The age-herald., 1898-08-16
muments went into the history as I had
To Convert tue Goverament

feet that no heather shall have any au- | thority or control or shall he sit in judg
 ment on any American or foreigner. | "We have number of cities under the | control of the Americans, among them | Shanghai. We have 5000 English and l Americans, R00O Japanese. Indians and | other non-Chineses people, All Chinamen | who have had a chance to see our laws | and system of government. but admire it. They see our almost perfect liberty l how prosperous and rich the inhabitants | are compared with other cities of the coun- | try, and over 300, GOO Chnamen have flocked l into live with us.
 What Japan Has Done
 l "Japan has been completely revolution | ized by that little clause in all of her
 treaties. It caused the people to recog
 nize their inferiority. They would not sub
 init to a change. England and America | told them to qualify themselves for admis-
 sion into the comity of nations. The Japs | began to do this at once. They cut off l their hair began to wear foreign clothes.
 threw away their chop sticks a.d now are using knives and forks; are acquiring | an English education; have new army equipped with arms; have translated the | code of Napoleon and are adopting the | laws of the western nations: the midako
 has given up a great part of his power and
 the Japs now have something of rep l resentatve government The diet has | passed resolution that from now on Japan l is a Christian nation, and both the United ] States and England have agreed that they l will recognize her as such in 1S99 "When 1t is considered that the Japan l csc came originally from China, that they derived all their laws, religion, wealth and customs from China, the progress that Ja-
 pan has made in the last thirty years Is wonderful.
 ''This is what hurts China. that little nation like Japan with only 90. GOO, 900 inhabi- tants should have whipped the great na- tion of China with its 800, ,000 900 people, Now the Chinese are asking to come and
 help them as we helped the Japanese. "Statistics tell us that last year more Chinese were converted than for the whole
 forty years preceding. In one province
 alone where few years ago five mission
 aries were murdered, 10000 converts were
 made last year."
 AT NIGHT
 At the evening services Dr. Allen con-
 tinued his talk of the morning, taking the
 same text he tlAn used. His remarks were
 on the line of China's willingness to re-
 ceive the Christian religion, which Dr.
 Allen considered the greatest achievement of the nineteenth century.
 "As is customary with all people who live
 seclusive life and have nothing to do with Oe''NA pie as barbarians. Nevertheless, I repeat what I said this morning that China llas the highest form of civilization and gov | ernment ever attained by unaided man, not | even excepting Greece and Rome. This-lat- l ter country in her palmiest days never pos sessed one-ffth as yausg~ territory as the l emperor of China now rules over, nor did ] she ever have anything to compare with China's 500,000 inhabitants.
 The Chinese Language "No nation ever had language as vide is-snaken as China -has-n,,sar 200 Gan neople speak pure Chinese and the remaining 3OO 900, 900 speak various dialects. But there is only one written language for this whole people al [ nearly half of the people of the world seek instruction in it. It Is Ian guage over 2,O00 years old, and is one rich in its literature.
 China's Willingness That China is willing and anxious to re- ceive our religion and civilization is evil denced by her desire to be admitted into the comity of nations. The curriculum Of her colleges and universities which for 2,OOO years was exactly the same. has been recently changed by a decree of the em- peror putting in mathematics, the sciences | and other useful and modern studies, in- | stead of the course outlined in the times or COnfucluS. The DupllS at tneSe COleScS dIO | all the way from Is to 100 years old, and | the examinations are civil service, rather | than academic examinations. Though there are only a few offices to be filled. l thousands and thousands stand them. Think then what a widespread influence these improved courses of study will have on the whole country.
 Political Paroles
 Heretofore there have been no political | rtiaS China tbara
 of them, all with well defined organiza-
 tions. This was brought about by the war
 with Japan, which showed what weak
 government China really had "One of the parties is extremely radical
 and is endeavoring to overthrow the pres- ent dynasty The second party is moral and conservative and thinks that the hope
 of the empire lies in the restitution of the doctrines of Confucius in all their purity. But the great party Is that of the liberals, at the head of which is the emperor. It has it's newspapers and its books, and Ii Hung Chang, that great Chinese liberal. ho has not been in favor for two or three years past has been put into power again
 as prime minister.
 National Resources
 "The redemption of China means more than the saving of the Chinamens souls,
 for not only will it bring forward one of
 the greatest peoples of the earth, but it win
 develop one of the richest countries on the globe, one teeming with iron, gold, silver
 and all other natural resources and coun- try having the greatest variety of climate
 and productions
 Commerce and Christianity
 "God has made this world for man to oc-
 cupy and develop. The Bible teaches this
 from Genesis to Revelation. The fulfillment of this command is what commerce means
 and that is why I say that the Christian religion and commerce go hand in hand. 1.-The present war between the United
 States and Spain only emphasizes this
 fact. The spirit of Christianity and com
 merce should break through the isthmus
 of Panama and the canal must be dug
 Then hand in hand they must keep on
 across the Pacific on their great mission of
 civilizing and teaching the Christian reli-
 zion to all the Orient. That construction
 of the Monroe doctrine which erects a wall
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