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 AN EXCELLENT HABIT 
 
 Women of wealth are today falling Into 
 a certain habit. They seem, many of 
 them, determined to leave their money 
 not to their thirty-second cousin In Perlee 
 Lower Corners, but to some highly or¬ 
 ganized charity or mission. ^lns. WoVthlng- 
 ton, Widow of the bishop of Nebraska^ did 
 that thing last month and Miss fjarah 
 Sage, whose will was probated yesterday, 
 was as single In her purpose. The Impe¬ 
 cunious relatives must get over the shock, 
 for they are going to have plenty of com¬ 
 pany. When people, get ready to die they 
 really do some pretty serious thinking, even 
 If It Is the first time In* their lives. They 
 mean to do good with their money if they 
 can find the right thing to do. Recently the 
 foreign mission field for beque-sts has seemed 
 to attract many wealthy men and women. 
 Such a preference is decidedly flattering. 
 It's a sort of Indorsement, a guarantee, 
 and it becomes a splendid asset for foreign 
 missions or any organization connected 
 with them. They could really borrow 
 money on It. 
 
 It Is really marvellous — the extent 
 of interest in what used to be thought 
 only the white-chokered and sallow zealot 
 who burled himself in hopeless Hindu¬ 
 stani or helped supply the larder of can¬ 
 nibals of the South Seas. Those who fol¬ 
 lowed the Women’s Foreign Missionary 
 Jubilee celebrations which closed so mag¬ 
 nificently in New York this week were 
 amazed at the absorbing Interest of those 
 meetings. Here in Boston they thrilled and 
 they enthralled—for the stories of the wo¬ 
 men missionaries were wonderful and in¬ 
 spiring. These women organized and car¬ 
 ried "on this fine crusade from Oakland to 
 Portland without a man’s help and they 
 simply beamed with happiness over its 
 success. As a commemoration fund they 
 (collected $870,000—an astonishing sum, and 
 a measure of the power of the cause. Any¬ 
 one with a tendency to belittle the men 
 and women engaged in missionary fields 
 ought to have heard the keen, bright and 
 pertinent addresses of these returned mis¬ 
 sionaries. They made many a “witty 
 assembly” in Boston look wan and worn 
 by comparison. 
 
 It Is one of the infallible signs of eap- 
 iency and sophistication to sneer at mis¬ 
 sions and missionaries. Your “common 
 sense mian,” who prides himself on his free¬ 
 dom from cant, but is really the most 
 transparent of Pharisees, grows livid as he 
 pounds on the table at his club to empha¬ 
 size the violence of his language on this 
 theme. Those Worldly Wisemen do not 
 know, of course, how much of their own 
 income is going for this cause. If they had 
 any appreciation of the fact that their 
 wives or sisters or sons and daughters 
 were spending somewhat for such a silly 
 end they would expire from chagrin, or be 
 shocked into sense. But even these gen¬ 
 try, unless they are rotten at heart and 
 sour on the world, will, when driven into 
 a corner, admit the benefit of work among 
 the slums of the city or in the mining 
 camps of the West or the mountain whites 
 of the South. This they yield only after 
 a battle, to make their last stand on the Im¬ 
 pregnable redoubt of Opposition to Foreign 
 Missions. In this heroic and Inflexible 
 pose they have Custer, Leonidas and 
 Arnold Winkleried wiped off the map. They 
 are full of derisive arguments and fuller of 
 explosives. 
 
 They pour forth that favorite yarn 
 that It costs 50 per cent—or was it 
 90?—of all foreign mission contributions 
 merely for expenses of administration—a 
 lie that remains strong and seems destined 
 to a sort of perfidious immortality Six 
 per cent is the real figure, but they won’t 
 believe it. They recite all the true or false 
 —aequo anlmo agetnr—stories, they have 
 heard of the blunders, narrowness or even 
 venality of missionaries, and roll them 
 along as epiglottis comforters. They will 
 admit qaickly that the woTld In general 
 moves, but they cannot see how missions 
 and missionaries move too. They assume 
 that no one has learned any lesson from 
 the mistakes of other missionaries, and 
 they take it for granted that the narrower 
 a missionary is the better pleased his su¬ 
 periors at home are. They are dead sure 
 that when a missionary enters a province 
 of India or China, the first thing he 
 does is to command that all the natives 
 abandon the faiths, ways and homes of 
 their parents and embark on Christian¬ 
 ity. If you ask them to give you an 
 idea of the day’s work of a foreign mis¬ 
 sionary, they are stumped. Did they 
 ever hear of the schools of natives con¬ 
 ducted by our women missionaries, such 
 as are supplying the new schools of 
 China now? Certainly not. But if you, 
 mention “medical • missions” to them, 
 they begin at last to show signs of re¬ 
 turning consciousness. There is some¬ 
 thing tangible—something they can see. 
 And if you show them how large a share 
 of time and money Is spent on medical 
 missions, they begin to grope about for a 
 white flag. The errors which our mis¬ 
 sionaries made in the East were many 
 and humiliating, but only by such mis¬ 
 takes could better ways be found. Some 
 of them are making mistakes today but 
 vastly more are not. The spirit of con¬ 
 secration and the spirit of wisdom go 
 hand in hand. Furthermore, the men 
 and women who are the largest contribu¬ 
 tors to churches, schools, missions and up¬ 
 lift movements at home are the most gen¬ 
 erous supporters of the same Christian 
 work in foreign lands. The two go to¬ 
 gether. They are one. 
 
 To be sure the field has its rewards. 
 The life Is fascinating. Certainly it ought 
 to hold out some inducements for an 
 eager, sensitive man or woman. Com¬ 
 pensation ought to be an active principle 
 there as In all other fields of philosophy. 
 Whoever has heard the stories of the 
 wretchedness, squalor, misery and un¬ 
 speakable vice of many of these Eastern 
 missions should rejoice that there is 
 something else in them than this dark 
 and vicious side. But the largest element 
 in this reward is the consciousness of 
 progress made, the realization of achieve¬ 
 ment: It is like setting a peg down here 
 and carrying it several rods farther to¬ 
 morrow and so on. And all through It 
 appears an Inner spiritual glow which Is a» 
 true today as twenty .centuries ago. 
 
 The man in his club who sneers at for¬ 
 eign missions only seems to be sophis¬ 
 ticated and sapient. In reality in these 
 days of wide dissemination of informa¬ 
 tion he Is Inexcusably ignorant and pro¬ 
 vincial. On even him some day the light 
 will shine. 
 
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