The History Of Missions Vol 2 Of 2 PDF Download

Excerpt from Missions and Modern History, Vol. 2 of 2: A Study of the Missionary Aspects of Some Great Movements of the Nineteenth Century At the same time that the Tai-ping Rebellion was ravaging the Yang-tse Valley, proclaiming a monotheistic religion free of all idolatry, and protesting against the corruption of the Government, there arose in Korea a movement of very similar character, but so totally independent of it that it may be doubted if the Tong Haks had ever heard of the Tai-pings. Yet like them, they proposed a religious reformation, and the influence which dominated the new conception was at the beginning at least, the influence of the Christian movement upon Asia as represented in the Roman Catholic mission in Korea. As with the Tai-pings, the movement began as a purely religious reform, and only later because of the oppression of corrupt officials, took a political direction. Its founder, unlike Hung Siu-tsuen, had no imperial dreams. For forty-five years it pursued its course, and then, in 1894, broke out into an insurrection whose consequences we shall trace, finding in them some of the most significant events of the last century. It is impossible not to feel a sense of deep pity for a movement like this of the Tong Haks. It is one of many movements of men whose minds have expanded to take in a new thought, who have struggled hopelessly with the social conditions which held them, and have accepted persecution and death and failed, without even the consolation of knowing that the world has watched them and will remember them. There must have been scores of such movements in the unrecorded history of Asia during the centuries that have passed. Aside from the interesting features of the Tong Hak movement itself and the great consequences that flowed from it, we should be concerned to know about it because we have been as a people related in a peculiar way to Korea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.