Missionaries in China
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What, the missionaries seem to argue, signifies this or that native belief or aspiration or practice, when, whatever they may be, the whole must be swept by our besom ? To them Chinamen are but a mass of amorphous pulp to be put into the moulds shaped for them in the Western hemisphere. It was not, however, by neglecting the topography of the enemy's country, or even ignoring the personal qualities of the hostile troops that Von Moltke was successful in his campaigns. A council of war which sho...uld confine its deliberations to the state of its own forces while treating the condition of the opposing force as une quantity negligeable would soon find its plans frustrated, and the flank of its army turned.* * " We should become thorougUy acquainted with the customs of the people, with their mode of thought, and with their literature, that we may adapt our preaching to their understanding, and illustrate the truth by allusions to familiar things." — Eev. D. Z. Sheffield, at Shanghai Conference, 1877.
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What, the missionaries seem to argue, signifies this or that native belief or aspiration or practice, when, whatever they may be, the whole must be swept by our besom ? To them Chinamen are but a mass of amorphous pulp to be put into the moulds shaped for them in the Western hemisphere. It was not, however, by neglecting the topography of the enemy's country, or even ignoring the personal qualities of the hostile troops that Von Moltke was successful in his campaigns. A council of war which sho...uld confine its deliberations to the state of its own forces while treating the condition of the opposing force as une quantity negligeable would soon find its plans frustrated, and the flank of its army turned.* * " We should become thorougUy acquainted with the customs of the people, with their mode of thought, and with their literature, that we may adapt our preaching to their understanding, and illustrate the truth by allusions to familiar things." — Eev. D. Z. Sheffield, at Shanghai Conference, 1877.
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