The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-29

LA us1 uPOu Us. uSW SLuuy OF 6ngfOSS-
ing interest is begun-new questions of
supreme Importance press for solu ton.
What is to be the future of the East :?
to repeat the history of the past I?
Shall the coming centuries bring no
kingdom of God for the great majority
of the human race? Is Asia to con-
tinue oppressed, superstition, ignor-
ant, idclatrous degraded, wretched?
Is there national regenera tioa, is there
new birth for continent, is it possible
for great empires to start upon a new
life of liberty, progress, and truth after
mlllenniums OF slavery, stagnation, and
error? Japan, first of all Asia ic en-
plres. seeks answers to all these prob
lens. Under most favoring conditions
1t tries the great experiment, turning
from the east and striving for position
among the progressive, enlightened.
and Christian nations of the west. So
far as man can judge, upon the issue of
this experiment rests the future of
Asia. Let Japan succeed, and China
will follow in the same path; let Japan
fail, and what hope remains for the
greater empires which will face their
greater problems under less favoring
conditions p rof. George William
Knox. University Of Toxic. Japan.
AN APOSTLE OF KINDNESS.
HENRY BERGH typifed in a remark
able degree that reverence for life and
happiness even in lower grades of exist
ence which lies at the very foundation
of religion. Our busting Anglo-saxon
race is apt to forget that there are other
forms of life than Our own, and that all
of them carry with them natural rights
and claims. In this respect we have
much still to learn from the milder
philosophy of Asia. 1t was Mr.. Bergh's
noble career to apply to practical and
daily life that principle of love to all
coos creatures which formed the
motive If one of our grandest literary
monuments, the crime of the Ancient
Mariner" In Coleridge's tale it vas
the penance OF Sea-worn navigator TO
pass from land TO land rebuking cruelty
by reciting to the spell-bound listener
the story OF the punishment that came
upon him for the Wanton slaughter of
an albatross, and bow the curse was
finally revoked because of the pity he
felt for the very snakes that coiled in
the shadow OF the doomed ship. AS he
lay on the warped decks among the
dead, his heart softened at the beauty
of the reptiles, his kind saint took pity
on him, and he blessed them unaware.
And from that moment he could pray
the albstross fell off his neck ard sank
into the sea, q gentle breeze ruff1ed the
sails. and an angel helmsman steered
him home. Thereafter his DUTY was to
rebuke cruelty and show that the true
service OF God, even better than to go
together to the kirk with a goodIy |
company, was to serve, with love, Gods |
creatures. The Wedding GEest learned |
that day, as he sat under the spell of
the Mariners glittering eve, what is
the first and deepest truth of Christian |
ltv and the most acceptable worship of |
God:
He prayeth best who loveth best
All things, both great and small;
For the dear God thst loveth US,
He made and loveth all
1t was to enforce by all proper ap-
peals and agencies this natural piety
among men that Mr.. Bergh spent his
ortune, time, mind, and strength.
Verify, he has his reward New York
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