Excerpt from In Brightest Asia
What has been written was thrown off amid the hurry of travel, and in the heat of interest awakened on the spots. For the most part, the sketches here appear substantially as they were originally written. They claim to be only glimpses of parts of the work. Nevertheless, they are glimpses of fairly and widely representative parts.
The writer has chosen to entitle these sketches "In Brightest Asia," not because there is not much in Asia yet to be seen of exceeding darkness, but because the traveller among the missions of the Orient, if indeed he has eyes to see, will find that the track along which gospel missionaries have passed and wrought, is an illuminated track. The lights on the otherwise dark scenes of heathenism are all the blighter from the contrast. Moreover, this side of Asiatic life is conscientiously emphasized for the reason that, in the belief of the writer, there is usually but little profit to be drawn from dwelling long upon the dark side of anything. The chief incitements to evangelical work are derived from the positive hope of begetting the "new man." rather than from suppressing the "old," - from brooding over men. in expectation of the second Adam to be formed in them, rather than from brooding about the ruined product of the first Adam. So it is believed that with all we are hearing in our day, in mission literature and appeal, about "Darkest Africa," "Darkest England " and ""Darkest India," - and they are not painted darker than they are, - it is time that the lights, also, on the deeply shadowed pictures should be newly pointed out.
"Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." In Japan, China and India the times are at hand of which the prophet wrote: " The people which sat in darkness saw great light, and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up."
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