as a rule the European and American resident in the East is a constant
contradiction to all and everything which the missionary stands for.''


Most of the criticisms of missionaries which find their way
into the daily papers emanate from such men. The missionaries
do not gamble or drink whiskey, nor will their wives and
daughters attend or reciprocate entertainments at which wine,
cards and dancing are the chief features. So, of course, the
missionaries are ``canting hypocrites,'' and are believed to be
doing no good, because the foreigner who has never visited a
Chinese Christian Church, school or hospital in his life, does
not see the evidences of missionary work in his immediate
neighbourhood. The editor of the Japan Daily Mail justly
says:--[29]


[29] April 7, 1901


``We do not suggest that these newspapers which denounce the missionaries
so vehemently desire to be unjust or have any suspicion that they
are unjust. But we do assert that they have manifestly taken on the colour
of that section of every far eastern community whose units, for some
strange reason, entertain an inveterate prejudice against the missionary
and his works. Were it possible for these persons to give an intelligent
explanation of the dislike with which the missionary inspires them, their
opinions would command more respect. But they have never succeeded
in making any logical presentment of their case, and no choice offers except
to regard them as the victims of an antipathy which has no basis in