Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-06-28

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civilizations with distinguished American
some years ago suggested his willingness
to compare that Of China with any other
that had demonstrated its enduring quail
ties by six thousand years of life, he ended
the argument and suggested food for seri-
Gus reflection.
National unity and an enduring ciYiliz-
ton can only proceed from common ideals
steadfastly adhered to. Hence the fact
that China has been a nation that has
maintained civilization and an integral
government for SO great period suggests
a unity and steadfastness of ideals that are
not to be swept aside idly.
Pre-christian civilization, SO far as forms
and ceremonies go, has long been rooted
out among the nations of Europe, and the
struggle for the realization of Christian
ideals records constant progress down to
the discovery of America by Columbus
The Western Hemisphere at once became
an inviting field for the most advanced
Christians, who sought these shores that
they might put in practice the tenets of the
Nazarene unhindered and unincumbered by
institutions and laws inherited from pagan
dom
The sturdy pilgrims who sought the
Western World, Bible in hand, found room
and opportunity to grow and expand and
rear civilization based upon the father
hood of God and the brotherhood of man.
Less than two centuries had elapsed
when meagre population, scattered along
the rock-bound coast of the Atlantic
Ocean, in North America, founded state
based upon the brotherhood of man. The
new dispensation was born in travail and
baptised in blood, having for it's charter the
Declaration of Independence, the words
that first applied Christian philosophy to
human government.
During the following century great and
mighty nation grew to be the wonder OF
the world. Such world power was never
before known. The influence of the
Declaration of Independence was reacting
upon the older nations of the world and in
all civilized nations the principles ii
enunciated were taking a deep root in the
human heart
When Christian missionaries went from
America to teach the gospel of love to the
heather of Asia or Africa, he was able to
soften and subdue the heart of the savages
and win hearing for the Master by relat
ing the story of his own land where all
were free and where all were the architects
of their own fortunes, having the sympathy
of his fellows under the protection of a
just and benign government. Mission
aries from America alone were able to point
to the institutions and government of their
country as the embodiment of the teach
ings of the NazareDe, and in the natural
growth and moral health of the nation
and people point out the symmetry and
beauty of Christian philosophy.
To-day, alas how changed is the scene.
Oar missionaries, together with those of
other European countries, are in danger in
China What can they say for themselves,
and what can we say for them, that the
philosophy they teach will not condemn :?
What reply can the American missionary
make to the Chinaman when he points
him to the Philippines, were, seven thou
sand miles from our western shores, sixty
Thousand American soldiers are engaged in
depriying Christians of liberty, and delug-
ing their land in blood in the name of
trade while we have made a treaty with
the Sultan of Sulu and taken pOlygamy
slavery and Accommodation under the
protection of that flag which but a short
time ago was an inspiration to every human
being beneath the sun to strive for liberty
and was the proud insignia of a nation
whose government rested upon the teach
ings of the Prince of Peace? What reply
can our missionaries make when the
Chinaman points out to him, that under
the teachings of Confucius they remained
in their own Flowery Kingdom to work out
their own salvation, while those protesting
the teachings of Christ have armies and
navies seeking out distant and alien peo-
pies and races to subdue, sparing neither
Christian no heather, in order that coveted
dollars may flow into the Golfers of monop-
olies for the benefit of men that are already
inordinately rich.