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Show Our Inherited China Policy which were to be repeated in East Asia. First, we were country cousins of the British and righteously condemnatory of their empire; but we also relied upon their facilities, like the ports of Malta or Hong Kong, and imitated many of their methods. After all, London was the center of world trade, in which we were eager participants. Second, we were ready to demand the privileges of extraterritoriality. For example, we joined in the system of capitulations which exempted Europeans from the legal jurisdiction of the Ottoman empire. Third, we demanded equal opportunity and therefore most-favored-nation treat-ment, so that we could show the British and other imperialists what American enterprise and ingenuity could do in a fair ficld. Finally, in dealing with local peoples, American democrats, proud of our new democracy at home, were ever ready to assist local robéis with doctrines of national independence, reform, and social equality. We felt ourselves to be on the giving end and enjoved the íeeling. Foreign missions, which grew steadily throUghout the nincteenth century, were only one expression of this general attitude. Since Britain was master of India, the Ottoman empire was at íirst our main íield of missionary enterprise. Tovyárd the end of the century, with the decline of the "sick man of Europe," we íound our chief evangelical opportunity in the ('.hiñese empire, the sick man of Asia. This missionary endeavor, in both Near East and Far East, was distinctly culture-bound, an expression of American home valúes. It used methods developed in the early missions oí the seventecnth and eighteenth centuries to the American Indians. As summarized by R. Pierce Beaver, these methods "included the primary emphasis on preaching, the founding of churches. the assumed unity of evangelization and civilization, general education, Bible translation and the production of vernacular üterature, the recruiting and training of native pastors, evan-gehsts and teachers, the mission station, and to some extent the C' \fY~N' \ S ^ C^K_ Co ) OAVM 0v-~ ?Rr |