St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-10

In 1900 there were 100000 English
speaking people. Of whom 100000 900
were Protestant, $500, 900 were Roman
Catholic, and 100000 were of no faith
In 1880 there were 100000 English
speaking people, of whom SO, 000, 900
were Protestant, Is, 500, 900 were Roman
Catholic, and but 850e,OOO were of no
faith. The English-speaking popula-
ton increased in eighty years 337 per
cent, the Roman Catholic only 245 per
cent, while the Protestant increased 421
per cent, and those Of no faith less than
100 per cent. These figures are not
alarming. This is particularly so when
we see the leading skeptics "hearken-
ing back, saying, I'VE were steadied
by what our mothers taught us from
the rejected Bible; but what will steady
our children?"
The church figures in this country
are cheering. In 1900 there was l COM
munlcant for every 14.50 inhabitants;
in 1850, l for 6.57; in 1870. for STA; in
1879, l for every 5.15. Surely we can
give thanks to God, and go boldly for
the conquest for all heathenism.
CHINA A GREAT LAND.
hina-magnfcent field. The most vast
stretch Oh arabic territory that be found
Joined together on the earth-a great land
Has most magnificent mountain ranges-has
some great lakes, and has rivers that we can
hardly measure. Why you can pour our great
Mississippi river into the Yang tse- Kiang and
1t will creep silently into the sea without ever
so much as w1nking-you would hardly think
that there had been a shower in the mountains
They have great coal beds, vast enough to sup
port and warm the nations for ages. They
have innumerable mines of the precious met
ais, but they are not worked, they are not
opened; but there is that great stretch Of
magnificent, arabic land, rich with every sort
OF product, opened for to enter.
They have there an ancient people, We some
times think about the Chinaman as if he didn't
amount to much-and when the Japs got after
him the other day it didn't seem as if he did
amount to much-but then you want to bear in
mind that the Chinaman has mad no motive
he Will die with as much courage anybody
on the footstool, but he says when an invader
comes. or an instruction brakes loose why
let the officers attend TO it; they are paid for
that He has no faith. but he has courage
ana Intelligence, and his is a great people, They
hsd laws codified, and they had trade for cities
and towns, and they had organized a settled
society 5000 years before there was any Anglo
Saxon anywhere. We made a fuss ten or
dozen years ago about civil service reform
ana we proposed to have some examinations for
omce-wonderful progress, great discovery,
And yet the Chlnaman mas been having exam
nations for Office for forty-five centuries-lit-
erary examinations. China can furnish more
students than all the rest of the race put to-
getner. Not more scholars. but students.
studying the narrow line of their classics. |
uoupt II we ought to call them scholars on
that account, but it is a frequent thing for a
man 10 study year after year, and go to the
consecutive years. single town in China
viii! turn out as many twenty thousand COM
petitors Tor literary prize. Couldn't find
tnat many in America They are no mean
people. There is only one race that has more
cubic inches Of BRAIN They are great peo-
PIE
stood one day in the street of Picking by a
great street near the gate between the two
walled cities and saw a marriage procession go
py- A marriage procession in China is rather
an interesting thing. They have a man that
as the undertaken does here in a great city
In great city you furnish the corpse and the
undertaken furnishes everything else So Won
furnish the bride and this middle-man this
sort OF undertaken. furnishes everything else
II you want great procession to precede YOU
you put down SO much more cash and he
goes out and conscripts it. For two or three
cash land a cash is worth about the twelfth or
nfteenth part of one of our cents) you can get
man-he may be leper, beggar, a tramp,
an outcast no matter what-they will nut on
n11n wedding robe over his rags over his
hlth, and they will give him some sort of a
BOARD or transparency to carry and on that
VIII be painted in great red letters 'sWhat
wonderful man this is being married. What
brave man. What great man! What rich
man! What wonderful man! And what a
beautiful woman she isl She is all shut in
out OF sight, so you can believe that Q,auph-
teri.
GET THEM BY HUNDREDS.
II you want hundred of these, you will
put down perhaps $500 cash or $500: if YOU
want thousand, you will put down so much
more cash. and you will have them delivered
10 order. While stood one day by the street
ana saw great procession perhaps a. thou
SAND, running ahead with these wonderful
statements of the beauty of the bride and
the magnificence of the bridegroom they got
caught in jam in the gate and so they
waited some time and | stood within four
feet of the bridegroom-well poised, neatly
groomed, handsome; clad in the richest silks
ana embroidered satins; every hair trained
into place. kept perfectly-he made me think
some of the sons OF those old arstocratic
families in England; full of the conscious
ness OF power and repose. I knew who he
was because / had been told. | looked at
him two or three minutes and took off my
hat. l think that man and Mr. Lincoln and
Gen. Grant are the only men | ever took off
my hat to in that sense Well, | will tell
you why. He was the decendent, in an I'M
broken male line, from Confucius and he
could trace his record, without a break
back to Confucius SOL years before Christ;
and back OF that 900 years without a break;
and back of that along two lnes-both of
which commended for it-900 years farther
forty-one centuries he had his pedigree. And
I said, Some of the great, great. magnifi-
cent, aristocratic ancestors gained their signs
of honor in 1866 on the field of Hastings
this man forty-one centuries ago. | said.
81 guess we can't drive him out with a
Kilkenny shilalah-it is a people that will
stay.
1t is brany people. The government of
China has always within reach men who can
recite every word of their classics from
memory, and their classics amount to fully
half of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary,
even fine as the type is. 1t is marvellous.
They are great people, and they are turn
ing little toward Christianity. They are
slow compared with the Japanese, they are
like the Germans compared with the French.
A Chinaman turns about very slowly, but
when he is turned about he is turned about,
and he will stay turned about.
The emperor said a little while ago in
proclamation he sent throughout the empire,
ordering that they should not hurt the Chris
I hat foreign
governments. that they came to do the peo-
pie good, and that they were to be pro-
tected and encouraged. We making head
way in China.
in China, and of recent years professor of
Chinese in the university Of Oxford, says
that in twenty-five years more we shall have
in China a hundred millions of followers.
It is a great nation and cannot afford
not to go in and ChristianiZe it while we
have a chance.
1t will pay us in dollars and cents. Why,
the British church expended s1,12000o TO
Christanize the Sandwich Islands-every dol
lar that was ever put in there; and British
commerce reaps harvest of five millions OF
dollars every year-20 per cent! More than
that 500 per cent year. You can't have
commerce with people that is not Chris
tian-not very much Of commerce. l saw
a Digger Indian over in the Yosemite val
ley get his breakfast out of an ants nest
with a sharp stick You couldn't get any
commerce with him. Naughter). And If
you multiplied him by hundred million,
you would only have so many more ants.
GIVE A MAN WANTS,
and his wife and his children wants; and
when they have to have all the appliances
and appointments of civilized life, then they
will work to get them, then you can have a
commerce with them.
| There are 400, 0OO 900, and for 81 apiece they
can be put down on the shore of this coun-
| try. In fifteen days, at an expense of 81