B 95991 COPYRIGHT, 1911 COMPOSED AND PRINTED AT THE BY THE WILLIAMS & WILKINS COMPANY BALTIMORE, U. S. A. CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER 1910 MISSION PEDAGOGY.. THE EDINBURGH CONFERENCE AND THE MISSIONARY MESSAGE IN ITS RELATION TO NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS...... George Heber Jones 147 CONTENTS FOR JANUARY 1911 CONTENTS FOR APRIL 1911 INTRODUCTION. By Dr. George H. Blakeslee, Clark University. The JOURNAL OF RACE DEVELOPMENT offers itself as a forum for the discussion of the problems which relate to the progress of races and states generally considered backward in their standards of civilization. It is not the organ of any particular school of thought; it does not even hold itself responsible for all of the statements of its contributors; but it aims to present, by the pen of men who can write with authority, the important facts which bear upon race progress, and the different theories as to the methods by which developed peoples may most effectively aid the progress of the undeveloped. It seeks to discover, not how weaker races may best be exploited, but how they may best be helped by the stronger. The subjects treated will cover the whole field of a people's life-government, education, religion, industry and social conditions. The races and states which will be most frequently discussed, will be those of India, the Near East, Africa and the Far East-excepting Japan, whose civilization is on a substantial equality with that of the nations of the West. The necessity of understanding these countries better has come, during the past few years, to be more generally realized in Europe and America. This feeling is due in part to the increased importance of these lands in the political and economic life of the West. Great Britain believes that her imperial position depends upon the maintenance of her control over her dependencies in Asia and Africa. The problem of how best to govern the nations of India is only secondary in England itself to such questions as those of the budget and the House of Lords; while Colonel Roosevelt's recent discussion of the British admin istration in Egypt has aroused probably as wide an interest as any of his public utterances in Europe. Germany, not long since, held a general election to determine its. policy towards its African colonies. Belgium's greatest task, to-day, is to establish a government fitted for the tribes of the Congo. Spain, some twelve years ago, suffered a severe defeat at the hands of America because she had misgoverned the natives of Cuba. Russia's lust for control of the territory of Far Eastern peoples led to her reverses in the war with Japan, and resulted in the outburst of the Russian Revolution. The United States has as fundamental an interest in races of a less developed civilization as have the powers of Europe. The key to the past seventy-five years of American history is the continuing struggle to find some solution for the negro problem-a problem still unsolved. In foreign affairs, the most important questions to-day, according to a recent statement of our own chief magistrate, center about the Pacific Ocean-an ocean whose coasts are inhabited, for the most part, by nations of a more primitive culture than our own. All the peoples of the West are in one way or another deeply concerned in the present condition and the gradual advance of relatively undeveloped races. Yet it is hardly too much to say that up to the present there has been no widespread and serious effort to understand the worldwide race problem, and to determine the attitude which those who are advanced should maintain towards those who are backward. The most divergent and contradictory views are held in regard to nearly every aspect of the question. There are those, on the one hand, who believe that every backward people, whether in China, India, Korea or the Congo, should be governed permanently by some stronger power; on the other hand, there are those who believe that every race should be left entirely to itself, without aid or suggestion, so that it may most perfectly develop its own racial individuality. It is to provide a means for the discussion of these problems, by those who really have the interests of the native |