Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-10-16

The following remarks and suggestions strike Us as
peculiarly Judicous and practical and must be read with
interest by all who feel for the spread Of chris
tanity and civilization. They are from the Phiadel-
phia Ledger: E
How to Civilize the East
Turkey, Persia, India, Africa-n what way will our
arts and science reach them Our revoers reach them
tobacco stupees them our travellers visit them but
ideas of liberty and good government our security
our commerce and comforts our knowledge of the arts
and sciences-how all these to benefit them !? We
are all interested in this matter for it will improve our
trade and encourage These things will reach
them by degrees doubt but how best is the question
England has attempted to civze India By the force of
arms Her military have boasted of the order they
had established the growth of commerce and arts and
wealth and railroads and teegraphs and power all of
which they had promoted But in an instant all is
overturned and the people found far from cyiza-
ton as ever and far as before from being settled.
In Turkey too the sick man. having been now doctor
ed by the armies of Russia France and England is now
receiving the final medicine of civilization or rather the
amounting of extreme JUNCTION in the shape of the most
dicatoral conduct of the dpomatists of France Eng
land, Russia and Austria. All complain that Turkey
cannot be civilized. It is kind of empty bag they
say, that cannot be made to stand upright
The African race has in like manner been aimed at
by the acts of Parliament and it supposed that the
West India negroes, set free, would civze them
selves, and mbbe all the industrious and energetic hab
its of the white race, and the intellectual and moral feel
mg attained only by centuries of steady cultivation and
gradual improvement. But now the London Times
comes out and after quarter of century of boasng,
admits the whole thing to be failure and that the ne
groes are fast degenerating instead of improving in
the West Indies. In fact force Of and forms of
government 1eUer yet hare civilized, and aciH ciu-
Itoe races Of men.
Missions have contributed something more to this
great end than armies principally because they bring
certain moral earnestness and sincere desire after bet
ter state OF things into the hearts of the natives. In
India, the missionaries have produced more wholesome
and powerful impression on the for civilization
than the military In the Sandwich Islands, they have
greatly succeeded in altering the whole structure of So
ciety. Out of Pcarns Island they made little para
disc
But the great fault Of all MISSIONS both Protestant
and papa has been that the sent haze not aimed to
transfer Christian ClUent1on aChoe with the
arts and mental culture to which it has given rise They
have transferred the Bbe transferred forms of worship
and of prayer rites and ceremonies even the forms of
religious edhces and vestmens but have not generally
dfused those great developments of modern Chris
tian civilization, culture and philosophy which are the
results of Christianity and the best evidence of it's truth
and divine origin to the masses parts in fact of its
tural growth and operation among the nations of the
earth.
The MOrayians have done the most of this. They
rely not On preaching alone but practice They carry
with the arts of e its implements and its science The
blacksmiths hammer is heard ringing the anvil as
well as the sweet hymns in which they sing the story
| loNS OA1iSI' SOou ud'c dCCOupllSIltt
is ncalcuabe.
1t Missionary societies would send out the printing
pressmedical men of skill and piety who would teach
the natives the art Of healing and found medical schools
men of mechanical genius, and others versed in agri
cultural science, who would communicate the arts o.
peaceful industry and legitimate commerce; would Dc
more to create respect for their religion and to cvi
the natives than any preaching without these In In
dia for instance class of just honest and conscientOu
merchants and mechanics would have produced an i'm
mense effect at that PERIOD because the natives would al
have felt them to be their friends and instructors.
i In Turkey, gentleman who, twenty-five Years age
was matchmaker, in Portland, Me-. has estabshe
himself and the great object of his life is missonar
work in that empire. He thought that modern Chris
tian civilization was to take the place of miracles
licences of Christianity he studied the natural science
and took over to the Sultan magnetic teegraphs an
miniature railways and steam engines. When the al
mics of England and France wanted bread he construct
ed steam mills, grouA the wheat and supplied thei
urgent necessities. Now the Sultan is most favorabl
to him and his mission. Ihis as the true aray to erte
clullieat1on One man is thus, by schools and othe
means, producing greater benefit than has been accom-
plished by all the armies of the East.