The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1851-06-04

From the Puritan Recorder.
EXTINcTION OF RACES.
VI what way. and on what naiiols.
will be execuird The doom. uttered hy llle
spirit nf inspTaiion--illai he nation that
will not s,rse God shall perish. is more
than we are informed. But The expecia-
lion ihai. attending. The advance of the
6osrei aiming The naiions. there Will he
strange iu'ns Of The hand Of Pro, idrnce.
laying in the grave once powerful nations
-li not warranted in The Scriptures. has
been very preraieni. and by no means
ronfned TO tiose holding peculiar ,heo-
rice respecting The nrai coming &C Christ.
Indeed. On sll ihc hisinry nfihe world, ihe
birth and death uf nations have come
somewhat &C. ording 10 an established law
OF protiience. Snme nations insleed.
whose origin was Identified with that uf
the tue religion. have bern stamped with
immortality. And some that have de-
rived iheir strength, aud sway from Chris.
iianily. and have their being isensstied
with a.. seem destined 10 live 10 lis lie. and
grow wiil ! expansion. pt.
l}ut one Of the most remarkable fea-
lures OF Proridenre affecting the present
position of The nations, appears in iIlr de-
ponplaiion OF some portions ol The earth.
io'mske way for different race. And
where these rhaugrs are now in progress,
the gain TO christianity seems 10 be az
clearly the result. and result intended. as
was The gain 10 true religion. in exler-
thinaling The Canaaniles aud giving their
land 20 tln Hebrews. Whatthe gain has
been in sweeping off from The face ol this
cnunlry.s population perhaps more .nn-
ii'cious than lIIf present, and planting lhs
r&cc Of the 4rilans here, IL. manifest
Aud ihe shp6pulasiaa which il now il
progress through the Pacific Islands q
give place 10 similar race. is tending 10
like gain.
And she hand Of Prosiience is NOR,
apparent in this, from the lari sliat iIls
natural csuses are The more latent. The
whole a. this change dies not cofhe BY
the same class Of causes which have melt.
ed away the Indian tribes Of this county.
TO some extent, especially in the South
Sea Islands, the British colonizaiiou has
kindled the fire that Is sweeping off ibe
native tribes. But the decrease ia other
islands is not so easily accaunied for.
Take. for Instance, the Sandwich Islands.
There has been no colonizaiionsof Euro
peans there, nor bloody wars waged By
foreign invaders. The fearful dcpnpuia-
tin began long before our missions open.
ell the islands 10 The better knowledge ol
the civilized world. In 1878 Capt. conk
estimated the population al 100000. Mr..
Ellis, in his I'ulynrsian researches, gives
his oI,inionin confirmation Of that esil-
male. Ina halfa reninry after. Mr.. Ellis.
then residing on The I-lands. .irom iiis own
observations, put the number down at
100000. Thai is decrease Of nearly
two-thirIs in fifty years. Blythe official
census Of the present year--il,ai is in
twenty years from The last estimate. il has
come; down lo 81, l65, and average de-
cline OF two per cent. year. Such a
rate of decline would txlinguished the
race wi,hin thirty or forty years.
Il was hoped that The spfead Of christi.
aniiy would hxse era,licale,l The seeds OF
this decay. B,n Providence. appears 10
have ordered ilSoil,erwise. The similar
course Of depopula,iun over other Pacific
Islands, proceeds from similar hidden pur-
poses Of God.
From these Islands il is natural 10
glance al llleIr neighbors IN Cbma, There
the elements appear to- be Matching de.
vasIaiing storm. A writer from thence 10
one Of The London papers. says :--.The
general dissatisfaction prevalent in China.
and ihe demand for reform, are, now
manifesting themselves. The principles
Of Socialism are progressing, aud The day
is rapidly approaching when evil strife
shall have. torn the empire in pieces" !"
Rebellion is now in progress in some of
The provinces. Bat opium Is doing more
than rebellion Cor The destruction Of the
Chinese. And the sweeping Of. OF lhal
whole popnlatons is an event no moie
improbable in. ITSELF other instances
| thai have occurred Of lheexlinciion of ma
HONS. -
But be il as it may, that nation will
present no .insuperable obstacles TO the
christan'zing of the world. The ne
sources are with GNl 10 convert or io
lake il out of the way. Wh-ther The
Chinese race, ,lor race.4earrdsunder his
Gospel. and .breagh. in to occupy ahe
ground. are TO constitute his church there,
he anIy car decides, + m
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| How often do men mistake theiose oi
.heirown opinions for the lose u truth
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