Lecture Ii.

Hearsay testimony upon which charges of the Anti-Opium Society founded explained.--Chinese a polite people and treat Missionaries courteously, but despise Christianity, and will not tell Missionaries the truth about Opium.--Respectable Chinese would become an object of scorn and disgrace to their fellow-countrymen if they embraced Christianity.--Professing Chinese Christians in most cases impostors.--Heathen Chinese as a rule more trustworthy than so-called Christian converts.--Missionary clergymen in China have not the confidence of the Chinese people, and draw their information as to Opium smoking from polluted sources.--Difference between Missionary clergymen in China and the clergymen of all denominations in England as regards knowledge of the people they live amongst.--Missionaries in China wholly responsible for the imposture prevailing in England as to Opium smoking in China.--Although the Chinese are a spirit-drinking people, they never drink to excess.--Drunkenness unknown amongst Chinese.--Chinese-American treaty a sham as regards Opium.--Sir J. H. Pease, M.P., duped by the "bogus" clause as to Opium.--His speech on the Opium question in 1881.--Chinese smoke Opium wherever they go.--As much Opium imported into China now as before the sham treaty.--Opium a luxury which only the well-to-do can freely indulge in.--Explanation of the means by which unfounded statements respecting Opium are propagated.--Apologue by way of example.--Proof of the state of things explained by the apologue furnished by the Rev. Storrs Turner and Dr. Ayres.--First fallacy, that the poppy is not indigenous to China, but has been recently introduced there, presumably by British agency, and the second fallacy, that Opium smoking in China is now and always has been confined to a small per-centage of the population, but which, owing to the importation into the country of Indian Opium, is rapidly increasing, refuted and the truth fully stated.--Testimony of Mr. W. Donald Spence and Mr. E. Colborne Baber, and Sir Rutherford Alcock.

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