The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-06
HO()D|ESI OF ALL WAR
INTERVENTION OF GOD AIoxp CIV
CHANGE COURSE OF CHI
NESE TROUBLE
THIS BISHOP JOYcE's BELIEF
In an Able Discourse on Chinese A.
fairs He Assigns Six Causes
Missionaries Are Not
to Blame

Unless the God above Intervene T.,
the present Chinese trouble the sra,+,s.
war this planet mas ever seen viii al,
place, and the Chinese rivers will ~,
pICod until the yellow sea is a crimson
cool." '-''''Ol
IEese were the words Of Bishop isaac
w. joyce at the Hennepin avenue NJ. e
church' and this sentence was only one
among the many that startled the audi
eIce that had gathered there on a hot
evening TO learn something concerning
what is called the crisis in China
Inc church was literally packed to the
door and in the corridors peopIe stood
throughout the entire speech and listened
10 the eloquent and descriptive words ~
the bishop. 10 VI
blsnop Joyce outlined his speech in n
logical manner, dividing it into six Derfs
OF reasons for the present trouble. sum
Hled up these were the peculiar temDcIa-
menl OF the Chinese race. which was I'm
us present state before Christ was horn.
the influence and working of Sir Roha,,.
HsTt' VINO was sent from England IN
manage the customs Office for the C,b,na,,
empire; the strong will and deternir cd
action of the dOwager empress. tine
conflict between the old China which livos
IN Confuc1us and the new China winch
patterns after the western world; the in
huence Of opium, and the remembrance
that Christian nation IS responsible for
its use, and lastly, the treatment of tho
Cinnamon in America
Bishop Joyce has been twelve times
over the ground about to be Travelled nv
the allied forces, and last night emphat-
tcally stated that it was worse than folly
Tor 10000 men to march to Pekin. as
there were a million men between Tien
md
give snap Of their fingers for their
lives. These men, he said, would pie
up in death before the allied forces and
stop their entrance. In the opinion OF
the bishop, who has gone over every
portion of China, 100000 men would not
be too many for the undertaking.
Bishop Joyce said that had the en-
peror. Kwang-Su. kept his mouth
shut about his intentions regarding the
use Of the railroad. telegraph and teIe-
phone, the present trouble would not
have arisen at this time As to the state
ment that the missionaries We're the
cause Of the trouble the bishop did not
deign to answer the insinuaton He
maintained that had the missionaries
kept clear Of China the present trouble
would nave arisen, as It was a CON
t1ict of modern ideas and ancient ones.
Still further he defended the action
and work of the missionaries by saying
that If nothing but their linguistic work
was taken into consideration, they had
repaid the Christian world four-fold for
the money expended In the cause OF
Christianity
In speaking Of the latest phase of the
situation, Bishop Joyce said that his sug-
gestion Of a remedy 10 meet the Cinnamon
would be to have every country which
has a Chinese representative seize him,
and. Ike the Chinese. hold him as a
hostage for the safety of the foreign
residents in the Celestial empire
The lecturer brought forth the extreme
mentality of the Chinese, and pltted
against it their extreme ignorance. The
Chinaman, as a whole, he praised. and
maintained, giving authorities. that white
the commercial integrity Of the Amer
lean nation was rated as No 4. the
Chinese empire was rated as No. l. >
Bishop Joyce referred to the New Or
leans outrages. and asked his hearers If
the killing Of the foreign ministers by
the Chinese was any worse than the
killing Of negroes In the South, merely
because they were black. The congrega-
ton to this question responded a vigor-
Gus MOI
In closing, Bishop Joyce asked for a
contribution for the education of some
Chinese girls, and when the collection
box came back it contained many dol
lars in silver and not a few bids OF q
larger denomination.