Hampden Coit DuBose

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Hampden Coit DuBose was a Presbyterian missionary in China with the American Presbyterian Mission (South) and founder of the Anti-Opium League in China.

Contents 1 Career 2 Works auhored 3 Further reading 4 References 5 Notes 6 See also

[edit] Career

DuBose was born in South Carolina and a graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary. He and his wife Pauline went to China as missionaries with the Southern Presbyterian Church in 1872 and settled in Suzhou along the Grand Canal of China.

As a witness of the destructive problems of opium addiction in China, he was moved to join with other likeminded missionaries and Christian medical workers to form the Anti-Opium League in China. DuBose was its first president. In 1899 the League published a seminal book called Opinions of Over 100 Physicians on the Use of Opium in China. The book illustrated the purpose of the league and published facts about the opium abuse crisis that ultimately influenced public opinion against the trade. DuBose eventually gained the support of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Congress, and the International Opium Commission. In 1906 the League achieved success when the British Parliament declared that the trade was "morally indefensible." DuBose circulated a petition signed by over a thousand missionaries in China and it was presented to the Guangxu Emperor. In turn the Emperor issued an imperial edict, following verbatim the petition Dubose had drafted, which prohibited the trade and abuse of opium.

In a letter to U.S. Senator John McLaurin he called upon the U.S. to own its responsibility for the opium trade, in that, along with Great Britain it had profited at the expense of the Chinese. He asserted:

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…opium has no judicious use…save as administered by a physician[1]

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.

DuBose was memorialized in Suzhou by a stone tablet and in the United States by being elected moderator of the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church in 1891. DuBose’s missionary career in Suzhou lasted 38 years until his death in 1910.

[edit] Works auhored

• Hampden Coit DuBose, Preaching in Sinim: The Gospel to the Gentiles, with Hints and Helps for Addressing a Heathen Audience (1873)
• Hampden Coit DuBose, The Image, the Dragon, and the Demon: Or the Three Religions of China Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism (1887)
• Hampden Coit DuBose, Memoirs of Dr. J. Leighton Wilson (1895)
• Hampden Coit DuBose, sermons (Chinese language)
• Hampden Coit DuBose, Bible study aids (Chinese language)

[edit] Further reading

• P. Frank Price, Our China Investment (1927)

[edit] References

• Jenkin, Nettie DuBose (1910). ’For the Glory of God: Memoirs of Dr. and Mrs. H. C. Dubose. 
• Hector Park, William (1899). Opinions of Over 100 Physicians on the Use of Opium in China. Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press. 
• Go, Julian (2003). The American Colonial State in the Philippines: Global Perspectives. Duke University Press. ISBN 0822330997. 

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

• Benjamin Broomhall Anti-opium activist in England