Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-11-30

cutting its later history proves that the day
OF vengeance has commenced. Frances
persecution of the Huguenots in the seven
teenth century and its supreme socialism
and skepticiSm in the eighteenth have pro-
duced d national harvest in the fearful vi
ciSsitudes of government. beginning with
the revolution of 1850. from which time to
the present there has not been n decade of
fixed and certain history Spain's persecu-
ton of the Netherlands has never yet been
fully atoned. At one time she was the
leading nation in the world but for her in
justice to her Dutch subjects she passed
away from her dominion over land and sea
and is now only an obscure member of the
family of nations.
1T is a very common impression" said
the bishop, ION the part of the average
American that the United States cannot be
destroyed as a nation. that our future. by
certain infeXible law, must be happy and
prosperous. Such supposition has no
foundation, either in reason or revelations.
There is no law by which the United States
can be preserved a nation il our ma
ticnal character is not pure and our public
life is not in harmony with the will of God
We arc just as sure to follow the example
of nations that have been blotte1 out of
existence If we commit the offcns"3 against
Gods law which other nations have COM
rlittel. ard which have cost them their
future and their life We have never COM
mitted n crime as a people for which We
have not had to make full payment and
meet full penalty. 1t behooVeS us TO see
/
some crime against the justice and order
of God We need only to see the full light
in which we as Il people have placed our
selves in relation to the Cinnamon Has
not the time come when the American con-
science Will assert itself and pay some re-
spect to our treaty obligations with China?
The Chinese government has just as COM
plete right to exclude American MISSION
aries from landing.
Cinnamon and Missionaries.
1.-The parallel between the American in
lives and remains such until he leaves or
striking. The American missionary expects
to send his savings back to America for in
vestment. He expects to return to America
as his final home. He does not adopt the
Chinese costume. He never becomes cit
izen of China. He is an alien. wherever he
lives, and remains such until he leaves or
dies. If the Chinaman in this country
retains his native costume, sends his saw
| ings back to China, and never becomes a
| citizen, and ObeyS the laws OF the country
| as well as the average of our own citizens,
! he only places himself on a par with the
American in China. Yet the Chinese gov
eminent treats the American missionaries
| with justice and respect, and has never
| passed an exclusion law, or one requiring
| them to produce letters of identity or ex-
| hibit their photographs
| There is one respect. however in which
| the parallel is broken. When the Chinaman
| comes here he makes no upon the
| Christianity of the United States. but when
| the American missionary goes to China he
| wages bitter and unrelenting war upon
| the national faith of the land that has been
! followed since the days of Confucus. Loud
| indeed would be the wall in our Congress If
800 Cinnamon should be going up and down
| this city haranguing people at street cor
ners and building chapelS and schools and
carrying a ceaseless propaganda against
| the faith we love SO dearly. But we do not
hear that the Chinese government has yet
noted a prohibition against the Christian
missionaries. who have never ceased their
| evangelistic campaign.
| In Gods even scale of justice which out
| weighs the other? Let us be careful to stop
| this great iniquity and escape the danger
| of Gods avenging justice. Many would
| naturally consider that in this time of
| financial depression we have little occasion
| for thanksgiving. Such a superstition, how
| ever, is a great mistake. Look at the spirit
| of national unity advancing every year at
| a rapid pace. We are at peace with all the
nations and the example of the republic is
| annually growing stronger and molding
disorga nized nations into harmony with our
| own sDrit and national polity.