The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-23
CRISIS in
THE CAREER
OF CHINA
Has Been Reached, declares Rsv.
Charles B. Austen, Of Vance
Memorial Church.
.THENATIONS ARENON.PLUSSED
over the Situation, but With Cupid
ity Aroused-America Will Act
With Honest Motives.

AT the Vance Memorial church at Al
tenhelm, last evening, the Rev. Dr.. Aus
ten delivered a very interesting and en-
tertaining discourse on the topic, THE
Crisis of China"
DR.. Austen said whether these reports
Of recent horrible massacres In China
were true or not, China had reached a
crisis in her career. China was the col
ossus OF nations on various accounts.
One was because of her. very large pop,
ulation; another was because 10 tho
Chinese wall she had the greatest line
OF Notifications ever seen, and yet an
other reason for calling her the colossus
OF nations was because Of her; exclu-
siveness. ls5
He referred to another massacre that
had occurred in the fourteenth century
Of Christlandom and was supposed to
have been due altogether from persecu-
ton. He referred to the Chinese wor-.
ship as a system of Confucius and said
it was a philosophical and ethical
rather than q religious system. Con-
fuclus did not trouble himself with SER
ious questions of the world and had NO
definite ideas of the world.
He spoke Of China in the light OF
present events. In the Japanese war
with China. dating from 1894 to the fall
of 1895, Japan had been elevated In the
eyes Of the world. That war had placed
! her on an equa! footing with the great
nations. OF the earth.
| China was interested in the practice
and studies of Confucius. He had said
long before the coming of Christ into
the world, Whatever would not ye do
to me, do ye not to them,"
Confuclanism could be called philo-
sophy rather than a religion. He taught
that all things in the world were mani
festations of him. Everything had been
transferred, one living thing into an
other until we finally come to man.
We had all become interested in Chi
ma since the Korea matter, over which
the Chinese and japanese had battied.
The world had rubbed its eyes and said.
Behold we have a new world" Japan
had like modern soldier. shoullered
modern arms and taken place amons
the modern fighters.
1t was unfortunate for Japan at the
close of the var in 1895. that China had
integposed to Russia and she had modi-
fled her demands. China had been de-
| frauded by Russia and lost big silica
of. territory. All nations were now de-
mandIng something and China now
| knows the days OF her iethargy and the
pariod of her sleeplness was at an end.
The world is given over to It's greed in
salnshness and the sordid pursuit Of
gold. China had been weighed in the
balance and found wanting.
With one exception this seemed to be
the provldential age. How complex
| and non-plussed were the nations to-
day! How hard 1t was to form poll
cy. one that the other could trust! Men
WHO We're 1T inc Heau OIL tHe state ue-
| partments of the nations were dumb
founded. First came the Spanish war.
then the Bqer war and finally comes on
the fastening war with China. ChIa.
had been found wanting. The nations
of Europe. the speaker said, had been
weighed in the balance and also found
wanting. They were forever reaching
for spheres OF influence and dreaming