The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-11-05
INTOLERANCE.


The Christian nations are in arms
because some Christian missionaries,
and some subjects or citizens of chris
tian nations who We're perhaps neither
christians nor missionaries, have been
murdered or otherwise despitefully used
in China. The Chinese, self satisfied,
disdainful of any civilization but their
own, dislking foreigners, whether
Christians or not, and never pretending
to like them, have allowed their intol-
erance to proceed from thought to act,
and have murdered some dozens or
scores of them. They have acted with
a fine impartiality in their prejudice,
killing christian and non-christian,
missionary and missionary with
indiscriminate zeal. Where they did
not kill, they mobbed. The world rang
with the tale of their atrocities, and the
armies of Christendom, united as they
have not been since the days of the cruz
sades, have been sent to put down with
strong hand and mighty arm the
intolerant and murderous heather. The
very existence of China as an indepen-
den sovereignty, trembles in the bal
ance because of this Intolerance in ac-
ton.
But if one reads carefully the same
publications which tell of these atroci-
ties in China, one will find some things
which seem strangely at variance with
this spirit of remonstrance at Chinese
Intolerance. In London, only the other
day one John Alexander Dowie was all
row NJ Tod h.
a hall which he had himself rented and
presumably paid for. And after he had,
by police assistance, entered, despite
the mop, he announced that a plot to
murder him had been discovered and
disclosed to the authorities Yet what
had DoWle done or proposed? Nothing
out what the murdered missionaries in
CHINA did and proposed, namely, preach-
ed doctrine his Opposers did not belize
We, and offered to heal their sick.
IN Mansfield, Ohio, where the remains
Vi Johh sherman were but recently laid
10 rest two associates or disciples of
Dowle were tarred and feathered and
driven out of the town with threats
against their lives if they returned. In
maine, in Indiana, in Illinois, in New
YORK, in almost every state where
money is collected to send missionaries
to China, Dowieites, Mormons and other
apostles of unpopular doctrines have
lnODh9d
killed, within the past year.
In Austria, which in default of SOL
dlers and sailors, is giving her moral
support TO the physical enforcement of
tolerance in China, tolerates no unau-
thorlzed preaching of any doctrine. re-
hSlouS or secular. Russia within the
past ten years has expelled thousands of
Jews and other dissenters from the
Great church from her borders, MANY
OF them under circumstances of afro
clous cruelty, and many even who had
porne arms and fought for the Car.
IN france and Germany for years an
tl-Semitic agitation has been going
on that has been accompanied from
time to time with mob violence and
murder.
Everyone of the Christian nations
now banded together to pronounce and
execute such summary judgment
against Chinese intolerance, has per-
mltted within her own borders quite as
much Intolerance, almost as much mob
violence, and perhaps only a little less
or murder arising out of the same hos
unity TO new doctrine or opinion. as
China has been guilty of.
Japan alone, so far as the record
shows, could pass the muster of our
Lords test Let him that is without
(thls) sin (of intolerance) among YOU.
cast the first stone" For Japan has
put all religions, both her old ones and
her new ones, on exactly the same
footing.
If the Chinese by the recent events in
emma have proved anything, it would
seem that they have proved their kim
snip with the rest of the world, and q
fellow feeling should make us wondrous
kind