The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-19
THE JArAs-cHrSA wAK.
"orsi Aspects Diseased "a a rrefua.
by Rev. DIR. Nutsfnx.

Aspects Diseased ~ a Prefud.
~ Rev. Dr. Suttfnr.
rev. Wallace Suiting yesterd.v IN th.
p'eluce 70 BIS regular sermon. sr,oks m
me norsl aspects Of the Jspsn-Caina war.
In which he said:
mere seems 10 be an unwarrsn,~d .x,,.
pstny With Japan. We stand hx ass 81. -
az the puck OF q little nation in attarkfry
kseaI one Judged BY Christian stand
asas, however. this war has ne errn.e n,
= pretty we'll understood rha. the govern.
ahsnt IN Japan entered into the war AZ a
pSnaicai measure 20 retain their hold Ga
snss,..,. 20 excuse OF lighting against an
.HessAzec country will answer This 3.
100 1ase cay TO maintain that the orFv
aaasn1 oi an uneivilixed man is TO De kiiIed
success ought no longer TO be A .ufsirie-.
snepsy 70 the charge OF unprovoked rnurcer-
suppose the Chinese are rnossbacks7 If
-. messDsek II 20 be guilty OF death.
e.. 80 .a<e Ills own say. The Japanese
ale 700 eager 10 DO the executioners. Be-
cause people do not i've Ia our fashion
.nsy VIII have 20 live in their own fashion.
Unless Occidental civilization can CON-
memo Itself 10 them by its good fruits.
ne truth ~ that japanese success. is
not deserving of sympathy. Itisa mar.
% courage 10 light horde OF unprepared.
poorly armed Chinese, xho are uot win.
ming anything for themselves even II thev
are victorious. The courage OF poth
nauons under proper discipline is un-
aouDisd. Animal courage il a very cheap
quality. Even the TURKS showed i az
inarab.y IN their last war Nobody who
has read history will accuse any great
nation OF cowardice- liz Is q credit to the
Japanese that they have planned well.
put they planned an evil tang. The
PROOF that Japan Is not fully civilized may
easily De found in their low estiuate of
the .ives of enemies.
Europe cannot, however, lay claim to
Christian civilization since she has
taogns the Orientals the quickest way of
putting one another out of the world.
ihe onty possible excuse for an army il
That II may be used for police force. IL
Is Always tue duty OF nations that claim TO
De civilized to step I'm and stop a quarrel.
IL Is only deoassd set Of men who yearn
alter witnessing tights. IL IL is disgrace
Iul 10 stand around a ring and watch two
combatants quarrel, ii duelling is dis
graceful, then IL is disgraceful for the
nations OF the world to merely look on at
TINS var. No country has right TO say
1t - none OF my business. As q police
man would, or st least should, stop a
quarrel, so ought the nations to stop this
quarrel
NO doubt il may result in the opening
up OF China to Western enterprise. but ii
that Is the thing to do, this is not the way
to do It, Japan does not undertake the
war Tor that purpose.
This time is great with possibilities for
the Orient, and hence for US. God can
make the wrath of men TO praise Him.
But unless We can give China something
better than England has given her. the ad-
vantages of opening the Middle Kingdom
are very doubtful. Undoubtedly the Chi
nese have grave faults. Some call them
brutal. That Is little odd, however, to
apply TO the most peaceabge people in the
world. They are conceited; | suppose we
are noti Whatever their sins, neither
England nor France nor Japan has any
right to punish them. The opium war did
more than anything else 10 close China
against The advances of the so-calied civil
ICED world. Decent treatment Is the only
thing that will eifsctually open those con-
servativs minds TO the best ideas of the
modern world"