Word: china
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Eastern countries, taken by himself, has recently been placed on exhibition in the Periodical Room of the Union. The collection, which was exhibited from January 3 to 10 in the gallery of Messrs. Doll and Richards, Boston, contains interesting views in North India, Ceylon, the Nile countries, Morocco, China, Burma and a few in Europe and America...
...expected to give far better illustrations of certain orders than has hitherto been possible. One of the most interesting is a large specimen of brick tea, now installed in the north room. Tea of this kind, in solid tablets of great size a method of packing employed in China when the tea is to be transported for a long distance. The specimen is the gift of Mrs. Abbott of Cambridge...
...sometimes ask, without any note of criticism or scepticism, whether nations so uncivilized are in a state to accept Christianity. Were it not better, perhaps, to withdraw American missionaries from China, where their presence has been so unwelcome? It is only those lacking in knowledge who do not perceive the answers to both these questions. To begin with, Christianity has nowhere entered peacefully; and missionaries were not the cause of the late troubles in China, for though they did, it is true, combat the key-note of Chinese peculiarities, it was the commercial greed of alien powers and the political...
...withdrawn on the ground that the uncivilized nations of the East are not yet ready to receive Christianity is sufficiently proved by the fact that the Christian church itself was founded on a most degraded society, it is proved by the permanent hold that Christianity has already taken in China by the ever-increasing liberal attitude of the Chinese and Japanese courts, and by the fact that no other religion has met the needs of this momentous situation...
...addition to Mr. Roosevelt, other members who have consented to act are: Francis Rawle '69, of Philadelphia; Rt. Rev. William Lawrence '71, Bishop of Massachusetts; Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins '73, of Philadelphia; I. T. Burr '79, of Boston; Rt. Rev. L. H. Roots '91, Bishop of Hankou, China; J. A. Stillman '96, of New York, and G. E. Huggins '01, of New York...