Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1900-08-30

Why not let the Chinese alone:
Countless millions Of them have lived
and died happily In their religious be.
liefs. Why unsettle them? VIII;
make skeptics OF Mussulmans who de.
voutly believe in Allah and Prophet
Mahomet? They, too, lived and died
happy In their faith. Christians dc
not like to have their people honey
combed with doubt; nor do they like
to have even Mormons proselyte
among them. They would dislike
still more to have Mahometans, Con.
fucians, Buddhists, Brahmans, ETC.,
come over here to make converts.
Those foreign people look upon our
missionaries In the same light. They
don't want their children's traditional
faiths tampered with. They esteem
such efforts impertinence, infidelity
and sacrilege. Human nature is of
one stuff the world over, and it is nat
ural that they should feel precisely as
we do. Washington Press.
EDITORS REGISTER.
DEAR SIRs:-As you appear to en-
dorse the above sentiments, and in
quiry, you may be very patient with
the humblest attempt to reply to the
same. If the propriety of the lues-
tion was to be decided according to a
growing fashion, / should for one,
freely confess, though with shame,
that even 10 the land OF our pride
there is not only manifest tendency
toward Spanish bull fights, and a
Partisan Sabbath, but also a growing
tendency, which seems even more
british, besotted, and blasphemious,
IL possible, to compare hottentot re-
ligions, so-called, but really heather
filth In whatever haven found, with
Christianity; or In other words to
compare the authority Of the worst
pirate OF all the seas, and weakest
rebel Of all the nations, with the au-
thority of the infinite and omnipotent
Being. But this kind of pride strikes
me as being poor recommendation
for most any kind of a cocoanut. An
American citizen making an equal bow
to Turkish harem, African fetisch. and
to Christianity Is scene to be encored
by all the legions of devils inkabit-
ing all kinds Of swine. By whose
authority do the religions, so.called,
named In this inquiry, and every other
adulterous religions, so-called, speak
or even claim to speak? And by whose
authority do Christians speak? The
w. Press may not be able to see any
difference, even through a telescope.
Perhaps there are many who can see
no difference through either plug of
tobacco, keg Of beer, prize fight, or
Sunday excursion; but Christians,
without even boasting, can say that
we can even see that the difference is
infinite, In whatever way the children
of the devil In the dirtiest harem may
compare their authority with divine
authority. In this land Of Bibles it
should be no news that Christians
live, and labor Ia every land, home or
foreign, not according to the good will
or i'll will Of so-called religious votar-
les, or of nations, not according to the
likes or dislikes of friend or foe, and
not according to our own natural fan
cies or foibles, but according to the
command Of the Creator OF the Uni
verse; and that whatever floodtide OF
good will may be our portion in this
present time, we feel infinitely safer,
and happier defying the world, under
the shelter Of the cross OF Christ, than
we possibly could dishonoring tae
worlds Redeemer though holding in
our hands the worldly and time
honored sceptre of Satan's dominion
over all the nations of the earth.
This conversion is short and easy, and
ancient. 1t is the spirit of the confes-
sion of Peter and John in the first
century where the W. Press, or some
body else, called them to account for
similar grievance; and they said,
whether 1t be right In the sight OF
God, TO hearken unto you more than
unto God judge ye." As Christians
we have one favor and only one TO ask
of the world, which is not our request,
but. that request which the Savior
made, we ask in His name, that Chris
tianity be judged by its fruits, and II
Christianity has done more good for
any nation modern, or ancient, in
which its influence has been promi-
nent, than any other so-called religion
has ever done for any nation, 1t should
not be necessary to ask even the
"wayfaring man though fool' TO
thankfully, and devoutly accept the
most manifest teaching Of the worlds
history. WHO hath directed the
Spiritfof the Lord or being His coun-
selor hath taught Him? With whom
took He counsel, and who instructed
Him, and taught Him In the path Of
Judgment, and taught Him knowl-
aaca aud snnNed IN Him the way of