 1757. Battle of Plassey. British Empire in India. 
 
 1801. Wahabi s invade Bagdad vilayet and sack Kerbela. 
 
 1803. Mecca taken by the Wahabis. 
 
 1806. Henry Martyn reaches India. 
 
 1820-1847. British treaties with Moslem chiefs in Per- 
 sian Gulf. 
 
 1820. Levi Parsons and Pliny Fiske, first missionaries 
 from America, reach Smyrna. 
 
 1822. American Mission Press founded in Malta. 
 
 1826. C. M. S. attempt a mission in Egypt. 
 
 1827. Dr. Eli Smith begins translation of Arabic Bible. 
 1839. Aden bombarded by British fleet and taken. 
 
 1857. Indian (Sepoy) Mutiny. 
 
 1356. End of Crimean War. Treaty of Paris. 
 
 1858. Bombardment of Jiddah by the British. 
 
 1860. Civil war in the Lebanon s. Dr. Van Dyck's trans- 
 lation of Arabic N. T. issued. 
 
 1863. Syrian Protestant College founded. 
 
 1866. First Girls' Boarding School, Cairo. 
 
 1869. Corner-stone laid of Roberts College. 
 
 1870. Second Turkish invasion of Yemen. 
 1875. C. M. S. begin mission work in Persia. 
 
 1878. Treaty of Berlin. Independence of Bulgaria. 
 
 England occupies Cyprus. 
 
 1879. Royal Niger Company founded. (Britain in 
 
 Africa.) 
 
 1881. Rise of the Mahdi near Khartum. 
 
 1882. Massacre of Europeans at Alexandria. 
 
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 A. D. 
 
 1882. British occupation of Egypt. C. M. S. Mission. 
 
 1883. Defeat of Anglo-Egyptian forces to the Mahdi. 
 1883. Mission work began at Bagdad. 
 
 1885. Fall of Khartum. Murder of Gordon. 
 
 1885. Keith Falconer Mission began at Aden. 
 
 1889. The (American) Arabian Mission organized. 
 
 1889. Mahdi invasion of Egypt. 
 
 1890. Anglo-French protectorate over Sahara. 
 
 1891. Bishop French died at Muscat, May 14. 
 
 1892. French annex Dahomey and conquer Timbuktu. 
 
 1893. Mirza Ibrahim martyred in Persia. 
 
 1894. Anglo-French-German delimitation of Sudan. 
 
 1895. Rebellion of Arabs against the Turks in Yemen. 
 
 1895. Great Armenian Massacres. 
 
 1896. Massacre at Harpoot. 
 
 1898. Fall of the Mahdi. Occupation of the Sudan. 
 
 1900. British Protectorate declared over Nigeria and 
 
 Hausa-land. 
 
 1906. The Algeciras Conference regarding Morocco. 
 
 1906. The first general Missionary Conference on behalf 
 
 of the Mohammedan world held at Cairo. 
 
 Condensed from " Islam a Challenge to Faith." 
 

SIAM 
 
 BY 
 
 THE REV. ARTHUR JUDSON BROWK, D.D. 
 
 AUTHOR OF 
 
 44 NEW FORCES IN OLD CHINA," "THE NEW ERA IN THE 
 PHILIPPINES," u TiiE FOREIGN MISSIONARY," 
 
 AND 
 WHY AND How OF FOREIGN MISSIONS" 
 
CHAPTER V 
 SIAM 
 
 THE COUNTRY 
 
 SIAM is an irregularly shaped country, the Siam 
 main part of which lies between the twelfth 
 and twenty-first parallels of latitude, but which 
 sends a long peninsula southward to within 
 four degrees of the equator. It is bounded on 
 the north by the British Shan States and the 
 French Tong King; on the east by Anam and 
 Cambodia, also French; on the south by the 
 Gulf of Siam and the Federated Malay States 
 (British); and on the west by the Indian 
 Ocean and British Burma. Except, therefore, 
 for a part of the peninsula, the country is com- 
 pletely hemmed in by the French and British, 
 'though there is a coast-line on the Gulf of Siam 
 and Indian Ocean of 1760 miles. Siam has lost 
 considerable territory to France in recent years, 
 but the country is still far from being insignifi- 
 cant in size. It is 1130 miles long, 508 miles 
 wide along the fifteenth parallel, and the area 
 is 220,000 square miles. In other words, it is 
 about as large as Japan and Korea combined, 
 larger than Germany, and about equal to the 
 combined area of the American States of New 
 York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Dela- 
 ware, Maryland, and all six of the New Eng- 
 land States. 
 
 159 
 
160 SIAM 
 
 Climate The climate is tropical. The writer was in 
 
 Siam in the late fall and winter, which are 
 called " the cool, healthy season." The condi- 
 tions, however, were about those of an Ameri- 
 can July. The nights were fairly cool, and on a 
 few exceptional mornings the thermometer fell 
 to 56 degrees ; but on seven typical January 
 days, the midday heat averaged 70 in the shade 
 and 136 in the sun. The Laos " cool season " 
 is about that of a New York May a decided 
 improvement on the midsummer " winter " of 
 Siam. Cholera, which is always present in 
 Bangkok, occurs only in rare, sporadic cases in 
 Chieng Mai, and then only as the result of 
 infection from Lower Siam, while dysentery 
 is more infrequent than in China. The cool 
 season, however, is short. Malarial fever is 
 common, as it is everywhere in southern Asia, 
 and the isolation begets in some persons a lone- 
 liness which is more trying than disease. 
 
 The climate is not bad, however, for the 
 tropics, and the most dreaded diseases result 
 from causes which a missionary can ordinarily 
 avoid. The general health of the missionaries 
 in Siam and Laos has been about as good as 
 that of missionaries in China, though more 
 frequent furloughs are necessary. Dr. Dean 
 wrote at the age of nearly fourscore : " Do not 
 represent the climate of Siam as insalubrious. 
 People die here ; so they do everywhere else, 
 except in heaven. The report that Siam is un- 
 healthful is a libel on the climate." The best 
 season for the visitor is between the first of 
 
THE COUNTRY 161 
 
 October and the middle of February. From 
 the latter date to May is the hottest and un- 
 healthiest season. Moreover, until the comple- 
 tion of the railway, Laos could not be visited 
 in these months on account of low water in the 
 Me Nam and Me Ping rivers. From June 
 to October, heavy rains and inundated roads 
 render travel unhealthful and impracticable. 
 We may add that there are no inns in Laos, so 
 that the traveller should provide himself with a 
 tent and camp equipage. 
 
 Physically, the northern part of Siam is Physical 
 greatly diversified. It is a land of mountains Ge s ra P h y 
 and valleys and rushing streams, one of the 
 most beautiful regions in the world. The cen- 
 tral and southern part is more level, a vast 
 area being occupied by the broad, flat valley 
 and delta of the Me Nam River. This mighty 
 stream is fed by many smaller ones, which rise 
 among the mountains of Laos. At Paknampo 
 it receives the waters of the largest of its tribu- 
 taries, the Me Ping. The Me Nam is the great 
 highway of Siam, and for centuries has been 
 the only means of communication between the 
 north and the south. It is navigable, at high 
 water, for light-draught steamers as far as 
 Paknampo, and for some distance above that 
 point by launches. In the dry season, how- 
 ever, the water becomes so shallow that only 
 the small native boats can be used. East of the 
 Me Nam valley there is an elevated plateau. 
 The other great river, the Me Kawng, runs 
 along the eastern boundary of Siam. This 
 
162 SIAM 
 
 also is a very long stream, but its course is 
 broken by so many rapids and obstructions 
 that it is not navigable. The southern penin- 
 sula is traversed almost its entire length by a 
 mountain range of moderate height, although 
 there are spacious grassy tracts near the coast. 
 Generally speaking, we may characterize the 
 northern part of Siam as a hill country ; the 
 eastern part as a table-land ; the central part as 
 an alluvial plain ; and the southern part as a 
 mountainous peninsula. 
 
 Flora The soil is, for the most part, exceedingly 
 
 rich. The tropical climate and abundant rain- 
 fall nourish a prolific vegetation, except on 
 the eastern table-land, which is not so well 
 watered. The delta of the Me Nam is clothed 
 with a dense growth of tall jungle grasses and 
 bushes. In the north, and also on the peninsula, 
 there are vast forests, which include some rare 
 and valuable woods. The chief part of the 
 world's supply of teak comes from here, and 
 British trading companies have agents all 
 through this region, getting out this greatly 
 prized lumber under concessions from the gov- 
 ernment. 
 
 Everywhere one sees palms of many varieties, 
 and almost every imaginable kind of tropical 
 plants, vines, and flowers. 
 
 Products The staple products of the country are lumber 
 
 in the north, tin in the Malay Peninsula, where 
 some of the greatest tin mines of the world are 
 located; rice in the valleys, particularly on the 
 rich delta of the Me Nam; and everywhere, in 
 
THE PEOPLE 163 
 
 unlimited quantities, bananas, cocoanuts, limes, 
 yams, and other tropical and semi-tropical fruits 
 and vegetables. 
 
 The chief exports are rice, teak, and tin, and Exports and 
 the chief imports, we are sorry to note, are wine, Im P rts - 
 beer, spirits, and opium. Siam thus gives to 
 the Christian world better products than she 
 receives. 
 
 THE PEOPLE 
 
 The native inhabitants of Siam belong to the Races 
 Tai (or Shan) race, whose original home was 
 in central and southern China. They were not 
 Chinese, being more nearly allied to the Aryan 
 races of India than to the Mongolian. They 
 probably retreated before the stronger Chinese. 
 They are now scattered over the whole Indo- 
 Chinese Peninsula. Dialectic differences sub- 
 divide this race as follows : 
 
 1. Eastern Shan (or Tai): those living in the 
 
 territory drained by the Me Kawng River 
 and the northern tributaries of the Me Nam 
 River. 
 
 2. Western Shan (or Tai) : those living in the 
 
 territory drained by the Salween and 
 Irrawaddy rivers. 
 
 3. Siamese (or southern Tai): those living in 
 
 southern Siam. 
 
 NOTE. The word " Tai " is used by all of these peoples 
 when giving the name of their race. It means "free." 
 " Shan " is the English equivalent of a Burmese word to des- 
 ignate the people of the Tai race. The local terms used are 
 legion; e.g. " Tai Nua" (northern Tai), those living in 
 southwest China; "Lem," those living in Muang Lem; 
 
164 
 
 SIAM 
 
 "Chao Yawng," those living in Muang Yawng ; " Chao 
 Chieng Mai," those living in Chieng Mai; "Lao," those 
 living in Luang Prabang and adjoining provinces ; Lii-Kun- 
 Yuen, etc. The word "Laos" is from "Lao," the term 
 applied by the Siamese to all those classified under subdivi- 
 sion 1. 
 
 Population It is not easy to get accurate statistics of 
 population, as Asiatics are not as particular 
 as Americans in taking a census, and usually 
 count only the men and guess at the women 
 and children. The best estimate is 6,070,000. 
 The population is far from being homogene- 
 ous. The table given notes only the subdivi- 
 sions of the Tai race. The following table 
 gives the other elements of the population, the 
 Laos being included for statistical purposes : 
 
 Siamese 1,766,000 
 
 Chinese 1,400,000 
 
 Laos 1,350,000 
 
 Malays 753,000 
 
 Cambodians and Annamites .... 490,000 
 
 Mons 130,000 
 
 Karens 130,000 
 
 Shans (chiefly Western Shans from Burma) . 46,000 
 A few minor tribes and a small number of 
 
 Europeans and Americans .... 5,000 
 
 6,070,000 
 
 Physical 
 Characteris- 
 tics 
 
 The Siamese are, of course, the dominant 
 race. They are about medium in height and 
 physical development, brown in color, with 
 straight black hair, cut short, slightly flattened 
 nose, and eyes not so oblique as those of the 
 Chinese and Japanese. 
 
THE PEOPLE 165 
 
 The Laos-speaking people extend from The People 
 Utradit on the south to Chieng Hoong on the of Laos 
 north, and from the Nam Ur River on the east 
 to the Salween-Me Kawng watershed on the 
 west. They overflow these boundaries on all 
 four sides, but beyond them they shade off 
 rapidly into other tribes, so that for practical 
 purposes the limits named are approximately 
 correct. With the exception of a small number 
 of Burmese Shans who are scattered among 
 them, the Laos have practically exclusive pos- 
 session of this extensive area. As we have 
 already noted, there are 1,350,000 of these 
 people in northern Siam, but there are several 
 hundred thousand more in French territory 
 east of the Cambodia and several hundred 
 thousand others in British territory in the Shan 
 States. They differ from the Siamese in lan- 
 guage, dress, and many customs and characteris- 
 tics. The missionaries among them insist that 
 they are superior to the Siamese in intelligence 
 and character. Politically, however, the latter 
 appear to have no difficulty in maintaining their 
 supremacy. The author found the Laos the 
 most attractive people in Asia. They are clean, 
 speaking comparatively of course, kindly, in- 
 telligent, and far more responsive to new reli- 
 gious teaching than the Siamese. 
 
 The Chinese, next to the Siamese, are the Chinese 
 most numerous race in Siam. They are to be 
 found all over the country. The Bangkok re- 
 turns for the poll-tax in 1900 gives 65,345 
 adult males for that city alone. It is difficult 
 
166 SIAM 
 
 to give exact figures anywhere, for the Chinese 
 have been coming to Siam for so long a period 
 and have intermarried with the natives to such 
 an extent that a large part of the population 
 now contains more or less Chinese blood. The 
 King himself is said to be part Chinese. The 
 blending of races is very noticeable in the mis- 
 sion schools, a majority of the scholars usually 
 having some Chinese blood. The queue is 
 everywhere in evidence, being often worn by 
 those who are only a quarter Chinese, partly 
 because the Chinese in Siam are recognized as 
 the strongest and wealthiest element in the 
 country, partly because the law, instead of dis- 
 criminating against them, really favors them 
 by exempting them from certain burdens which 
 bear heavily upon the Siamese. As in Burma 
 and the Philippine Islands, the Chinese almost 
 absolutely control the trade of the kingdom. 
 Every arriving steamer brings scores and some- 
 times hundreds from Canton, Swatow, Foochow, 
 and Hainan, while in Laos the Yunnanese 
 traders are to be seen in every important town. 
 These Chinese immigrants are introducing a 
 more virile strain into the blood of Siam. They 
 bring a stronger fibre, greater skill and energy 
 and persistence, and by their intermarriage with 
 the Siamese are in a measure communicating 
 these qualities to them. 
 
 Other Races The other elements of the population need not 
 detain us, further than to note that the Cambodi- 
 ans and Annamites have crossed the Me Kawng 
 River from their original home and, like the 
 
THE PEOPLE 167 
 
 Chinese, readily mingle with, the Siamese, and 
 that the Malays are chiefly to be found in the 
 south and on the Malay Peninsula. 
 
 The Siamese lack the persistence and Indus- Charac- 
 try of the Chinese. Here, as in Burma and the teristic s 
 Philippines, a tropical climate begets indolence, 
 and reduces wants to a degree which prolific 
 nature readily supplies. It is therefore not sur- 
 prising that people take life easily. They need 
 but little clothing in their warm climate, and no 
 fuel except for cooking. Fish are easily caught 
 in the sea and the innumerable streams. The 
 banana, cocoanut, betel, mango, pomelo, or- 
 ange, jackfruit, and lime grow with little or no 
 cultivation, while the simplest tillage suffices for 
 abundant yields of rice and vegetables. As for 
 a house, one can be built of the ever-present 
 bamboo and thatched with attap in a couple of 
 days and at practically no cost. 
 
 The population is so small for the area of the Distribution 
 country that there is no such struggle for exist- 
 ence as that which developed the vigor of the 
 Pilgrim Fathers on the rocky hillsides of New 
 England, or of the Chinese on those densely pop- 
 ulated plains where the individual must toil 
 alertly and incessantly or starve. The bitter 
 poverty of China and Korea is unknown in Siam. 
 The typical Siamese is sleek and well-fed, and 
 he wears more gold and silver ornaments than 
 any other native of Asia, even naked urchins 
 playing in the streets being adorned with solid 
 silver anklets, wristlets, and necklaces. 
 
 In these circumstances, we marvel not that 
 
168 SIAM 
 
 Extraordi- the people are so backward, but that they are so 
 nary Ad- forward, and that they have made improvements 
 which cannot be paralleled in any other Asi- 
 atic country except Japan. In China, Korea, 
 and the Philippines, there are improvements 
 where foreigners have made them. But in 
 Chieng Mai we were driven for hours over roads 
 which were an amazement and a delight after 
 the ridges and hollows which are euphemisti- 
 cally called roads in China. At Pitsanuloke, 
 250 miles from Bangkok, the neat whitewashed 
 picket fences lining the river for more than a 
 mile, the well-kept lawns of the public build- 
 ings, and the residences of the officials would 
 greatly surprise a traveller who had expected 
 to find barbarians in this interior region of 
 Siam. At Ke Kan, where we stopped for the 
 night, there is not a single foreigner, but we 
 strolled for a long distance on a level, beauti- 
 fully shaded, though narrow, street along the 
 river bank. We saw a sign bearing the word 
 " Post-office " in English, Siamese, and Chinese. 
 We passed a telegraph office, and on the ve- 
 randa of the magistrate's residence we saw two 
 bicycles. One Sunday we camped near a ham- 
 let in the heart of a mighty forest, about as far 
 from civilization, one might suppose, as it would 
 be easy to get. But in the police station we 
 found a telephone connecting with the telegraph 
 office in Chieng Mai, so that, though we were 
 12,000 miles away from home and 600 miles in 
 the interior of Farther India, we could have 
 flashed a message to any point in Europe or 
 
THE PEOPLE 169 
 
 America. The government postal, system, in- 
 augurated in 1884, now extends all over the 
 country, and in the correspondence of a dozen 
 years with the missionaries in various parts of 
 Siam and Laos, letters have seldom miscarried. 
 
 The police stations are models of neatness Police 
 spotlessly white buildings in well-kept grounds, 
 adorned with carefully tended flower beds and 
 potted plants. A new system of accounts and 
 auditing is reducing to order the hitherto hope- 
 lessly confused finances of the country. A 
 Bureau of Forestry has stopped the prodigal 
 wastefulness of timber lands. Legal procedure 
 is being reformed, so that an accused man can 
 now obtain justice in the courts. The prisons 
 are being remodelled. We inspected one in Siam 
 and one in Laos, and found clean, well-fed pris- 
 oners in roomy, well-ventilated wards. Free 
 public schools have been opened all over the Schools 
 land, and several have good buildings, foreign 
 desks, and an abundance of maps, though the 
 teachers are inferior to those in mission schools. 
 A royal decree, dated February, 1899, made 
 Sunday a legal holiday. It is not strictly ob- 
 served, but it can hardly be more of a dead let- 
 ter than similar laws in some parts of America 
 and Europe. Telephones are numerous in 
 Bangkok. Trolley cars run through the streets. 
 An electric-light plant illuminates the King's 
 palace. Manufacturing motors and automobiles 
 are coming into use, and thirteen of the twenty- 
 six steam rice mills of the city have their own 
 electric plants, as have also the Bangkok Dock 
 
170 
 
 SIAM 
 
 Company, two forts, five naval vessels, and the 
 navy yard. 
 
 Bicycles A few missionaries brought their bicycles 
 
 with them. The Siamese were keenly inter- 
 ested, and when, in 1896, an American dentist 
 imported several wheels to sell, they were 
 quickly bought. Now there are 3000 wheels 
 in Bangkok alone. The King frequently rides 
 one, and the Minister of the Interior is presi- 
 dent of a bicycle club of 400 members. Chieng 
 Mai, Laos, is said to have more in proportion 
 to the population than any other city in the 
 country. 
 
 Railroads Three railroads are in operation, one a narrow- 
 
 gauge from Bangkok to Paknam, another a broad- 
 gauge of 163 miles from Bangkok to Korat, and 
 the third from Bangkok to Petchaburi. Most 
 important of all is a trunk-line from Bangkok 
 to Lakawn, Laos. It was projected many years 
 ago, but the Siamese are not persistent, and the 
 construction might have been delayed indefi- 
 nitely if the Shan rebellion of 1902 had not 
 rudely reminded the government that its valu- 
 able possessions in the north might be seriously 
 jeopardized long before a Siamese army could 
 march 600 miles over a roadless country, or be 
 poled in boats up a shallow river. Since then, 
 construction has been pushed with all speed, 
 and the line is now in operation over half way. 
 Soon the tedious river journey of six weeks 
 it once took Dr. Wilson 108 days will be 
 cut down to two days. The resultant changes 
 can be easily imagined. Everywhere tickets, 
 
THE PEOPLE 171 
 
 signs, and notices are printed in English and 
 Siamese. 
 
 The younger Siamese are eager to learn, and Desire for 
 they not only flock to the mission schools, but Education 
 numbers of the more ambitious go to Europe. 
 Some have gone to Germany, Denmark, and 
 Russia, but most of them have preferred Eng- 
 land. Several of the famous English schools 
 and universities usually have one or more Siam- 
 ese students. There are a few in the United 
 States, two having recently been enrolled in a 
 Western university. 
 
 It is significant that Siamese students abroad 
 have no difficulty in maintaining equality with 
 foreigners in the class room. Mr. Verney says 
 that when they first went to the famous Harrow 
 School in England, the Head Master said to him : 
 " You are trying an extraordinary experiment in Character 
 sending young Siamese to Harrow, and you are 
 wonderfully sanguine in supposing that they 
 can adapt themselves to our public school life;" 
 but shortly before his death he spoke of the re- 
 markable success they had achieved, and said 
 that there was not a master at Harrow who 
 would not gladly welcome them to his house. 
 
 All this, left without qualification, might give 
 a wrong impression, for even more than in Japan 
 foreign civilization is a veneer. It has as yet 
 no solid basis in character. The real life of the 
 people has not been so essentially modified as 
 their modern improvements might lead one to 
 suppose. 
 
 The King is, undoubtedly, next to the Mi- 
 
172 SIAM 
 
 Government kado of Japan, the most enlightened and pro- 
 gressive monarch in Asia, and he has a few 
 capable men who sympathize with his views 
 and energetically assist him in executing them, 
 such as Prince Damrong, Minister of the Inte- 
 rior ; Prince Devawongse, Minister of Foreign 
 Affairs, and some of the Commissioners. But 
 his Majesty and these officials are far in ad- 
 vance of the rest of the nation. There is 110 
 middle class to give that substantial support to 
 reform movements which has been the salvation 
 of England and America. There are practically 
 but two classes, the high and the low. The 
 revolutionary changes have come from above 
 instead of from beneath, as in Europe, and 
 they have not penetrated the masses of the 
 people. The King is simply trying to fasten 
 the fruits of Christian civilization on to the 
 dead tree of a Buddhist nation. The effort 
 should not be criticised. It is well meant, and 
 it is beneficial so far as it goes. It is unques- 
 tionably doing much to open up Siam to the 
 influences of the outside world. 
 
 Unstable But no civilization can endure which rests 
 
 Foundation on an uns fcable foundation in morals. Has Siam 
 an unstable foundation ? The most cursory 
 glance beneath the surface will show that it 
 has. Home and society are what one might 
 expect where polygamy and concubinage are 
 openly recognized. Missionaries find the great- 
 est difficulty in convincing the native Chris- 
 tians that immorality is something more than a 
 venial sin. Boarding schools for girls have to 
 
THE PEOPLE 173 
 
 be unceasingly watched, and a great majority 
 of the cases of discipline in the church are for 
 violation of the seventh commandment. 
 
 While public drunkenness is not conspicu- intemper- 
 ous, there is a great deal of drinking, and the ance 
 "Spirit Farmer," who has the government con- 
 cession for the manufacture and sale of liquor, 
 is one of the mighty men in every community. 
 Scotch whiskey, French brandy, and Australian 
 beer are everywhere. We saw shops with rows 
 of foreign bottles in the remotest towns, and 
 several times in Bangkok we read the English 
 sign : " Place for the Drinking of the Delight- 
 ful Juice." Some of the Siamese nobles who 
 were educated abroad have learned not only 
 European manners but European intemperance, 
 and one of the highest judges of the land has 
 died as the result of excessive drinking which 
 he began in England. 
 
 The cigarette and betel nut are universally Smoking 
 used, not only by men, but by women and chil- 
 dren. The tobacco is mild and is smoked very 
 slowly. Our carriers in the jungle would take 
 two or three puffs and then thrust their cigar- 
 ettes into holes in the lobes of their ears. 
 There the cigarettes would remain for an hour 
 or two, when one would be relighted, puffed a 
 few times more, and then returned to the ear. 
 Sometimes our men would carry three half-con- 
 sumed cigarettes at once, one in each ear and 
 one at the top of the ear, as an American clerk 
 carries a pen. Betel-nut chewing so stains the 
 teeth and lips that it is a disgusting habit to 
 
174 
 
 SIAM 
 
 Bangkok 
 
 Lack of 
 
 Sanitation 
 
 Population 
 
 Roads and 
 Canals 
 
 a foreigner, but the dark-red color is highly 
 prized by the Siamese, and physicians told me 
 that the habit is not so deleterious to health 
 as the tobacco habit in America. Opium 
 smoking is not common, except among the Chi- 
 nese. Gambling is the national vice. We 
 shall refer to this in another connection. The 
 traveller in Siam quickly learns to love the peo- 
 ple for their hospitality and good nature, but 
 he sees indubitable evidences of their need of a 
 vital regenerative faith. 
 
 Bangkok, the capital and chief city of Siam, 
 lies upon both sides of the Me Nam River, 
 about twenty miles from the sea. The site is 
 low and swampy. Nothing but the current of 
 the river, aided by the tide, keeps the city from 
 being depopulated by epidemics. The govern- 
 ment is doing much to lessen the dangers of the 
 situation by studying prevention and sanitation. 
 It employs a foreign medical inspector, and it 
 cooperates with the medical missionaries and 
 freely adopts their recommendations. 
 
 The population is variously estimated. The 
 American Minister, the Hon. Hamilton King, 
 says that the population is nearly a million. 
 Almost all the races and tribes in Siam are 
 represented, so that the visitor finds the streets 
 filled with a motley throng. 
 
 Some excellent thoroughfares have been laid 
 out in recent years and others are projected; 
 but the chief thoroughfare is the river. Its 
 broad surface is crowded with canoes, launches, 
 houseboats, and foreign ships, while the splendid 
 
THE PEOPLE 175 
 
 private steam yacht of the King and the gun- 
 boats of the Royal Navy add to the picturesque- 
 ness of the scene. Numerous creeks and canals 
 run in on both sides and are used as highways 
 by innumerable small boats. Bangkok is often 
 called the Venice of Asia. 
 
 Trade and commerce are represented by scores Commerce 
 of steam rice and saw mills and by thousands of 
 shops and offices, including several large Eu- 
 ropean and Chinese firms. Four clubs, three 
 consulates, nine legations, and the Court of 
 Siam make the city a centre of social as well 
 as political activity. 
 
 Chief interest naturally attaches to the King's The Palace 
 palace. The royal enclosure occupies an exten- 
 sive section of the upper part of the city on the 
 east side of the river, and includes several 
 splendid buildings which would grace a Eu- 
 ropean capital. There are some famous wats, 
 too, of superb beauty and costly decorations. 
 One contains the celebrated statue of the sleep- 
 ing Buddha, another the Emerald Buddha, and 
 still another several relics of Buddha. A pagoda 
 with a carpet made of pure silver tape is the 
 receptacle of a richly inlaid cabinet in which is 
 preserved with jealous care the sacred Pali 
 Manuscripts. The Royal Library occupies a 
 fine building, and contains not only rare Bud- 
 dhist books in beautiful and expensive bindings, 
 but many modern books and periodicals in 
 English. 
 
 Every visitor eagerly inquires for " the white White Eie- 
 elephants " about which so much has been P hants 
 
176 SIAM 
 
 written. But disappointment is invariable. 
 The elephants are not white, except in the eyes, 
 and a few light-colored spots about the ears and 
 the top of the head. The rest of the body is 
 almost as dark as that of an ordinary elephant. 
 White-eyed elephants, however, are very rare 
 and are highly prized. They are the exclusive 
 property of the King, and when a wild one is 
 caught, it must be sent to the royal stables. 
 Of the five that we saw, three were so savage 
 that the keeper would not allow us to touch 
 them, but the others were very tame, and saluted 
 us by raising their trunks ; one kneeled and 
 bowed her head to the ground before us. 
 
 Ayuthia Bangkok is the only large city in the country, 
 
 but there are several other places of considerable 
 interest. North of Bangkok is Ayuthia, the 
 second city of the kingdom. As the ancient 
 capital, it is a place of historic interest. Ruins 
 do not last long in a humid, tropical climate, 
 but the visitor to Ayuthia can still find very 
 interesting traces of former splendor, including 
 an old temple and an enormous statue of Bud- 
 dha, which is famous. A considerable popula- 
 tion centres in Ayuthia. Indeed, as we travelled 
 up the Me Nam River in a houseboat, we were 
 impressed by the fact that, for about 75 miles 
 from Bangkok, both banks are practically con- 
 tinuous village streets, while above that point, 
 villages are numerous away up to Paknampo, 
 204 miles from the capital. 
 
 Korat Korat, at the terminus of the northeastern 
 
 branch of the railway, Paknampo at the junction 
 
HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT 177 
 
 of the Me Ping with the Me Nam, Pitsanuloke 
 on the upper Me Nam, Raheng on the Me Ping, 
 where the overland mail runners from Moul- 
 meiii, Burma, strike the river, and Chieng Mai, 
 Lakawn, Nan and Chiieng Rai in Laos, are 
 the most important places. Chieng Mai and 
 Lakawn, in particular, are influential centres. 
 Both are attractive cities, the former with 
 100,000 people, spread over an area of about 
 18 square miles. The latter has only 20,000, 
 of whom 100 are Chinese ; but with the com- 
 pletion of the railroad, Lakawn will probably 
 become the most important centre in Laos. 
 
 South of Bangkok, the leading towns are Other 
 Ratburi and Petchaburi, the latter being the Towns 
 terminus of the railway, Chantaboon, so long 
 occupied by the French, and Nakawn, 400 miles 
 from Bangkok on the Peninsula. 
 
 HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT 
 
 While the Siamese boast of their antiquity Antiquity 
 as a nation, there is no authentic history that 
 runs back of 1350. This is quite convenient, 
 for the Kings are supposed to be lineal descend- 
 ants of Buddha and the people of the first dis- 
 ciples of Buddha, so that no one can prove to 
 the satisfaction of the Siamese that these beliefs 
 are unfounded. For the same reason, many 
 miracles in those legends are implicitly ac- 
 cepted. Buddha is represented as doing the 
 most amazing things, and the imagination of 
 the people is stirred by the alleged victorious 
 
178 
 
 SIAM 
 
 Changes of 
 Rule 
 
 Present 
 King 
 
 wars of their ancestors and by tales of sup- 
 pliant embassies, brilliant alliances, and extraor- 
 dinary manifestations of supernatural power. 
 
 The territory now covered by Siam was for- 
 merly divided among several petty kingdoms. 
 There were many wars between the Siamese 
 and neighboring kingdoms, principally those 
 of the Pegu and the Laos. The Siamese were 
 generally victorious, and by 1350 had gradually 
 extended their power until they ruled over a 
 very extensive territory, their capitol being at 
 Ayuthia. Then for two centuries peace pre- 
 vailed ; but in 1556, war again broke out with 
 the Peguans, who succeeded in defeating their 
 former conquerors. The change of power, how- 
 ever, was but temporary, and the Siamese soon 
 regained ascendancy. The Burmese invasion 
 of 1759 overturned their power for a time, but 
 in 1782 the Siamese line once more regained 
 the throne. 
 
 The present King is the fifth sovereign of the 
 Chakrakri dynasty. He was born September 
 20, 1853, and ascended the throne on the death 
 of his father, King Mongkut, in 1868, a regency 
 being established until he became of age. He 
 rejoices in the name of Somdet Prabart, Prah 
 Paramender, Mahar Chulalongkorn, Baudin- 
 taratape, Mahar Monkoot, Rartenah Rarcha- 
 wewongse Racher Nekaradome Chatarantah 
 Baromah Mahar Chakrapart, Pr.ah Chula 
 Chaumklow, Chow yu huah. Those who feel 
 that life is short call him simply King Chu- 
 lalongkorn. He was the first monarch of Siam 
 
HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT 179 
 
 to visit other lands, and his travels in Europe 
 in 1897 and 1907, and also to India and Java, 
 greatly broadened his mind. He has abolished 
 the abject custom of prostrations at court, in- 
 troduced European dress, established a royal 
 museum, adorned his capital with excellent 
 streets, public gardens, and a group of state 
 buildings which would be considered handsome 
 anywhere. 
 
 An interesting feature of the policy of the The King's 
 King is the commissionership. The kingdom, 
 as already noted, includes several smaller king- 
 doms and provinces, each with its hereditary 
 ruler. These petty potentates were formerly 
 supreme in their respective regions. Corrupt, 
 oppressive, and accustomed to regard the people 
 and all their possessions as personal property, 
 these feudal lords were a formidable obstacle 
 to the King's plans for administrative reform. 
 So he adopted the plan of sending a commis- 
 sioner to reside at each provincial capital to 
 " advise " with the local governor and to form 
 a medium of communication between him and 
 the King. The latter in turn transmitted his 
 wishes to the commissioner and gave him a 
 force of gendarmes, equipped with modern 
 guns, to execute them. The outcome has been 
 the gradual transference of power from the 
 local lord to the commissioner, the unifying 
 of administration and the strengthening of the 
 power of the King, who is now the absolute 
 monarch of the whole kingdom. The local 
 prince, particularly in Laos, is accorded much 
 
180 
 
 SIAM 
 
 The King 
 Absolute 
 
 His 
 
 Successors 
 
 ostensible honor, as in the case of the native 
 princes under British rule in India ; but, as in 
 India also, he finds obedience to his " adviser " 
 conducive to health and- prosperity. 
 
 The King is therefore the source and centre 
 of all power. In theory, he is the owner of the 
 whole country and all its inhabitants. Practi- 
 cally, however, he has voluntarily introduced 
 some constitutional features. He administers 
 affairs through ten departments of state. The 
 heads of these departments form a Council of 
 Ministers. There are also a Council of State and 
 a Privy Council. The King has thus surrounded 
 himself with a considerable number of his wisest 
 subjects, and he freely advises with them. 
 
 The enlightened and progressive policy of the 
 King will probably be followed by his successor, 
 for the Crown Prince Maha Vajiravudh, born 
 January 1, 1881, is a young man of many excel- 
 lent qualities. From 1893 to 1902 he studied 
 in England. Before returning to his native 
 land, he visited several European capitals, and 
 journeyed home by the way of the United 
 States and Japan. Nor is he the only prince 
 who has been educated abroad. Several of his 
 many brothers, for the royal family of a po- 
 lygamous country is numerous, have studied 
 in England, Germany, Denmark, and Russia. 
 " There is no royal family in the world of 
 which the members have had such varied ex- 
 perience in almost every country in Europe." 1 
 
 1 Frederick Verney, late Councillor of the Siamese Lega- 
 tion, London. 
 
MISSIONS 181 
 
 PROTESTANT MISSIONS 
 
 The beginnings of Protestant missionary Period of 
 effort in Siam date back to 1818 and to the ^^^ S B 
 honored name of Mrs. Ann Hasseltine Judson, 
 of Burma. She never visited Siam, but she 
 met some Siamese in Rangoon, and through 
 them heard such accounts of their country that 
 she became deeply interested, learned the lan- 
 guage, and translated a tract, a catechism, and 
 the gospel by Matthew. The English Baptist 
 Mission press at Serampore printed the cate- 
 chism in 1819, "the first Christian book ever 
 printed in Siamese." 
 
 The first Protestant missionaries to visit First Mis- 
 Siam were the famous Dr. Gutzlaff of the sionaries 
 Netherlands Missionary Society, and the Rev. 
 Jacob Tomlin, of the London Missionary Society, 
 who came to Bangkok from Singapore in 1828, 
 and began work among the Chinese. Ill health 
 forced Mr. Tomlin to return to Singapore the 
 following year, and Dr. Gutzlaff left for China 
 in 1831. He baptized only one convert in 
 Siam, a Chinese named Boon-tai, but he had 
 set in motion a force which did not stop with 
 his departure. Not only did he leave somq 
 translations, but he and Mr. Tomlin had united 
 in an appeal to the American churches to un- 
 dertake permanent work in this needy field. 
 That appeal was conveyed to America in 1829 
 by Captain Coffin, of the American trading 
 vessel which brought those physical freaks, 
 the Siamese Twins. 
 
182 
 
 SIAM 
 
 Rev. David 
 Abeel 
 
 Disasters 
 
 Lack of 
 
 Apparent 
 
 Success 
 
 Rev. Jesse 
 Caswell 
 
 THE CONGREGATIONAL MISSION 
 
 The first Board to respond was the American 
 Board, which sent the Rev. David Abeel from 
 Canton ; he arrived June 39, 1831, shortly after 
 Dr. Gutzlaff had left. Ill health compelled 
 him to leave November 5, 1832 ; but in 1834 and 
 1835, seventeen missionaries, including wives, 
 arrived, and for a time everything looked 
 bright. 
 
 But soon disasters began to come. Mr. Ben- 
 harn was drowned. Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Brad- 
 ley, and Mr. French died, and Mr. Robinson, 
 broken in health, left only to be buried at St. 
 Helena on his way home. In 1846, the Amer- 
 ican Board, whose main thought from the 
 beginning had been for the Chinese rather 
 than the Siamese, concluded that the time 
 had come when the former could be reached 
 in China more effectively than in Siam, and it 
 therefore transferred Messrs. Peet and Johnson 
 to Foo-chow. The few remaining missionaries 
 struggled on among the Siamese; in 1848 Mr. 
 Caswell died, and when ill health drove out Mr. 
 Hemenway and his family in December, 1849, 
 the mission of the American Board was closed. 
 Fifteen years of hard labor had not resulted in 
 any baptisms, but the toil of those devoted 
 missionaries, in that hot, steaming climate, 
 formed an essential part of the foundation 
 upon which others were to build. 
 
 Two members in particular of this early 
 American Board Mission did much to make 
 
MISSIONS 183 
 
 possible the subsequent development of Siam. 
 One of these was the Rev. Jesse Caswell, who 
 had arrived in 1840, and whose ability and wis- 
 dom so impressed Prince Chow Fah Mongkut, 
 that this future King chose him as his special 
 instructor, and for a year and a half (1845 
 1846) studied as a docile pupil of Mr. Caswell. 
 The enlightened and progressive policy of 
 King Mongkut, which was the real beginning 
 of modern Siam and which gave the widest 
 opportunity to all missionary work, was due in 
 no small degree to the training that he re- 
 ceived from this missionary of the American 
 Board. 
 
 The other notable missionary of the American Dr. Daniel 
 Board was Dr. Daniel B. Bradley. He was a B - Bradley 
 man of unusual gifts, and speedily obtained 
 large influence. He brought the first printing- 
 press to Siam in 1836. Finding that multitudes 
 of the Siamese died annually from the small- 
 pox, he introduced vaccination in 1840. When 
 the American Board withdrew its missionaries 
 from Siam, he felt that he could not leave the 
 people to whose spiritual welfare he had con- 
 secrated his life. He transferred his connec- 
 tion to the American Missionary Association, 
 and though the Association soon gave up the 
 field, he continued his work until his death 
 in Bangkok, June 23, 1893. He was remark- 
 able alike as a physician, a scholar, and a mis- 
 sionary, and his name is still venerated by the 
 Siamese. 
 
184 
 
 SIAM 
 
 Rev. John T. 
 Jones 
 
 First Con- 
 verts 
 
 Discourage- 
 ments 
 
 THE BAPTIST MISSION 
 
 The American Baptist Missionary Union also 
 had a part in these early efforts to give the 
 Gospel to the Siamese. The Baptist mission- 
 aries in Burma answered the appeal of Dr. 
 Gutzlaff and Mr. Tomlin by sending the Rev. 
 and Mrs. John T. Jones, who arrived in Bang- 
 kok 011 March 25, 1833. The Rev. William Dean 
 came in 1835. He was in great sorrow, for the 
 young wife who had left Boston with him a 
 year before had died in Singapore during the 
 weary months of waiting for a steamer to take 
 them to Bangkok. 
 
 The Baptists, like the Congregationalists, felt 
 that the most inviting opportunities at that 
 period were among the Chinese in Bangkok, 
 though some work was done among the Siamese. 
 The first converts, however, were Chinese. 
 Results came slowly, but by 1848 sixty per- 
 sons had been added to the little church. Mr. 
 and Mrs. Reid and Mr. and Mrs. Davenport, 
 who arrived in July, 1836, brought the first 
 printing-press to Siam, and before the end of 
 that year the printed page began giving the 
 people the good news of the Gospel. 
 
 Reinforcements came in 1840 and 1843, but 
 sickness and death made sad havoc among the 
 little band of workers, and the Siamese showed 
 little disposition to accept Christ, the major- 
 ity of the converts being Chinese. When the 
 Anglo-Chinese treaty of 1842 opened five ports 
 of China, the Baptist Missionary Union, like the 
 
MISSIONS 185 
 
 American Board, decided that the mighty empire 
 in the north offered the more promising oppor- 
 tunities. Part of the Siam force was accordingly 
 transferred to China. The mission was not at 
 once given up, however, and from time to time 
 recruits were added, until all together thirty-two 
 men and women had been connected with the 
 mission, and considerable work inaugurated. 
 But the difficulties were felt to be great. One 
 by one, the number of missionaries diminished 
 by death and resignation and transfer, until, by 
 1871, Dr. Dean was the only Baptist missionary 
 left, and on his lamented death, in 1884, the 
 mission was finally closed. 
 
 While no distinctive work among the Siamese Permanent 
 has been done since 1869, a small work among Results 
 the Chinese continues. There are now two 
 Chinese Baptist churches in Siam. One of them, 
 the Watkok Church, has 70 members, and is an 
 active force in a part of Bangkok that is thickly 
 settled by immigrants from Swatow. There are 
 also two small churches among the Mons or 
 Peguans, a section of the Talains who have 
 entered Siam from Burma. All together, there 
 are four Baptist churches in Siam, with an 
 aggregate membership of 138, under the care of 
 native helpers superintended by H. Adamson, 
 M.D., a resident Eurasian physician in private 
 practice in Bangkok, who is a devoted Christian. 
 
 The Baptist mission in Siam left many gra- 
 cious influences and aided not a little in the 
 pioneer effort to gain a foothold for the Gospel. 
 Some of the missionaries who afterward became 
 
186 SIAM 
 
 prominent in China began their careers in Siam. 
 Among these were the famous William Ashmore 
 of Swatow, Josiah Goddard of Ningpo, and J. 
 L. Schuck of Canton. 
 
 PRESBYTERIAN MISSIONS 
 
 The withdrawal of the Baptist and Congre- 
 gational missionaries left the Presbyterian 
 Mission the only one in the field. The Pres- 
 byterian movement for the evangelization of 
 Rev. R. w. Siam had begun with the Rev. R. W. Orr, a 
 missionary from China, who made a visit of in- 
 quiry to Bangkok in November, 1838, and then 
 strongly urged the Presbyterian Board to open 
 a mission there. The Board complied by send- 
 ing the Rev. and Mrs. W. P. Buell in 1840. 
 The failure of Mrs. Buell's health obliged them 
 to leave in 1844, and three years passed before a 
 successor arrived ; but in 1847 the Rev. Stephen 
 Mattoon and Samuel R. House, M.D., arrived, 
 and permanent work was inaugurated. Mr. and 
 Mrs. Mattoon were privileged to labor in Siam 
 for nineteen years, and Dr. and Mrs. House for 
 twenty-nine years. 
 
 Dangers of An incident in the career of Dr. House shows 
 Touring fa e quality of the man. One day, while in the 
 country on an itinerating tour, he was attacked 
 by a rogue elephant, which threw him to the 
 ground and with one of its tusks ripped his 
 body open so-that the intestines protruded. Dr. 
 House's medical knowledge enabled him to see 
 at once that the wound would be fatal unless 
 
MISSIONS 187 
 
 instantly treated. There was no one near but 
 a few frightened natives, so the sorely wounded 
 man put his intestines back with his own hands 
 and took a sufficient number of stitches to close 
 the wound temporarily. Then he instructed the 
 trembling natives to carry him to the station. 
 He suffered long, but his first aid to himself 
 had been so prompt that he finally recovered. 
 The annals of war do not record greater forti- 
 tude. 
 
 Mrs. House interested herself in the education 
 of the girls of Bangkok. She founded the first 
 school for girls in Siam, and the Harriet House 
 School for Girls in Bangkok is her memorial. 
 
 Mr. Mattoon and Dr. House labored for two Reenforce- 
 years before reinforcements came. In 1849 they ments 
 were joined by the Rev. and Mrs. Stephen 
 Bush. Their stay, however, was brief, Mrs. 
 Bush dying in 1851 and Mr. Bush leaving the 
 field with impaired health in 1853. The First 
 Presbyterian Church in Siam was organized 
 August 29, 1849. There were no native Chris- 
 tians connected with the mission at that time, 
 and the membership of the church was con- 
 fined to the missionary families. A Chinese 
 teacher, Qua Kieng, had been baptized in 1844, 
 and another Chinese, a young man from Hainan, 
 in 1851, but no Siamese convert gladdened the 
 missionaries till 1859, nineteen years after the 
 arrival of Mr. Buell. " With tears of joy," Dr. 
 House wrote, "the missionaries received the first 
 fruits of labor among the Siamese." Nai Chune 
 was the name of the man who thus headed the 
 
188 
 
 SIAM 
 
 The Difficul- 
 ties of the 
 Situation 
 
 roll of Siamese Christians. It required no small 
 courage to cut loose from all the associations of 
 his lifetime and to stand alone among his coun- 
 trymen for Christ. Bat he proved faithful. 
 
 Many difficulties attended this pioneer mis- 
 sion work. The slow and wretchedly uncom- 
 fortable sailing ships of those days made Siam 
 much more isolated and difficult to reach than 
 it is to-day. The climate, always trying to a 
 foreigner, was doubly injurious when the mis- 
 sionaries were forced to live in native houses ; 
 when supplies of native food and clothing could 
 not be obtained except at long intervals and 
 great cost ; and when there was no experience 
 of predecessors to guide the new arrivals in 
 adapting themselves to the climate, in learning 
 the language, and in getting into touch with 
 the people. 
 
 The attitude of the government, too, was 
 The King, a strong but 
 
 narrow-minded and fanatical man, used his 
 influence to the utmost to thwart the mission- 
 aries. He opposed them not because they were 
 missionaries, but because they were foreigners. 
 When an embassy from the United States ar- 
 rived in March, 1850, to open friendly negotia- 
 tions with a view to a treaty, the King refused 
 to receive it. Even England's ambassador, the 
 famous Sir James Brooke, who came in August 
 of the same year, fared no better. Sir James 
 felt so outraged by the insulting treatment he 
 received that he sailed away in a rage, threat- 
 ening dire punishment. Indeed, the policy of 
 
 The Hostile 
 
 Attitude of decidedly hostile. 
 
 the King 
 
MISSIONS 189 
 
 the King so irritated England that for a time 
 war appeared imminent. 
 
 The missionaries were not subjected to per- Personal 
 sonal violence, but several times the danger R an fr e . rs . to 
 seemed great. The unfriendly attitude of the 
 government and the ruling classes was so well 
 known and was exerted in such effective ways, 
 that obstacles confronted the little band of mis- 
 sionaries at every step. No Siamese landlord 
 dared to rent or sell them property, and they 
 were often sorely beset for suitable shelter. 
 Finally, one Siamese, braver than the rest, sold 
 a site, and the money was actually paid over. 
 But before building operations could be begun, 
 a high official declared the sale void and forced 
 the owner to return the money, the reason 
 given being that "the residence of foreigners 
 there was contrary to the custom of the coun- 
 try." Wh^n Dr. Bradley 's medical work be- 
 gan to win the favor of the common people, the 
 Buddhist priests made the odd complaint that, 
 if these foreigners were allowed to show kind- 
 ness to everybody every day, their merit would 
 soon outstrip that of the best men of the king- 
 dom. Once the missionaries were ordered to 
 leave their premises and had to find shelter as 
 best they could, one family in a houseboat 
 and another with the Baptist missionaries, while 
 Dr. Bradley sought temporary refuge with a 
 friendly English merchant, Mr. Robert Hunter. 
 The few native converts were fiercely perse- 
 cuted, the helpers were imprisoned, and it looked 
 as if the end of all mission work had come. 
 
190 SIAM 
 
 Changes for Suddenly, when the prospect was blackest, 
 the Better the hostile King died (April 3, 1851), and his 
 half brother, Prince Chow Fah Mongkut, as- 
 cended the throne. For twenty-seven years 
 he had lived quietly in a Buddhist monastery, 
 studying and thinking and showing rare open- 
 ness of mind and heart to all good influences. 
 He was in every way superior in character to 
 his predecessor, who had seized the royal power 
 years before. When the missionaries from the 
 West arrived, this priestly prince had welcomed 
 them and, as we have already noted, engaged 
 Mr. Caswell to instruct him in Western learn- 
 ing. Not only this, but he gave the missionary 
 free use of a room on the temple grounds for 
 daily preaching services after the royal pupil 
 had taken his lesson. 
 
 Favor of the The new King showed himself as friendly to 
 Throne missionaries on the throne as he had been in a 
 monastery. He invited them to his palace and 
 showed them many kindnesses. Instantly oppo- 
 sition vanished. Ground was secured without 
 further difficulty, and buildings were erected. 
 The missionaries wrote : " The princes and 
 nobles now courted our society ; our teachers 
 and servants returned to their places ; throngs 
 came to our houses to receive books and to talk 
 with us respecting their contents ; and we were 
 permitted to go where we chose, and to speak 
 in the name of Jesus with the confidence that 
 we should not be avoided, but obtain a respect- 
 ful hearing." 
 
 The King even permitted some of the mis- 
 
MISSIONS 191 
 
 sionary women to enter the royal harem and Access to 
 teach. Missionary teaching was a little too toe Royal 
 serious for the frivolous ladies within the royal 
 enclosure, and most of them did not prove very 
 apt pupils. But several were impressed by the 
 words of their visitors and gladly invited them 
 to their rooms and read the tracts which were 
 given them. 
 
 The work now made steady progress. New Progress of 
 arrivals strengthened the missionary force. theWork 
 The Christian Boys' High School was opened 
 in 1852, and the Harriet House School for Girls 
 in 1873. In 1860, Petchaburi, whose Governor 
 had, in 1843, treated Mr. Buell with contempt- 
 uous indignity, gave polite attention to Dr. 
 House, Mr. Telford, and Mr. Wilson, and in the 
 following year a station was formally established 
 there. Ayuthia was made a station in 1872, 
 though it has since been merged into the Bang- 
 kok field. 1878 saw a second church organized 
 in Bangkok. 
 
 The death of King Mongkut in 1868 was Further 
 deeply mourned ; but his son, the present King, 5; e j iglo ? s 
 has continued the broad and tolerant policy of 
 his father. A proclamation of religious liberty, 
 was issued in 1870. 
 
 The influence of the missionaries was recog- 
 nized on every hand. In 1878, the King ap- 
 pointed one of the members of the mission, the 
 Rev. S. G. McFarland, who had come to Siam 
 in 1860, Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 and President of the Royal College at Bangkok, 
 the first college to be opened in Siam. Dr. and 
 
192 
 
 SIAM 
 
 Stations 
 
 Scope of 
 the Work 
 
 Mrs. McFarland were freely permitted to use 
 their enlarged opportunities for Christ. Their 
 son, the present Superintendent of the Govern- 
 ment Hospital in Bangkok, works in close sym- 
 pathy with the missionaries and has helped 
 them in inestimable ways. 
 
 The Presbyterian Board now has in lower 
 Siam, exclusive of the Laos Mission, five sta- 
 tions : Bangkok, Petchaburi, Ratburi, opened in 
 1889, Nakawn Sri Tamarat and Pitsanuloke, 
 both of which were opened in 1899. The story 
 of the opening of Nakawn is peculiarly interest- 
 ing. The good-will of the people made it 
 easy to secure land, a residence was soon 
 erected, and since then a fine hospital has been 
 built, the King himself having made a liberal 
 contribution. 
 
 The total force of the Presbyterian Mission in 
 lower Siam consists at this writing of thirty- 
 seven missionaries and twenty-nine native 
 workers. There are seven organized churches, 
 eight schools, four hospitals which treat 
 25,000 patients annually and a printing-press 
 which issues, during the same period, about 
 5,000,000 pages. The work includes the Chi- 
 nese as well as the Siamese, the former being 
 found in all the schools, hospitals, and churches. 
 The pastor of the First Church of Bangkok is 
 a Chinese, and almost the entire membership 
 of the Third Church (Rajawong) is Chinese. 
 The blending of the two races is such prac- 
 tically every Chinese having a Siamese wife and 
 half-caste children that it would now be quite 
 
MISSIONS 193 
 
 impracticable to undertake to separate them in 
 mission work. 
 
 Four of the mission institutions in Bangkok Christian 
 have special interest for the visitor. One is 
 the Christian Boys' High School. Its hand- 
 some site was paid for by gifts of the Siamese 
 themselves, the King heading the subscription 
 and his nobles and people joining him in sub- 
 stantial evidences of their appreciation of this 
 noble institution. The buildings, erected by 
 American funds, are excellent. In spite of the 
 fact that the School charges fees which make it 
 wholly self-supporting, except for salaries of the 
 missionaries, it is crowded to its utmost capacity, 
 and could easily have many more students. 
 The Siamese opinion of the School is indicated, 
 not only by the gifts and fees referred to, but 
 by the statement of a Cabinet officer that the 
 government would be glad to take into its 
 employ every graduate that the School can turn 
 out. Character, training, and efficiency count 
 in Siam as elsewhere. 
 
 The second institution is the Harriet House 
 School for Girls. 
 
 The influence of this School is very great. School for 
 Half of its pupils come from the families of 
 noblemen. Several are royal princesses, nieces 
 of the King. Others are daughters of govern- 
 ors and ministers to European capitals. The 
 entire female teaching force of the Bangkok 
 public government schools, thirteen in number, 
 are graduates of Harriet House, twelve of them 
 being Christians. At the recent government 
 
194 SIAM 
 
 examinations, the School elicited the outspoken 
 admiration of the Prince Director-General of 
 Public Instruction by excelling all other schools 
 in the kingdom, including the Queen's Own 
 College, in the proportion of pupils who credit- 
 ably passed the examination. 
 
 The Only The Bangkok press, founded in 1861, is the 
 
 Siam m kest equipped institution of the kind in Siam, 
 and, with the exception of a few gifts, its entire 
 plant has been paid for out of its earnings. It 
 publishes school and religious books, myriads of 
 tracts, a monthly magazine, and all the issues in 
 Siam of the American Bible Society, besides a 
 great amount of job work for the government 
 and private firms and individuals. It is the 
 only press in Siam which confines itself to 
 morally clean work, and it is thus a powerful 
 influence for good in the business community. 
 Other presses will print anything. This refuses 
 opium, liquor, gambling, and like advertise- 
 ments. 
 
 A Native The Boon Itt Memorial is the centre of a 
 
 Mart y r far-reaching work for young men. The Rev. 
 Boon Itt was a native Siamese of mixed Cam- 
 bodian and Chinese blood, who was taken to 
 America in his boyhood by Dr. House and 
 educated at Williams College and Auburn 
 Theological Seminary, and who then returned 
 to Siam and engaged in Christian work. As 
 the head of his " clan," whose family home is 
 in Bangkok, he was widely known in the 
 capital. Young men liked him and resorted to 
 him for advice. The government repeatedly 
 
MISSIONS 195 
 
 offered him lucrative posts, and a trading cor- 
 poration in Laos was eager to employ him at a 
 salary of $4000 gold. As a minister of Christ 
 he received $650 and a humble native house, 
 and he preferred being a preacher. His death 
 from cholera in 1903 was greatly lamented. 
 The Siamese raised funds for a centrally located 
 site for a memorial, and an American commit- 
 tee, headed by Williams and Auburn class- 
 mates of Boon Itt's, erected the handsome 
 building. 
 
 One of the churches has an interesting his- A Noble 
 tory. Several years ago, Phya Montri, a Si- Memorial 
 amese nobleman of great influence, who was 
 educated at Columbia College, New York, be- 
 came interested in Christianity. After varied 
 spiritual experiences, he was drifting away 
 from Christ, when his beloved and only son 
 suddenly died. In his grief, a missionary 
 gently told him of the Good Shepherd who, 
 finding that a sheep would not follow Him, 
 took the lamb in His arms. The father's heart 
 was deeply moved. He sketched an outline of 
 the incident and had an artist paint it. We 
 saw the picture in his house a shepherd, with 
 a face so kindly and sweet, a face like unto that 
 of the Son of Man, carrying a lamb in his 
 bosom, while afar off two sheep, which had been 
 walking away from the shepherd, were, with 
 wistful eyes, turning around to follow their 
 loved one. Now this father, in grateful recog- 
 nition of this spiritual call, gave 10,000 ticals 
 to build a church. Something was added by 
 
196 
 
 81AM 
 
 Beginnings 
 in Laos 
 
 Immediate 
 Results 
 
 other Christians, and a beautiful house of wor- 
 ship was dedicated in 1903. 
 
 The mission among the Laos began in 1867. 
 Several years before this, the Rev. Daniel 
 McGilvary, then stationed at Petchaburi, had 
 become interested in a small village near the 
 station, whose people spoke a different lan- 
 guage and appeared to be distinct in many ways 
 from the Siamese about them. Through them, 
 he learned of the vast hill country to the north, 
 from which their ancestors had come. He 
 formed an ardent desire to know more of these 
 people and to carry the Gospel to them. In 
 1863, he and his colleague, the Rev. Jonathan 
 Wilson, made a long tour of exploration to the 
 Laos country. It was a journey into an abso- 
 lutely unknown land. For months the devoted 
 missionaries made their way up the Me Nam 
 River, their half-naked boatmen wading, pull- 
 ing, and pushing by turns in order to get the 
 boat over sand bars and through rapids, until 
 they finally arrived at Chieng Mai, 600 miles 
 from Bangkok. Their report on their return 
 was so enthusiastic that, in 1867, Mr. McGil- 
 vary returned to Laos with his wife and founded 
 the mission, and a year later Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
 son joined them. The visitor to Chieng Mai 
 never fails to visit the bo tree, under whose 
 wide-spreading branches Dr. and Mrs. McGil- 
 vary lived for the first year of their stay. 
 
 Results came more quickly than in Lower 
 Siam. The missionaries were scholars, and 
 they foretold the eclipse of August, 1868, a 
 
MISSIONS 197 
 
 week before it occurred. The natives were pro- 
 foundly impressed, and one of the ablest and 
 most influential Buddhist scholars of Chieng 
 Mai, Nan Inta, was converted. He became a 
 Christian of great beauty and strength of char- 
 acter, and labored indefatigably for Christ till 
 his death in 1882. 
 
 The conversion of Nan Inta was soon fol- TWO noble 
 lowed by that of seven others, and everything Mart y rs 
 pointed to a rapid development of the work, 
 when the governor of Chieng Mai began to 
 persecute the Christians. Noi Su Ya and Nan 
 Chai were arrested, and, on being brought be- 
 fore the authorities, confessed that they had for- 
 saken Buddhism. " The death-yoke was then 
 put around their necks, and a small rope was 
 passed through the holes in their ears (used for 
 ear-rings by all natives) and carried tightly 
 over the beam of a house. After being thus 
 tortured all night, they were again examined 
 in the morning; but, with a fortitude worthy 
 of the noblest traditions of the early Church, 
 steadfastly refused to deny their Saviour even 
 in the very presence of death. They prepared 
 for execution by a reverent prayer, closing 
 with the words, 4 Lord Jesus, receive my 
 spirit.' They were then taken to the jungle 
 and clubbed to death. One of them, not dying 
 quickly enough to suit the executioners, was 
 thrust through the heart by a spear." The 
 whole record eloquently testifies to the genu- 
 ineness of faith and courage of fidelity on the 
 part of these first martyrs of the Laos Church. 
 
198 SIAM 
 
 Persecution The persecution, however, proved to be short. 
 
 Ended The hostile governor died, and his snccessor 
 
 was less truculent. More converts were bap- 
 tized. In 1878, another crisis occurred over 
 the desire of two native Christians to be married 
 by the missionaries without providing for the 
 feast to evil spirits, as custom required. The 
 relatives appealed to the magistrate, who sus- 
 tained them and forbade the marriage. The mis- 
 sionaries promptly sent a petition to the King 
 in Bangkok, which resulted in a " Proclamation 
 of Religious Liberty to the Laos." This ended 
 all persecution. Chieng Mai became the centre 
 of a widely extended work. It remained the 
 only station, however, till 1885, when Dr. and 
 
 Further Ad- Mrs. S. C. Peoples opened a station at Lakawn. 
 Lampoon (since consolidated with Chieng Mai) 
 was occupied in 1891, Pre in 1893 by Dr. and 
 Mrs. W. A. Briggs, Nan in 1894 by Dr. and 
 Mrs. Peoples, and Chieng Rai in 1897 by Mr. 
 and Mrs. W. C. Dodd and Dr. and Mrs. C. H. 
 Denman. Thus stations were located at the 
 capitals of five of the six Laos states in Siam, 
 the sixth, Luang Prabang, being inaccessible 
 on account of French influence, as explained 
 elsewhere. 
 
 Present The mission has steadily and encouragingly 
 
 status developed, until now there are 44 missionaries, 
 
 six hospitals and dispensaries treating 30,000 
 patients annually, 26 schools, a printing-press, 
 18 organized churches with 3168 communicants, 
 and a much larger number of inquirers and 
 adherents. 
 
MISSIONS 199 
 
 Chieng Mai and Lakawn are the stations Work at 
 where the largest work has been developed. Chieng Mai 
 Here the institutional work centres. The 
 Girls' Boarding School at Chieng Mai is as 
 famous in the north as the Harriet House 
 School for Girls is in the south. It has trained 
 hundreds of girls who are now wives and 
 mothers of the best men in Laos, while others 
 are usefully employed as teachers and Bible 
 women. The Prince Royal's College at Chieng 
 Mai received its name from the Crown Prince, 
 who, in January, 1906, personally laid the 
 corner-stone of the new building with im- 
 pressive ceremonies. 
 
 The hospitals and boarding schools for boys Work at 
 and girls at Lakawn are also doing a fine work, Lakawn 
 though their equipment is not so large as that of 
 the Chieng Mai schools. They have new build- 
 ings, and their accommodations are fully taxed. 
 
 The press at Chieng Mai is important as the 
 only press in the world which uses the Laos 
 language, so that it is the sole means for giving 
 the Bible and a Christian literature to the Laos- 
 speaking people. Twelve native workmen are 
 employed under the supervision of a missionary, 
 and though the equipment is far from large, the 
 press exerts a wide influence not only through its 
 distinctive missionary publications but through 
 the relations which it sustains to the officials, 
 who have all their printing done by it. Vice and 
 intemperance can get no aid from the printed 
 page in Laos, for the mission press will not 
 print their books, circulars, or advertisements. 
 
200 SIAM 
 
 RESULTS AND INFLUENCE 
 
 Results and While the people of Siam, from King to 
 influence coolie, are kindly disposed toward the mission- 
 aries, and while there is an almost entire absence 
 of that opposition which has been encountered 
 in some other lands, the number of converts 
 has not been great, there being now only about 
 4000 adult communicants connected with all 
 the missions, and most of these are in Laos. 
 A change in mission policy has undoubtedly 
 affected numerical tables temporarily. Unlike 
 Korea and Uganda, Siam did not have the ad- 
 vantage of beginning after the necessity for 
 self-support had become generally recognized, 
 and, like most of the older missions, it had to 
 reconstruct much of its work, in some cases 
 being obliged to begin all over again. Ac- 
 customed to a liberal use of all foreign money, 
 the native Christians resented the new policy. 
 The missionaries persisted, and to-day most of 
 the schools, hospitals, churches, and native 
 helpers are supported by the people. It is not 
 fair, therefore, to contrast the present statis- 
 tical tables with those of a decade ago, with- 
 out taking this fact into consideration. The 
 work is now on a sound basis. 
 
 A Marvel- What Christ can do for these people is abun- 
 lous trans- dantlv shown by the transformation which He 
 
 formation J * 
 
 has effected in the lives of those who have ac- 
 cepted Him. The head chief of a village on the 
 peninsula was notorious as a hard character. 
 He was converted under the faithful preaching 
 
EESULTS 201 
 
 of Dr. Dunlap. How do we know that the 
 conversion was genuine ? The chief summoned 
 all the people of his village, and announced to 
 them his determination to follow Christ. Then 
 he asked the forgiveness of those whom he had 
 wronged. He brought out his bottles of liquor 
 and broke them to pieces. He amazed his cred- 
 itors by paying their claims in full. He put 
 away all his wives and concubines, except his 
 first wife, making provision for their support 
 and that of their children, so that they might 
 not suffer. Then, in the presence of all his 
 people, he kneeled down and solemnly dedicated 
 himself and all his possessions to the service of 
 God. 
 
 The Christian is a marked man among his 
 fellows, distinguished not merely for his differ- 
 ence in faith, but for his superior intelligence, 
 morality, thrift, and integrity. No wonder that 
 the governor of Puket says : " Wherever the 
 Christian missionary settles, he brings good 
 to the people. Progress, beneficial institutions, 
 cleanliness, and uplifting of the people result 
 from his labors;" while the high commissioner 
 of the same province told Dr. Dunlap, in 1907, 
 that he would give 5000 ticals for a hospital in 
 Tap Teang and 10,000 ticals for one in Puket, if 
 the missionary would open permanent stations. 
 
 It should be noted, too, while the number of Social 
 conversions has been comparatively small, the re . sul . ts of 
 
 i TJ. e t i i missionary 
 
 social results 01 missionary effort have been un- effort 
 usually large. In most lands converts are 
 the first permanent results of missionary labor, 
 
202 SIAM 
 
 and social changes come later. But in Siam this 
 order has been reversed. True, converts have 
 not been lacking, but their number is small in 
 comparison with the reforms which missionary 
 influence has been the chief factor in producing. 
 Indeed it is probable that missionary teaching 
 lias been more influential in establishing the 
 general policy and developing the public senti- 
 ment of the country than in many lands where 
 the number of converts has been much larger. 
 The reforms inaugurated by the King are di- 
 rectly traceable to the influence of the mission- 
 aries. The ruler of a country in which Buddhism 
 is the state religion, he has not personally 
 accepted the Christian faith, but he has not 
 hesitated to adopt the suggestions which the 
 Christian teachers have made. 
 
 Some Won- The late ex-regent remarked in 1871 to the 
 derfuiTesti- Hon4 George F. Seward, then American Con- 
 sul-General at Shanghai, that "Siam had not 
 been disciplined by English and French guns 
 as China, but the country had been opened by 
 missionaries." 
 
 The present King said to Dr. Dunlap in 1898, 
 "I am glad you are here working for my peo- 
 ple, and I wish you success." Such words from 
 such a ruler mean much. Strict Buddhist 
 though he is, he and his officials not only grant 
 full religious toleration, but assign valuable 
 property to Christian mission work at a nomi- 
 nal value, as at Nakawn, or for nothing, as at 
 Ratburi. Not only this, but the King person- 
 ally contributed 12400 in 1888 to enlarge the 
 
RESULTS 203 
 
 mission hospital at Petchaburi. He also gave 
 at various times 11000 to the girls' school at 
 the same station, 4000 ticals to the mission 
 hospital at Nakawn, and headed a list of donors 
 of the new site for the Christian Boys' High 
 School at Bangkok, over 80 of his princes and 
 nobles adding their names, till the gifts aggre- 
 gated 17,000 ticals. The Queen, in 1895, gave 
 the money for a women's ward at the Petcha- 
 buri Hospital, and $1500 to form " The Queen's 
 Scholarship Fund " at the Harriet House Girls' 
 School. Prince Devawongse personally said 
 to the author in Bangkok, " Your missionaries 
 first brought civilization to my country." The 
 American Minister, the Hon. Hamilton King, 
 says that, at a banquet in 1899, Prince Dam- 
 rong, the Minister of the Interior, declared in 
 the hearing of every one at the table: "Mr. 
 King, I want to say to you that we have great 
 respect for your American missionaries in our 
 country, and appreciate very highly the work 
 they are doing for our people. I want this to 
 be understood by every one, and if you are in 
 a position to let it be known to your country- 
 men, I wish you would say this for me." 
 
 The Hon. John Barrett, American Minister 
 to Siam, 1894-1898, bore frequent and em- 
 phatic testimony to their high character and 
 the great value of their work. His successor, 
 the Hon. Hamilton King, writes : " Siam is a 
 country in which the American missionaries 
 have made no mistakes of importance and where 
 they enjoy the fullest respect and the entire con- 
 
204 SIAM 
 
 fidence of the government. It is not only their 
 preaching that is making their influence felt ; 
 these men are a power for good along all lines 
 of influence. . . . And by endeavoring to make 
 the people to whom they were sent a little 
 stronger, a little happier, and a little better, they 
 have gradually been commending their gospel of 
 a good and holy God, who is everywhere working 
 out the best for His children, of which great 
 family all men are members." 
 
 OBSTACLES AND ENCOURAGEMENTS 
 
 Obstacles Obstacles to missionary effort are not want- 
 
 ing. Many vices, against which there is little 
 or no public sentiment, weaken the character 
 of the people. The Roman Catholics are so 
 much more numerous than the Protestants, and 
 their alliance with French political designs is 
 so open and aggressive, that to many Siamese 
 the term Christian suggests a Roman Catholic. 
 The commissioner of a certain province told a 
 Siamese pastor that religion was only a matter 
 of form, anyway, and as Buddhism was their 
 national religion and Christianity the national 
 religion of the French, he saw no reason for 
 abandoning their faith and taking that of the 
 foreigners. 
 
 indifference Languid indifference is the special obstacle to 
 mission work in Siam as national pride is in 
 Japan, ancestral worship in China, and caste in 
 India. A tropical climate, a prolific soil, and a 
 comparatively sparse population remove those 
 
THE FUTURE 205 
 
 incentives to energy which a sterner cliine, a 
 poorer soil, and a denser overcrowding supply 
 in China. The religious beliefs of the people 
 intensify this physical and mental sloth by com- 
 mending the passive rather than the active life. 
 
 In spite of these obstacles, Siam and Laos Encourage- 
 are promising mission fields. There are notable ments 
 advantages in the openness of the entire coun- 
 try, the good-will of all classes of people, the 
 avowed favor of the government, the willing- 
 ness of high officials to send their children to 
 mission schools, the disposition of the authori- 
 ties to prefer graduates of mission institutions 
 for official positions, the frankly expressed 
 gratitude of the King and his ministers for the 
 services which the missionaries have rendered 
 to Siam, and the comparative absence of that 
 bitter poverty which so oppresses the traveller 
 in India. Then there is no caste, no ancestral 
 worship, no child marriage, no shutting up of 
 women in inaccessible zenanas. 
 
 In no other country of Asia, except Korea, Friendliness 
 are Protestant missionaries regarded with 
 greater friendliness by people of all ranks. 
 Their lives and property are as safe as if they 
 were under British rule in India. Princes 
 and nobles are their friends. Men trained in 
 the universities of Europe ask them questions. 
 Missionary educators teach the sons of gov- 
 ernors, judges, and high commissioners, and 
 missionary physicians are called into the homes 
 of the proudest officials. 
 
 Most significant of all, there is a general 
 
206 SIAM 
 
 Religious expectation of another and more perfect incar- 
 
 expectation na tion of Buddha. 
 
 The result is, that as the missionaries go 
 about with the good tidings of Jesus Christ, 
 the people ask one another in awed tones, 
 "Is not this He for whom we look?" Bud- 
 dhist monks, instead of being bitterly hostile, 
 like the priests and mullahs of other lands, 
 invite the missionaries to the temples and 
 eagerly inquire of them further of this matter. 
 Mr. Dodd says : " Most of our auditors looked 
 upon Jesus as the next Buddha, the Saviour, 
 Ahreyah Mettai. Many lifted both hands in 
 worship of the pictures, the books, and the 
 preachers. Our colporteurs were treated in 
 most places as the messengers of the Buddhist 
 Messiah. Offerings of food, flowers, and wax 
 tapers were made to them. In return, they 
 were expected to bless the givers. They ex- 
 plained that they themselves were sinners de- 
 riving all merit and blessing from God, and 
 then reverently asked a blessing from Him. 
 Thus Christian services were held in hundreds 
 of homes." 
 
 Dr. Briggs writes of one of his tours : " The 
 message was received with outspoken gratitude 
 and intelligent interest, many of the people 
 remaining till long after midnight, reading the 
 books and tracts by the light of the fire, and 
 asking questions of the Christians in our 
 company. The people, hungry for truth that 
 satisfies and longing for light, are very anx- 
 iously awaiting the coming of the promised mes- 
 
THE FUTURE 207 
 
 siah of Buddhism. What a preparation for the 
 true Messiah ! " 
 
 Never has the Christian missionary had a Great Op- 
 better opportunity to take tactful advantage P rtumt y 
 of a national belief for the introduction of the 
 Gospel of Christ. 
 
 My heart lovingly lingers upon my journey- 
 ings through the Land of the White Elephant 
 the month upon its mighty rivers, now 
 towed by a noisy launch, now poled by half- 
 naked tattooed boatmen, now shooting .tumult- 
 uous rapids through weirdly savage canons ; 
 the days of elephant travel through the vast 
 forests, slowly picking our way along the 
 boulder-strewn bed of mountain streams, trav- 
 ersing beautiful valleys, and climbing rocky 
 heights, the huge beasts never making a mis- 
 step even in the most slippery steeps ; the 
 nights when we pitched our tents in the heart 
 of the great jungle, the camp-fire throwing its 
 fitful light upon the boles of giant trees and the 
 tangled labyrinth of tropical vines mid which 
 monkeys curiously watched us and unseen 
 beasts growled their anger at our intrusion. 
 Most delightful of all are my memories of the 
 unvarying kindness of the people, who, from 
 his Majesty the King down through princes, 
 commissioners, and governors to humble vil- 
 lagers, showed a hospitable friendliness which 
 quite won my heart ; while it would be hard 
 to conceive a more loving welcome than was 
 extended to us by the missionaries and by our 
 
208 SIAM 
 
 able and sympathetic American Minister and 
 his family. More profitable to us than they 
 could possibly have been to the workers were 
 our long conferences regarding the Lord's 
 work in that far-off land. It is prospering in 
 their hands, and it will prosper to a far greater 
 degree if the Church at home will give to them 
 that loving, prayerful, and generous coopera- 
 tion which the missionaries in Siam and Laos so 
 well deserve. 
 
BUBMA 
 
 Scale of Statute Miles 
 
 16 
 
 Stations of A. B. M. U.: Shwegyin Capitals 
 
 Tribes : KARENS Railroads ' ' 
 
 A 94 Longitude B East 9 
 
BUKMA 
 
 THE REV. ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN, D.D. 
 
CHAPTER VI 
 BURMA 
 
 BUEMA forms the northeastern part of Great 
 Britain's vast empire in India. The political 
 readjustments of the last century have changed 
 the boundaries at various times, but the region Position 
 which now bears the name includes both Upper 
 and Lower Burma and the Shan States. The 
 areas are : Lower Burma, 81,138 square miles; 
 Upper Burma, 87,435 ; Shan States, 68,165 ; a 
 total of 236,738 square miles. In other words, 
 Burma is larger than France, and almost as large 
 as Texas. The length, north and south, is about 
 1100 miles, and the breadth at the widest point 
 is about 700. 
 
 The physical configuration may be roughly Physical 
 described as a series of parallel mountain ranges Features 
 running north and south, and separated by fer- 
 tile river valleys. The largest river is the Irra- 
 waddy, which is navigable for 900 miles. The 
 next largest, the Salween, is not navigable. 
 Between these two river basins is another con- 
 siderable stream, the Sittang. There are sev- 
 eral smaller streams, the principal ones being 
 the Chindwin, the Myitnge, and the Tenasserim. 
 All the rivers have numerous tributaries, on 
 which the natives journey and transport their 
 produce by canoes. 
 
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212 
 
 BURMA 
 
 Natural 
 Divisions 
 
 Climate 
 
 Flora 
 
 The lines of communication naturally run 
 north and south along the valleys. Travelling 
 east and west is difficult, as jungle-covered 
 mountains have to be crossed. This jungle 
 teems with monkeys, birds of tropical plumage, 
 and some of the largest and fiercest game in the 
 world, the tiger, buffalo, elephant, and rhi- 
 noceros. About 2000 people and 10,000 cattle 
 are killed annually by serpents and poisonous 
 insects. 
 
 The climate is tropical, Burma being in about 
 the latitude of Cuba. As in most tropical re- 
 gions, there are practically but two seasons, wet 
 and dry. In the wet season, from May to Oc- 
 tober, the rainfall is over sixteen feet at some 
 points on the coast. There is a belt in the re- 
 gion of Mandalay where there is so little rain 
 that irrigation is necessary ; but north of it, at 
 Bhamo, the downpour is again heavy. Life in 
 the wet season is even more uncomfortable than 
 during " the hot season " which immediately 
 precedes it. The sodden land literally steams 
 under the continued heat, and shoes, books, and 
 clothing are covered with mould in a single 
 night. 
 
 The soil of the valleys is very fertile. Though 
 nine-tenths of the people subsist by cultivating 
 the soil, and the average farm is sixteen acres, 
 less than twenty-four per cent of the total area 
 is now tilled. The chief products are teak, 
 lumber, rice, wheat, and other food grains, petro- 
 leum, oil seeds, cotton, tobacco, sugar cane, tea, 
 and indigo. Excellent amber is found in some 
 
THE COUNTRY 213 
 
 quantities. Rubies are exported to the value of 
 about $ 500,000 annually. Four million pounds 
 of jade are mined in an average year. 
 
 The population is 10,490,624, of which about Population 
 one-half (5,405,967) are in Lower Burma, 
 3,846,908 in Upper Burma, and 1,237,749 in the 
 Shan States. This gives Lower Burma 67 in- 
 habitants to the square mile, Upper Burma 44, 
 and the Shan States 18, an average for the 
 whole country of 44. 
 
 The Burmans proper form about four-fifths Race and 
 of the population. The original stock is sup- p hara .c- 
 
 ^ \ & r tenstics 
 
 posed to have migrated in prehistoric times 
 from the borders of Tibet. The typical Bur- 
 man is of medium height, heavier in form than 
 the Hindu, has long black hair and rather flat 
 features. He is fond of theatrical amusements 
 and loves to array himself in bright colors. 
 To the traveller from India, the contrast is 
 striking. Instead of emaciated, sad-faced peo- 
 ple, he sees happy, sleek, and well-fed men and 
 women. There is no caste, and all classes min- 
 gle freely. Like the Siamese, the Burman is 
 indolent and regards work as beneath him. 
 The soil of his country is so rich, the climate 
 so well adapted to vegetation, and the popula- 
 tion so comparatively sparse that wants are 
 fewer than in the more temperate clime from 
 which his ancestors came. His taste is not fas- 
 tidious. His staple food, rice, is clean enough, 
 but he flavors it with nga-pee, putrid fish. 
 His Buddhist objection to taking life does not 
 trouble him in the least, for, he argues, he does 
 
214 BURMA 
 
 not kill the fish; they simply die when he takes 
 them out of the water. He " dries " them on 
 mats in the sun, without dressing, pounds them 
 to a paste, adds a little salt, drains off the oil, 
 and then spreads the paste on his rice and eats 
 it with keen relish. We shall never forget the 
 odor of those decaying fish. We could tell a 
 mile away when we were approaching the " dry- 
 ing " mats. As the other tribes are equally care- 
 less in eating and drinking and disposal of 
 garbage, and as there is total ignorance of the 
 real causes of disease and of proper methods 
 of treating it, Burma affords many victims for 
 cholera, plague, malaria, dysentery, and other 
 tropical diseases. 
 
 Dress The dress of the common people is simply a 
 
 strip of colored cotton cloth around the loins 
 and another on the head. With some varia- 
 tions in the method of draping, the loin cloth 
 serves for both sexes, the women simply let- 
 ting it fall a little lower on the limbs. Chil- 
 dren wear nothing at all. 
 
 In spite of his laziness, his poverty, his shift- 
 lessness, and the ease with which a handful of 
 the British have defeated him in war and a 
 few thousand Chinese have made themselves 
 masters of his trade, the Burman is one of the 
 most self-satisfied of mortals, proudly regard- 
 ing himself as superior to all other races. He 
 smokes his cigarette, chews his betel, eats his 
 " fragrant " fish, lounges in his bamboo hut, and 
 is calmly indifferent to the rest of the world. 
 " Custom " is his law of life. No matter whether 
 
THE COUNTRY 215 
 
 a new way is better or not, he follows the old, 
 and if you ask him why, he shrugs his shoulders 
 and replies, "It is custom." 
 
 Let us be careful in our judgment, however. 
 The Burmans are not the only conceited people 
 on earth. There are a few in America. Nor 
 do we have to travel halfway around the world 
 to find the indolent and careless. The Burman 
 has some good qualities, and if he had the in- 
 vigorating teachings of the Gospel, he would 
 develop them. Here is our opportunity and 
 our duty. 
 
 Women have considerable freedom. There Women 
 is no such seclusion of females as in India. 
 They freely mingle with men and attend to the 
 business matters of the family. The marriage 
 tie is loose, and concubinage is common. The 
 use of tobacco and betel nut is universal, not 
 only by men, but also by women and children. 
 British law also deals so sternly with gambling, 
 theft, and violence that outwardly the Burmans vices 
 seem less lawless than some other peoples. But 
 their natural disposition is not changed by these 
 laws, but simply held in check. Drunkenness 
 and opium smoking are not so common as the 
 former is in England and the latter in China, 
 but both are rapidly increasing under the in- 
 fluence of the European in one case and the 
 Chinese in the other. Most foreigners in Asia, 
 outside of the missionary circle, drink heavily, 
 and the native soon learns to imitate them. 
 
 The remaining fifth of the population is made 
 up of heterogeneous elements, fifty-seven in- 
 
216 
 
 BURMA 
 
 digenous peoples or tribes being enumerated 
 by the British census, besides a considerable 
 number of non-indigenous races. We mention 
 those which are most important from a mission- 
 ary view-point : 
 
 The Karens The Karens, 714,000 in number, are descend- 
 ants of a people who also originally migrated 
 into Burma from the western part of China, 
 forced out apparently by the ever-advancing 
 Chinese. They are divided into several scat- 
 tered tribes, the three leading ones being the 
 Sgaws, Pwos, and Bghais. The Sgaws number 
 about 260,000 and the Pvvos 310,000. Both 
 these tribes are in Lower Burma. The Bghais 
 are more warlike in temper, and are to be found 
 among the mountains farther north. They are 
 a simple-minded people, distinctly lower than 
 the Burmans in civilization, and, before the 
 arrival of the British, suffered much from the 
 cruelty of their stronger neighbors. 
 
 Traditions There has been much speculation as to where 
 and how the Karens obtained some of the tra- 
 ditions which they jealously guard and hand 
 down from generation to generation. This 
 folklore apparently points to an earlier knowl- 
 edge of the biblical narrative, for it includes 
 tales of the creation of woman from the rib of 
 the first man, of the sin of the first man and 
 the first woman, of the wrath of God on ac- 
 count of transgression, but of His promise to 
 send deliverance and happiness through " white 
 foreigners " who were to come " in ships from 
 the west." 
 
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 It will readily be seen what a remark- 
 able preparation for the Gospel message such 
 traditions afford. The missionary with his 
 proclamation of Christ seems to these poor, 
 oppressed people the fulfilment of their long- 
 cherished dreams. It is not surprising, there- 
 fore, that mission work has made far more 
 rapid progress among the Karens than among 
 other elements of the population. 
 
 The Talaings, or Mons, as they prefer to call Taiaings 
 themselves, are supposed to be the oldest of the 
 peoples of modern Burma, having moved south- 
 ward from Tibet in an unknown antiquity. 
 They resemble the Burmans in many ways, but 
 their language is different. For a considerable 
 period they maintained a separate kingdom, 
 with Pegu as their capital. Frequent wars 
 with the Burmans resulted in their final sub- 
 jugation by Alompra in 1755. There are now 
 321,898 Talaings in Burma and a consider- 
 able additional number in Siam, to which there 
 have been several emigrations. 
 
 The Shans, descendants of a migration from Ths Shans 
 western China before the beginning of the 
 Christian era, number 751,759, and occupy the 
 valleys and hill slopes of the Shan States in 
 northeastern Burma. Their kings once ruled 
 over a territory in northern and central Burma, 
 which varied in area as they were conquerors 
 or conquered in their numerous wars with the 
 Burmans, who, however, finally succeeded in 
 subduing them. They are roughly divided 
 into Eastern Shans and Western Shans, the 
 
218 
 
 BURMA 
 
 Salween watershed being the general dividing 
 line. Each of these main divisions, however, 
 is subdivided into several tribes. The East- 
 ern Shans belong to the Tai race and are, 
 therefore, more like their cousins, the Laos 
 and Siamese, than the Burmans. The Shans in 
 general are more alert and self-reliant than the 
 Burmans. They are famous as traders. Like 
 the Burmans and Laos, they are fond of jewel- 
 lery, and all men and boys are closely tattooed 
 from below the knee to the waist. 
 
 Kachins The 65,510 Kachins are hill-dwellers in Upper 
 
 Burma, hardy, clannish, warlike mountaineers, 
 who frequently raided the Burman villages 
 of the plains and scoffed at the rage of the 
 softer people, until British machine guns put 
 an end to their forays. They are lower in 
 the scale of civilization than the Burmans 
 and Shans, ignorant, superstitious, and filthy 
 in dress and habits, but still aggressive and 
 disposed to press the Shans southward. They 
 are demon-worshippers in religion. 
 
 The Chins The Chins, of whom there are 180,000, inhabit 
 the mountainous region in the northwest. Like 
 the Kachins, whom they resemble, they are not 
 Buddhists but demon-worshippers For a con- 
 siderable period, they gave the British much 
 trouble, and it was not till 1890 that they 
 were really subdued. Morally, they are low, 
 impurity and drunkenness being almost uni- 
 versal. 
 
 The Chinese are in evidence in all the lead- 
 ing cities, as they are in Siam and the Straits 
 
THE COUNTRY 219 
 
 Settlements. There are 63,000 in Burma, half 
 of whom are in Rangoon. Their industry, 
 patience, and thrift easily secure commercial 
 preeminence, and the bulk of the business of 
 the country is in their hands. 
 
 East Indians are also numerous, particularly East 
 in the cities. The facts that Burma is the most Indians 
 prosperous province of British India, that the 
 population is less crowded, and that wages are 
 much higher than in India proper, attract large 
 numbers of the poverty-stricken natives from 
 the provinces west of the Bay of Bengal. 
 
 There are several cities of considerable local 
 importance. The first of these, of course, is 
 Rangoon, the capital and metropolis, on the 
 Rangoon River, about fifteen miles from the 
 sea. From a wretched fishing village, in 1852, 
 it has grown to a city of nearly a quarter of 
 a million inhabitants. Commercially, it ranks 
 third in all British India, being exceeded only 
 by Calcutta and Bombay. Its rice mills and 
 lumber yards are of great size, and every visitor 
 curiously watches the trained elephants pick 
 up timbers and carefully pile them. 
 
 Religiously, Rangoon is celebrated for its Kangoon 
 pagodas and monasteries. The Shwe Dagon 
 Pagoda is the most famous in all Indo- China. 
 It is 370 feet in height, 1335 in circumference, 
 and is gilded to the summit, the upper part hav- 
 ing been laid in 1903 with sheets of beaten gold 
 at a cost of over $250,000. The great "ti" or 
 umbrella which surmounts it is so lavishly em- 
 bellished with gold and jewels that it alone cost 
 
220 SURMA 
 
 .50,000. Innumerable silver bells are sus- 
 pended from it, and when they are swayed by the 
 wind, the soft music is very beautiful. Standing 
 upon the summit of a terraced mound 166 feet 
 high, this lofty and splendid pagoda can be seen 
 from a great distance, blazing with burnished 
 splendor in the tropical sunshine. It is be- 
 lieved to contain genuine relics not only of 
 Buddha but of his three illustrious predecessors. 
 Innumerable pilgrims visit this shrine, some com- 
 ing as far as from Ceylon, Siam, and Cambodia. 
 The throngs of people of many nationalities, 
 the variety of brilliantly colored garments, the 
 wealth of cloth and jewels and goods of every 
 description in the little shops, the lights of 
 thousands of burning candles, the tinkling of 
 bells, the chatter and laughter of myriad 
 voices, the never-ending chants of worshippers 
 and, high over all, the stately glory of the 
 great Pagoda, combine to make a scene which, 
 once seen, can never be forgotten. 
 
 Moulmein, on the Salween River, eight hours 
 by steamer from Rangoon, is a beautiful city of 
 56,000 inhabitants, and is famous for its teak 
 lumber trade and for its wood and ivory carv- 
 ings. 
 
 Mandalay Mandalay, 386 miles from Rangoon, is a city 
 of 180,000 inhabitants. It was the capital of 
 Burma from 1860 to 1885. While it was the 
 residence of the King, it was a place of large 
 importance, but since the downfall of the native 
 dynasty and the transfer of the seat of govern- 
 ment to Rangoon, it has lost ground. It is 
 
GOVERNMENT 221 
 
 still, however, a place of considerable impor- 
 tance. Some of its pagodas are magnificent 
 in size and splendor, and the bazaar is crowded 
 with people of many tribes. 
 
 There are a few other cities of considerable Bhamo 
 local influence. Bhamo is at the head of navi- 
 gation of the Irrawaddy, and is a military trade 
 and mission centre. Prome is an ancient capi- 
 tal and has about 30,000 population. Bassein 
 also has 30,000 people and a good local trade. 
 Pegu, though now having but 12,000 inhabit- 
 ants, boasts a history dating back to 573 A.D. 
 It was the capital of the Talaing Kingdom, and 
 in the sixteenth century it is said to have been 
 a splendid city. Smaller places are, of course, 
 numerous. 
 
 GOVERNMENT 
 
 As Burma forms a part of British India, Government 
 its government is, of course, the same as that 
 of India. The story of the white man's con- 
 quest is a stirring one, but only the barest 
 outline of facts and dates can be given here. 
 
 Portuguese and Dutch traders entered Burma 
 in the sixteenth century, but in the early years 
 of the seventeenth century the future masters 
 of Burma appeared in the agents of the Brit- 
 ish East India Company. Disputes with the The East 
 haughty Burmans were frequent, and in 1759, India 
 King Alompra caused 10 Englishmen and 100 Company 
 of their East Indian employees to be killed and 
 their factories destroyed. In 1824, the vain- 
 glorious Burmese undertook to teach the Brit- 
 
222 BURMA 
 
 ish a sharper lesson by invading Assam and 
 Manipur and marching toward Bengal. They 
 proved to be the learners, however, for the 
 British declared war, expelled the invaders, 
 and captured several Burmese cities, includ- 
 ing Rangoon. Sixty thousand Burmese tried 
 to drive them out ; but, though ravaged by 
 disease until seventy-two per cent died and 
 only 1300 English and 2500 Indian troops were 
 able to fight, the little army easily scattered the 
 unorganized hordes of natives. Strengthened 
 by reinforcements, the British pressed on till, 
 in February, 1826, the defeated native ruler 
 was glad to sign a treaty of peace ceding Arra- 
 kan, Assam, and the coast of Tenasserim, and 
 paying an indemnity of 1,000,000 toward the 
 cost of the war. A British resident came in 
 1830 " to advise " the native King. 
 
 War of 1852 A renewal of indignities to British subjects 
 led to the Second War, in 1852, which resulted 
 in the annexation by the British of a consider- 
 able part of the province of Pegu. In 1862, 
 the provinces of Pegu, Arrakan, Tenasserim, 
 and Martoban were constituted the province 
 of British Burma under the administration of 
 a chief commissioner. 
 
 In 1878, the notorious Thibaw ascended the 
 throne. He began his reign by inviting several 
 score of his royal relatives to the palace and 
 then murdering them. These murders were 
 followed by others in Mandalay and elsewhere, 
 until more than a thousand princes, princesses, 
 nobles and officials and their children had been 
 
GOVEENMENT 223 
 
 slaughtered. Thibaw's treacherous and bloody Thibaw 
 reign, his insulting treatment of the British 
 resident, his negotiations with France and 
 other continental powers, his imposition of a 
 fine of 230,000 on the Bombay Burma Trad- 
 ing Corporation, and his refusal of the Indian 
 government's proposal to arbitrate the question 
 at issue, combined to lead the British to send 
 him an ultimatum, October 22, 1885. The fat- 
 uous King haughtily rejected it, and ordered his 
 troops to drive the hated white men into the 
 sea. The British promptly marched on Man- 
 dalay, captured it, sent Thibaw and his Jezebel 
 Queen prisoners to India, and January 1, 1886, 
 formally annexed Upper Burma to the British 
 Empire. Conventions with China in 1886 and 
 1894 recognized British supremacy in Burma 
 and defined the frontier, and in 1897 the whole 
 country was made a province of British India 
 under a lieutenant-governor. 
 
 The British have done for Burma substantially British Rule 
 what they have done for other parts oi their In- 
 dian Empire. A railroad runs fiom Rangoon 
 to Myityna on the frontier, and the line is sur- 
 veyed as far as Chung-king in China. There 
 are excellent carriage roads, particularly in 
 Lower Burma, aggregating 9368 miles, with 
 rest-houses at convenient intervals built and 
 furnished by the government and available for 
 foreign travellers. The India post-office and 
 telegraph system reaches all the important 
 cities and most of the smaller towns of the 
 country. 
 
224 BURMA 
 
 KELIGIONS 
 
 Religion Of the 10,490,624 people of Burma, 9,184,121 
 
 are Buddhists. The others are distributed as 
 follows : Animists, 399,390 ; Mohammedans, 
 339,446; Hindus, 285,484; Christians, 147,525; 
 Sikhs, 6,596; Jews, 685; Parsees,245; Jains, 93; 
 miscellaneous, 127,039. 
 
 It will be seen, therefore, that Burma is dis- 
 tinctively a Buddhist country. There are over 
 20,000 monks. As in Siam, every male is ex- 
 pected to spend some time in the monastery. 
 He must shave his head and don the yellow 
 robe. Pagodas, temples, and monasteries are 
 literally innumerable. No hamlet is so small 
 that it does not have a temple and monastery, 
 and the larger towns have scores of them. The 
 Buddhist teaching, which assigns great " merit " 
 to the man who erects a religious structure, leads 
 to constant additions to the number. 
 
 MISSIONS 
 
 Missions Missionary work in Burma is conducted by 
 
 the American Baptist Missionary Union, the 
 Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary 
 Society, the China Inland Mission, the Society 
 for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the 
 Evangelistic Lutheran Mission of Leipzig. The 
 following undenominational agencies are also 
 engaged in the special lines of work for which 
 they are organized: the British and Foreign 
 Bible Society, the Missionary Pence Association, 
 
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 I 
 
 the Mission to Lepers in India and the East, 
 the Young Men's Christian Association, and the 
 Young Women's Christian Association. 
 
 The C. I. M., of course, seeks only the Chi- China in- 
 nese. Its work, begun in 1875, is small, there 
 being but one family at Bhamo and five con- 
 verts. The Lutheran work is also small. The 
 Wesleyan Mission, begun among the British 
 soldiers by the Rev. W. B. Simpson in 1885, 
 and among the natives by the Rev. W. R. Win- 
 ston in 1887, now has five stations, eight 
 missionaries, 30 schools, and 503 communicants. 
 There are good high schools with boarding de- 
 partments at the principal stations. The large 
 Leper Home in Mandalay is manned by the 
 Wesleyan missionaries, though supported by the 
 Mission to Lepers in the East. The points occu- 
 pied are Mandalay, which is the chief centre, 
 Pakokku, Monywa, and Kyaukse. 
 
 The work of the American Methodists was The 
 inaugurated by Bishop James M. Thoburn, of Methodists 
 India. In compliance with an urgent invita- 
 tion, he visited Rangoon in 1879 and organized 
 an English-speaking church. The congregation 
 started with an encouragingly large member- 
 ship, which made it self-supporting from the be- 
 ginning. A church edifice was dedicated March 
 25, 1880. Mr. Carter soon arrived from Amer- 
 ica, with his wife, and became pastor. The 
 church became an influential factor in the re- 
 ligious life of the city, doing considerable local 
 work among the Tamils and Telegus, and giving 
 liberally to various causes. Bishop Thoburn 
 
226 BURMA 
 
 says, "The Rangoon congregation is the best 
 working church I have known in any land." 
 
 The need of a school for girls was soon felt, 
 and the Rangoon Girls' High School was estab- 
 lished by the Woman's Foreign Missionary 
 Society in 1882. The government showed its 
 good- will by donating a commodious site and 
 $5000 toward the cost of a building, besides 
 several hundred dollars more for furnishing. 
 Friends in Rangoon raised a generous additional 
 sum, so that the principal, Miss Ellen Warner, 
 who arrived in 1881, had the satisfaction of 
 moving the school into a handsome building 
 worth -$15,000. Within a year, a hundred girls 
 were in attendance. Current expenses as well 
 as property were secured on the field, and, apart 
 from the salary of the missionary in charge, no 
 help was received from America until 1899, 
 when friends of Mrs. Charlotte O'Neal, Secre- 
 tary of the Pacific Branch of the Woman's 
 Foreign Missionary Society, erected a dormitory 
 and residence now known as the Charlotte 
 O'Neal Institute. The school has developed 
 into a large institution, with 40 boarders, and 
 270 day pupils. About 50 of these are Jews 
 or Parsees, and the rest are Eurasians. A 
 school for Burmese girls was added in 1892. 
 This also has prospered. In 1904, an addi- 
 tional building, " Shattuck Hall," was erected, 
 and the year 1907 saw still another building, 
 " Hagerty Home," added. Over 200 pupils are 
 in attendance. 
 
 Sympathy for friendless and destitute orphans 
 
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 led to the opening of an Orphanage and Indus- Orphanage 
 trial School in 1887. Friends in Rangoon came 
 forward nobly, with gifts aggregating $5000. 
 $1300 from America were added, arid in 1889 a 
 good property was secured. In 1897, it was 
 deemed expedient to remove the institution to 
 Thandang, 160 miles north of Rangoon, where 
 conditions were not only more healthful, but more 
 favorable to the training of such girls than in a 
 large port city. The friendly government made 
 a lease of a hundred acres of land for a low figure. 
 
 " Beginning in the most primitive and isolated 
 surroundings, with a bamboo hut having but 
 one door and no windows," this institution pros- 
 pered to such an extent that it outgrew a first 
 and then a second building, and now it is housed 
 in the " Elizabeth Pearson Hall," erected in 
 1907, at a cost of $21,000. The property is self- 
 supporting, and its beneficent care has blessed 
 hundreds of orphans for time and for eternity. 
 
 The Anglo- Vernacular Boys' School in Ran- Schools 
 goon has also flourished. It opened January 
 11, 1904, with the surprising number of 75 
 boys, nearly all Burmese Buddhists, and two 
 months later the number rose to 250. Bronson 
 Hall was begun in 1907. The government pays 
 nearly half the cost of $14,000, and $5000 of the 
 remainder have been given by the Rev. Dr. 
 Dillon Bronson, of Boston. The corner-stone 
 of this building, and also the corner-stone of 
 the new Epworth Memorial Church were laid on 
 the same day by Bishops Thoburn and Fitz- 
 gerald, at the Annual Conference of 1907. 
 
228 BUEMA 
 
 Gradually the work extended beyond Ran- 
 goon. Pegu was occupied in 1893, Thongwa in 
 1894, and work for the Chinese was opened in 
 1897. The Bengal-Burma Conference was organ- 
 ized in 1893, but by 1901 Burma had become 
 important enough to stand alone, and on Feb- 
 ruary 2 of that year the Burma Mission Con- 
 ference was organized by Bishop Warne. 
 
 The Methodist Mission is the smallest of the 
 nine missions of that Church in southern Asia, 
 and changes in the personnel have been so nu- 
 merous that no one of the present force has been 
 on the field more than three years. But the 
 missionaries are full of enthusiasm for their 
 work. Good progress has been made, consider- 
 ingallthe circumstances, and larger development 
 is planned, particularly among the Burmans, 
 upon whom missionary effort has thus far made 
 comparatively little impression, the large suc- 
 cess having been among the other races of the 
 country. The Mission feels, however, that it 
 has a message for each of the various peoples of 
 Lower Burma. The cosmopolitan character of 
 its work is indicated by the fact that at the 
 
 A polyglot Annual Conference in 1907, Secretary A. B. 
 
 Conference Leonard of the Board preached to a congrega- 
 tion in which nine languages were spoken. " It 
 was called a united vernacular service. The 
 languages were English, Burmese, Telugu, 
 Tamil, Hindustani, Chin, Karen, Kanarese, and 
 Chinese. The sermon was translated into Bur- 
 mese as it was delivered. Then interpreters 
 who had made notes, gave it in Telugu, Tamil, 
 
MISSIONS 229 
 
 and Chinese, so that it was given five times in 
 all. For once in my life I spoke with tongues 
 the tongues of other people." 
 
 There are now nine circuits: Pegu-Sittang, 
 Thandaung, Thongwa-Twanta, Syriam, and five 
 in Rangoon : Burmese, Chinese, Tamil, Telegu, 
 and English. The mission force consists of 16 
 missionaries, including three wives and seven sin- 
 gle women of the Woman's Society. There are 
 15 schools, of which 10 are for boys and five for 
 girls, 31 Sunday-schools, and a Christian com- 
 munity of 530 full members, 416 probationers, 
 and 187 baptized children. 
 
 The S. P. G. work is older and larger than 
 that of the other Boards mentioned. The be- 
 ginnings were at Moulmein, where, in 1852, 
 Chaplain W. T. Humphrey started among the 
 British residents a " Burmese mission fund," 
 which his successor, Chaplain C. S. P. Parish, 
 increased to rupees 11,168. Interested by their 
 reports, the Society, in 1859, appointed the Rev. 
 T. A. Cockey a missionary, and a few months 
 later he was joined by the Rev. A. Shears, who 
 started a boys' school, which enrolled 100 pu- 
 pils within the first year. 
 
 1860 saw the arrival of a man who was des- j. E. Marks 
 tined to have a large influence in the evan- 
 gelization of Burma, Mr. J. E. Marks. He 
 developed the boys' school so rapidly that the 
 Bishop of Calcutta, who visited it in December, 
 1861, said that he had " never seen in India a 
 more promising school or one containing better 
 elements of success." In 1864, Mr. Marks was 
 
230 BURMA 
 
 transferred to Rangoon. His successors carried 
 on the work for a time, but discouragements 
 multiplied. Chaplain Parish had baptized the 
 first Burmese convert in 1863, but additions 
 were few, and in 1872 it was thought wise to 
 discontinue the station. It was reopened in 
 1879 by the Rev. James A. Colbeck, who found 
 only three or four Burmese Christians, but "a 
 considerable number " of Tamils, while the or- 
 phanage for Eurasians was still in existence. 
 Progress of The work quickly revived. Within two years, 
 the work forty converts from Buddhism had been bap- 
 tized, a large school established, and a church 
 building begun. " Seldom in the history of 
 missions," wrote the Bishop of Rangoon, " has 
 there been so rapid and effective a revival of 
 lapsed labour." When Mr. Colbeck left for 
 Mandalay in 1885, the station was well estab- 
 lished and it has continued to 'flourish. 
 
 It was a chaplain also, the Rev. H. W. Crof- 
 ton, who in 1858 advised the Society to open 
 work in Rangoon, and began collecting funds 
 for it among the British residents. When Mr. 
 Marks came from Moulmein in 1864, he founded 
 a school which enrolled 220 boys within nine 
 months and which developed into the famous 
 St. John's College. By 1892 it had 650 stu- 
 dents, of whom 300 were boarders. All together 
 this College has now educated wholly or in part 
 over 15,000 boys. 
 
 St. Mary's School, founded in 1865 by Miss 
 Cooke, is a less extensive but very important 
 school for girls under the care of the Ladies' 
 
MISSIONS 231 
 
 Association. It was said of it in 1869 that 
 " almost every race in Rangoon is represented 
 in it," and the statement is equally true 
 to-day. 
 
 From these two institutions as centres, the 
 work was developed in various directions among 
 Burmese, Chinese, and Tamils. In 1864, Mr. 
 Marks, with ten of his students, visited several 
 towns on the Irrawaddy River. This was the 
 beginning of the S. P. G. work north of Ran- 
 goon. Schools were established at a number 
 of places, though some of these had to be closed 
 for want of suitable teachers and sufficient su- 
 pervision by English missionaries. The Rev. 
 and Mrs. C. H. Chard opened a boys' school 
 at Thyet Myo in 1886, and in 1871 went 
 there to reside, Mrs. Chard founding a girls' 
 school. 
 
 Prome, which like the places mentioned above 
 had also been visited by Mr. Marks in 1864, saw 
 the beginnings of a fine girls' school in 1871, 
 under the care of the Ladies' Association. St. 
 Mark's Church was built in 1878, by which 
 time both the educational and evangelistic work 
 had developed promisingly. 
 
 The spiritual receptivity of the Karens was Work 
 brought to the attention of the society by 
 Chaplain J. Young in 1862. It was not until 
 1873, however, that a resident missionary, the 
 Rev. C. Warren, reached Toungoo to begin 
 work among them. Before his lamented death 
 in 1875, he declared that the station might 
 prove to " be the key to one of the most flour- 
 
232 BURMA 
 
 ishing and extensive missions in the world." 
 September 7, 1878, was a great day, for at that 
 time St. Paul's Church was consecrated, four 
 Karen teachers were ordained deacons, and 62 
 persons were confirmed by the Bishop of Ran- 
 goon; while in the same year a Normal and In- 
 dustrial School was opened, more than half the 
 cost being borne by the Karens themselves. A 
 medical department was added in 1879, and in 
 1881 new and larger school buildings, a chapel, 
 and clergy house were added to the equipment. 
 A printing-press greatly extended the influence 
 of the work. A Karen girls' school, begun in 
 . 1884, opened a door of hope to a large number 
 of ignorant and neglected girls, and by 1888 
 gave promise of supplying a considerable num- 
 ber of village teachers and hospital nurses. 
 
 The province of Arakan had also attracted 
 the indefatigable Mr. Marks during that mem- 
 orable tour of 1864, and the good seed then 
 sown had taken root. When Bishop Titcomb 
 visited Akyab, there were a church, a parson- 
 age, a government school and hospital, and by 
 1890 the Bishop could describe the station as 
 "a most useful and promising work." 
 Mandalay The S. P. G. station at Mandalay is another 
 of the many stations in Burma which owe their 
 origin to St. John's College. A Burmese prince, 
 who had quarrelled with his father and taken 
 refuge in Rangoon, was found by Mr. Marks 
 in 1863 and given some Christian books. When 
 he returned to Mandalay after his reconcilia- 
 tion with his father, he invited Mr. Marks to 
 
MISSIONS 233 
 
 visit him. The good missionary complied with 
 the request in 1868. He was introduced at 
 once to the King, upon whom he made a pro- 
 found impression. Influenced partly by his 
 high regard for Mr. Marks and partly also, as 
 events proved, by the hope of securing some 
 political advantages from the British govern- 
 ment, the King gave the missionary land for 
 church, school, and residence, and placed nine 
 of his sons under Mr. Marks's care. The con- 
 secration of the Church of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ, by the Bishop of Calcutta, July 30, 
 1873, was a notable event. Queen Victoria, 
 who had been greatly impressed by the fact 
 that a Buddhist King was building a Christian 
 church, presented a baptismal font. 
 
 Political complications, however, so alienated Difficulties 
 the fickle King that he withdrew his support 
 and warned Dr. Marks " that it would not be 
 safe to stay longer in Mandalay." The Viceroy 
 of India, Lord Northbrook, urged the Bishop of 
 Calcutta to recall the missionary at once, on 
 the ground that " his life was in danger " and 
 "for fear of complications between the two 
 governments." But Bishop Milman wrote to 
 Dr. Marks, and he fairly represented the at- 
 titude of mission boards in general at such 
 times : "I replied that it was not our custom to 
 recall missionaries from their posts at the first 
 appearance of danger, that you had my full 
 permission to retire, if you thought it necessary 
 to do so; but that while you judge it needful 
 for your work to remain in Mandalay, I should 
 
234 BURMA 
 
 9 support you in so doing. But pray let me ad- 
 vise caution, etc.*' 1 
 
 Mr. Marks stayed until 1875 and was not 
 injured. Other missionaries soon reenforced 
 the station. The violent days of King Thibaw, 
 who succeeded to the throne on the death of 
 his father in 1878, compelled the withdrawal 
 of both the station and the British Residency. 
 Mr. Marks made several efforts to get into 
 touch with his former pupil, and if he could 
 have succeeded, some bloody events might not 
 have occurred; but the Prime Minister barred 
 Light after the way. The King afterward protested that 
 he knew nothing about the effort, and intimated 
 that he would have been glad to see Mr. 
 Marks. It is interesting to note that "the 
 Register of the Royal School at Mandalay con- 
 tains a record of Thibaw from the time of his 
 admission in 1869 to his dethronement in 1885." 
 The station was reopened by the Rev. James 
 A. Colbeck after the capture of Mandalay by 
 the British in 1885. The schools were rees- 
 tablished, and within six months the number of 
 Burmese converts rose to 75, and of schoolboys 
 to 150. The work spread to the surrounding 
 villages, and on Christmas Eve, 1887, Mr. Col- 
 beck had the joy of seeing 20 men and 11 women 
 baptized at one time. During a visit in 1889, 
 Dr. Marks wrote: "Here in the golden apart- 
 ment in which I had so often walked barefoot, 
 and weary and anxious, waiting for hours for 
 the appearance of one of my prince-pupils with 
 1 Digest of S. P. G. Records, 649. 
 
MISSIONS 235 
 
 the joyful words, ' Caw daw moo thee,' ' The 
 King calls you,' I now stood with my back to 
 the throne and preached to a large and attentive 
 congregation from the words, 6 The Power of 
 His Resurrection.' ' 
 
 Archbishop Tate recognized the worth of Honor con* 
 this devoted pioneer missionary by conferring 
 upon him in 1879 the Lambeth degree of D.D., 
 and Bishop Titcomb spoke of him as " one of 
 the most skilful and successful of schoolmasters 
 who . . . has . . . learned to speak Burmese 
 like a native, and is not only known throughout 
 the chief part of British Burma, but is so loved 
 and admired by the Burmese as to possess in- 
 fluence over them wherever he goes. ... In 
 many ways, I found him quite a power among 
 them.'" 
 
 Work was begun at Shwebo in 1887. It was 
 not long before sixteen persons were baptized, 
 one of them being a young princess, first cousin 
 to Thibaw. She refused to return to her home 
 in Mandalay, and devoted herself to evangelistic 
 work at Shwebo. The word spread to the sur- 
 rounding villages, and a girls' boarding school 
 was opened, of which the Bishop of Rangoon 
 said in 1901, "I know of no school of a similar 
 character in all Burma to equal it." The Rev. 
 H. M. Stockings has labored at this station 
 since 1889, and now has the satisfaction of seeing 
 a beautiful stone church and other buildings and 
 a substantial work. 
 
 Some work has also been done at Bhamo and the 
 Andaman and Nicobar Islands, though the force 
 
236 BURMA 
 
 has been small. Native catechists visited many 
 places where the missionaries themselves could 
 Results not reside. " Children are taught to repeat 
 over and over again in their own tongue short 
 sentences on the goodness, love, and holiness of 
 God and His mercy and lovingkindness in the 
 gift of His Son, to be repeated hereafter in many 
 a Nicobar hut where the blood of pigs and fowls 
 has been sprinkled for fear of demons sweet 
 sounds strangely mingling with the weird, ex- 
 cited, and drunken utterances of Menloonas." 
 
 All together, the S. P. G. now has in Burma 
 thirty-two missionaries. The work is cosmopoli- 
 tanin character, being conducted among Burmese, 
 Tamils, Chinese, Karens, Eurasians, and Euro- 
 peans. In 1877, Lower Burma, which had hith- 
 erto formed a part of the Diocese of Calcutta, 
 was created a separate Diocese under the name 
 of Rangoon, and its first bishop, the Rt. Rev. 
 J. H. Titcomb, D.D., was consecrated in West- 
 minster Abbey, with imposing ceremonies, De- 
 cember 27th of that year. His episcopate was 
 brief, for ill health resulting from a fall com- 
 pelled him to resign in 1881. 
 
 During those four years he laid broad founda- 
 tions and saw the work well organized. His 
 successor, the Rt. Rev. J. M. Strachan, was 
 consecrated at Lambeth Palace Chapel in 1882. 
 His experience of twenty-one years as a mission- 
 ary in southern India gave him a rare equipment 
 for his work in Burma. After an episcopate of 
 twenty years, filled with good works, failing 
 health compelled him to resign in 1902. His 
 
MISSIONS 237 
 
 death occurred May 2, 1906. "Though unable 
 to master any of the languages of Burma, his 
 episcopate will be memorable for his deep, fer- 
 vent piety, his kindliness of manner, genial- 
 ity, and benevolent liberality. He bequeathed 
 Rs.50,000 for the diocese and Rs. 10,000 to his 
 old college, St. Augustine's, Canterbury." His 
 successor, Bishop A. M. Knight, is carrying on the 
 work of his predecessors with zeal and success. 
 
 The S. P. G. missionaries have not overlooked Literary 
 the importance of translations. The prayer- 
 book, hymn-books, tracts, catechisms, and 
 school-books have been translated into both 
 Burmese and Karen; while Dr. Marks trans- 
 lated a part of the New Testament in 1863, 
 the work being subsequently revised and ex- 
 tended by a committee of missionaries. 
 
 The Ladies' Association, organized in 1866 
 "for promoting the education of females in 
 India and other heathen countries in connection 
 with the missions of the Society for the Prop- 
 agation of the Gospel," has effectively coop- 
 erated with the S. P. G. in its work in Burma, 
 conducting the schools for girls and doing a gra- 
 cious work in the homes of the people along the 
 many lines which womanly tact and sympathy 
 suggest. We have already referred to St. 
 Mary's School, which now has 335 pupils, of 
 whom 112 are boarders. At the last annual 
 examination, eighty-six per cent passed with 
 satisfactory grades. The All Saints Girls' 
 School at Shwebo has 33 boarders and 50 day 
 scholars. 
 
238 BURMA 
 
 The Ameri- The oldest and largest missionary work in 
 
 can Baptists Burma is that of the American Baptists. 
 
 Burma has a large place in their affections, for 
 
 it was their first and, for a considerable time, 
 
 their only foreign mission field. 
 
 The beginnings of their missionary effort are 
 Adoniram associated with the splendid name of Adoniram 
 Judson, their first missionary. He had in- 
 tended to go to India, but the bitter opposition 
 of the East India Company compelled the 
 missionaries to move from place to place, and 
 finally, to avoid forcible deportation to Eng- 
 land, to escape on the wretched sailing vessel, 
 The Greorgiana, to Rangoon, Burma, where 
 they arrived July 13, 1813. It was in this 
 strange and unplanned way that the great 
 Judson reached his field, and that the Baptist 
 Church began its work in Burma. Three 
 years of loneliness passed before any associates 
 arrived. 
 
 There were no helps in language study, and 
 Dr. Judson had to compile his own dictionary 
 and grammar. But so diligently did he toil, 
 that by 1816 he had completed a translation 
 of the gospel of Matthew and a few tracts. 
 Other translations were gradually added until 
 Judson had given the Burmese a version of the 
 Word of God and had contributed helps for 
 its study and for the instruction of the people 
 which have placed his name among the great 
 constructive bibliographers of history. 
 
 The troubled state of the country frequently 
 caused anxiety. When war with England 
 
MISSIONS 239 
 
 appeared imminent, the British traders in Persecution 
 Rangoon hurriedly fled. Dr. Judson was 
 away from home at the time, and indeed was 
 supposed to have perished. Mrs. Judson's 
 frightened associates urged her to flee with 
 them before all were killed ; but she refused to 
 desert her husband. The result justified the 
 courage of the devoted wife. Storms had 
 thwarted Judson's plans, he was unharmed, 
 and within a week he returned in good health. 
 Mr. and Mrs. Hough had become discouraged 
 and soon left, but nothing could dismay Dr. 
 and Mrs. Judson, and they stayed on alone 
 till 1818, when Mr. and Mrs. Colman and Mr. 
 and Mrs. Wheelock joined them. Two joyful 
 events marked the next year, 1819. In April 
 the first church building was opened, and June 
 19, six years after Judson's arrival, the first 
 Burman was baptized. This convert, Moung First 
 Nau, was notable, not only as the first-fruit of Ba P tism 
 Christianity in Burma, but as the first Buddhist 
 to accept Christ. November 7 saw two more 
 converts, and the first church in Burma was 
 organized with the three Burrnans and the three 
 missionary families. 
 
 The prospect was encouraging, when clouds 
 again appeared. Wheelock sickened and sailed 
 for home, only to commit suicide in delirium 
 before his ship had gotten out of the Bay of 
 Bengal. Officials and priests, who had at first 
 despised the missionaries, became hostile as the 
 work prospered. Intimidation quickly emptied 
 the church. Judson and Colman went to Ava 
 
240 BURMA 
 
 to ask an audience with the King. He refused 
 to see them. Mrs. Judson's health gave way 
 and she was compelled to leave for America. 
 
 Loneliness Dr. Judson heroically remained at his post, a 
 solitary man in a hostile heathen city, till Dr. 
 Jonathan Price arrived in December, 1821. 
 The tide of official favor now turned again. 
 The King heard of Dr. Price's medical skill 
 and invited him to Ava and offered him a 
 house. Judson went with him. Mrs. Judson 
 returned. Mr. and Mrs. Wade arrived and, 
 with Mr. Hough, who had come back, manned 
 Rangoon, which now had eighteen converts, 
 while the Judsons and Price opened the work 
 at Ava under royal patronage. 
 
 TheBurman As before, the day of prosperity was short. 
 The first Burman war with England naturally 
 led the Burmans to hate all white men. Hough 
 and Wade were thrown into prison. They were 
 liberated when the British captured Rangoon, 
 May 23, 1824, but the station was destroyed 
 and the missionaries removed to Calcutta. 
 
 Judson Meantime, Judson and Price had been arrested 
 at Ava, June 8, and for a year and seven 
 months they lay in a foul native prison, chained 
 so that they could move only with great diffi- 
 culty, breathing hot, fetid air, and surrounded 
 by the filth of native criminals of the lowest 
 class. Their jailers gave them no food, and they 
 would have starved if Mrs. Judson had not 
 brought provisions to them. When her money 
 was exhausted, she was forced to beg food like 
 a mendicant from house to house to keep her 
 
 war 
 
MISSIONS 241 
 
 husband alive, adopting native dress to lessen 
 the probability of insult. Once thieves broke 
 into her house and stole everything that could 
 be carried away. Twice she was dangerously ill, 
 once by confinement and once by spotted fever. 
 
 But the courage of the heroic pair never Heroism 
 faltered. "What about the prospects of the 
 conversion of the heathen ? " sneered a fellow- 
 prisoner to Judson. " The prospects are just 
 as bright as the promises of God," calmly re- 
 plied the missionary. 
 
 At last, the captives were released through His Release 
 the kindly intervention of the British General 
 Campbell, and with his devoted wife Judson went 
 to Amherst, the British headquarters, arriving 
 July 2, 1826. " A sadder spectacle has seldom 
 been presented to living human beings than that 
 which was offered to the English camp by those 
 liberated captives. They were covered with 
 filthy rags, they were worn to skin and bones, 
 and their haggard countenances, sunken, wan- 
 dering eyes, told but too plainly the frightful 
 story of their long suffering, their incessant 
 alarms, and their apprehension of a doom worse 
 than death." 
 
 As soon as Judson was able to travel, the Brit- 
 ish asked him to return to Ava to act as inter- 
 preter for the commissioners who were negotiat- 
 ing peace. While he was absent, the exhausted 
 body of Mrs. Judson succumbed, and she died, 
 October 24, 1826, with no companions but a few 
 natives. " So passed away one of the genuine 
 heroines of earth. She was the first woman to 
 
242 BURMA 
 
 enter upon Christian labors in a purely heathen 
 kingdom in the East, and was the heroic pioneer 
 of those who have followed her as she followed 
 the Lord Jesus Christ." 
 
 The victory of the British enabled Judson to 
 continue his work under more favorable auspices. 
 He married twice more. His second wife, to 
 whom he was married in 1834, was Mrs. Sarah 
 Hall Boardman, the widow of one of his former 
 associates. She died in 1845, at St. Helena, 
 when they were on their way home on furlough. 
 The third wife, Emily Chubbuck, to whom he 
 was married in the United States in 1847, 
 survived him. It is interesting to recall that 
 all three of these wives became famous in mis- 
 sionary annals as women of unusual strength 
 and beauty of character and efficiency of mis- 
 His sionary service. The great Judson himself, 
 
 death after a career of extraordinary usefulness, finally 
 
 broke down in 1850, and left Burma, in the hope 
 that a sea voyage would restore his shattered 
 health. But within a few days he died, April 
 12, 1 850, and his body was buried at sea. Thus 
 pathetically ended the life of one of the world's 
 great men, a master-builder for God. There is 
 no grave over which a stone can be erected, but 
 redeemed Burma will be his monument. 
 
 The mission was now well established. 
 Reinforcements were added from time to time. 
 New stations were opened, and churches and 
 schools multiplied. 
 
 There are two methods of developing a field, 
 the intensive and the extensive. The former 
 
MISSIONS 243 
 
 concentrates as large a force as possible on a Character 
 given area with a view to its complete evangeli- of work 
 zation within the shortest practicable period. 
 The^. other distributes a force so as to occupy 
 more countries, getting the Gospel started in 
 each, with the expectation that it will spread. 
 Both methods have their advantages and dis- 
 advantages, and most of the boards have adopted 
 one method in some fields and the other in 
 different fields. The Baptists in Burma have 
 adopted the intensive method. They have sent 
 more money and more missionaries to Burma 
 than to any other single region. Their pres- 
 ent expenditure on this one mission is now 
 1238,000 annually, and the members of the 
 Mission number 192. This is a larger expen- 
 diture and a larger force, in proportion to the 
 population, than for any other mission of any 
 board with which we are acquainted, and the 
 proportion is increased when we remember that 
 three-fourths of the work is among less than one- 
 tenth of the population, the Burmans having 
 proved less responsive to Christianity than the 
 Karens. Already prepared for the Gospel by 
 their traditions, the first Karen convert, baptized 
 by Dr. Boardman at Tavoy, May 16, 1828, 
 proved the first-fruits of a mighty harvest. 
 This convert, Ko Tha Byu, was a remarkable KO Tha Byu 
 man. At the time of his conversion he gave 
 little promise of his future power. He had 
 already attained middle life ; he had no educa- 
 tion, and indeed appeared to have rather a dull 
 mind. When roused, however, his temper was 
 
244 BUEMA 
 
 furious. He was, however, notorious for robbery 
 and violence, no less than thirty murders hav- 
 ing been ascribed to him. The Holy Spirit 
 wrought an extraordinary change in this man. 
 He immediately gave himself wholly to Chris- 
 tian work, and soon wielded such an extraordi- 
 nary power over his people that he became 
 known as the Karen Apostle. 
 
 The work among the Karens was now pushed 
 vigorously in various directions. The indefat- 
 Dr. Vinton igable labors of Dr. J. H. Vinton in relieving 
 suffering in the famine which followed the war 
 added to receptiveness of these long-oppressed 
 people. Baptisms multiplied. By 1852, the 
 year of the second Burmese War, Karen Bap- 
 tist churches had a membership of over 6000. 
 Self-support kept pace with evangelization. 
 Karen evangelists were almost wholly sup- 
 ported by the Mission, but the Rev. E. L. 
 Abbott early began to press the importance 
 of self-support, and he was powerfully reen- 
 forced by the Rev. E. H. Beecher and Dr. 
 Vinton. The readiness with which the Karen 
 Christians responded proved the genuineness 
 of their faith. By 1849, the Karen Church 
 at Bassein voluntarily assumed self-support. 
 The next year it formed a Home Mission 
 Society, and this was followed in 1854 by a 
 similar organization in Rangoon. These socie- 
 ties are notable in the history of missions, as 
 they are believed to be the first organizations 
 of native Christians for giving the Gospel to 
 their own people. 
 
MISSIONS 245 
 
 The Ko San Ye Movement was an interesting KO San Ye 
 development of this spirit. It took its name 
 from an illiterate man who was converted in 
 1890, and who became a preacher of such 
 spiritual force that he has come to be known 
 as the Karen Moody. He founded an indepen- 
 dent movement supported by the Karens them- 
 selves, but in friendly cooperation with the mis- 
 sionaries, who watched it with deep sympathy 
 and great rejoicing, though not without anxiety 
 at times. Ko San Ye's influence over his people 
 became almost absolute, yet in spite of all the 
 reverence and even adoration which were ac- 
 corded him, he preserved his humility of spirit. 1 
 
 A British official has gladly testified to the 
 change which the Gospel has wrought in the 
 Karens : 
 
 " Forty years ago, they were a despised, grovelling, 
 timid people, held in contempt by the Burmese. At the 
 sound of the gospel message, they sprang to their feet, 
 as a sleeping army springs to the bugle-call. The dream 
 of hundreds of years was fulfilled ; the God who had cast 
 them off for their unfaithfulness had corne back to them ; 
 they felt themselves a nation once more. Their progress Success 
 since has been by leaps and bounds, all from an impetus among 
 within themselves, and with no direct help from their Karens 
 rulers ; and they bid fair soon to outstrip their Burmese 
 conquerors in all the arts of peace/* 
 
 While the largest and most successful work 
 continued to be done among the Karens, other 
 races were not neglected. A general conven- 
 
 1 Cf. " Ko San Ye, the Karen Moody and His Remarkable 
 Work in Burma," a leaflet by the Rev. S. R. Vinton, pub- 
 lished by the A. B. M. U. 
 
246 BURMA 
 
 tion of all the Baptist missionaries in Burma 
 at Moulmein in April, 1853, decided to open 
 work among the Burmans as opportunity 
 offered, and the first Burman association of 
 1860 at Thonze and the Burma-Baptist Mis- 
 sionary Convention which was formerly organ- 
 ized at Rangoon in 1865 gave earnest attention 
 to the spiritual needs of this numerous people. 
 By 1885, the year of the third war with Eng- 
 land, missions to the Burmans were being con- 
 ducted at Rangoon, Moulmein, Tavoy, Bassein, 
 Henzada, Toungoo, Shwegyin, Prorne, Thonze, 
 andZigon ; while the British annexation of Upper 
 Burma, which followed the war, gave the mis- 
 sionaries an opportunity which was immediately 
 utilized of establishing a station at Mandalay. 
 This was soon followed by opening of work 
 among the Burmans at Myingyan, Sandoway, 
 Meiktila, and Pegu in Lower Burma. Pyinmana 
 was added in 1905. 
 
 Difficulties The work among the Burmans has proved to 
 be much slower and more difficult than that 
 among the other races. Inordinate pride and 
 indolence make a combination hard to over- 
 come. All agree with the Church of England 
 Bishop of Calcutta, who, after a visit to Burma 
 in 1870, wrote : " The difficulties of Buddhism 
 are extreme. Every one, lay and clerical, 
 speaks of them as even greater than those 
 of Hinduism and Mohammedanism." How- 
 ever, the Baptist Union reported, in 1907, 3017 
 communicants in connection with its Burman 
 work. The missionaries point with satisfac- 
 
MISSIONS 247 
 
 tion to the Burman Church at Moulmein, which 
 has a membership of over 300, and which owns 
 its excellent property, pays all its current ex- 
 penses, and contributes liberally to Christian 
 work both home and foreign. 
 
 Work among the Talains began as far back Work 
 as the days of Dr. Judson, who baptized the 
 first Talain convert, Ko Myat Kyau, in 1828. 
 The Rev. J. M. Haswell was the first mission- 
 ary to learn the Talain language and to trans- 
 late the New Testament. The work was 
 conducted in connection with the Burman 
 Church until 1901, when the Rev. and Mrs. 
 A. C. Darrow were set apart specifically for 
 the Talain work with headquarters at Moul- 
 mein. A church of 24 members was organ- 
 ized December 2, 1905, and the work has 
 spread among many of the Talain villages 
 near Moulmein, the present number of con- 
 verts being 278. 
 
 The Rev. Moses H. Bixby founded the andShans 
 work among the Shans in 1860 at Toungoo, 
 in whose district there were about 10,000 of 
 these people whom the civil war had driven 
 from their own habitat. The work was con- 
 ducted through native interpreters, until 1867, 
 when the Rev. and Mrs. J. N. Gushing and 
 Miss Gage arrived and began to study the 
 Shan language. Dr. Gushing made several 
 expeditions into Shan territory in 1869, push- 
 ing his trip as far as Keng-tung. In 1876, work 
 among the Shans was opened in Bhamo. In 
 1890, stations were opened at Hsipaw and 
 
248 BURMA 
 
 Mongnai ; in 1893, at Namkham; and in 1901, 
 at Keng-tung. The Baptists now report 6342 
 communicants among the Shans, 6100 of these 
 being in the Keng-tung field. 
 
 First The first convert among the Chins was "a 
 
 Convert poor, disfigured, tattooed woman," who was led 
 to the Saviour by a Burman Christian woman, 
 and was baptized by Dr. Mason at Tavoy in 
 1837. It was not until 1852 that she was 
 joined by another Chin woman ; but by 1858 
 there were fifteen Chins connected with the 
 Church at Prome. Mrs. B. C. Thomas took 
 a special interest in them, and with some of 
 them for helpers started a school and began 
 evangelistic work among the Chins of Henzada 
 and Sandoway. Later, a station was opened 
 at Thayetmyo. In 1899, the Rev. and Mrs. A. 
 E. Carson made the long and toilsome journey 
 up the Chindwin River and through the wild 
 mountain region to Haka. They found the 
 natives "filthy beyond imagination, given to 
 awful drunken revelries, having strange and 
 weird ceremonies, indulging in tribal feuds at 
 frequent intervals, and dwelling in darkness 
 which could be felt." It was a peculiarly 
 lonely and trying field, but the missionaries 
 stuck to their posts, save when illness com- 
 pelled them to leave temporarily, and Haka 
 has now become the centre of a small but en- 
 couraging work. The number of Chin con- 
 verts in connection with the Baptist Mission 
 is now 776. 
 
 The Kachins attracted the attention of Dr. 
 
MISSIONS 249 
 
 Kincaid as far back as 1837; but his effort to TheKachins 
 reach these turbulent barbarians in their moun- 
 tain fastnesses ended at Bhamo, where he was 
 seized and forced to return. Two missionaries 
 of the China Inland Mission, in 1876, succeeded 
 in reaching the Kachins and in doing some work 
 among them in connection with their mission 
 to the Chinese, and in 1877 the Rev. J. Lyon 
 and the Rev. J. A. Freiday were sent out by 
 the Baptist Union for this work. Mr. Lyon 
 died of quick consumption within a short time 
 after his arrival ; but before the year 1878 
 ended, the Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Roberts had 
 come to take the vacant place. Establishing 
 their residence at Bhamo, Mr. Roberts made 
 many itinerating journeys into the hills, and 
 his account of them forms an interesting leaf- 
 let. 1 The experiences of the missionaries among 
 the Kachins abounded in incidents of hardship, 
 privation, and sorrow. The health of both Mr. 
 and Mrs. Roberts was wrecked, the latter dy- 
 ing, and the former being obliged to return to 
 America, though he was able about a year later 
 to go back to his work. Undismayed, suc- 
 cessors took their places. In 1893, the Rev. 
 George J. Geis started a station at Myitkyina, 
 which has now become well equipped. There 
 are schools for the Kachins at Bhamo, in two of 
 the Christian villages and in six of the moun- 
 tain villages. "Mr. Roberts, who through dark- 
 ness and difficulty as well as in the brighter 
 
 lu Pioneering among the Kachins," published by the 
 A. B. M. U. 
 
250 BUEMA 
 
 days of its history, has stood by the Kachin 
 Mission, feels profoundly grateful for what has 
 been wrought in the lives of these people." 
 
 We have already referred to the Telugus and 
 Tamils who came to Burma from India. The 
 Rev. and Mrs. W. F. Armstrong were set 
 apart for work among them in 1894. Ran- 
 goon, Moulmein, Bassein, and Mandalay are 
 the chief centres of this work. There are two 
 large schools, one at Rangoon and one at Moul- 
 mein, which have taught all together about 5000 
 pupils since their establishment. 
 
 English Baptist work among the English-speaking 
 
 Work people of Burma, who include a very large 
 
 number of Eurasians, is conducted at Ran- 
 goon, Moulmein, and Mandalay. There are 
 good churches in each of these cities, Immanuel 
 Baptist Church in Rangoon being particularly 
 large and well organized. Many Eurasian chil- 
 dren attend the Rangoon Baptist College, and 
 in Moulmein there is a high school for Eu- 
 rasians in charge of three devoted women. 
 Comparatively little has been done among the 
 Chinese in Burma, but there is a Chinese Bap- 
 tist congregation in Rangoon under the care of 
 a native pastor. 
 
 All together, the Baptist Missionary Union 
 reports (1907) 29 stations, 192 foreign mis- 
 sionaries, of whom 79 are men, 1909 native 
 workers, 58,642 communicants, 843 organized 
 churches, of which 679 are wholly self-support- 
 ing, and 691 schools of various grades, of which 
 548 are self-supporting. The number of self- 
 
MISSIONS 251 
 
 supporting churches and schools eloquently 
 testifies to the genuineness of the native Chris- 
 tians as well as to the wisdom of the mission- 
 aries. In one district among the Karens, the 
 13,000 Christians raised last year 73,823 rupees Results 
 for the full cost of their pastors, evangelists, 
 teachers, and students, gave 6450 rupees to 
 their home missionary society, and supported 
 two workers among the Kachins, and within 
 recent years they have raised 100,000 rupees 
 to endow their church. 
 
 The Baptist Union and its missionaries early 
 realized that their work would require not only 
 a large number of ordinary schools, but some 
 institutions of higher grade for the training 
 of native pastors and helpers and teachers. A 
 Burman Theological Seminary was therefore School 
 founded a,t Moulmein in 1838 by the Rev. Dr. Work 
 E. A. Stevens. The Seminary was moved to 
 Rangoon in 1862, and its scope widened so as to 
 include students of other races. It was soon 
 seen that the Karen work would require 
 such an exceptionally large number of native 
 preachers as to justify a separate theological 
 seminary for them, and one was established at 
 Moulmein in 1845 by the Rev. Dr. J. G. Bin- 
 ney. It was afterwards found, however, that 
 Rangoon was a better centre for this institu- 
 tion as well as for the Burman Seminary, and so it 
 also was removed to the metropolis. These theo- 
 logical seminaries have come to be indispen- 
 sable parts of the Baptist movement in Burma. 
 They are beautifully located at Insein, a suburb 
 
252 BURMA 
 
 of Rangoon. They have good faculties both 
 foreign and native, and a curriculum which 
 gives an admirable training to the young men 
 who are to go out as preachers of Christ among 
 their own people. The Burman Seminary now 
 reports 31 students, and the Karen, 138. 
 College The year 1872 saw the beginnings, also by 
 
 Dr. Binney, of Rangoon Baptist College, an 
 institution which has become a power for Chris- 
 tian education. Under the Rev. C. H. Car- 
 penter, who became president in 1873, an ex- 
 cellent property was secured. His successors 
 in the presidency extended the work and equip- 
 ment, until the Rev. Dr. J. N. Gushing, who 
 presided over the institution from 1892 until 
 his death in 1905, developed the curriculum 
 from that of a high school to that of a full col- 
 lege in affiliation with Calcutta University. 
 The College now reports 1060 students, and its 
 graduates are to be found in positions of leader- 
 ship all over Lower Burma. The new building, 
 " Gushing Hall," now about completed, is to 
 cost 160,000, of which the government furnishes 
 one-half. 
 
 Medical The Baptist Union has not attempted medical 
 
 Work work in Lower Burma, as there are civil hospitals 
 
 and the usual staff of physicians and surgeons 
 in connection with the government service ; 
 but medical missionaries have been appointed 
 to the more isolated stations in the north. The 
 Union now reports thirteen physicians, three hos- 
 pitals, and seven dispensaries, which all together 
 treated last year 13,697 patients. 
 
MISSIONS 253 
 
 In nearly all the work of the Baptists in Burma, 
 the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society 
 has effectively cooperated. The Society sent out 
 the first medical missionary to Burma, Miss Ellen 
 E. Mitchell, M.D., who, after twenty-one years 
 of devoted service, died at Moulmein in 1901. 
 We have already referred to the heroic and 
 self-sacrificing labors of the first Mrs. Judson, 
 and much might be said of many other mis- 
 sionary wives and of the considerable number of 
 single women who have labored in Burma, many 
 of whom have been supported by the Woman's 
 Society. 
 
 An interesting pamphlet entitled " Retro- 
 spect," published by the Woman's Society, de- 
 scribes 23 boarding and high schools in Burma 
 which have been either founded or are maintained 
 by the Society, and this list does not include a 
 considerable number of village schools. The 
 Kemendine School in a suburb of Rangoon, three Woman's 
 and a half miles from the city, has a fine campus Work 
 of eight acres with two large school buildings 
 and a residence for the missionary teachers, be- 
 sides the usual outbuildings. The Pegu High 
 School, also at Rangoon, was established by Mr. 
 and Mrs. Vinton during the revival in the fifties, 
 and the present building is appropriately called 
 the Vinton Memorial. The Burman Woman's 
 Bible School at Rangoon, founded in 1893 by 
 Miss Ranney and Miss Phinney, has a good 
 building at Insein, and enrolls several students 
 from other races as well as the Burman. The 
 Karen Woman's Bible School, founded at Thaton 
 
254 BURMA 
 
 by Miss E. Lawrence and moved to Rangoon in 
 1897, is also doing excellent work. At Moul- 
 mein one finds the Morton Lane Boarding School 
 for Burmese girls, the Burmese Boys' School, 
 and the English Girls' High School. Both at 
 Rangoon and Moulmein, the visitor should not 
 fail to see the kindergartens which are conducted 
 by the missionaries of the Woman's Society, 
 while many of the other Baptist stations in 
 Burma have schools which are doing an excel- 
 lent work, the Burman Boys' High School at 
 Mandalay reporting 300 pupils. The Baptist 
 Union testifies that the women "have now so 
 extended their sphere of influence that a large 
 part of the school work of the Missionary Union 
 has passed to their care, and their many repre- 
 sentatives are rendering a service, than which 
 none is acknowledged to be more strongly evan- 
 gelistic, or more influential in the making of the 
 character of the people of Burma. Some of 
 these women have been called upon at times to 
 stand alone in stations where there were no men, 
 and in such trying situations have rendered a ser- 
 vice to the Union of unquestioned importance, 
 their wisdom and perseverance having been ex- 
 ceeded only by their patience in assuming re- 
 sponsibilities far heavier than they should ever 
 have been called upon to bear." 
 
 Printing- The printing-press came to Burma with Felix 
 
 press Carey, and after many vicissitudes developed into 
 
 the great institution now known as the Ameri- 
 can Baptist Mission Press of Rangoon. It has 
 published the Bible complete in Judson's trans- 
 
MISSIONS 255 
 
 lation of Burman, 1840, Mason's Sgaw-Karen, 
 1853, Brayton's Pwo-Karen, 1883, and Cushing's 
 Shan, 1891, besides several editions of the New 
 Testament and innumerable portions and parts 
 of the Bible in four other dialects. Many 
 books and countless tracts have been issued, 
 and two religious papers of considerable cir- 
 culation are regularly printed, The Religious 
 Herald in Burma, founded in 1842, and The 
 Morning Star in Karen, founded in 1843. 
 
 With the efficient government, security for Prospects 
 life and property, good roads, railways, and 
 telegraphs, which British rule brings, the open- 
 ness of the whole country to missionary work, 
 the broad and deep foundations that have been 
 laid by the devoted missionaries of pioneer 
 days, the well-established churches and institu- 
 tions, and a large and rapidly growing native 
 church, the outlook for the evangelization of 
 Burma is most encouraging. Serious obstacles 
 still exist, but if the faith and courage of the 
 immortal Judsons animate their successors of 
 to-day, these obstacles will be overcome, and all 
 Burma shall know the Lord. 
 
KOREA 
 
 BY 
 
 THE REV. ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN, D.D. 
 
CHAPTER VII 
 KOREA 
 
 THE COUNTRY 
 
 KOREA projects from the northeastern part Area 
 of Asia as Florida projects from the southern 
 part of the United States, though Korea is 
 larger than Florida, estimates of its area vary- 
 ing from 82,000 to 92,000 square miles. It is 
 therefore nearly as large as New York and 
 Pennsylvania combined. It is 660 miles long, 
 150 wide, and has a coast-line 1740 miles in 
 extent. 
 
 The eastern side is rather precipitous and has Coast 
 a small tide, only about two feet. The west 
 coast slopes more gradually and the tide some- 
 times reaches thirty-eight feet. There are sev- 
 eral harbors, chief among which are Wonsan 
 (sometimes spelled Gensan), on the northeast 
 coast, Masampo and Fusan at the southern end 
 of the peninsula, and Chemulpo, Chinampo, and 
 Yong-ampo on the west coast. Many islands 
 border the southwest coast, and the channel be- 
 tween them is so tortuous and so inadequately 
 charted that navigation in bad weather is haz- 
 ardous. 
 
 Lying between the thirty-fourth and forty- Mountains 
 
 third parallels, the climate is that of the north 
 
 temperate zone. A range of mountains runs 
 
 irregularly the entire length of the peninsula, 
 
 259 
 
260 KOREA 
 
 with outflanking ridges of varying height. 
 The range is not lofty, few peaks reaching an 
 altitude of 5000 feet. In the north, however, 
 Mt. Paik-to-san (Ever White Head Peak) 
 attains 8000 feet. It is, therefore, a famous 
 mountain in Korea, and is regarded as sa- 
 cred. It is an extinct volcano, and the crater 
 is filled with water, forming a lake of great 
 beauty and of unknown depth. Celebrated 
 also are the Diamond Mountains in the prov- 
 ince of Kang-wen. 1 
 
 The general surface of the country is much 
 diversified. Korea is a land of mountains and 
 valleys and streams, though there are few 
 important rivers. The Noctong River in the 
 south, the Han River in the centre, the Ta- 
 tong in the north, the Tumen on the north- 
 eastern frontier, and the Yalu on the north- 
 western are the chief streams. The soil of the 
 valleys is rich. Rice and beans, the staple food 
 of the Koreans, are grown almost everywhere. 
 Soil and The thrift of the Chinese or Japanese or the press- 
 Scenery ure O f a larger population could bring under 
 cultivation many large areas which now lie 
 idle, for of the 7,000,000 acres that could easily 
 be tilled, only 3,185,000 are under cultivation. 
 
 North of Pyeng Yang, the scenery becomes 
 even more striking than it is in the central and 
 southern parts of the country. The mountains 
 are higher and the valleys narrower. Some 
 of the villages are of Alpine picturesqueness. 
 
 1 Cf. description by Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop in " Korea 
 and Her Neighbors." 
 
THE PEOPLE 261 
 
 Kwallondong, for example, nestles in a gorge 
 that would make it famous if it were more 
 accessible, while Kwen Myen lies cosily in one 
 of the most lovely valleys in the world. 
 
 THE PEOPLE 
 
 The population is estimated to be 12,000,000. People 
 The most prominent cities are : Seoul, the 
 capital, on the Han River, 26 miles from the 
 coast, population 250,000 (all figures are esti- 
 mates) ; Song-do, 50 miles northwest of Seoul, 
 the capital in the preceding dynasty, popula- 
 tion over 60,000 ; Pyeng Yang, on the Ta-tong 
 River, 50 miles from the sea, an ancient 
 capital of historic fame, next to Seoul in 
 present importance, population about 60,000; 
 Chemulpo, the western gateway and port of 
 Seoul, population 15,000 ; Fusan, the southern 
 gateway, population 25,000 ; Taiku, 100 miles 
 north of Fusan, population 50,000 ; Won-san, 
 the northeastern gateway, with a particularly 
 fine harbor, population 15,000 ; Eui-ju, the 
 northwestern gateway, on the Yalu River, 
 population 25,000. Small cities and market 
 towns with populations ranging from 5000 to 
 12,000 each are numerous, and villages are 
 innumerable, the rural population not being 
 scattered on farms as in England and America, 
 but being segregated in hamlets for protection 
 and companionship. 
 
 The language differs from both the Japanese 
 and Chinese, though the written characters 
 chiefly used by the higher classes are Chinese. 
 
262 KOREA 
 
 Language A different dialect is used by the common peo- 
 ple. Formerly, this was held in contempt and 
 was never used in writing. The missionaries 
 have done much to give new dignity to this 
 native dialect. They have translated the New 
 Testament and many books, prepared gram- 
 mars and dictionaries, and are fast rehabilitat- 
 ing the language in some such way as Luther's 
 translation of the Bible exalted the native Ger- 
 man and as Wiclif's translation inaugurated 
 a new era for English. Official papers are 
 now usually published in Chinese, Korean, and 
 Japanese. 
 
 Race The people of Korea are often characterized 
 
 as weak. It must be admitted that they lack 
 the energy and ambition of the Japanese and 
 the industry and persistence of the Chinese. 
 But it should be remembered that for many 
 centuries their position has been unfavorable 
 to the development of strength and character. 
 A comparatively small nation, hemmed in be- 
 tween warlike Japan and mighty China, the 
 Land of the Morning Calm was doomed from 
 the outset to be a tributary state. The Kore- 
 ans have become so accustomed to being pulled 
 and hauled by contending masters, have been 
 treated so unjustly by those who dominated 
 them and so ground down into utter poverty 
 by the greed and cruelty of their own magis- 
 trates, that they have come to accept subjuga- 
 tion and poverty as the natural concomitants 
 of their life. It is not suprising, therefore, that 
 the superior power of neighboring nations has 
 
THE PEOPLE 263 
 
 taught the Koreans dependence, that the exac- 
 tions of tax-gatherers have fostered deceit, and 
 that the certainty that the results of toil could 
 not be enjoyed has begotten indolence. 
 
 The general poverty appears in the architec- Poverty 
 ture. A country merchant in America lives in 
 a better house than the Emperor of Korea, 
 while hundreds of stables at home are more 
 attractive than the official residence of a pro- 
 vincial governor. The buildings are not only 
 plain, but usually dilapidated. It seldom oc- 
 curs to a Korean to make repairs, and so on 
 every side and even in palaces and temples 
 one sees crumbling walls and dirty court- 
 yards. 
 
 The most trying characteristic of the people Filthiness 
 to a foreigner is their filthiness. The higher 
 classes and the mission converts are clean, but 
 the common people are as a whole unspeakably 
 dirty. Garbage and offal are thrown on the 
 ground and left to rot under the hot sun. 
 Open ditches in the principal streets become 
 choked with filth. Beside the average house 
 is a tiny open trench into which all slops are 
 cast. The trench ends a few feet from the 
 house, and the filth seeps into the soil, often 
 near the wells from which the drinking water 
 is drawn. In the hot, wet months of July and 
 August, a Korean city becomes a steaming cess- 
 pool. Accordingly, dysentery, cholera, typhus 
 and typhoid fevers, and kindred diseases rage 
 at frequent intervals. The Japanese are ener- 
 getically grappling with the problem of sani- 
 
264 KOREA 
 
 tation, and have made marked improvements, 
 particularly in the capital. But it will be a 
 long time before the peasant Korean will be 
 decently clean, except under compulsion. 
 Position of The position of woman is, of course, distinctly 
 Women Asiatic. Her marriage is arranged without 
 consulting her. There is no family life, as we 
 understand the term. " A Korean regards his 
 wife as far beneath him. He rarely consults 
 her on anything serious, and though living 
 under the same roof, one may say that hus- 
 band and wife are widely separated. The 
 female apartments among the higher classes 
 resemble, in most respects, the zenanas of 
 India." "What is woman in Korea!" bit- 
 terly exclaimed a woman to a missionary who 
 was urging her to send her daughter to school. 
 "After the dogs and pigs were made, there 
 was nothing left to be done, so woman was 
 created lowest of the low ! " 
 
 Dress The dress of the Korean is so distinctive 
 
 that there is no possibility of mistaking him, 
 no matter how many other nationalities may 
 be represented about him. His garments are 
 white and his hat of black thread or horsehair 
 has a broad brim, a small round crown, and is 
 tied under his chin. Not only does his dress 
 indicate his nationality, but it plainly tells a 
 number of interesting things about him. If 
 the hat is white, he is betrothed. If a thin 
 white cloth covers his nose and mouth, he is 
 in mourning. If he wears his hair done up in 
 a topknot, he is married. 
 
THE PEOPLE 265 
 
 This topknot is one of the most curious cus- Topknot 
 toms in Korea. It is as characteristic as the 
 queue in China, and more significant, for it 
 originated, not as a badge of submission to a 
 conqueror, but as an expression of a people's 
 most ancient and venerated beliefs. 
 
 When, after their murder of the Queen, the 
 Japanese directed that the topknot should be 
 cut off, excitement and consternation were 
 unparalleled. The Koreans submitted with 
 little or no protest to many other changes 
 that would have aroused an Anglo-Saxon peo- 
 ple ; but when their topknot was touched, the 
 anger of this peaceable race flamed up. The 
 capital began to suffer for want of supplies. 
 Business was paralyzed. The Japanese regime 
 was brief and the order was soon rescinded. 
 Now that the Japanese are again in control, 
 they are renewing their efforts to abolish the 
 topknot. No order has been issued, but the 
 new Emperor, the Crown Prince, and several 
 members of the court were induced to cut off 
 their topknots at the time of the coronation, 
 August 27, 1907 ; and under royal example 
 and the known wishes of their rulers, the days 
 of this notable native custom appear to be pass- 
 ing with the bound feet of Chinese women. 
 
 Physically, the average Korean is strong and Physique 
 well developed. His personal courage is good, 
 as he has repeatedly shown in his former wars 
 with the Japanese ; though his lack of organi- 
 zation and competent leadership and his igno- 
 rance of the weapons and methods of modern 
 
266 KOREA 
 
 warfare make him helpless before the Japanese 
 of to-day. Intellectually, he is quite the equal 
 of either the Japanese or the Chinese. He 
 develops quickly under education. By com- 
 mon consent, the best address at the Inter- 
 national Student Federation in 1906 in Tokyo, 
 where all the leading races of Asia were repre- 
 sented, was made by a Korean. 
 
 Friendliness The people are naturally kindly and peace- 
 able. We had some opportunity to test their 
 feeling, for we made a long journey through 
 the interior in chairs, on ponies, and afoot. 
 We ate in native huts and slept in native inns, 
 with our luggage and supplies piled in the open 
 courtyard. The people manifested great curi- 
 osity, following us in crowds. They had seen 
 a few foreign men, but a white woman was 
 rare, and aroused as much excitement as a 
 circus in an American town. The Korean 
 women thronged about Mrs. Brown, feeling 
 of her shoes and dress, trying on her hat, ask- 
 ing her to undo her hair, endeavoring to take 
 off her wedding ring, and rubbing her cheek 
 to see whether her complexion would come off, 
 all the while excitedly jabbering and laughing 
 Our at so strange an object. Privacy was impos- 
 
 experience gibi^ and she was obliged not only to eat but 
 to retire at night and to dress in the morning 
 with the inquisitive eyes of Korean women at 
 every chink. If there were none, the oiled 
 paper on the windows was broken and the 
 space quickly filled with the tousled heads of 
 the curious. This, of course, is the experience 
 
THE PEOPLE 267 
 
 of every woman missionary who goes among 
 the villages. 
 
 But not once was the slightest insolence 
 shown, and not a penny's worth was stolen. 
 Everywhere we were treated with a kindly hos- 
 pitality which quite won our hearts. There 
 were indeed a few places where it was difficult 
 to purchase supplies; but as a rule the best 
 that a village afforded was gladly placed at our 
 disposal, and in several places the people re- 
 fused to receive any compensation. The inva- 
 riable salutation was a smiling inquiry : " Have 
 you come in peace? " And when we left, the 
 people would escort us some distance on our 
 way, and then politely bid us good-by with 
 the words : " May you go in the peace of God ! " 
 It need hardly be said that these were usually 
 Christians ; but we saw multitudes who were 
 not, and while the heathen were more unkempt 
 than the Christians, they, too, were invariably 
 kind. He must be a hard-hearted man who 
 could not love such a people and long to help 
 them to higher levels of thought and life. 
 With a good government, a fair chance, and a 
 Christian basis of morals, the Koreans would 
 develop into a fine race. 
 
 Among a dozen millions of people there are 
 of course some turbulent elements, while the 
 most patient will sometimes turn upon their 
 oppressors. The Tong-haks represent both 
 classes. Some of the members of this famous 
 society are mere robbers; but many are men 
 who have been goaded to desperation by wrong 
 
268 
 
 KOREA 
 
 Choi Chei 
 Ou 
 
 Revolutions and oppression. Revolutionary outbreaks have 
 often occurred, and occasionally they have 
 reached formidable proportions, as in the great 
 uprising of 1894. There is much in the Tong- 
 hak movement to stir the interest of the student. 
 It began, like the Tai-ping Rebellion in China, 
 as a religious reformation. Its founder, Choi 
 Chei Ou, who had seen something of the Roman 
 Catholic missionaries and had vaguely grasped 
 some of their teachings, alleged that he had a 
 vision in 1859, at his home in Kyeng Chu, in 
 southern Korea. He forthwith proclaimed a 
 new faith which was to include the best ele- 
 ments of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and 
 Romanism, and which he called Tong-hak or 
 Eastern Learning. Followers multiplied. Per- 
 secution naturally followed. Loyal at first to 
 the dynasty, the hostility of the government 
 and the sorrows of the people developed the 
 Tong-haks, like the Tai-pings in China, into 
 revolutionaries. With all their errors, the 
 Tong-haks represent the blind but earnest 
 groping of Korea after better things. Since 
 the coming of the Japanese, this element of the 
 population has received large accessions from 
 patriotic Koreans who resent the domination of 
 their new rulers. 
 
 RELIGION 
 
 Religion The traveller who comes to Korea from either 
 
 Japan or China will be struck with the absence 
 of those outward manifestations of religious 
 observance which are so numerous in other 
 
EELIGION 269 
 
 lands. " Indeed the visitor at first fails to see 
 any visible signs of religious life among the 
 people, and he is apt to jump to the conclusion 
 that here is a people without a religion, a con- 
 clusion both hasty and unwarranted." A closer 
 study will show that while there is no out- 
 wardly established religion with its temples 
 and prescribed observances, there are religious 
 customs which have great power over the lives 
 of the people. Indeed Korea may be said to 
 have three religions. 
 
 Buddhism has only a nominal hold. It en- Buddhism 
 tered Korea from China as far back as 371 A.D., 
 and at one time attained great influence. But, 
 like the Jesuits in some European countries, 
 fondness for political intrigue resulted in over- 
 throw. The priests made themselves so much 
 disliked and feared that for more than 500 
 years they were forbidden to enter the capital. 
 Not till a short time ago was this prohibition 
 repealed. To-day the priests can often be seen 
 outside the walls, but they appear to have but 
 a small following, and they look dejected and 
 dirty. 
 
 Confucianism is also a religion in Korea, Confu- 
 though, as in China, it is really not a religion 
 in the strict sense of the term. Ancestral wor- 
 ship prevails very generally, and it may, there- 
 fore, be classed among the religions of the 
 country. A well-to-do Korean usually has a 
 small separate building behind his house where 
 he keeps his ancestral tablets. 
 
 Shamanism is the dominant faith, or rather 
 
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 KOREA 
 
 Shamanism the dominant superstition. It peoples air, 
 earth, and water with evil spirits, and leads 
 the terrified people to adopt all sorts of expedi- 
 ents to propitiate or outwit the angry demons. 
 Near almost every house may be found a small 
 stake driven into the ground, the exposed part 
 being wrapped with straw and topped with a 
 bit of white paper, on which some words of 
 alleged mystical power have been inscribed. 
 The object of this stake is to keep the god of 
 the site in good humor. 
 
 Many a time, as we travelled in the interior, 
 we saw by the wayside a tree about whose 
 trunk were piles of stones and from whose 
 branches were fluttering bits of colored rags. 
 We learned on inquiring that the poor people 
 imagined that an evil spirit inhabited the tree. 
 The spirit was, however, believed to be curious 
 as well as malignant, and so to divert his atten- 
 tion the traveller would toss a stone about the 
 base of the tree, or tear a strip from his garment 
 and fasten it to a limb; and while the curious 
 demon was examining the stone or rag, the 
 frightened Korean would dodge past. Hill- 
 Shrines tops have shrines, small, dilapidated buildings 
 containing images or paper pictures of mythi- 
 cal beings. The ridge-poles of public buildings 
 and of city gates are usually adorned with queer, 
 misshapen figures which are believed to be a 
 protection to the occupants of the building or 
 the dwellers in the city. 
 
 Almost every object in nature is supposed to 
 be animated by a demon and almost every sound 
 
THE GOVERNMENT AND JAPANESE 271 
 
 in the air to be caused by one. Pain means that 
 a demon has gotten into the body, and the method 
 of treatment is to kill the demon that is causing 
 it. Officers of exalted rank call in blind sorcer- Sorcery 
 ers to perform magical ceremonies over a sick 
 or injured member of the family, or to select a 
 lucky day for the marriage of a son or a daugh- 
 ter. No right-minded person will ridicule this 
 superstition. Rather will he be deeply moved 
 by its pathos and often by its tragedy. 
 
 THE EMPEROR, THE GOVERNMENT, AND THE 
 JAPANESE 
 
 The Emperor boasts a lineage which many a Government 
 more powerful monarch night envy, for the Yi 
 dynasty, to which he belongs, ascended the 
 throne in 1392. He is the thirty-first in direct 
 line of succession from the founder of the dy- 
 nasty, and ascended the throne in 1907. The 
 circumstances of his accession were inglorious. 
 
 The limits of this little volume do not permit Recent War 
 a discussion of the Russo-Japanese War in its 
 relation to Korea. Suffice it here that Korea's 
 weakness and its position in the Far East ren- 
 dered its subjugation by some foreign power in- 
 evitable. The only question was: " Under which 
 King, Bezonian " Russia's or Japan's ? The 
 latter won, and therefore her first act was to 
 occupy Korea. 
 
 The Emperor at that time, Yi Heni, who had 
 ruled since 1864, was naturally restive under 
 the domination of the Japanese. A man of 
 flabby will and helpless incompetence as a ruler, 
 
272 KOREA 
 
 he was nevertheless not destitute of royal pride, 
 and he would not have been human if he had 
 not felt aggrieved when he was despoiled of his 
 power. He hated the Japanese, partly because 
 he regarded them as hereditary enemies, and 
 partly because they were less disposed than the 
 Russians to flatter him and to supply his finan- 
 cial necessities. Failing to recognize the hope- 
 lessness of his situation, he made his palace a 
 centre of intrigue against the Japanese. He 
 was too helpless to do anything that could seri- 
 ously affect their plans, but he could do quite 
 enough to irritate the Japanese in a hundred 
 ways which Oriental duplicity so well under- 
 stands. 
 
 Korean The limit of Japanese patience was reached 
 
 Diplomacy when ^ in the sprillg of 190 7 ? the Emperor sent 
 
 a delegation to the International Conference at 
 The Hague, to urge the interference of Western 
 nations. There was something pathetic in the 
 appearance of the forlorn but patriotic Koreans 
 pleading for a lost cause, for of course The Hague 
 Commissioners could not receive them. The 
 Japanese were naturally furious. The Korean 
 Emperor denied that he was responsible for the 
 delegation, but no one believed him. 
 
 July 18, the Korean Cabinet Ministers waited 
 upon his Majesty and humbly but firmly rep- 
 resented to him the serious dangers to which 
 he was exposing his country by his continued 
 opposition to the Japanese, and advised him to 
 abdicate. The Emperor listened with mingled 
 rage and consternation ; but after long and 
 
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THE GOVERNMENT AND JAPANESE 273 
 
 stormy conferences with them and his Elder 
 Statesmen, the crushed and humiliated monarch 
 tremblingly affixed his signature to an imperial 
 decree announcing the transfer of the throne to 
 the Crown Prince. 
 
 There was an immediate storm of protest from 
 patriotic Koreans. Mobs surrounded the pal- 
 ace, and for a time it looked as if there would be 
 serious trouble. But the Japanese troops were 
 ready, and gradually the tumult subsided, though 
 many of the people remained sullen. 
 
 Of course the Japanese virtuously announced Japan's 
 that they had nothing whatever to do with the Attitud e 
 Emperor's abdication, that the step had been 
 taken solely on the advice of wise and patriotic 
 Koreans who had become firmly convinced that 
 the retirement of the Emperor was necessary in 
 the interests of the people themselves, that the 
 Japanese would have preferred to have the 
 old Emperor remain on the throne, etc. Of 
 course, also, no one with intelligence enough 
 to be out of a kindergarten doubts that the 
 Japanese virtually deposed the troublesome old 
 Emperor. Those Korean Ministers never would 
 have taken such a step if they had not sup- 
 posed that it would be pleasing to the Japanese ; 
 and if they had been mistaken, the Japanese 
 would have stopped them in a hurry. We need 
 not waste sympathy, however, on the old Em- 
 peror. He deserved all he got, and more. 
 
 A great deal has been said about Japan's dis- 
 regard of treaty rights in this matter; but the 
 Japanese defend themselves by saying that 
 
274 KOREA 
 
 they did not violate any treaty, as they left 
 the throne in the hands of the Korean royal 
 family, simply anticipating by a few years the 
 transfer from father to son. However this 
 may be, the Japanese lost no time in putting 
 themselves into such relations with the situa- 
 tion that the new Emperor would be even more 
 helpless than his royal father. July 24, Yi 
 Wan-yong, an able and well-educated, but no- 
 toriously corrupt and easily bribed, official, 
 acting by authority of the Emperor and Mar- 
 quis Ito, signed an agreement at the Japanese 
 Residency which declared that " the Govern- 
 ment of Korea shall follow the directions of 
 the Resident General" in enacting laws, ap- 
 pointing and dismissing officials, and adminis- 
 tering reforms. 
 
 The Japanese are now reorganizing every 
 department in accordance with their own ideas. 
 Roads and railways are being constructed, 
 telegraphs, telephones, waterworks, banks, and 
 post-offices established, the currency reformed, 
 courts reorganized, and sanitary measures en- 
 forced. 
 
 Whether the Japanese are brutally unjust in 
 their dealings with the Koreans is a hotly dis- 
 puted question into which we have not space 
 to enter at length. 1 Undoubtedly the con- 
 
 1 For the pro- Japanese view, cf. "With Marquis Ito in 
 Korea," "by Professor George T. Ladd ; for the anti-Japan- 
 ese view, cf. "Japan; An Experiment," by Professor 
 Homer B. Hulbert and "The Unveiled East," by F. A. 
 McKenzie. 
 
THE GOVERNMENT AND JAPANESE 275 
 
 duct of the Japanese has been characterized by 
 both good and evil. There never was a worse 
 Augean stable to be cleansed than they found 
 in the Land of the Morning Calm, and the situ- 
 ation required decisive measures. Corrupt 
 officials of course hoped for the triumph of the 
 Russians, for Russia in Korea meant abundance 
 of foreign gold, the continuance of profligacy, 
 misgovernment, and filth, and, in general, the 
 policy of laissez-faire. 
 
 The Japanese, on the other hand, are reformers Reforms 
 in Korea. They do not always act according 
 to Occidental altruistic ideas. They are Ori- 
 entals, their moral standards are low, and their 
 methods often ruthless. But they insist on 
 efficient government. The common people are 
 resentful because the Japanese compel them to 
 work on the roads, docks, railways, and other 
 public improvements. The Japanese usually 
 pay something for what they take, but the 
 Korean interpreter or magistrate steals some or 
 all of the money, so that the people get little. 
 Besides, the indolent Korean does not like to 
 be hustled, and his resentment bursts into fury 
 when he is forced to clean his filthy alleys and 
 adopt ordinary sanitary precautions. 
 
 Such a process of reconstruction almost in- Reconstruc- 
 evitably involves more or less irritation and tlon 
 many individual cases of hardship. There are 
 grave reasons for believing that the Japanese 
 are making the process needlessly trying to the 
 helpless natives. Many of the Japanese who 
 poured into Korea after the war were greedy 
 
276 KOREA 
 
 and unscrupulous adventurers, and their treat- 
 ment of the Koreans was brutal and oppressive. 
 Instances of outrage have been numerous. 
 There are now more than 100,000 Japanese in 
 Korea, and their attitude toward the natives 
 is, as a rule, contemptuous or worse. Marquis 
 Ito, however, declares that he is endeavoring 
 to put a stop to this and that he will govern 
 Korea for the benefit of the Koreans. 
 
 Whatever may be thought of the justice of 
 Japanese methods, the outcome will probably 
 be the improvement of Korea. At any rate, 
 the new era cannot possibly be worse than the 
 old. Meantime, Americans, who are in a posi- 
 tion to know wherein the Japanese are in the 
 wrong, have the undoubted right to criticise, 
 and if their criticisms are temperate and con- 
 structive, they may help materially in securing 
 just treatment for the helpless natives. But 
 the foreigner who indiscriminately denounces 
 the Japanese may discreetly remember that the 
 alleged Christian nations have not set Japan 
 a very good example in dealing with subject 
 races. To say nothing of French misrule in 
 Madagascar and Spanish in Cuba and the Phil- 
 ippines, is any American proud of his coun- 
 try's treatment of the Indians for 200 years 
 after the white man came ? Can any Northern 
 man think without shame of the " carpet-bag " 
 days which followed the Civil War in the 
 South? As for the Philippines, while the 
 Executive Department of our government has 
 done admirably, Congress has been deaf to all 
 
MIS SIGN AEY WORK 277 
 
 appeals for some laws which, are imperatively 
 required not only by justice but by humanity. 
 Can we reasonably expect the non-Christian 
 Japanese to do better by the Koreans than 
 Christian nations have done by their conquered 
 peoples ? We are not excusing the Japanese ; 
 we are simply reminding ourselves of the mag- 
 nitude and difficulty of their task and of our 
 unfitness to be unduly censorious in judging 
 them. 
 
 MISSIONARY WOKK 
 
 The Protestant churches of America have Missions 
 large interests in Korea. The first missionary 
 visitor was a Scotchman, the Rev. John Ross, 
 of Manchuria, who in 1873 made a tour across 
 the border into northern Korea and studied 
 its language to such effect that he was subse- 
 quently able to translate the New Testament 
 into Korean. Permanent mission work did 
 not begin till the treaty of May 22, 1883, had 
 brought Korea to the attention of the outside 
 world and set the door ajar. Then far-seeing 
 men in the United States began to consider the 
 new opportunity and to plan for the outreach 
 to the people whose need was so apparent. In 
 February, 1884, Mr. D. W. McWilliams of Pioneers 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., offered the Presbyterian Board 
 $5000, for this purpose, out of the sum 
 received by him from the estate of Mr. Fred- 
 erick Marquand. There were the usual objec- 
 tions to opening new work when the old was 
 ill equipped ; but God was plainly leading, the 
 
278 KOREA 
 
 gift was accepted, and a cable sped to Shanghai 
 bearing the single word "Korea." Except 
 for the efforts of the Scotchman on the 
 northern border already noted, "this cable- 
 gram was the first voice from Protestant Chris- 
 tendom to molest the age-old heathenism of 
 Korea. It was destined to wake the echoes 
 from end to end of the kingdom." That mes- 
 sage meant that a young physician and his 
 
 Dr. Allen wife, Dr. and Mrs. H. N. Allen, who were wait- 
 ing in Shanghai, were to go at once to Korea as 
 the ambassadors of the Gospel of Christ. Dr. 
 Allen promptly sailed, and reached Seoul Sep- 
 tember 20, 1884, Mrs. Allen joining him a few 
 months later. 
 
 They met a hostile reception, and it is 
 doubtful whether Dr. Allen could have re- 
 mained if the American Minister, General 
 Lucius H. Foote, had not appointed him 
 surgeon to the Legation. December 4, a ban- 
 quet was given at the palace to celebrate the 
 opening of the first Korean post-office. A 
 revolutionary, Kim Ok Kiun, took advantage 
 
 Violence of the opportunity. In the tumult, several 
 high officers were assassinated, and Prince Min 
 Yong Ik, a nephew of the King, was badly 
 wounded. Days of violence followed. The 
 Japanese Legation, the post-office, the resi- 
 dences of foreigners were looted, and on the 
 tenth, the American Minister, the British and 
 German Consuls-General, and all the other 
 foreigners in Seoul, except Dr. and Mrs. Allen, 
 fled to Chemulpo. The heroic missionary and 
 
MISSIONARY WORK 279 
 
 his wife stood at their posts. Dr. Allen 
 wrote : " We couldn't if we would and we 
 wouldn't if we could. I came to do just such 
 work. I can't leave these wounded people. 
 . . . We shall live in the Legation with the 
 old flag flying and trust the kind Father to 
 care for us." 
 
 Nor did the missionary shut himself up in Victory 
 the empty Legation. He bravely made his fo? Medical 
 way to the palace and offered to help the 
 wounded. He found thirteen native physicians 
 about to pour boiling wax into the gaping 
 wounds of the Prince. By the exercise of tact, 
 he succeeded in getting an opportunity to dress 
 the wounds. To the surprise of every one, the 
 Prince recovered, and Dr. Allen became the 
 most famous man in the capital. The grate- 
 ful King became his friend, and February 25, 
 1885, a government hospital was opened under 
 royal patronage, with the missionary in full 
 charge. The King himself named it Hoy Min 
 So, the House of Civilized Virtue. The 40 
 beds were quickly filled, and within the first 
 year 10,000 patients were treated. 
 
 In this beneficent way, mission work obtained 
 a foothold. April 5, 1885, the first resident 
 ordained missionary arrived, the Rev. H. G. 
 Underwood, also a Presbyterian, who speedily 
 became a tower of strength to the infant 
 mission. June 21, J. W. Heron, M.D., was 
 added to the little company. 
 
 Meantime, the Methodists were also plan- 
 ning missionary work in Korea. Their atten- 
 
280 KOEEA 
 
 TheMetho- tion was first directed to the country by the 
 dist Church Rev j ohn F Goucher, D.D., president of the 
 Woman's College, Baltimore, who, during a 
 trip across the continent in 1883, met the first 
 Korean Embassy on its way to Washington. 
 He formed a pleasant personal acquaintance 
 with Prince Min Yong Ik, and invited him and 
 several of his official associates to visit his 
 home in Baltimore. He was so much inter- 
 ested that he wrote to the Rev. Robert S. 
 Maclay, D.D., superintendent of the Meth- 
 odist Mission in Japan, suggesting that he 
 visit Korea and report upon its possibilities as 
 a mission field. Dr. and Mrs. Maclay made 
 the desired visit in June, 1884, and sent back 
 such a favorable report that Dr. Goucher was 
 confirmed in his first impressions as to the im- 
 portance of the field. He had already offered 
 the Missionary Society of the Methodist Church 
 $2000 for the opening of this work. To this 
 sum the Board added $2000, and in the latter 
 part of the year 1884, the Rev. H. G. Appen- 
 zeller, William B. Scranton, M.D., and his 
 mother, Mrs. M. F. Scranton, who was to do 
 such a great work for the women and girls 
 in connection with the Ewa school, were ap- 
 pointed the first Methodist missionaries to 
 Korea. They were delayed by the December 
 revolution, but Mr. Appenzeller arrived at 
 Chemulpo Easter Sunday, April 5, 1885, and 
 Dr. Scranton the third of the following May. 
 Both men developed qualities of leadership 
 and soon became influential. 
 
MISSIONARY WORK 281 
 
 July 5, 1886, three American school teachers, 
 Messrs. Homer B. Hulbert, Dalzell A. Bunker, 
 and George W. Gilrnore, arrived, sent out by 
 the American government at the request of 
 the King to establish an English school. With 
 them came a trained nurse and medical stu- 
 dent, a Presbyterian, Miss Annie Ellers, who Annie Eiiers 
 soon became physician to the Queen and 
 swung the door of royal favor more widely 
 open. After her marriage to Mr. Bunker, who 
 joined the Methodist Mission, she was succeeded 
 by Miss Lillias Horton, M.D., now Mrs. Under- 
 wood, who arrived in 1888, and by her skill and 
 tact gained great influence at the palace. 
 
 But for several years progress was very slow. 
 The missionaries were endeavoring to commu- 
 nicate totally new ideas to a people who had 
 been made sodden and apathetic by an inheri- 
 tance of centuries of the rankest heathenism. 
 It is difficult for us, who were born and bred 
 in a Christian land and who have been familiar 
 with the Gospel from our infancy, to understand 
 how difficult it is for the Oriental mind to grasp 
 the new conceptions which Christianity incul- 
 cates. We need to remember that our own an- 
 cestors were slow in grasping them and that 
 more than one or two centuries passed before 
 Christianity was clearly understood even by 
 Anglo-Saxons. It is not surprising, therefore, 
 that the superstition-clouded Korean listened 
 dully and thought the missionary "a setter 
 forth of strange gods." Gradually, however, 
 the truth made its way. Dr. Underwood bap- 
 
282 KOEEA 
 
 First tized the first convert in 1886, and the Metho- 
 
 Baptism digt Mi ss i on rec eived its first convert a little 
 later in the same year. The first Protestant 
 Church in Korea was organized in Seoul, Sep- 
 tember, 1887, and the Sacrament of the Lord's 
 Supper was administered the first time, Christ- 
 mas Day of that year, in Mr. Underwood's 
 house. Only seven persons gathered about the 
 Lord's table at that small but historic service. 
 After ten years of patient labor by the mission- 
 aries of several denominations, there were still 
 only 141 baptized Christians in all Korea. 
 Pyeng The work early found a foothold in Pyeng 
 
 Yang through a few Koreans who had been in- 
 structed by the missionaries. By 1887, there 
 were several inquirers, and a native helper was 
 stationed there to preach to them. Soon after 
 the Rev. Samuel A. Moffett arrived in Korea 
 in 1889, he went to Pyeng Yang. He found 
 appalling moral conditions, for the city was no- 
 torious as the wickedest in Korea. The diffi- 
 culties were numerous and formidable. A 
 faint-hearted man would have been discouraged 
 and driven out, but Mr. Moffett took a poor 
 little Korean house, the only one available, 
 lived among the people, and by patience and 
 tact made his way into their confidence. In 
 1892, he was joined by the Rev. Graham Lee, 
 also a Presbyterian, and by Dr. M. J. Hall, of 
 the Methodist Mission. 
 
 One of the notable Korean Christians was a 
 man by the name of Kim Chang Sik. Brought 
 by a Korean friend to the home of a missionary 
 
MISSIONARY WOEK 283 
 
 in Seoul, he was converted, and in 1894 was sent 
 lo his own home in Pyeng Yang to aid Dr. 
 Hall. But by this time the opposition had 
 become violent. Persecution broke out, and Persecution 
 Kim was one of the first to be arrested. He 
 and other Christians were cruelly beaten, placed 
 in stocks, and warned that if they did not give 
 up the foreigner's religion they would be pun- 
 ished still more severely. The others, in their 
 pain and terror, yielded, but Kim remained 
 steadfast. He was taken to the death cell, but 
 though believing that he would be decapitated 
 if he did not recant, he nevertheless exclaimed 
 in a spirit worthy of the ancient martyrs : "God 
 loves me and has forgiven my sins. How can 
 I curse Him! The foreigner is kind and pays 
 my honest wages ; why should I forsake him ? " 
 Fortunately, orders came from Seoul to release 
 the prisoners, and the mangled and half-dead 
 Kim went out with the others. His fidelity 
 made a profound impression upon all who knew 
 him, and people began to say that there must 
 be something real in the new religion when a 
 man was willing to suffer so much for it. 
 
 The war of 1894 between China and Japan War of 1894 
 powerfully influenced the work. As during 
 the earlier stages of the Russo-Japanese War, 
 Korea became the battle-ground of the contend- 
 ing forces. Soon it became evident that the 
 decisive battle of the war would be fought in 
 the vicinity of Pyeng Yang. The wildest ex- 
 citement prevailed. In the crash, much Korean 
 property was destroyed, the fields were ravaged, 
 
284 KOREA 
 
 and many of the unhappy people, caught be- 
 tween the upper and the nether millstones, 
 suffered from wounds and sickness as well as 
 terror. 
 
 Though the situation was known to be full 
 of danger, the missionaries heroically remained 
 at their posts. At the risk of their own lives, 
 they went about among the panic-stricken 
 people, binding up the wounds of the injured, 
 caring for the sick, burying the dead, and do- 
 ing everything in their power to allay terror 
 and to urge trust in God. 
 
 Devotion of Then the Koreans realized for the first time 
 missionaries fa^ ^ ne American missionaries were the best 
 friends they had. Public sentiment began to 
 change. An epidemic of cholera in Seoul 
 brought out like devotion on the part of the 
 missionaries there. They toiled indefatigably 
 for the sick and dying, performing offices from 
 which the bravest Koreans shrank, and expos- 
 ing themselves without stint. Their skilful 
 treatment of the sick saved hundreds of lives. 
 
 " All these recoveries made no little stir in the city. 
 Proclamations were posted on the walls, telling people 
 there was no need for them to die when they might go 
 to the Christian hospital and live. People who watched 
 missionaries working over the sick night after night said 
 to each other : ' How these foreigners love us ! Would 
 we do as much for one of our own kin as they do for stran- 
 gers?' Some men who saw Mr. Underwood hurrying 
 along the road in the gray twilight of a summer morning 
 remarked : * There goes the Jesus man ; he works all night 
 and all day with the sick without resting.' * Why does 
 he do it ? ' said another. < Because he loves us/ was the 
 
MISSIONARY WORK 285 
 
 reply. What sweeter reward could be had than that the 
 people should see the Lord in our service." 1 
 
 From that time the work made rapid prog- AWonder- 
 ress. In the Pyeng Yang field, the develop- fuistor y 
 ment was remarkable. The story of the last 
 decade is one of the most inspiring chapters in 
 the history of Protestant missions in any land. 
 The people who had been living in darkness, 
 bondage, and superstition, who had seen ghosts 
 and evil spirits in every rock and tree, in the 
 murmur of the waves and in the roar of the 
 thunder, heard the missionaries teach in their 
 villages that the power above was not a demon 
 trying to injure them, but a loving Father, 
 whose heart went out to them as His wander- 
 ing children, who had given His only begotten 
 Son for their redemption, and who, if they 
 turned to Him in repentance and faith, would 
 bestow upon them the joy and the dignity of a 
 new life. Eagerly the people listened. This 
 time the truth sank deep into their hearts, and 
 erelong the good news began to spread in all 
 directions. As these pages are written, a re- Revival 
 vival, never surpassed in all the history of 
 missions, is sweeping over Korea. Perhaps it 
 is hardly proper to state that it began in the 
 early part of 1907, for a revival had been 
 almost continuous there for years; but at that 
 time it assumed wonderful proportions. The 
 Rev. W. L. Swallen gives the following account 
 of what occurred at Pyeng Yang: 
 
 1 Mrs. Underwood, p. 144. 
 
286 KOREA 
 
 "The entire city was mapped out, and each church 
 made responsible for its prescribed territory. Some 
 2000 persons have been led to accept Christ as their 
 Saviour. The churches are all filled and overflowing, 
 and in order to relieve the congestion, the men and 
 women are compelled to meet for worship at separate 
 hours. 
 
 " Immediately after the city campaign, the Methodist 
 Mission's Class for Preachers and Christian Workers 
 was held. About one hundred of their best men were 
 gathered for a month's study. Here, too, the blessing of 
 the Holy Spirit was received and the same agonizing for 
 sin was experienced as in the former meetings. These 
 men have gone out from this class possessed with a love 
 for God and man unknown before. 
 
 Women's "No sooner had this company left the city, than in 
 
 meetings came 550 of the leading women from the country 
 churches to attend the Woman's Training Class of the 
 Presbyterian Mission, which continued for twelve days. 
 Conviction and confessions began almost from the first. 
 At times the whole congregation would wail together 
 and cry out to God for mercy. When any one would 
 become so overcome with grief as to be unable to cease, 
 the congregation would break out together in audible 
 prayer, after which a song might be sung. If still there 
 were those who could not get comfort, then those sainted 
 women who had previously gone through with such an 
 experience themselves and had gotten peace would go 
 through the congregation like angelic messengers, seek- 
 ing out such and, putting their arms about them in un- 
 mistakable love, speak peace to their agonizing souls. 
 With few exceptions, these women went to their homes 
 with their hearts filled with a new joy, and a noble 
 purpose to live better lives in the future. 
 
 "Again, before these 550 women had reached their 
 homes, 75 theological students were gathered from every 
 part of Korea to spend three months in study. Daily 
 united prayer had been offered by the missionary com- 
 munity for some time previous. It was felt that of all 
 men these upon whose shoulders the main burden of the 
 
MISSIONARY WORK 287 
 
 young Korean Church must rest should be Spirit-filled 
 men. Indeed the blessing that has actually come upon 
 the Korean Christians in general is such as to make it 
 next to impossible that any but Spirit-filled men should 
 hope to hold the places of authority in the church. 
 
 " From the first, these evening meetings were intense Fervent 
 with fervent prayer. Saturday night, the meeting was prayer 
 allowed to continue until midnight. The Spirit was 
 present in wonderful power, compelling men to reveal 
 what lay hidden in their past lives. On Monday and 
 Tuesday, regular recitations were out of the question, 
 so the whole day and evening were devoted to prayer 
 and confession. Under the Spirit's illumination, these 
 men felt themselves to be all unclean, unworthy sinners, 
 and a cry for mercy went up to God that no words can 
 describe. 
 
 " As nearly all had confessed at one time or another, 
 the evening was now given to praise and thanksgiving. 
 This, too, was a most marvellous meeting. One after 
 another and sometimes many together arose and testified, 
 until most of the 75 theologues gave joyful testimony to 
 the peace received. For three hours, an uninterrupted 
 volume of praise and thanksgiving ascended like sweet 
 incense to God." 
 
 Surely the people of God in all lands may 
 share in the rejoicing over this mighty mani- 
 festation of Divine power, especially as it 
 shows no sign of abating. Nor is the move- 
 ment confined to the central stations where 
 there are missionaries. Much might be writ- 
 ten of many out-stations where a remarkable 
 work has grown up. At Kang Kai, an isolated 
 northern city of 10,000 inhabitants, 250 miles 
 from Syen Chyun, there has never been a resi- 
 dent missionary, only a visiting one at rare 
 intervals. " The people come long distances to 
 
288 KOREA 
 
 meet him ; they crowd the rooms of the inns 
 and often stand outside for hours in the snow 
 to hear the one message of the year from the 
 Lord. From this scanty seed-sowing, there 
 are now over 1200 adherents of the Christian 
 Idols Church who have thrown away their idols and 
 
 thrown fetiches, have given up the worship of evil 
 spirits, are keeping the Sabbath, and often amid 
 persecution and earthly loss are following the 
 dim light they have seen." 
 
 Sorai The reputation of Sorai ought to be as wide 
 
 as Christendom. Think of a place of fifty- 
 eight houses, in fifty of which all persons over 
 fifteen years of age are Christians ; a com- 
 munity in which there is no liquor, no brawl- 
 ing, no vice of any kind ; where the Sabbath 
 is scrupulously kept, and the entire popula- 
 tion attends church, Sunday-school, and prayer- 
 meeting ! The church is a notable building 
 for Korea, almost imposing in comparison with 
 the humble homes of the people. 
 
 Two brothers were God's instruments in 
 creating this model Christian village. About 
 twenty years ago, the elder was converted 
 through the Rev. John Ross, during a visit 
 in Manchuria. Soon after his return to Korea, 
 he met Dr. Underwood, who gladly gave him 
 the instruction he was so eager to obtain. 
 Then, filled with joy and zeal like Andrew of 
 old, "He first findeth his own brother, and 
 saith unto him, ' We have found the Mes- 
 siah,' and he brought him to Jesus." Re- 
 moving to Sorai, these brothers preached the 
 
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 Gospel with such power and exemplified it 
 with such beauty of character that the whole 
 village was transformed. No missionary re- 
 sides in Sorai, and none is needed, for practi- 
 cally the whole community is Christian, and 
 Sau Kyung Jo wisely shepherds the flock. I 
 know of no more remarkable illustration of the 
 inherent vitality and self-propagating power of 
 Christianity. 
 
 As we gazed upon the Christian homes clus- 
 tering at the foot of the hill, the wide expanse 
 of meadow beyond, and farther away but in 
 plain view the quiet sea, the clouds which 
 had heavily lowered during the day suddenly 
 broke, the setting sun burst forth in tender 
 glories, and at evening time there was light. 
 The sound of a trumpet was heard. Softly 
 and yet clearly it echoed among the trees and 
 through the village, and soon answering groups 
 of white-robed figures were wending their way 
 up the hillside to the House of God, where we 
 communed long with them as the shadows 
 fell and the stars came out. 
 
 Our entire trip through the villages of in- Christian 
 terior Korea was a revelation to us. Almost 
 every night we had a picture in chiaroscuro 
 of the spiritual condition of Asia. A hum- 
 ble church, whose flickering oil lamps filled 
 the interior with a light not strong indeed, 
 but yet sufficiently clear to make the room 
 bright in contrast with the surrounding dark- 
 ness, was filled with believers who were 
 rejoicing within the pale of "His marvellous 
 
290 KOREA 
 
 light." Beyond them, and crowding the doors, 
 were many others, not yet wholly in the light, 
 but partially illuminated by it, their eager 
 faces turned toward the place from which it 
 was shining, and where a man was speaking 
 of the Light of the World. Behind these were 
 still others whom I could not count, standing 
 in deeper shadows. Now and then a flare of 
 the lamp shot a ray of light into the gloom 
 and showed scores of spectators, some indif- 
 ferent, some curious, some gravely wondering; 
 and then the darkness would silently enfold 
 them again so that only indistinct masses of 
 heavier blackness showed where an unnum- 
 bered multitude was gathered. As I looked 
 upon this scene night after night, I was en- 
 couraged by the number of those who had 
 come into the light, but I was " burdened for 
 those who are standing in the dark." 
 
 Number of But the number of enlightened ones is rapidly 
 Christians increasing. Dr. Underwood declares that there 
 are now no less than 150,000 Christians in 
 Korea, and the movement seems to be only 
 beginning. Surely this is a remarkable record 
 when we consider that the first missionary did 
 not arrive until 1884, and that practically all 
 of these converts have developed within the 
 last fourteen years. 
 
 The Presbyterians alone now report seven 
 stations, 767 out-stations, 78 foreign missionaries, 
 358 schools, of which 334 are entirely self-sup- 
 porting, six hospitals, 492 native helpers, 15,079 
 baptized communicants, and 16,721 catechumens. 
 
MISSIONARY WORK 
 
 291 
 
 The oldest station is, of course, at Seoul. Seoul 
 The institutional work includes the John D. 
 Wells Training School for Christian Workers, 
 founded by the family of the late Rev. Dr. 
 Wells, of Brooklyn, New York ; a board- 
 ing-school for girls, built by Mr. John H. 
 Converse, of Philadelphia, and the Severance 
 Hospital, the largest and the best-equipped 
 institution of the kind in Korea, erected by 
 Mr. Lewis H. Severance, of Cleveland, Ohio. 
 There are four churches. On a recent Sunday, 
 there were 1500 present at the Yun Mot Kol 
 Church. All Korean congregations sit on the 
 floor, the men with their hats on, and the men 
 and women divided by a partition, the preacher 
 standing so that he can see both sexes. When 
 the minister wishes to make more room, he calls 
 upon the congregation to rise ; then he asks the 
 people to move forward and to sit down again. 
 
 The Presbyterian work centering in Pyeng Pyeng Yang 
 Yang is one of the most famous mission works 
 in the world, from the viewpoint of rapidity of 
 growth and of the self-support and self-propa- 
 gation of the native church. There are now 
 no less than 6089 communicants, 5784 cate- 
 chumens, 16,746 Sunday-school scholars, and 
 20,414 adherents. I looked with wonder on 
 a congregation of 1800 reverent worshippers 
 where mission work was not begun till 1894, 
 and the wonder increased when I found the 
 whole congregation in four sections studying 
 the Bible in the Sunday-school, while the 
 Wednesday evening prayer-meeting was afr 
 
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 1200 People tended by 1200. The city church is the largest 
 meetfng yer " in Korea > ^th a membership of 1076 and a 
 catechumen roll of 385. The growth of the 
 church has been attended with the difficulty 
 of providing for the increasing congregation. 
 Three other churches have been organized from 
 this one, and still, although a gallery providing 
 for 200 has been put in, it is filled every Sun- 
 day, and at times many are turned away. The 
 midweek prayer-meeting is probably the lar- 
 gest in the world, the attendance rarely falling 
 below 1000 and often rising to 1400. A theo- 
 logical seminary has 75 students. 
 
 Comity The Methodists and Presbyterians amicably 
 
 divide the territory and cooperate in the most 
 brotherly fashion. The medical and educa- 
 tional work is conducted in common. The 
 two hospitals, Caroline A. Ladd (Presbyterian) 
 and Hall Memorial (Methodist), are operated 
 as one under a joint staff of the Presbyterian 
 and Methodist physicians, and together they 
 treated 17,698 patients last year. The Union 
 Academy for boys has 400 students. The boys 
 are required to be self-supporting as far as 
 possible, and there is an industrial department 
 which includes farming, gardening, printing, 
 carpentering, blacksmithing, and other trades. 
 
 The education of girls is not yet so well 
 developed, but there are several primary schools 
 and a union boarding-school. The difficulties 
 are greater than with boys, owing to the Korean 
 feeling that girls are not worth educating. 
 The Christians, however, are quicker to see the 
 
MISSIONARY WORK 293 
 
 need of education for their girls, and as the 
 ideals of the Gospel become known, new am- 
 bitions are stirred. 
 
 Taiku Station was opened in October, 1897, Taiku 
 by the Rev. and Mrs. James E. Adams, who 
 were joined in December by Dr. and Mrs. 
 W. O. Johnson. The loneliness and privation 
 of life at this inland city were trying, and the 
 little mud-walled Korean houses were unhealthy. 
 Several times sickness prostrated some members 
 of the circle, the physician himself being brought 
 to death's door by typhus fever in 1900. But 
 the missionaries persisted with unfaltering faith 
 and courage. After a time, a cheap hillside 
 was bought and residences were erected. Other 
 missionaries have joined the original number, a 
 hospital has been built, the gift of Miss Mary 
 H. Wright, of Philadelphia, and a successful 
 work is being pressed in all directions. In 
 1902, 177 adults had been baptized. In 1903, 
 the number had increased to 477, in 1904 to 780, 
 and in 1907 the Christian community in Taiku 
 and the outlying villages numbered 6145, and 
 formed no less than 84 distinct groups, several of 
 which have erected their own chapels. 
 
 Syen Chyun, 100 miles north of Pyeng Yang, Syen Chynn 
 though only an ordinary town in size, has 
 recently sprung into prominence for its remark- 
 able missionary work. The station was not 
 organized until 1901, but it already reports 102 
 out-stations, 4039 communicants, 4667 cate- 
 chumens, and 15,348 adherents. 1085 baptized 
 adults were received last year. 
 
294 KOREA 
 
 Fusan At Fusan there are six missionaries, includ- 
 
 ing wives, an excellent hospital, " The Junkin 
 Memorial," and an extensive evangelistic work. 
 There are 578 communicants, of whom 227 were 
 added last year, 662 catechumens, and 2017 
 adherents. The stations at Chai Ryong and 
 Chong Ju are new, but very promising. A 
 special work among the Japanese in Korea has 
 recently been inaugurated, the Rev. and Mrs. 
 F. S. Curtis having been transferred from Japan 
 for this purpose. 
 
 The Methodists, who sent their first mission- 
 aries to Korea in 1885, have stations at Seoul, 
 Pyeng Yang, Chemulpo, Hai-ju, Kong-ju, 
 and Yeng-byen. They report 42 mission- 
 aries, including wives and 14 missionaries 
 of the Woman's Society, 220 native preachers, 
 teachers, and other helpers, 3885 members, 
 19,570 probationers, and 16,158 catechumens 
 and other adherents, 153 Sunday-schools, 49 
 churches and chapels, and yen 27,016 contrib- 
 uted by the Koreans. The mission has Bible 
 Training School, three high schools, and 103 day 
 schools, with 3538 pupils. 
 
 The work at Seoul is extensive. The Woman's 
 Hospital is in charge of three devoted women 
 physicians. Boarding-schools for both boys 
 and girls are housed in large and well-appointed 
 brick buildings. The Boys' Boarding-school is 
 an institution of great influence. Its Korean 
 name is " Pai Chai Hakdang," which may be 
 translated, "Hall for the Rearing of Useful 
 Men," a name given to it by the King in 1887. 
 
MISSIONARY WOEK 295 
 
 The Methodist Press was founded in 1889. Printing- 
 Its original object was to give employment to press 
 deserving students in the Boys' School, but it 
 soon grew to be an important agency in the 
 evangelization of Korea. It does printing not 
 only for that denomination, but for other de- 
 nominations as well, the latter, of course, pay- 
 ing for their work at job rates. 
 
 The First Methodist Church is a large brick First 
 edifice, and a counted congregation recently 
 numbered 1100. This church has a night- 
 school entirely supported by the church, has 
 gained over 1000 in membership during the 
 past year, and pays all its own bills. 
 
 The Methodist work centering in Pyeng Yang 
 is also very interesting. There are two churches 
 in the city enrolling 261 communicants, 602 
 probationers, and 1573 adherents. The church 
 building in the compound on the hill is a prom- 
 inent feature of the city. The medical and 
 educational work is in union with the Presby- 
 terians, as already indicated. Four country 
 circuits are included in the Pyeng Yang dis- 
 trict, the total number of members and proba- 
 tioners being 4195, besides 3735 adherents. 
 The Presiding Elder, the Rev. William A. Noble, 
 writes : " The total increase in followers dur- 
 ing the year has not been paralleled during the 
 history of our work in northern Korea. Our Great 
 numbers have doubled. The district now Progress 
 records a total following of more than all our 
 work in Korea three years ago. . . . The im- 
 mediate effect of the revival has been to revolu- 
 
296 KOREA 
 
 lionize the character of the church. It has- 
 given the people at large a different idea of 
 what it means to become a Christian. Now 
 they are discriminating in judgment. A man 
 will take a stand in relation to moral questions 
 with intelligence, and commit himself only when 
 ready to make a change in his life." 
 
 The Biblical Institute was held in two sections 
 last year, one at Seoul, and one at Pyeng Yang. 
 At the close of the session for the training of 
 lay workers at Pyeng Yang, when the men had 
 been asked to consider the claims of God's min- 
 istry upon their lives, volunteers were called 
 for, and 178 of the finest men in the north vol- 
 unteered to give themselves to the ministry. 
 Chemulpo The work at Chemulpo is comparatively new. 
 It began in 1889 as an out-station of Seoul, with 
 a native helper in charge. In 1891 a chapel 
 was erected, and in 1892 the Rev. George Heber 
 Jones took up his residence, and began to push 
 the work with energy and success. There are 
 now a church, two schools, and six missionaries, 
 including wives. The Chemulpo District in- 
 cludes three circuits on the mainland and three 
 on 14 islands within a radius of 40 miles of 
 the port of Chemulpo. During the past year 
 work has been opened in 34 new villages, seven 
 churches have been built, and schools estab- 
 lished in 12 villages. Two of the circuits have 
 doubled the number of their preaching places. 
 A village on one circuit is practically Christian, 
 having now only one heathen home. Wesley 
 Church, Chemulpo, has not only been self -sup- 
 
MISSIONARY WORK 297 
 
 porting, but has helped several needy churches, 
 contributed to the Boys' School, and kept two 
 girls in school in Nagasaki, Japan. The three 
 other stations are comparatively small as yet, 
 but they are well located, and afford excellent 
 promise. 
 
 The beginning of Methodist woman's work in Work for 
 Korea, by Mrs. M. F. Scranton in Seoul, in the Women 
 fall of 1884, has already been alluded to. A 
 boarding-school was organized, arid in spite of 
 suspicion and opposition during the earlier years, 
 its success was continuous. In 1887, Dr. Meta 
 Howard, the first woman physician, arrived in 
 Seoul, and in the spring of 1888 the first hospi- 
 tal for women was opened. This is about to be 
 replaced by the Lillian Harris Memorial Hospi- 
 tal. Some years later a dispensary was opened 
 at the opposite end of the city. A training 
 school for nurses, established by Miss Margaret 
 Edmunds in 1903, is proving a valuable aid in 
 the medical work. 
 
 In 1898, work was begun in Pyeng Yang by 
 Dr. Rosetta Sherwood Hall. The hospital here 
 was burned to the ground in November, 1906, 
 and is soon to be replaced by a larger one. Dr. 
 Esther Kim Pak, one of the first pupils of the 
 boarding-school, and the first Korean woman to 
 receive the degree of M.D. in the United States, 
 has been associated with Dr. Hall since 1900. 
 
 Methodist woman's work now includes one 
 boarding-school, with an enrolment of 104 ; 28 
 day schools, three of which are self-supporting, 
 with 1200 pupils; 35 Bible women; 10,000 
 
298 
 
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 The S. P. G. 
 
 Bishop 
 Turner 
 
 women on the church rolls, and as many more 
 waiting for instruction. During 1907, 12,000 
 women and children received medical treatment 
 in the hospitals and dispensaries. 
 
 Other churches are having a part in this 
 great movement, though their work is as yet 
 conducted on a smaller scale than that of the 
 Presbyterians and Methodists. 
 
 The Society for the Propagation of the Gos- 
 pel (the Church of England) had received a 
 suggestion from the Rev. A. C. Shaw, one of its 
 missionaries in Japan, as early as 1880, for the 
 founding of a mission in Korea. This suggestion 
 was reenf orced in 1887 by Bishops Scott, of North 
 China, and Bickerstaph, of Japan, who visited 
 Korea in that year. The Society did not deem 
 it practicable, however, to open work until 
 the Rt. Rev. Charles John Corfe, D.D., who 
 had been consecrated the first missionary Bishop 
 of Korea in Westminster Abbey on All Saints' 
 Day, 1889, arrived September 29, 1890, with six 
 ordained men and two physicians. Property 
 was acquired at Seoul and Chemulpo, and work 
 begun. September 30, 1891, the first Anglican 
 Church in Korea was dedicated at Chemulpo, 
 and on the following Sunday, the first confirma- 
 tion was held, " the candidate being a little 
 serving-maid of a pious German family." 
 
 The resignation of Bishop Corfe was followed 
 by the election of Bishop H. B. Turner in 1905. 
 Within the last two years, the work has grown 
 more rapidly. Four points are now occupied. 
 Chemulpo has a well-equipped hospital, under 
 
MISSIONARY WORK 299 
 
 the care of Dr. Weir, assisted by several nurses, 
 though there is no resident clergyman. Seoul, 
 which is the residence of the bishop, has a church 
 under the care of the Rev. W. N. Gurney, who, 
 however, reports to the Society that the field is 
 a very difficult one, and that there is little to 
 show for fifteen years of occupation. The 
 Society reports little evangelistic work in either 
 Seoul or Chemulpo. . Sou-won, a walled town 
 40 miles south of Seoul, was opened as a station 
 in 1905, and the work has started encourag- 
 ingly, several hundred inquirers and catechu- 
 mens having already been enrolled, and the 
 Sunday congregations numbering about 300 
 worshippers. The largest work of the Society 
 in Korea is on Kanghwa, an island off the west 
 coast, about the size of the Isle of Wight. 
 There are missionaries at two towns, Kanghwa 
 City and On Sou Tong, and the Society has a 
 high school, several day schools, and a large 
 central church. 
 
 In September, 1906, the Rev. S. H. Cart- 
 wright, of the Japan Mission, began a special 
 work among the Japanese in Korea, making 
 Seoul his headquarters. The Society now has 
 in Korea seven clergymen, two lay missionaries, 
 and three single women. 
 
 The Southern Presbyterian Mission was Southern 
 established in 1892, when six missionaries, 
 arrived. They began their work in Seoul, but 
 later removed to the two Chel-la provinces in 
 the southwestern part of Korea. Here they 
 are now maintaining three effective stations. 
 
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 Chun-ju, a walled city of 25,000 people, is the 
 capital of North Chel-la province and the 
 market town of one of the most fertile and 
 thickly populated rice plains of Korea. The 
 natives have a saying which indicates their 
 estimation of it : " If you can't go to see Seoul, 
 see Chun-ju." The mission station here was 
 opened in 1896. 
 
 Kun-san, also opened as a station in 1896, is 
 the treaty port at the mouth of the Chang-po 
 River, 150 miles south of Chemulpo. There 
 are many villages in the adjacent region. 
 
 Mokp* Mokpo and Kwang-ju are usually associated 
 
 as one station. The work was begun in 1898 
 at the former place. But although Mokpo is a 
 treaty port with a fine harbor, it has "an un- 
 fortunate scarcity of two things essential to 
 a prosperous mission station, viz. fresh water 
 and Koreans." So the main part of the station 
 has been transferred to Kwang-ju, a city of 
 10,000 inhabitants, 60 miles in the interior, and 
 the capital of South Chel-la province. 
 
 Chon-ju The Chun-ju and Kun-san station fields each 
 
 have an estimated population of 500,000, while 
 Mokpo-Kwang-ju has 1,000,000. The Southern 
 Presbyterians are therefore seeking to reach 
 two millions of the population of Korea. There 
 are 27 missionaries, including wives, all dis- 
 tributed among the three stations mentioned, 
 except one family in Seoul, and 75 native 
 helpers. No organized churches are reported, 
 but work is regularly conducted at 140 dif- 
 ferent places ; 991 communicants are enrolled, 
 
MISSIONARY WOEK 301 
 
 besides 8410 adherents ; 22 Sunday-schools 
 have a membership of 1390. There are no 
 boarding or high schools, but there are 18 day 
 schools with 381 pupils. Sixteen of the schools 
 are entirely self-supporting. Yen 4176 were 
 raised on the field, and 12,234 patients were 
 treated by the physicians of the mission at the 
 Kun-san hospital and the Chun-ju and Mokpo 
 dispensaries. 
 
 The Southern Methodist Church also has an 
 excellent work in Korea, though it is not as 
 large as that of the Northern Methodists. It 
 originated in 1895, when Bishop E. R. Hendrix 
 and the Rev. C. F. Reed visited Korea. The 
 mission was not formally opened until the next 
 year, but from that time the work has been 
 vigorously prosecuted from three strategic cen- 
 tres, Seoul, Wonsan, and Song-do. 
 
 A fine illustration of comity occurred at Won- illustration 
 san in 1901. The Northern Methodists, who of Comity 
 had opened a station there in 1892, transferred 
 it to their Southern brethren, as the latter had 
 been in the field first and it was deemed unnec- 
 essary for both churches to occupy it. As these 
 pages are written, word comes that the Board 
 has secured a tract of 72 acres for a new com- 
 pound at Song-do and that it will erect build- 
 ings for academic and industrial schools, a hos- 
 pital, and five residences, the total cost to be 
 $35,000. This will give a fine equipment at 
 this important centre. 
 
 All together the Southern Methodists have 15 
 missionaries, including seven wives, 40 native 
 
302 
 
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 Results 
 
 Australian 
 work 
 
 Canadian 
 Presby- 
 terians 
 
 workers, one college (Song-do), four day- 
 schools, and one dispensary (Wonsan). The 
 dispensary treated last year 4056 patients. 
 The number of converts increased from 759 in 
 1905 to 1227 in 1906, a net gain of nearly sixty- 
 two per cent, besides 1694 probationers who were 
 receiving instruction preparatory to church 
 membership. "The people are turning to 
 Christ as I have never seen in any field," writes 
 Bishop Candler. 
 
 A ustralian Presbyterian work centres in Fusan. 
 It was founded in 1889 by the Rev. John H. Da- 
 vies and his sister. Other missionaries followed 
 them, and a considerable work has developed, 
 though practically all of it is conducted from 
 this port. There is not a large local popula- 
 tion, but the country districts are thickly settled. 
 The population of the province is estimated at 
 about 750,000. The outlying field has been 
 happily divided with the American Presbyteri- 
 ans, the latter taking the region north and west 
 of Fusan and the Australians the region along 
 the east coast. Including both missions, organ- 
 ized work is conducted in fourteen counties of 
 the thirty in the province. 
 
 The Canadian Presbyterians were first inter- 
 ested in Korea by the heroic and devoted W. 
 J. McKenzie, who was stirred by reading Dr. 
 Griffis's " Korea, the Hermit Nation," in 1888, 
 and who in 1893 went to Korea under the sup- 
 port of his university. His sad death two years 
 later, in the delirium of typhoid fever, touched 
 all hearts. It was not until 1897 that the Gen- 
 
MISSIONARY WORK 303 
 
 eral Assembly felt that the way was clear to 
 found a mission, and September 8 of the follow- 
 ing year three missionaries reached Seoul. After 
 consultation with the Council of Missions, th? 
 province of Ham Gyong on the northeast coasu 
 was agreed upon as the field of the Canadian 
 Presbyterians. Central stations are now main- 
 tained at Wonsan, Han-heung, and Song-chen, 
 while evangelistic work is regularly conducted 
 at 47 places. There are 14 missionaries, in- 
 cluding wives, 11 schools, three organized 
 churches, 644 communicants, besides 552 per- 
 sons under instruction. 
 
 The Plymouth Brethren have a family doing other 
 itinerating evangelistic work from Seoul. A Workers 
 Young Men's Christian Association was estab- 
 lished in 1900 in Seoul, and is doing excellent 
 work under the leadership of an American sec- 
 retary, Mr. Philip L. Gillett. The British and 
 Foreign Bible Society, the American Bible So- 
 ciety, and the National Bible Society of Scot- 
 land unite in the support of the work in Korea, 
 the Scotch Society paying one-fifth the cost of 
 translations and the other Societies two-fifths 
 each. 
 
 An undenominational Home for Destitute 
 Children, outside the wall at Seoul, is main- 
 tained by a local board of directors, chiefly 
 missionaries, and cares lovingly for many little 
 ones. The property was secured by Dr. Under- 
 wood, and the resident matron is Miss Perry, 
 formerly a missionary of the Australian Pres- 
 byterian Church. 
 
304 KOREA 
 
 Unity The spirit of unity which pervades the mis- 
 
 mrkers sionaries of most of the churches is a delightful 
 feature of the work. The Northern, Southern, 
 Canadian, and Australian Presbyterians early 
 associated themselves in the development of a 
 union Presbyterian Church in Korea. Up to 
 1907 the governing body was the Presbyterian 
 Council, which was composed of representatives 
 of all the Presbyterian missions. In that year, 
 however, an independent Presbyterian Church 
 was formally constituted with the approval of 
 the respective General Assemblies of the home 
 churches. 
 
 Nor did union stop with Presbyterians. An 
 Evangelical Council of Missions was organized 
 in 1904, which included the four Presbyterian 
 bodies mentioned above and the Northern and 
 Southern Methodists. This Council meets an- 
 nually, and exerts large influence in unifying 
 the work. One of its beneficent results is the 
 readjustment of boundary lines, so as to pre- 
 vent overlapping of fields and churches. The 
 latest instance of this was the amicable agree- 
 ment regarding division of territory between 
 the Northern Presbyterians and Southern Pres- 
 byterians in the fall of 1907. 
 
 Training Training classes for Christian workers have 
 
 Classes come to be a characteristic feature of mission 
 work in Korea. The classes usually last from 
 ten to fourteen days and are held at the stations, 
 though smaller ones led by native helpers are 
 conducted at some of the out-stations. Pyeng 
 Yang has become famous for its large classes, 
 
MISSIONARY WORK 305 
 
 the number attending often exceeding 1000. 
 About 500 Korean workers cooperated with 
 the missionaries in holding classes last year at 
 250 different places in northern Korea, the at- 
 tendance being over 12,000. It is not uncom- 
 mon for Koreans to walk more than a hundred 
 miles, bringing their own food with them, to 
 attend these classes, and -some have journeyed 
 as far as 300 miles. Then these eager Chris- 
 tians go back to do personal evangelistic work 
 in their villages. There is something inspiring 
 in the contemplation of such devotion, and it 
 accounts in no small measure for the splendid 
 success of the missionary movement in Korea. 
 
 The missionaries find results multiplying with Overtaxed 
 such rapidity that they are overworked in the Workers 
 effort to organize and superintend them. Every 
 missionary assigned to evangelistic work is vir- 
 tually a bishop of an extensive diocese, and is 
 obliged to toil and travel almost incessantly in 
 order to keep any kind of oversight of his nu- 
 merous and scattered out-stations. Over 15,000 
 children are attending mission schools, but prac- 
 tically all of them are from Christian homes, 
 not only because the missionaries feel that this 
 is a wise policy, but because such children are 
 so numerous that they tax the school facilities 
 which can be provided. Hardly any attempt 
 has been made to recruit pupils from the non- 
 Christian population. 
 
 The following causes may be indicated to 
 account for the rapid spread of the Gospel in 
 Korea : 
 
306 KOREA 
 
 Causes for First : Koreans are naturally more docile and 
 
 Success affectionate than Chinese and Japanese, so that 
 
 it is easier to make an impression on them. 
 
 Second : Politically small and weak in com- 
 parison with the mighty Powers about them, 
 the Koreans have become accustomed to being 
 led from the outside. There are, therefore, less 
 national pride arid prejudice to be overcome 
 than in China and Japan. 
 
 Third : While ancestral and demon worship 
 are formidable obstacles, there is no powerful 
 State religion, as in most other non-Christian 
 lands. 
 
 Fourth : Poverty, oppression, and distress 
 have begotten a longing for relief and a hope 
 that the missionary can secure it for them. 
 
 Fifth : The fidelity and sympathy which the 
 missionaries manifested during the Chino- Japan- 
 ese and Russo-Japanese wars. 
 
 Sixth : The favor of the court. When, after 
 the murder of the Queen, the terrified Emperor 
 expected his own assassination, he found coun- 
 sel and moral support in three missionaries. 
 He frequently expressed his appreciation of 
 their fidelity in his hour of peril. His favor 
 meant no spiritual help, but the imperial smile 
 counts for much in an Oriental country. 
 
 These conditions created a state of receptivity 
 in the public mind, and unquestionably in them 
 the Holy Spirit prepared the soil for the plant- 
 ing of the Gospel seed. As compared with 
 China, Korea was like a western prairie, ready 
 for the plough of the husbandman ; while the 
 
MISSIONARY WOEK 307 
 
 vaster, prouder, more stubborn, phlegmatic, and 
 self-satisfied population of the Celestial Empire 
 was like the densely forested land of the East- 
 ern seaboard, on which weary years of toil had 
 to be spent in hewing down the wilderness, 
 uprooting gigantic stumps, and gathering out 
 the stones. Comparisons are, therefore, unfair. 
 Conditions independent of the missionary have 
 made the task of evangelization less difficult in 
 one field than in the other. 
 
 And yet it would be wrong to give the im- obstacles 
 pression that there are no obstacles to be en- 
 countered in Korea. It is not easy to convert 
 any heathen nation. Indolence, superstition, 
 dirt, the apathy of despair, the jealousy of the 
 literary class, the demoralizing example of 
 officials, the antagonism of a powerful Roman 
 Catholic Church, all these heavily reenf orce 
 the ever-present influences of the world, the 
 flesh, and the devil. The human heart is not 
 any more prone to spiritual things in Korea 
 than elsewhere. 
 
 The special credit of the missionaries is that 
 they have been wise and faithful in taking ad- 
 vantage of the peculiar conditions of the land. 
 Coming, in the providence of God, in "the 
 fulness of the time," they discerned the signifi- 
 cance of the hour. It was not necessary to be- 
 gin with schools, as in some Moslem lands. 
 Korea was ready for the direct preaching of the 
 Gospel, and to that preaching the missionaries 
 gave themselves with unceasing zeal. There- 
 fore emphasis as a cause should be placed on : 
 
308 KOEEA 
 
 Self-support Seventh : Insistence by the missionaries, from 
 the first, on the duty of self-support and self- 
 propagation. As soon as converts appeared, 
 they were required to give according to their 
 ability and to be messengers of Christ to their 
 own people without pay from the foreigner. 
 They gladly obeyed. The Koreans now sup- 
 port a large majority of their native leaders, 
 churches, and day-schools. They contribute as 
 much per capita in amount as Americans give 
 to foreign missions, and in effect they give 
 many times more, for an American believer is 
 far better off than these poverty-stricken Ori- 
 entals. They preach as willingly as they give, 
 first scores and then hundreds and now tens 
 of thousands of believers joyfully proclaiming 
 Christ to their neighbors and friends. Indeed, 
 the chief work of direct evangelization is now 
 ardently done by the Koreans themselves. Not 
 only the appointed leaders but the Christians 
 generally seek earnestly for souls. Willingness 
 to try to lead others to Christ is deemed a test 
 of fitness for church membership. Thus the 
 Korean churches are to a remarkable degree 
 working evangelistic bodies. 
 
 Koreans If any one feature of the Korean method 
 
 needs to be heralded as an example to Chris- 
 tians both at home and abroad, it is this the 
 duty and privilege of the individual disciple to 
 witness for Christ without depending upon his 
 pastor to do it for him and without expectation 
 of financial reward, but living and teaching the 
 Gospel in the sphere of life in which he was 
 
 our 
 Example 
 
MISSIONARY WORK 309 
 
 before, and in the occupation which he already 
 followed. And God has wonderfully blessed 
 the ministry of His servants. " With great 
 power give they witness of the resurrection of the 
 Lord Jesus, and great grace is upon them all ! " 
 
 I asked the leaders of the Korean Christians What 
 in several conferences, " What is it in Chris- |VPP eals to 
 tianity that particularly appeals to the Korean 
 mind ? " The answers naturally varied, but 
 the ones most frequently recurring were, " sal- 
 vation," " joy." The poor Koreans were living 
 in wretchedness and despair, oppressed, poverty- 
 stricken, literally "having no hope and with- 
 out God in the world," knowing nothing of 
 anything better, but knowing well their own 
 bitterness and sorrow. Suddenly, they heard 
 the clear, sweet invitation of the Gospel, tell- 
 ing them of pardon, deliverance, and peace. 
 Eagerly and trustfully as children they came 
 and found rest for their souls. Nowhere else 
 in the world to-day is there a more marked 
 illustration of the preparation of the soil by 
 the Holy Spirit, the inherent vitality of the 
 truth, the joy of the believer in Christ and the 
 value of personal work for souls. Many a time, 
 as I studied the movement, it seemed to me 
 that the Son of Man was again walking upon 
 earth and calling to lowly men, " Follow me," 
 and that again men were "straightway " leaving 
 all and following Him. As I sat in the lowly 
 chapels and communed with them, I saw how 
 the Gospel had enlightened their hearts and 
 how their once joyless lives now centred in 
 
310 
 
 KOEEA 
 
 Our First 
 Meeting 
 
 Korean 
 Song 
 
 the Church of God which gave them their only 
 light and peace. 
 
 Our first meeting with the Korean Christians 
 in Fusan will not soon be forgotten. After a 
 felicitous address of welcome by one of the Ko- 
 reans, a hundred voices rose in a song of praise. 
 Such congregational singing ! It was so hearty 
 and yet so truly worshipful that it was a physi- 
 cal and spiritual tonic. But not a line could I 
 understand, till suddenly I caught the words, 
 "Jesus, Hallelujah." There being no Korean 
 equivalents for them, the missionaries had 
 taught the people to use the terms so familiar 
 to us. We could have had no more inspiring 
 theme, and so we preached on the meaning of 
 " Jesus, Hallelujah." 
 
 Our experience in Fusan was repeated many 
 times in other places. A stranger in a strange 
 land enters a room filled with strange people, 
 who greet him in a strange tongue and then 
 begin to sing a strange tune. The voices were 
 not always melodious nor did they always keep 
 the key. But the singing plainly voiced the 
 aspirations of a fervent and genuine spiritual 
 experience. The Koreans sing as they pray, 
 with all their hearts. Unfamiliar as the lan- 
 guage is, the visitor is thrilled by the exultant 
 ring of a living, joyous faith. 
 
 I have since journeyed far and have seen 
 many places and peoples. But there still lives 
 to my vision the humble chapels on those Ko- 
 rean hills, with worshipping Koreans sitting, 
 Oriental fashion, on the floor. I can see their 
 
MISSIONARY WOEK 311 
 
 faces light up as I spoke to them of Jesus as 
 our revelation of the love of God, Jesus as our 
 Saviour from sin, Jesus as our Friend and King, 
 Jesus as the Giver of such peace and joy that 
 there is no word so appropriate for the true 
 disciples as " Hallelujah." Even as I write, I 
 seem to hear the unison of those eager voices 
 as, in glad response to my closing request, they 
 joined me in repeating the words, "Jesus, 
 Hallelujah," and then with the reverent peti- 
 tion of their leader as he prayed for us all, 
 while the white-robed worshippers bowed with 
 their faces to the floor. 
 
 A visit to Korea is a tonic to faith. As one A Tonic to 
 journeys through the country, facing crowds of Faith 
 Christians from Fusan to Pyeng Yang, it is 
 difficult to realize that Protestant missions in 
 Korea date only from 1884, and that the great 
 host of communicants and adherents in the 
 Pyeng Yang field alone began with the baptism 
 of a handful of men in January, 1894. "Is 
 it genuinely spiritual ? " " Will it be perma- 
 nent ? " some are asking. Well, a willingness 
 to support their own work without dependence 
 upon the foreigner's money, an eagerness to 
 extend the Gospel to their countrymen, a per- 
 sistence in Christian fidelity when left without 
 missionary supervision, a patient endurance of 
 persecution, an extraordinary growth which, 
 after fourteen years, shows no sign of abating, 
 but on the contrary is becoming more and more 
 extraordinary, these are surely encouraging 
 indications of genuineness and stability. 
 
312 KOREA 
 
 An Mr. John R. Mott, who visited Korea in 
 
 1907 > declares that iij bids fair to be the fir st 
 of the non-Christian lands to be evangelized; 
 and Mr. William T. Ellis, the newspaper cor- 
 respondent, wrote at the close of his journey : 
 
 " Cannot you say something or do something to make 
 the Church in America realize that here in Korea just 
 now is the Christian opportunity of centuries? This 
 situation is extraordinary and amazing. The whole 
 country is fruit ripe for the picking. The Koreans 
 are ready to turn to the Living God. If the Christian 
 Church has any conception of strategy and appreciation 
 of an opportunity, and any sense of relative values, she 
 will act at once not next year, but NOW ! " 
 
HELPS FOR LEADERS 
 
 ON CHAPTERS V, VI, AND VII 
 
 SI AM 
 Lesson Aim : 
 
 To give a general view of the missionary environment 
 and the problem of reaching diverse races with the one 
 Gospel. 
 
 Scripture Lesson : 
 Mark 16 : 15-20 ; Ephes. 5 : 8-21. 
 
 Suggestive Questions : 
 
 1. What is the area and population of Siam as com- 
 pared with New England? 
 
 2. What commercial products are exported to Europe 
 and America? 
 
 3. Make a paper model of a Siamese house. 
 
 4. In what languages is the Bible found at the Bible 
 depot in Bangkok ? 
 
 5. Describe the religion of Siam before the advent of 
 Buddhism. 
 
 6. Mention some superstitions prevalent to-day. 
 
 7. What is the total Moslem population of Siam ? 
 
 8. What effect has gambling, the characteristic vice 
 of Siam, had upon the character of the people? 
 
 9. Sketch the life of Gautama Buddha. 
 
 10. Make a table of special difficulties and special en- 
 couragements in this field. 
 
 Bibliography : 
 
 Campbell, J. G. D., Siam in the Twentieth Century. 
 Carter, A. Cecil, M.A., Kingdom of Siam. 
 313 
 
314 HELPS FOR LEADERS 
 
 Curtis, Lillian Johnson, The Laos of North Siam. 
 
 Fleeson, Katherine Neville, Laos Folk-Lore of 
 Farther India. 
 
 Hallett, H. S., A Thousand Miles on an Elephant in 
 the Shan States. 
 
 Siam and Laos as Seen by our American Missionaries. 
 
 BURMA 
 Lesson Aim : 
 
 To give a general view of the land, the people, their 
 rulers, and their religion in relation to missions ; or what 
 Buddhism did for Burma and what Christianity is doing 
 now for this country. 
 
 Scripture Lesson : 
 
 Isa. 55 ; Matt. 13 : 1-9. 
 
 Suggestive Questions : 
 
 1. Indicate by color on an outline map of Asia the 
 extent of British rule and the strategic importance of 
 Burma. 
 
 2. What is the daily life of a mendicant? 
 
 3. When did Buddhism enter Burma? 
 
 4. What teachings of the Gospel are special stum- 
 bling-blocks to the sincere Buddhist ? 
 
 5. Write a review of Edwin Arnold's "Light of 
 Asia." 
 
 6. Describe the " Wheel of Life." (See Rhys Davids's 
 "Buddhism.") 
 
 7. Write a character sketch of Dr. Judson. 
 
 8. Of Ko Tha Byu. 
 
 9. What are the present missionary problems? 
 
 10. Show the possibility of completing the work of 
 evangelization in Burma in terms of men and money. 
 
HELPS FOR LEADERS 315 
 
 Bibliography : 
 
 Cochrane, Henry Park, Among the Burmans. 
 
 Curtis, William Eleroy, Egypt, Burma and British 
 Malaysia. 
 
 Griggs, W. C., Odds and Ends from Pagoda 
 Land. 
 
 Judson, Edward, Life of Adoniram Judson. 
 
 Willson, A. M., Lives of Mrs. Ann H. Judson, Sarah 
 B. Judson, and Mrs. Emily C. Judson. 
 
 Smith, Julius, Ten Years in Burma. 
 
 Brockett, L. P., Story of the Karen Mission in Bassein. 
 
 KOREA 
 Lesson Aim : 
 
 To show the possibility of evangelizing a land in one 
 generation. The power of a supernatural Gospel. 
 
 Scripture Lesson : 
 Acts 2 : 1-5 ; 43-47. 
 
 Suggestive Questions : 
 
 1. Why called the Hermit Nation? 
 
 2. What is demon-worship? Shamanism? (Mrs. 
 Bishop's " Korea and her Neighbors.") 
 
 3. Describe Korean marriage customs. 
 
 4. Which of Korea's neighbors has had the largest 
 influence on her history? 
 
 5. Discussion whether Japanese rule has been of 
 benefit to Korea. 
 
 6. Compare the Pyeng Yang revival with that in 
 Wales as to character and results. 
 
 7. What Christian literature is there for Koreans in 
 their own language? 
 
 8. What are the dangers of too rapid evangelization 
 in Korea? 
 
316 HELPS FOR LEADERS 
 
 9. What place do women occupy in the Korean 
 church ? 
 
 10. Show the location of every station and preaching 
 place on the map of Korea. 
 
 Bibliography : 
 
 Bishop, Mrs. Isabella Bird, Korea and her Neighbors. 
 
 Gale, James S., D.D., Korean Sketches. 
 
 Gale, James S., B.D., The Vanguard. 
 
 Griffis, Kev. William Elliott, Corea : The Hermit 
 Nation. 
 
 Hulbert, H. B., The Passing of Korea. 
 
 Underwood, L. H., Fifteen Years among the Top- 
 knots. 
 
 Underwood, Horace G., The Call of Korea. 
 
 Jones, G. H., Korea : The Land, People, and Customs. 
 
GENERAL INDEX 
 
 Abbott, Rev. E. L., 244. 
 
 Abdul Hamid, 8. 
 
 Abeel, Rev. David, 182. 
 
 Abraham, 1. 
 
 Abu Hanifa, 41. 
 
 Adams, Rev. James E., 293. 
 
 Adamson, Dr. H., 185. 
 
 Aden, 95. 
 
 Afghanistan, 7, 59; popula- 
 tion of, 124. 
 
 Africa, 3, 7, 118; Islam in, 3; 
 Moslems in, 57; West, 52, 
 118; Central, 72, 96 ; North, 
 74, 77, 85 ; North, spread of 
 Islam in, 85 ; Mohammedan 
 population of, 114. 
 
 Ahreyah Mettai, 206. 
 
 Algeciras Conference, 60. 
 
 Algeria, 88. 
 
 Al-Ghazali, 48. 
 
 Algiers, 8, 142. 
 
 Allah, 14, 41, 46. 
 
 Allen, Dr. H. N., 278. 
 
 Alms, legal, 27. 
 
 American Baptist Missionary 
 Union, 184, 224; discour- 
 agements of, 184; closing 
 of mission of, 185; results 
 of work of, in Siam, 185. 
 
 American Bible Society, 194, 
 303. 
 
 American Board, 92. 
 
 American Missionary Associa- 
 tion, 183. 
 
 Amulets, 62. 
 
 Animists, 224. 
 
 Antichrist, 21. 
 
 Appenzeller, Rev. H. G., 280. 
 
 Arabia, 4, 7, 27, 54 ; cradle of 
 Islam, 94; population of, 
 95, 126; neglected, 126. 
 
 Arabian Mission, Reformed 
 Church in America, 97, 126. 
 
 Arabic, 6, 58, 101 ; sacred 
 language of Moslems, 6. 
 
 Arabs, 30, 43. 
 
 Armstrong, Rev. W. F., 250. 
 
 Arrakan, 222. 
 
 Ashmore, William, 186. 
 
 Asia : Moslems in, 4 ; unoc- 
 cupied fields of, 122. 
 
 Asia Minor, 4, 8. 
 
 Assam, 222. 
 
 Australian Baptist Mission, 
 101. 
 
 Ava, 240. 
 
 Ayuthia, ancient capital of 
 *Siam, 176. 
 
 Bab, the, 98. 
 
 Bagdad, 126. 
 
 Bahrein, 63, 97. 
 
 Baluchistan, 8 ; Moslem popu- 
 lation of, 125. 
 
 Bangkok, 160, 174; mission 
 institutions in, 193. 
 
 Baptists, American, in Burma, 
 238. 
 
 Barrett, Hon. John, 203. 
 
 Bassein, 221. 
 
 Beach, Professor, 116. 
 
 Bedouin, 31. 
 
 Beecher, Rev. E. H., 244. 
 
 Behaism, 98. 
 
 Beit Allah, 3. 
 
 Bengal, 5. 
 
 317 
 
318 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Bennett, Mrs. Jessie Vail, 98. 
 
 Bhamo, 221. 
 
 Bible, 25, 199; translations 
 of, 6, 238. 
 
 Binney, Rev. Dr. J. G., 251. 
 
 Bishop, Mrs. Isabella Bird, 38. 
 
 Bixby, Rev. Moses H., 247. 
 
 Black Stone, 1, 3. 
 
 Blyden, Dr., 37. 
 
 Boardman, Mrs. Sarah Hall, 
 242. 
 
 Bokhara, Moslem population 
 of, 127. 
 
 Boon Itt, Rev., 194. 
 
 Bradley, Dr. Daniel B., 183. 
 
 Briggs, Dr. and Mrs. W. A., 
 198. 
 
 British and Foreign Bible 
 Society, 224, 303. 
 
 British rule, 8, 58, 180, 223. 
 
 Bronson, Rev. Dr. Dillon, 227. 
 
 Brooke, Sir James, 188. 
 
 Bruce, Rev. Robert, D.D., 99. 
 
 Buddha, 175. 
 
 Buddhism, state religion of 
 Siam, 202, 246. 
 
 Buddhist, first, to accept 
 Christ, 239. 
 
 Bugia, 78. 
 
 Burckhardt, 51. 
 
 Burma : area of, 211 ; climate 
 of, 211 ; physical features 
 of, 211 ; country without 
 caste, 213 ; population of, 
 213 ; government of, 221 ; 
 Upper, annexation of, 223 ; 
 religions of, 224; progress 
 of missions in, 229 ; medical 
 missions in, 252; a hopeful 
 field, 255. 
 
 Burmans : characteristics of, 
 213 ; custom law of life, 
 214; vices of, 215; work 
 among, difficult, 246. 
 
 Burton, 45. 
 
 Bush, Rev. and Mrs. Stephen, 
 187. 
 
 Busrah, 97. 
 
 Cairo, literary capital of Islam, 
 
 90. 
 
 Cairo Conference, 115. 
 Cairo Universit}*-, 56. 
 Cambodia, 159. 
 Canton, 166, 182. 
 Carey, 72. 
 
 Carpenter, Rev. C. H., 252. 
 Carson, Rev. A. E., 248. 
 Cartwright, Rev. S. H., 299. 
 Celebes, 4. 
 Chard, Rev. and Mrs. C. H., 
 
 231. 
 
 Chieng Hoong, 165. 
 Chieng Mai, 160, 168 ; mission 
 
 work at, 199. 
 Chieng Rai, 177. 
 China, 7, 72; Moslems in, 5, 
 
 131 ; Moslem population 
 
 of, 129. 
 
 China Inland Mission, 225. 
 Chinese : strongest element in 
 
 Siam, 166 ; in Burma, 
 
 218. 
 Chins : demon-worshippers, 
 
 218; converts among, 248. 
 Choi Chei Ou, 268. 
 Christianity, 37, 74; early, in 
 
 Arabia, 95. 
 Christians : in Burma, 224 ; 
 
 persecution of, in Korea, 
 
 283; number of, in Korea, 
 
 290. 
 
 Chubbuck, Emily, 242. 
 Chun-ju, 300. 
 Church Missionary Society, 
 
 90. 
 
 Clarke, James Freeman, 14. 
 Cockey, Rev. T. A., 229. 
 Colbeck, Rev. James A., 230. 
 Colman, Mr. and Mrs., 239. 
 Commissioners, of the King, 
 
 179. 
 
 Confucianism, 269. 
 Congo Free State, 3. 
 Congregational Mission : trials 
 
 of, 182; withdrawal of, to 
 
 China, 182. 
 
INDEX 
 
 319 
 
 Constantinople, political capi- 
 tal of Mohammedan world, 
 90. 
 
 Converts : from Islam, 97, 
 105; in Siam, 200. 
 
 Corfe, Rt. Rev. Charles John, 
 D.D., 298. 
 
 Creed : confession of, 24 ; 
 use a strength to Islam, 
 25. 
 
 Crofton, Rev. H. W., 230. 
 
 Curtis, Rev. and Mrs. F. S., 
 294. 
 
 Gushing, Rev. and Mrs. J. N., 
 247. 
 
 Danish Evangelical Church, 
 
 96. 
 Darrow, Rev. and Mrs. A. C., 
 
 247. 
 
 Davenport, Mr. and Mrs., 184. 
 Dean, Dr., 160. 
 Dean, Rev. William, 184. 
 Demon-worshippers, 218. 
 Denman, Dr. and Mrs. C. H., 
 
 198. 
 
 Denmark, 171. 
 Divorce, 48. 
 Dodd, Mr. and Mrs. W. C., 
 
 198. 
 Dunlap, Dr., 201. 
 
 East India Company, 221. 
 
 East Indians, 219. 
 
 Ecumenical Conference, Cairo, 
 91. 
 
 Edmunds, Miss Margaret, 297. 
 
 Egypt, 43, 51 ; Moslem popu- 
 lation of, 89. 
 
 El Azhar, Mohammedan Uni- 
 versity of, 56. 
 
 Ellers, Miss Annie, 281. 
 
 Ellis, William T., 312. 
 
 Emperor of Korea, 271. 
 
 England, 171. 
 
 Europe, 4. 
 
 Evangelistic Lutheran Mission 
 of Leipzig, 224. 
 
 Fasting, month of, 26. 
 Fitzgerald, Bishop, 227. 
 Foochow, 166. 
 
 Foote, General Lucius H., 278. 
 Free Church of Scotland, 96. 
 French, Bishop, 75, 96. 
 French Sudan, 4. 
 Fusan, 294, 302. 
 
 Geis, Rev. George J., 249. 
 
 Germany, 159. 
 
 Glenn, Dr. William, 99. 
 
 Gobat, Samuel, 90. 
 
 God : books of, 17 ; Moslem 
 
 idea of, 14; Mohammed's 
 
 idea of, 56. 
 Goddard, Josiah, 186. 
 Gospel, causes for rapid spread 
 
 of, in Korea, 306. 
 Goucher, Rev. John F., 280. 
 Gurney, Rev. W. N., 299. 
 Gutzlaff, Dr., 181. 
 
 Haas, Frederick, 99. 
 
 Hadramaut, 126. 
 
 Hagar, 1. 
 
 Hague, International Confer- 
 ence, 272. 
 
 Hainan, 166. 
 
 Haka, 248. 
 
 Hall, Dr. M. J., 282. 
 
 Hall, Dr. Rosetta Sherwood, 
 297. 
 
 Han-heung, 303. 
 
 Harem, evils of, 46. 
 
 Haswell, Rev. J. M., 247. 
 
 Hausa-land, 119. 
 
 Hegira, 10, 130. 
 
 Hejaz, 62, 126. 
 
 Hell, Moslem, 23. 
 
 Hemenway, 182. 
 
 Henzada, 246. 
 
 Heron, Dr. J. W., 279. 
 
 Hinduism, 44. 
 
 Hindus, 224. 
 
 Hodeidah, 126. 
 
 Horton, Miss Lillias, 281. 
 
 House, Dr. Samuel R., 186. 
 
320 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Howard, Dr. Meta, 297. 
 
 Hsipaw, 247. 
 
 Humphrey, Chaplain W. T., 
 
 229. 
 Hurgronje, Dr. C. Snouck, 54. 
 
 Illiteracy of Islam, 57. 
 
 India, 8, 51, 113; Moslem 
 population of, 5 ; work for 
 Moslems in, 100. 
 
 Indies, Dutch East, Moslems 
 in, 102. 
 
 International Student Federa- 
 tion, 266. 
 
 Irrawaddy, 211. 
 
 Islam : character and con- 
 quests of, 1 ; world-wide re- 
 ligion, 2, 10; present num- 
 bers and distribution of, 3 ; 
 literary languages of, 7 ; 
 explanation of spread of, 10 ; 
 aggressive religion, 11; re- 
 ligion without caste, 12 ; 
 doctrine of angels, 15; 
 spirit world, 15; Day of 
 Judgment, 22 ; philosophy 
 of, 23 ; predestination, 23 ; 
 doctrine of fatalism, 24; 
 religion without hope, 28; 
 social evils of, 37; low 
 ethical standard of, 39 ; 
 lack of truth in, 40 ; ethics 
 of, 40; sensuality of, 44; 
 illiteracy of, 57; traditions 
 of, 60; attitude toward 
 Christianity, 102 ; strong- 
 hold of, 115; present peril 
 of, 118; early entrance into 
 China, 130; peril of, not 
 cause for discouragement, 
 139 ; disintegration of, 140 ; 
 in Africa, 4 ; in Asia, 4 ; in 
 China, 5 ; in India, 5 ; in 
 the Philippines, 5 ; in Rus- 
 sia, 5; in Turkey, 59; in 
 Arabia, 94; hi Malaysia, 
 103. 
 
 Ito, Marquis, 274. 
 
 Jains, 224. 
 
 Japan, 159; attitude toward 
 Korea, 273. 
 
 Java, 103; converts in, 106. 
 
 Jessup, Dr., 72. 
 
 Jesus Christ, 20, 64, 74 ; Mos- 
 lem belief concerning, 20; 
 only hope for Moslems, 64; 
 regarded as second Buddha, 
 206. 
 
 Jews, 53, 224; societies for 
 the conversion of, 73. 
 
 Jinn (genii), 15; belief in, uni- 
 versal, 16. 
 
 Johnson, Dr. W. O., 293. 
 
 Jones, Rev. and Mrs. John T., 
 184. 
 
 Jones, Rev. George Heber, 
 296. 
 
 Judson, Adoniram, 238; im- 
 prisonment of, 240; hero- 
 ism of, 241. 
 
 Judson, Mrs. Ann Hasseltine, 
 181, 242. 
 
 Kaaba, 1, 63. 
 
 Kachins, 249 ; demon-wor- 
 shippers, 218. 
 
 Kamil Abd El Messiah, 97. 
 
 Kansu, 5, 131. 
 
 Karens, 216; tribes of, 216; 
 work among the, 231. 
 
 Keith Falconer, Ion, 95. 
 
 Keith Falconer Mission, 126. 
 
 Ke Kan, 168. 
 
 Keller, 74. 
 
 Kerbela, 45. 
 
 Khadijah, 50. 
 
 Kim Chang Sik, 282. 
 
 Kincaid, Dr., 249. 
 
 King, Hon. Hamilton, quoted, 
 203. 
 
 King Mongkut, 178; policy of, 
 result of missionary influ- 
 ence, 183. 
 
 King of Siam, absolute mon- 
 arch, 179 ; enlightened pol- 
 icy of, 180. 
 
INDEX 
 
 321 
 
 Knight, Bishop A. M., 237. 
 
 Koran, 13, 40, 44, 55; inter- 
 linear translations of, 6 ; 
 Arabic, sealed book to most 
 Moslems, 6; translation of, 
 not permitted in China, 7; 
 uncreated and eternal, 17; 
 unintelligible without com- 
 mentary, 18; defects of 
 teaching, 19; inferior to 
 sacred books of other na- 
 tions, 19. 
 
 Korat, 176. 
 
 Korea : area of, 259 ; physical 
 features of, 259 ; population 
 of, 261; language in, 262; 
 lack of sanitation in, 263 ; 
 religions of, 269; govern- 
 ment of, 271 ; period of 
 reconstruction in, 275 ; re- 
 vival in, 285 ; a tonic to 
 faith, 311. 
 
 Koreans : character of, 262 ; 
 peculiar customs of, 265. 
 
 Ko San Ye Movement, 245. 
 
 Ko Tha Byu, first Karen con- 
 vert, 243. 
 
 Kumm, Dr. Karl, 116. 
 
 Kwallondong, 261. 
 
 Lakawn, 177; mission work 
 at, 199. 
 
 Laos : number of, in Siam, 
 165 ; superior to Siamese 
 in intelligence, 165; mis- 
 sions in, 196; persecution 
 of Christians in, 197 ; pres- 
 ent status of work in, 198 ; 
 proclamation of religious 
 liberty to, 198 ; a promising 
 mission field, 205. 
 
 Larsen, Rev. E. John, 128. 
 
 Lawrence, Miss E., 254. 
 
 Lee, Rev. Graham, 282. 
 
 Leonard, Dr. A. B., 228. 
 
 Levant, 43. 
 
 Literature, Mohammedan, in 
 China, 129. 
 
 Livingstone, David, 42, 121. 
 London Missionary Society, 
 
 181. 
 Lull, Raymund, 39, 76, 79; 
 
 first missionary to Moslems, 
 
 76. 
 Lyon, Rev. J., 249. 
 
 McFarland, Rev. S. G., 191. 
 Mackay, Alexander M., 96. 
 McKenzie, W. J., 302. 
 Maclay, Rev. Robert S., D.D., 
 
 280. 
 
 Me Williams, D. W., 277. 
 Malay Archipelago, 103. 
 Mandalay, 212. 
 Marks, E. J., 229. 
 Marriage among Moslems, 48, 
 
 49. 
 
 Martyn, Henry, 76, 79, 83. 
 Martyrdom of Lull, 79. 
 Martyrs, in Laos, 197. 
 Mattoon, Rev. Stephen, 186. 
 Mecca, 1, 10, 45, 54, 63, 127; 
 
 pilgrimage to, 27 ; religious 
 
 capital of Islam, 90. 
 Medina, 10, 28, 42, 127. 
 Meinhof, Professor Carl, 119. 
 Me Kawng, 161. 
 Me Nam River, 161. 
 Merrick, Rev. J. L., 100. 
 Merwa, 1. 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 
 missionary society of, 224, 
 
 228, 280. 
 Methodist mission, southern, 
 
 301. 
 
 Miller, Dr. W. R., 4. 
 Milman, Bishop, 233. 
 Mirza Ibrahim, 100. 
 Missionaries : first, to Siam, 
 
 appeal of, to American 
 
 churches, 181 ; favorable 
 
 testimony regarding, 203 ; 
 
 women, 254; pioneer, in 
 
 Korea, 277. 
 Missionary, first, to Moslems, 
 
 39, 76. 
 
322 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Missions: medical, 141, 252, 
 279 ; pioneer, difficulties 
 of, in Siam, 188 ; results of, 
 in Siam, 200 ; social results 
 of, 201 ; obstacles to, in 
 Siam, 204; rapid progress 
 of, among Karens, 217. 
 
 Missions in Korea : effect of 
 war on, 283. 
 
 Missions to Moslems, 37, 71 ; 
 difficulties of, 135. 
 
 Mizan-ul-Hak, 84. 
 
 Moffett, Rev. Samuel A., 
 282. 
 
 Mohammed, 2, 13, 17, 21, 30, 
 41, 56, 95, 130; an exile, 
 10; quoted, 11; names of, 
 20; human in Koran, 21; 
 of tradition, 21 ; violates 
 his own law, 50. 
 
 Mohammedan Conference, 46. 
 
 Mohammedan population, 3. 
 
 Mohammedan University, 56, 
 91. 
 
 Mohammedan world, present 
 accessibility of, 9. 
 
 Mohammedanism, stronghold 
 of, 3. 
 
 Mohammedans, in Burma, 224. 
 
 Mokpo, 300. 
 
 Morocco, 7, 38, 87. 
 
 Moslems : Chinese, 3 ; under 
 Christian rule, 7 ; belief of, 
 12 ; five duties of, 24 ; mis- 
 sions among, 37; moral 
 condition of, result of re- 
 ligion, 38 ; under Christian 
 rule, 54; missions to, 71; 
 results of work for, 101. 
 
 Moslem world, governments 
 of, 7. 
 
 Mott, John R., 312. 
 
 Moulmein, former capital of 
 Burma, 220. 
 
 Moung Nau, first Buddhist 
 convert, 239. 
 
 Muir, 39, 41. 
 
 Muscat, 75, 96. 
 
 Nai Chune, first convert in 
 Siam, 188. 
 
 Nan Inta, 197. 
 
 Nasariyeh, 97. 
 
 National Bible Society of 
 Scotland, 303. 
 
 Needham, Hester, Saint of 
 Sumatra, 104. 
 
 Nejd, 126. 
 
 Netherlands Missionary So- 
 ciety, 181. 
 
 New Testament, 277; trans- 
 lation of, 237. 
 
 Noctong River, 260. 
 
 North Africa Mission, 87. 
 
 Oman, 126. 
 
 Omens, 61. 
 
 O'Neal, Mrs. Charlotte, 226. 
 
 Orr, Rev. R. W., 186. 
 
 Paknam, 170. 
 
 Pali Manuscripts, 175. 
 
 Pan-Islamic movement, 11. 
 
 Pan-Islamism, 142. 
 
 Paradise, Moslem, 23. 
 
 Parsees, 224. 
 
 Pease, Mr. George, 87. 
 
 Peet, 182. 
 
 Pegu, 221. 
 
 Peoples, Dr. and Mrs. S. C., 
 198. 
 
 Persia, 7, 43, 74; missions in, 
 98; Moslem population of, 
 98. 
 
 Petchaburi, 170. 
 
 Pfander, Karl Gottlieb, 76, 
 83. 
 
 Philippines, 5, 166. 
 
 Phya Montri, 195. 
 
 Pilgrimage to Mecca, 27. 
 
 Pitsanuloke, 168. 
 
 Plymouth Brethren, 303. 
 
 Polygamy, 41, 48, 172; re- 
 sults of, 45. 
 
 Poole, Stanley Lane, 64. 
 
 Prayer : Moslem, 1, 57 ; direc- 
 tion of, 26 ; effect nullified, 
 
INDEX 
 
 323 
 
 26; five proper times for, 
 26; importance of posture 
 in, 26. 
 
 Presbyterian Board, 277 ; sta- 
 tions of, in Siam, 192. 
 
 Presbyterian Church (North), 
 92. 
 
 Presbyterian Mission, 186 ; 
 Australian, 302; Canadian, 
 302. 
 
 Price, Dr. Jonathan, 240. 
 
 Prince Devawongse, 172. 
 
 Prince Min Yong Ik, 280. 
 
 Prome, 221, 231. 
 
 Prophet, 50, 57. 
 
 Prophets, major and minor, 
 19, 20. 
 
 Protestant Missions, begin- 
 nings of, in Siam, 181. 
 
 Punjab, Moslems in, 5. 
 
 Pyeng Yang, 260, 282, 291; 
 remarkable success of work 
 in, 285, 295. 
 
 Pyinmana, 246. 
 
 Raheng, 177. 
 
 Rangoon, 219, 225, 238, 
 
 253. 
 
 Rangoon Baptist College, 252. 
 Reformed Church in America, 
 
 97. 
 Reformed Presbyterian Church, 
 
 92. 
 Reforms, Japanese, in Korea, 
 
 275. 
 
 Reid, Mr. and Mrs., 184. 
 Rhenish Missionary Society, 
 
 103. 
 
 Richard, Dr. Timothy, 129. 
 Riggs, Dr. Edward, 94. 
 Roberts, Rev. W. EL, 249. 
 Robinson, 182. 
 Roman Catholic Church, 
 
 307. 
 
 Ross, Rev. John, 277, 288. 
 Russia : Moslems in, 5 ; Mos- 
 lem population of, 127. 
 Russo-Japanese War, 271. 
 
 Safa, 1. 
 
 St. John's College, 230. 
 
 Salween, river, 211. 
 
 Saracen, 11. 
 
 Sau Kyung Jo, 289. 
 
 Schuck, J. L., 186. 
 
 Scranton, Dr. William B., 280. 
 
 Scranton, Mrs. M. F., 297. 
 
 Seoul, 261, 282; institutional 
 work in, 291. 
 
 Serampore, 181. 
 
 Seward, Hon. George F., 202. 
 
 Shamanism : dominant faith 
 of Koreans, 269; super- 
 stition of, 270. 
 
 Shanghai, 202. 
 
 Shans, number of, in Burma, 
 217. 
 
 Shears, Rev. A., 229. 
 
 Sheikh Othman, 96. 
 
 Shensi, 3, 131. 
 
 Shrines, 270. 
 
 Shwebo, 235. 
 
 Shwe Dagon Pagoda, 219. 
 
 Siam : area of, 159 ; climate 
 of, 160 ; physical geography 
 of, 161; 'flora of, 162; 
 products of, 162; races in, 
 163; population of, 164; 
 government of, 177 ; prog- 
 ress of mission work in, 191 ; 
 promising mission field, 205 ; 
 religious expectation in, 
 206. 
 
 Siamese : physical character- 
 istics of, 164; characteris- 
 tics of, 167; progressive 
 character of, 168; desire 
 for education, 171 ; vices of, 
 173 ; indifference of, toward 
 religion, 204. 
 
 Sierra Leone, 3. 
 
 Sikhs, 224. 
 
 Slavery, 52. 
 
 Smith, Dr. George, 80. 
 
 Smith, Dr. Eli, 93. 
 
 Society, unstable foundation 
 of, in Siam, 172. 
 
324 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Society for Propagation of the 
 Gospel, 224, 229, 298; re- 
 sults of work of, 236. 
 
 Song-chen, 303. 
 
 Sorai, 288. 
 
 Spain, 8. 
 
 Speer, Robert E., 49, 92. 
 
 Sprenger, 39. 
 
 Stanley, 121. 
 
 Stevens, Rev. Dr. E. A., 251. 
 
 Stock, Eugene, 76. 
 
 Stockings, Rev. H. M., 235. 
 
 Stone, George E., 98. 
 
 Strachan, Rt. Rev. J. M., 
 236. 
 
 Sudan, 116; growth of Islam 
 in, 116; population of, 116; 
 Central, 120; Central, wo- 
 men in, 120. 
 
 Sudan United Mission, 119. 
 
 Sumatra, 102; converts in, 
 105. 
 
 Swatow, 166. 
 
 Swedish Missionary Society, 
 133. 
 
 Syen Chyun, 293. 
 
 Syria, 8/43. 
 
 Taiku, 261, 293. 
 
 Tai-ping Rebellion, 268. 
 
 Talaings (Mons), 217. 
 
 Talains, 247. 
 
 Talismans, 61. 
 
 Taoism, 268. 
 
 Tarburi, 177. 
 
 Tavoy, 246. 
 
 Taylor, Canon, 37. 
 
 Teheran, 100. 
 
 Telang, Mr. Justice, 46. 
 
 Tenasserim, 222. 
 
 Thandang, 227. 
 
 Thibaw, 222. 
 
 Thoburn, Bishop James M., 
 
 225. 
 
 Thomas, Mrs. B. C., 248. 
 Thorns, Dr. Marion Wells, 98. 
 Thonze, 246. 
 Tibet, 213. 
 
 Tisdall, Dr. St. Clair, 42. 
 
 Titcomb, Bishop, 232. 
 
 Tobolsk, 3. 
 
 Tomliii, Rev. Jacob, 181. 
 
 Tong-hak Movement, 268. 
 
 Toungoo, 231. 
 
 Tradition, Moslem, 41. 
 
 Traditions, of Karens, 216. 
 
 Tripoli, 7, 8, 54. 
 
 Trotter, Miss Lillian L., quoted, 
 
 142. 
 
 Tunis, 8, 88. 
 Turkestan, 4, 8, 132. 
 Turkey, 43, 59, 72. 
 Turkish Empire, missions in, 
 
 92. 
 Turner, Bishop H. B., 298. 
 
 Uganda, 200. 
 
 Underwood, Rev. H. G., 279. 
 
 United States, 171. 
 
 Unoccupied fields, 113, 117. 
 
 Urumia, 100. 
 
 Utradit, 165. 
 
 Van Dyck, Dr. Cornelius, 
 
 93. 
 Veil, use of, unknown before 
 
 Mohammed, 46. 
 Victoria, Queen, 233. 
 Vinton, Dr. J. H., 244. 
 
 Wade, Mr. and Mrs., 240. 
 
 Wahab bin Kabsh, 130. 
 
 Wahabi revival, 11. 
 
 War : Burman, 240 ; Russo- 
 Japanese, 271. 
 
 Warne, Bishop, 228. 
 
 Warner, Miss Ellen, 226. 
 
 Warren, Rev. C., 231. 
 
 Watson, Rev. Charles R., 4. 
 
 Wesleyan Methodist Mission- 
 ary Society, 224. 
 
 Wheelock, Mr. and Mrs., 239. 
 
 Wiersum, Harry, 98. 
 
 Wilson, Rev. Jonathan, 196. 
 
 Winston, Rev. W. R., 225. 
 
 Wolf, Dr. Joseph, 100. 
 
INDEX 
 
 325 
 
 Women : degradation of, un- 
 der Islam, 46, 48 ; compara- 
 tive freedom of, in Burma, 
 215; position of, in Korea, 
 264; work for, in Korea, 
 297. 
 
 Won-san, 261, 303. 
 
 Wurz, Pastor F., quoted, 
 119. 
 
 Yemen, 63. 
 Yi Heni, 271. 
 
 Young Men's Christian Asso- 
 ciation, 225, 303. 
 
 Young Women's Christian 
 Association, 225. 
 
 Yunnan, 5, 131. 
 
 Zainab, 44. 
 
 Zanzibar, 3. 
 
 Zem Zem, 1. 
 
 Zenana, 46. 
 
 Zwemer, Peter John, 97. 
 
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