The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-08-07
from the n. Y. Observer
Christians and Pagans.

The lands that are commonly called
Christian, are called so only by a stretch
of courtesy, or a bold figure of speech.
There is no people on the face of the
earth, no governments. no country that
deserves the name Although there is a
difference between the nominally Chris
tian and pagan, the difference is not so
wide as is generally supposed. In heathen
countries all who come from lands that
are called Christian, are spoken Of as
Christians; but every one who has been
in those countries, knows well that these
so-called Christians, often compare very
unfavorably with the heather, and are
no more worthy to be regarded as repre-
sentatives of Christianity, than the
heather themselves. They indulge in
all the vices of heathenism without Pc
straint and as to Christian worship or
reverence for Gods authority and law,
they are in no wise to be distinguished
from idolators. Some times they do not
shrink from engaging i'll the forms of
pagan worship any more than from pagan
vices. We once sat at a public table in
the heart of heather country and heard
a representative of the Christian govern
ment of England, an educated nglish-
man, boasting to a friend that he had for
wears Joined in the idolatrous practices of
the heathen around him, for the sake of
acquiring an influence over them. He
was ready at any time to deny the Lord
God that made him, and literally to bow
down before a stock or stone, in order
to secure the favor of a pagan. For this
purpose he had for years worn upon his
person one of the emblems of idolatpy,
Taking the mass of q so-called Chris
tian nation at home we do not find
much better claim to the name. If a
heather or Mohommsdan were to come
into any European or American country
expecting to lind the people generally
governed by the principles Of the Chris
tian religion, as the people of pagan and
Mohammedan countries are governed by
the principles of their religions, he would
soon learn his mistake. We have just
been reading the accounts of the visit of
the Shah of Persia to the Emperor of
Russia, who is the head of the Church as
well as of the government and the nation.
Had he gone into the Church on the
Lords day, or opened the Christian Bible,
he would have heard or read as one of
the Christian Commandment" "Remem-
Der the Sabbath day to keep it holy" &c.
The Shah could scarcely have expected
that the Emperor of all the Russias and
the head of the Church would foreswear
a guest (they do not lay aside their re-
ligion so easily among the Moham-
medans), but on reaching st. Petersburgh,
after being feted and entertained with
military reviews during the week (says a
letter from the imperial city,, on Sunday,
the sacred day amongst these Charistiaps
who are making such endeavors to con-
vert to their religion his Mohammedan
people, telling them that their worship
is so pure and spiritual compared with
that paid to the Prophet, he went again
with the Emperor to the ballet, sat in
the stage box, and was quite enchanted
with the performance of the light-footed
Mad. Wasem!" When he goes to Paris,
the capital of Roman Catholic France, he
will find the Christian Sabbath made
still more a day of worldly pleasure, a
carnival, and the people living as if they
had no God to be worshiped or obeyed.
In Protestant England which he has
now reached, this representative of Mo
hammedanism will not find the nation so
given up to irreligiap, but he will find
the masses very far from giving in their
manners an exemplification of the pre-
vailing religion of the land, and should
he extend his journey to this country,
his eyes and his ears would everywhere
be saluted by the inconsistency between
the lives of the people and the religion
in which they profess to believe. He
would hear on every street the name OF
the Christians God continually bias
phemed, and would on every hand be-
hold the evidence that the Christian
law, "All things whatsoever ye would
that men should do to you do ye even so
to Them" is the last law that the mass of
the people think of obeying.
We have had this gross inconsistency
between our Christian name and the re-
ligion from which it is derived brought
painfully to mind by reading of recent
scenes which have transpired on the Pa
cific coast. The persecution Of the Chi
nese in San Francisco (their treatment
will bear no milder name) is not only
unworthy of Christian people, but of
those LAYING any claim to civilization. AS
specimen, read the following from
San Francisco paper:
EEoEiYG C#IY4MEY.
As intimated III n previous issue, the
barbarous practice of prosecuting China
men in cruel manner is gaining ground
among lawless class of young ruifians
in the city, and even men in some in
STANCES have taken part in such brutal
demonstrations. A citi2en described at
some length apd in indignant terms T.
scene which he interrupted on Sunday
afternoon, near the corner of Taylor and
Francisco streets. A large crowd OF boys
and grown persons were engaged in play
ing ball on q vacant lot, when one OF the
number gave notice that two Cinnamon
were approaching. Immediately the
whole number secured stones and lay in
ambush under an embanlment near the
sidewalk. When the Cinnamon came op-
posite the place, they were suddenly at
tackled with shower of stones, repeat