Austin's Hawaiian weekly. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1899-190?, 1899-06-24


SieaV the influence of
M,..,or.rv work missionary work on
-, c., China is discussed as
S"'"" follows:
One additional source
of evidence of Chinas awakening is found in the
spread and success of missionary work. This is
a liberazing influence of ncessant and unmeasur-
ed activity; it is exerted on large numbers, main
ly, the youth, in all grades of society, from the
lowest upward, and over great extent of coun-
try. 1t is a training in knowledge and VIRTUE ac-
cordng to the worlds highest ideals, under con-
ditions favorable for deep and lasting results 1t
is leaven cast into the bosom of society, not for
day or year, but for generation after gene
ration, slowly but surely leavening the whole
mass. 1t reaches further and penetrates deeper,
and abides more permanently than any merely ex-
ternal influence. By its very nature, the Christ
ian society tends to increase and gather strength
and overcome opposing strength, and become the
controlling and inspiring force. Already at not
few points, this potent social influence is in the
ascendant; in many others it is steadily advancing
to the supremacy. There are no minds so eager
for the best things, devoted to the nations well
fare, so proud of China's true glory so able to
lead her on to win and possess it, as those which
have been trained in the mission churches and
schools from one end of the land to the other
In these centres of aggressive life, new China has
her camps her captains, and her soldiers of the
line. They are making ready to do tor her what
tine churches and schools of Canterbury and Win
chester, of London and Oxford of Lincoln and
York. did for England in the seventh and eighth
centuries. Any study of China at the present
time that leaves these out of the account, fails to
grasp the whole problem.
The Declaration of Independence is the most
momentous document
SUPREMACY Of ever written in the his
1900. ,a..,. tory of the world 1t
""''"" ''e"'' crushed the Spanish
Empire, cen,ented the
English Empire and created the United States
whose influence in the future will rule the world
1t declared principle that had fought its way to
recognition against ignorance, superstition and
ecclesiastical bonbast for eighteen hundred years.
Individual freedom is the direct result of the evo-
luton of religion. In Our civilization the first de-
caration of independence is to be found in the
life and teachings of Christ and, although the
author of the principle was crushed under the
heel of tyranny, the principle lived to shatter the
Roman empire. When tyrannica forces had
again crystalized under the very name of Christ
himself the principle fought its way through the
thirty-years war. Martin Luther declared it ::
Oliver Cromwell took freedom for his motto and
was successful; it inspired the French revolution
When the sturdy pilgrim fathers came to the wilds
of America, for freedom to worship God tyranny
was again rampant and the revolutionary war was
necessary. The principle of freedom, after strug-
CLING for recognition through blood and carnage
for eighteen centuries, first found forcible def
milton in the Declaration of independence. Pitt
said. in the EnpliSh Parliament that If WAC tle