The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-29
Great Events in
the History of China.

. Ignorance of America as to China
..babIv equal to Chinese ignorance
, p,roerica. Many thousand Chinese
come and stay here. A few hun
Of orr people visit China and they
often possessed with the habits of
o. land where the masculinity of our
tt, is not seen, where women are
: their happy subordination to do
- tito existence. where all the mer-
-sorts are honest and where the antiq-
.,.,, of a settled existence makes the
,..r,orrality Of man seem almost with
out beginning
Missionaries to China often embrace
.hs dress the menage, and finally the
,,strimony Of the Chinese. That life
1. euinently soft, patient, Acknowledged.
nd Interior The railway, which made
I,,cb immediate changes in America
eivty years ago. has doomed China to a
9srruginqtiOn. an civilization, d feTment
-rbicb naturally exposes the foreigners
.bore TO assault and their native friends
IN massacre.
r. the tales are but partly true which
tho Saints have written of the ap-
rear7uce of Christianity in Rome it's
sdvent was marked by innovation, sac
riIere 10 old things, collisions and in
surrections.
Gibbon. whose position as a histor-
ian is stronger than ever. and whose
extraordinary loom Of learning has
baan ranked among sacred histories.
shows the imperializing of Christianity
IN Rome TO have been the cause of its
for.roY-c. NJ
force silenced the faint and unsup-
norted murmurs Of the Pagans." In
IKE manner Japan threw off her
feudal system at the imperial com
nand otherwise its tenacity would
have caused anarchy yet. The federal
constitution Of the United States was
an imperial act, and the sectarians and
dissdents are hardly quoted t1ow.
China in the Throes.
So China is in the throes of a dyras-
tic alteration, the fruit o. her new con-
facts and invaSiOns.
Germany. the imjtator of England.
but recently seized upon a vital part
Of China and our occupation of the
Philippines which are very close to
British Hong Kong, is another envelop-
ment of China, like that of Russia, ia
pan. or France.
The old theological world is going 70
pieces. Its reduction TO a journey of
two months or six weeks to get around
II. disposes Of its last claim to be the
warden of the stars and keeper of the
seals. Ii is little football of the man
with physics. who walks upon its
periphery like the autOtype of the Chi
laSe iuEgler, who goes up an inclined
plane upon a sphere moved with his
hinder paws.
Wisdom has its faculty in China
now. The study of that mighty as
semby of our human species is to be
like the French revolution in the orig
inal home of man; the fiery cherubim
IN the Eden of the earliest civilization.
where ideas began. such as the Study
of the Caterpillar's bowels to clothe
expresses Of China who lived a thou
sand years before Eve. China in the
Armenian history of another named
Moses was called Zenia or Zenastan,
and was even then, in the time of
Di0cletian. characterized by the pro-
ducti0n of silk, by the OpuIence of its
people and by their love of peace above
an other nations of the earth: Silk.
wealth, peace, story Of a Beatitudi-
nous nation.
Ancient history
In the year 2S6 A D. the emperor
Of China claimed a robber from the
king of Persia. The PerSians were the
Intermediates between the unknown
Chinese world and the known Roman
world. The Persians afforded Marco
Polo. or Mark Paul. the opportunity to
visit China from Italy in the year 1271.
He was the tTuest of all the apostles,
as none of the others had heard Of
China. the most pOpulous part of the
only beloved world. and when Marco
told them truly about it they hOOdoOd
him with PRAYERS as the only colossal
lar He had lived twenty-fOur years
10 China. been an imperial household
officer there, an ambassador and a gov
ernor- in these respects he was a