DR. MORRISON ON MISSIONS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1080, 20 March 1911, Page 6

DR. MORRISON ON MISSIONS.

Dr. G. E. Morrison, the Peking correspondent of ''The Times," and one of thei most notable European influences in China,,is, visiting England, and he lias been communicating his views on China's, awakening to Mr. E. A. Mackenzie, tho war correspondent. A report of the interview appears in the "London Magazine."-, I)r; Morrison's views on missionaries are-.,interesting. He says he has 1 "nothing but' what is favourable'' to Say of them. "I have," ho says, "visited hundreds' of missionary homos. The men themselves are of a fino type, well qualified for their difficult work. surgical skill of medical missionaries in the interior arouses admiration. The presence" of the missionaries and their families.'.bfings into China to-day_ an element of : thc"greatest value for civilisation. Their enthusiasm, their energy, and devotion help not only China, hut the prestige of., England in the Ear East. It is well for us thai in a large part of, tho Ear East the people should mainly know by tho hoitourablo conduct'of ;: oiir official classes, by tho good-reputation of our merchants, and by - the - examplo of wholeso tio living and disinterested devotion presented by our- missionaries. The missionary," Dr. Morrison adds, "is, as a race, a tactful' mail, careful to study, local sentiment; bis example and iiis.teacliin'g:a'nd.!his.nie3i'cal work ' have accomplished Untold, goo'cl. 11 Dr. Morrison is himself a member of a Presbyterian family, and is a brother of Rev. G. E. Morrison, of Edinburgh, who has won distinction as and £ jclkious