man-of-the-world smile: 'A hundred and two passengers and
forty-five missionaries.'

"After that you will be initiated and you will be mentioning
with an easy grace to some one else that there are on board so
many passengers and so many missionaries. It becomes a part of
the jargon of Pacific crossing."

But Mr. Forman sees working that Shuttle of Service of which I am
speaking. He sees, as any thinking man sees, as Roosevelt saw, as
Bryan saw, and as Taft saw, that the greatest single influence for
good in the Orient is the missionary. Mr. Forman was incensed at
this careless phrase on the Pacific liners, and he investigated the
work of our missionaries when he was in the Orient, and he came to
the decision that they are worth more to America, even from that
selfish standpoint, than all the ambassadors that we have sent
over, because they are, in their crossing and recrossing, weaving a
Fabric of Friendship between the Orient and the Occident; between
the nations of the East and those of the West; between the white
peoples and the brown peoples; in spite of the diplomatic
differences and yellow newspapers in the United States and Japan.

Mr. Forman says about his conclusions:

"I concluded that any one of the large missions in those
Oriental countries accomplished, so far as concerns American
standing and prestige, more than all our diplomatic
representation there put together. I do not believe it to be an
exaggeration to say that for the Orient the missionaries are
perhaps the only useful form of what is called diplomatic
representation."

And again in the same article he says:

"One good missionary in the right place, it seemed to me, can
accomplish more than quite a number of ambassadors."

And again he wonderfully sums up that mission of love in a paragraph
which I think ought to be passed on:

"But when a missionary establishes a clinic or a hospital,
healing sores and diseases that their own medicine men have
abandoned as hopeless; when he educates boys and girls that
otherwise would have remained in darkness; when, with a
whole-souled enthusiasm, he gives them counsel, aid and service
and he asks nothing in return then the stolid and passive
Chinese or Korean is genuinely impressed. Then America really
becomes in his mind the synonym for kindness and service, and
from mouth to mouth goes abroad the fame of