The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1879-12-06

England as America while all the English
e~ssayists, historians and poets would be equally
at home IN the New World as in their own native
land. Literary men, natives Of the far away
lands OF India, China and japan, are reading
with intense avidity the literary and scientific
journals OF Europe and America. The writer of
ability or author of genius, in any department of
literature, throwing a pebble into the great ocean
OF authorship, may witness the reeeding waves
dying away on the most distant shores of the
reading world, now becoming more and more CO.
extensive with the inhabitants Of our globe.
" ChTlsiaRity.-In its nature and PRINCIPLES
Christianity implies reciprocity among all dwell
ling upon the earth. The Apostle Paul dashed
forth with a bold stroke when he said, - There is
neither Greek nor jew, Barbarian, Scythian.
bond nor free, but Christ is all and in ALL The
Gospel was to be preached among all nations.
1t was among the hardest efforts for the disciples
of Christ to learn this lesson. As centuries have
rolled away, these principles have become more
apparent. Our century presents the sublime
spectacle OF the Church universal being engaged
in a noble crusade to evangelist the heather
world. The barriers of nations have been crossed.
There is no longer a moral Chinese wall. Mis-
sionarles OF many different societies are laboring
in India and China, Africa and the islands of the
sea. American missionaries are found beside the
Pyramids of Egypt and in all parts of the Turk
ish Empire. 1t has been my privilege to converse
with our missionaries on the banks of the Nile
and Columbia river, with those laboring in Mi
eronesia. and those under the shadow OF the
Acropolis in Athens and the snow-coyered Mount
Lebanon in Syria. Missionaries from France,
Germany England and America are laboring in
Southern Africa. There is something truly
grand in this instructive desire among all true
Christians to spread abroad the Gospel. Our
Islands afford a most admirable illustration of
what may thereby be accomplished, and also of
the reflex influence upon America, sending hither
a missionary who became our Minister of Public
Instruction., and erelong his son returns to fight
on the battlefield OF Gettysburg, and finally to
become Principal of one of the most fourishing
institutes for the education of the colored youth
of America. Listen to the statement in the last
Annual Report of that Furnishing school at
I Hampton, Va:
1.-The key note of the endeavor to build MP the
Hampton Institute is struck in the statement that
the personal acquaintance of it's principal officers
General Armstrong and j. f. B Marshall, ESQ.
with the missionary work in the Sandwich Isl
ands suggested the course to be pursued here.
The manual labor system has had one of its best
illustrations in the educational system of that re-
mote Kingdom"
Here is international reciprocity of the best
description.
In the onward march of these principles and
spread of Gospel ideas, L am not ignorant of the
national conflicts which arise and of the race
animosities engendered. This conflict of race
prejudices is before our eyes. A discussion of
the subject is sharply presented in the news
papers of America and those of our Islands.
Every mail brings news relating to the conflict
among political leaders, and even Christian edit
ors, upon this subject. The gravity of the dis
cussion l would not overlook or the mighty
Issues ignore. Not a few, even among good
Christian citizens, follow in the wake OF a DEM
agogue who has uttered the party cry and watch
word, "The Chinese must 60" This is not a
new cry. 1t was not heard for the first time on
the sand hills of San Francisco. Less than forty
years ago 1T was heard on the opposite shores Of
the Pacific, in China, '' Englishmen must 60
those foreign devils" Kearney's shrek is but
a faint and feeble echo of the g Heather Chinee."
May it not be useful to enquire how the issue
was there met? Did the Englishman go? Why
not? Was his presence any less offensive to the
people OF China than that of the Chinese to the
people of America? The opium war followed,
and in August, 1912, peace was restored but
China was compelled to pay $21 900 ,000-in-
Guiding $l2,O 600 900 as war expenses, So, OOO, 900
to injured English merchants, and So, 900 900
for opium destroyed. Hongkong becomes an
English colony. America looks on approvingly,
and illustrating, perhaps, the old fable of. pull
ing the chestnuts out of the fire." Her states
men-We bster, j. @. Adams, and Alexander Ii.
Everett-took the ground that China had no
light, according to the law of nations, to isolate
herself, but must enter the sisterhood of civilized
nations. Caleb Gushing goes as the American
Minister to China, and is succeeded by Mr..
Everett. The Chinese are made to understand
that they must treat with '' outside barbarians >
dDu dNdl thO T. uOW sO SIcCIOQS-
Iy advocated by some, that every nation had the
right to protect itself by excluding immigrants
seeking a domicile in a quiet and peaceful man.
ner. The question arises, Shall the policy of the
statesmen and diplOmatists of England and Am
erica be now repudiated
Imagine not that the end has come. Dragons
teeth which war has sown in China NAV produce
a harvest of armed men. An educated and intel
ligent Chinese gentleman, residing in London,
writing for that leading English periodical,
FraSer'S Magazine, only two years ago, thus ex-
presses his views IS Depend upon it, as seon as
China THINKS herself In a position to carry out her
wishes, she will at once r~epudiate the clause
legalizing the traffic in opium ; and if England
asks why she does so. she will answer that the
moral sense of her whole nation requires it, and
that justice, humanity and righteousness demand
it. If England should then declare another war
against her in support of the wicked cause, she
will refer the matter to the impartial Judgment of
the world-the United States and the great
Powers of Europe-rather than submit to the
stipulations OF a treaty, the terms of which were
dictated and almost extorted after a most disas-
trous war, and the effect of which has been the
ruin of her subjects
Is this subject at rest Is it forgotten ? Only
a few weeks ago, at the meeting of the Inter-
national Evangelical Alliance held in Basic.
Switzerland, where were assembled the leading
laymen and diyines of Europe and America, the
worldwide and renowned Professor Christlieb, of
Bonn, Germany, brought forward the opium
question, and the following resolution was adopt
ed unanimously, the whole assembly rising to
make more emphatic their condemnation of this
immoral traffic " The assembly holds that the
interest of Christianity itself urgently demands
that there should be a change in the policy
hitherto pursued by the English Government in
regard to the opium trade, and commissions its
officers to lay this resolution before the Secretary
of State for India"
A Scottish missionary, Rev. Mr.. Shoolbred, re-
turning from India, thus addresses an assembly
of his couptrymen. In speaking of the efforts OF
the English in behalf of those suffering from the
famine, he remarks " | am sorry to say that
by their opium traffic they are counteracting their
own measures and doing much to intensity the
terrible famine evils which they desire to avert.
1t is high time, | think, that the enlightened
public opinion of Christian Britain should rise
up and demand the suppression of this Infamous
traffic and | deem no apology necessary for
bringing the subject before this large and infiuen-
tial assembly of the Christian people Of Scotland. ="
have discussed this subject because in lis
ultimate bearing and decision our Island King