The Progress., 1893-11-25

| by Tenth avenue, First avenue and Sinetieth
and Ono Hundred and Twenty-ffth streets.
| This Is n territory almost as large the Coun-
" Of Pou 10y. in which is situated Tong Chp.
China, where tn" bulk Of the money is to b.
sen -" county where there was not u dTuns-
ard or &, murderer for an years.
Here Is tie report of q Chinese who has just
come in from Harlem with = broken hcn !,
split nose and a torn and tattCrcd coat b .-
cause he dared t. walk upon their streets. Il
the board Is unable To find a missionary who il
brave enough to live in Harlem. let il put ui'
the cash right here. and will risk my life >
change I1arlems snvarcry 10 humanity.
When think that Chinamau is not good
enough TO Rive on the salhc land for only %
short while with q ChfNsiia& nay, hc even for.
feitS the privilege of becoming citizen be-
cause his skin is neither white nor black and
his civilization is peculiar can't understand
why the board is willing to pay an enormous
price to try to Ect these yellow skinned men
by tho million to 90 To heaven.
WoNG CHIN Foo.
There il food for thought in this chal-
lenge of the Chinaman. If th9e things
can he justly charged to Christianity.
then woe to the Causel 1t has failed in
the supreme test Of life! There is no
other test.
Bl'DlfD AND NIN lll/ATlDN.
Third-That blgotry must yield 10
charity. This parliament seems To
make the beginning of serious and
honest study of comparative religion as
the foundation of the largest faith. The
outcome of such study is always the
decline of bigotry and narrowness with
the decline of ignorance.
The decline of bigotry inevitably
leads to the decline of the spirit of
faction and division. Such study must
lead us directly to a unity of associa-
tion and action. The aspiration for
vital union in Christcndom has thus
been quiCkened as never before. This
quickcnlng must continue as this study
continues and the great essentials are
insisted upon rather than minor differ
enCCs exaggerated.
Fourth That true civilization and
the Kingdom of God must bo seen
to be one aud the same thing in their
advance aud development
The foreigner objects to Christianity
because of certain vices he sees domi-
nant in the manhood of nominal Chris
tian notions. Our answer is: These
men are not Christians; they have not
the spirit of Christ; they have not been
born anew with his spirit; they must
not he taken as examples. The social
vices of which you complain are the
very powers Christianity is daily com
batting" In one sense the answer is
To the point In another it is not.
We have certainly in the past failed
to make the same allowance in passing
Judgment upon the civilization of those
who hold strange religions. We have
charged every national vice to the
heathen's god and priest and temple
We must not in fairness quail before u
similar method of reasoning.
The fact j.. this is the test of life
again. Do what we may, juggle with
arguments as we may, Christian or
heather can not escape the logic of the
accusation In one sense Christianity
is responsible fully and wholly for the
product known as Christian civiliZa-
tion. Civilization is the material in
carnation of the faiths of people.
True civilization is the growing uni
versal Kingdom of God of which
Jesus constantly taught, which he came
into the world to establish. In pro
portion as it is false, Christianity has
failed IN its mission. The distinction
of the sacred and the secular must per
ish. The logic of the heathens is unan-
swerablc. All things are sacred. The
sphere of Christianity is the sphere of
the conscience. What does not touch
conscience is outside the domain of the
moral world. Every power that re-
mains untouched and unsound i'll our
midst is standing accusation and chal-
lenge to life. to Christianity. An in
famous act by the government of a
Christian nation must be charged to the
Christians $ acCOunt-the government Is
his. If it is not ChristianiZed, SO much
the worse for his Christianity. If we
permit a social regime which manufac-
lures drunkards and prostitutes and
murderers, it is Il poor excuse to lay 1t
all to natural depravity and charge up
to the poor heathen's religion every sin
of his ancestor and of all his living
collateral relations. IL our civilization
is anti Christian. let us see to it that
we have here the challenge to mortal
combat that we must settle before we
demand the faith of other worlds.
AN INCIDENT.
| read the other day of two little
bootblacks who were bosom friends
Jim and Andy. A good angel directed
ticket of the Fresh Air fund to Jim
during the hot summer days. He was
delighted at the prospect of a vacation,
of fruit and fields and fun. But he
grieved because of Andy. They hatch
ed a plan for Andy to take the ticket
and be Jim for week in the country
and then say he was the wrong boy
and after this he could go, and they
would both get the outing. Andy OBJ
jected to going first, and itwas arranged
finally for jim to lead in'the scheme.
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