The Conway log cabin., 1900-12-04
Are These Christians7

It is singular fact that the on ly bloodthirsty communications re ceived at the white house and the department of state on the Chinese question come from the ministers of the gospel, especially mission aries. Forgetting the gentler teach ings of Christ, they insist upon the application of the old Mosaic law in the punishment of the Chinese-an an eye for an eye and tooth tor tooth-and the utter destruction of the cities in which the wickedness has been committed. They de mand the lives of the emperor and empress dowager, and all the mem bers of the court and the wholesale slaughter of the officials of the gov ernment. Many of them demand that Pekin shall be burned to the ground and the site sown with salt. It is the spirit of those who hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord:
 The files of the department of state are being rapidly filled with such communications, and the writ CTS often threaten the president and the secretary of state with ven geance if they do not abandon their pacific policy and join Germany in the work of murder and destruc- ton. Chicago Record.
 The above clipping, while the facts revealed may be startling and seemingly paradoxical to those who consider the present churches as representative of the church which the gentle Gallilean founded dur ing his earthly life, still it seems to be true and for this reason IS wor- thy of grave consideration. Every one who has the interests of civlli- zation, good citizenship and good government at heart, desires to see the power and domains of Christi anity extended. Therefore, one thus interested must view with alarm the errors into which the Churchmen of these times are fall ing. The sentiments which actu- ated them to demand such cruel, illogical, unnecessary, uncivilized and unchristian punishments would repel even heather of re-
 fined sensibilities. It is such sen timent that makes missionary work in foreign lands so difficult, for 1t is impossible for missionaries to teach the gospel of love and forgive ness to any people. when those car dinal clements of Christianity are not to be found i'll the teacher. Churches, in their desire for new countries to work in and new peo- ples to convert are often apt to for get these principles. For instance, numbers of Protestant ministers in this country who opposed McKin- ley on other questions favored him because of their desire for the re- tention of the Philippines. In their zeal to obtain new footholds they forgot the justice of the Filipino's $ cause, they failed to see the analo= gy between their own characters and those of the ancient Pharisees, whose creed was dearer to them than humanity, and they over looked the fact that when the Phil ippine Islands were opened to Protestant literature and teachings they would also be opened to American beer and whiskey, that for every Bible imported there per haps would be thousand kegs of beer and for every missionary whose teachings would point out to the natives the thorny path to Heaven, there might be hundred American saloon-keepers who would assist the Filipino along the broad and easy road to Hell. Min isters who could not deny the jus tice of the cause of the Boers have said in the pulpit that the war was being terminated as Providence had directed, intimating that the English and American missiona
 ries will have better opportunities in South Africa. Although more odious and dangerous vices are to be found in England and America than can be found in darkest Afri- ca or China, still they desire to reach these heathens and dissemi-