Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-05-17
VICIOUS
Incendiarv Remarks of am Unchar-
table Clergyman.


We have reported elsewhere, by tele-
graph, a speech on the occasion OF q Chi
nese Sunday school festival, which is SO
offensive to the people Of this community,
oiths Pacific Coast at. large, and to all we'll
informed, civilized, persons elsewhere,
that we are unwilling to put the text Of
II into type more than once. The clergy
mans remarks, in which he casts q gratu-
itous slur, the grossest possible insult,
upon q nation Of people, which though I'M
fortunate In its governmental affairs only,
ID second TO no other nation in any respect,
Indicate o pitch Of intolerance and fanati-
cism that can hardly be discussed with
patience. The reverend gentleman was,
no doubt, enthused on the occasion by his
hongolian surroundings and, fred, per-
hsps, by the Incorporating missionary
spirit, be thought he was making q speech
that would be acceptable both to God and
to men. Had he but given vent to his ex-
uberant feelings in any town Of California.
Nevada, Arizona, Colorado or Oregon land
some consistent Christians live in these
c~ommonwealths) he would, at least, have
topt ALE AOS hIu ulb GuQlCntO lbACNCAs
He would have done we'll TO escape
thus lightly from men who would
have turned their backs upon him
and treated him with contempt-men as
near salvation as himself probably. who
would have refrained from giving him q
coat OF tar and feathers out of re-
spect for the cloth only. Such an
uncalled for, i~ncendiary Sunday school
hsrangue may be forgiven by the Great
Being whom he thinks he worships, but
never can be atoned for among his felloy
men on this Coast. The omniscient Judge
70 whom all hidden things are known, may
perceive the cause Of the clergyman's mis-
take In his ignorance, but men will hold
him responsible for his words In their full,
common meaning. They will say that the
haranguer may be ignorant of the charac-
YER and habits OF the Chinese-a piece of
information that all intelligent profess
sional men. as we'll as lsymen, should
nave-and hence he may appear less obi
Gus because he is regarded as merely an
ignoramus. But most men with q whole
some use OF their knowledge of human ma
ture will discover in tho preachers ha-
rangue a manifestation Of prejudice which
arises from that very bigotry which he
charges upon others. He Is Of that pecu-
Iiariy bitter sort OF men, who, in what they
fancy to be the service Of the Savior, glory
IN almost any act of distress or torture in
aicsed upon their fellow men who differ
from them as to the way Of life and the
means Of salvation. That portion OF the
rev. Mr.. Baldwin's Sunday school lecture
which We quote elsewhere suggests a singu-
ir anomaly. While ii may be hailed by
many fanatics In the East as favored with
we very essence of godliness, they are so
,oiinded in their Own uncharity as not Il
Dc able to see that the words OF their
spokesman are as uncharitable and cruel
they can we'll be. We're such q man not
by the influence OF those OF
Enlightened thought about him, and had
20 the power TO indulge himself according
70 fancy, his bigotry would lead him to
rejoice In the sight Of an Irishman wracked
On the wheel. He would shout hsllelujahs
an accompaniment Ia the pain-bur-
iened screams Of the tortured victim, He
could be expected to develop into such
demon as the logical result OF his fanatic
cism and as proved by history in regard TO
religious bigots OF almost every
sect under the sun. The Rev. Mr.. Bald
win might, in his misguided ideas OF
human charity, refuse an Irishman q cup
OF cold water, and yet wrestle all night in
prayer with a Chinaman, sleep with him
perchance, IL his strength should give way
uuring the struggle, in order to wake up in
'ne morning and tackle him, with new
energy. from above. In other words, be-
cause the Irish are mostly Catholics, every
irishman is . stumbling block; not only
doomed irretrievably to perdition himself,
put his very living as an indi-
g,idual is, according to Mr.. Baldwin,
IN conflict with the Divine plan for
salvation, and he ought to be put out of
way. The pagan, the heather Chinee,
ne takes to his bosom-Joss worship, the
opium pipe, leprosy and all-for Christ's
II Is to be regretted that such ft
Eastern companions Of the degraded Mon
soiians cannot be miscegenated with them
sno all sail together on q grand mission
ssy voyage to the other side Of the globe,
70 return nsvsrmors.