The Saint Paul globe., 1900-08-06
g|)NEUaIJS YS. CHRIST
SO REV. VIZ O. IlAUBE CHARACTER
1zEs THE present WAR
bl- IN4CHINA
MISSIONARIES NOT BLAMED
Present RESOLUTION Arises From
Causes iSeparate and Distinct
FrOhF That of Religion,
a =He Says.

Rev. w. c: LAube, at the Bethlehem Ger
man Presbyterian church yesterday. dis
cussed topic of current interest, dis
coursing upon the "Crisis in China" Mr..
Laube took the view that the existing
trouble in China was the last struggle
OF an effete system of religion and civics
against the advance of Western civiliza-
ton. He did not believe, however, that
the Bible could be carried into China on a
hrupp gun or that the cross at the mast
head of battleships would Chlistianize the
heather Chinee. He asserted, however,
that following the adjustment of the pres
ent dlft1culty in China, a new morning of
better things re1fgiously and morally
would dawn in China. The recent admo-
milton of the. German emperor to his
troops that. they should give no quarter
TO the Chinese. indicated that revenge
was uppermost in the minds of the people.
He believed, however, that the Christian
solution of the situation would be to
police the country at the principal cities,
and avoid bloodshed as much as possible
Christian nations committed many exces-
ses III CHINA, and conlInercialism was in
a measure responsible for the existing
500 Protestant missionaries, and 700 Cath
Ollie priests, had been sent to China, it
could We'll be claimed that America and
the Christian nations of the world had
scarcely done their duty.
1t was claimed in many quarters, the
speaker said, that the Chinese nation did
not want the gospel. Even assuming that
the assertion was true, the scriptural in
junction, go ye into all the earth and
teach all natIOnS could not ha ignored
by Christians of the twentieth century.
And Christian people have scarcely done
their duty toward China. Upon the basis
of the number of, missionaries in China,
but one is allowed for every quarter of
a million of5peopie. There are less than
1,3OOO coo of the 400 900 that are converts
from the heather system, of which 100000
are protestants, and 100000 Catholics.
The progress of, the nations was too
great, too PRONOUNCED, and too far ad-
vanced to abandon China. No nation
could live to Itself, but in spreading the
gospel and Christian civilization it was
important that the methods of Mahomet
should not be followed. BY fire and sword,
the old idioriif of tfie followers of Mahomet
could not apply If this century
Mr.. Laube1 emphasiz the necessity for
great effortein China by the churches CT
civilized lands2 following the settlement
of the present troub e. He predicted that
an easy solution would be found unless
unforeseen complications developed, max
ing bloodshed inevitable. SChina's 100000
900 should be looked after by the churches
of Christian lands and the future should
be marked for renewed work and Chris
tan effort ifi='the Orient. = Mr. Laube re-
pudiated the statement that the mission
aries were to, blame for the trouble. 1t
was a revolution brought about to an
extent by conditions which the mission
aries had nothing TO do with. China's
SYSTEM had long since outlived itself, and
for LOCO years was. insufficient to reno
vate the empire and give it the light