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India and to Japan. Arthur T. Pierson,
in his "Criss of Missions" says the
Spanish and Portuguese, after operating
for a century on the island of Japan,
displayed a dsdain for the natives"
Their lordly assumptions and arrogance
awakened diStrust on the part of the ma
tives, and when Failxo Sama sent an
embassy to Rome to ask the supreme
pontiff how it was that their king pos
SeSSed himself of one-half of the world
he unwisely replied that he sends
priests to win the people, he then sends
troops to join the native Christians and
the conquest is easy In 1887 Faiko de-
creed the Punishment of all missionaries
and the next year twenty-three priests
We're put to death in day" Japan
closed her gates to all foreign influence
until in 1852 Commodore Perry entered
her ports and demanded an inroad for
American civilization. In half a century
Japan, under Anglo-SaXon and principal
ly Protestant teaching, has become a
world-power. In the Canadian Northwest
every Catholic tribe of Indians has been
in revolt against the government while
every Protestant tribe has been loyal.
And what is more, the priesthood of
that country aided and abetted Louis
Riel in both instructions, while on the
other hand the Canadian premier, Sir
John A. Mcdonald, was led to say pub
licly that ''the presence of one Protest
ant missionary, the Rev. George Nc
Dougal, was of greater worth to the
Dominion in the preservation of peace
| agree with my brother that the he-
roic self-sacrifice of the priesthood should
draw forth the strongest admiration.
The same can be said of Protestant mis-
sionaries who have gone forth without
comfort, homeless companionleSS, wife
less. Such as that greatest of all figures.
Livingston into Africa. In fact, all de-
nominations are enrolled in this list of
WORTHLESS. Even to the Salvation Army
the greatest living evidence OF self-renun-
citation since the birth of the Christian
church.
l think I have presented enough of
argument to show that the Spanish civ
has always been corrupt and
that it is today dead thing. That it
has dropped out into the ash-pit. of time
to be remembered only for it's Supersti-
ton, nhumanity, immortality. and utter
incapability of racial advancement.
Why Rev Lawler should, while living
in the midst of the most advanced civil
ization that the world has ever seen.
and enjoying all the blessings of the
same, place premium on civilization
that has been murderous, treacherous,
immoral and saturated with crime from
its highest source to its lowest, and
discount our own, is more than | or the
reading public can understand. Frater-
nally. Thomas Hambly.
EDITORS NOTE-Mr. Hambly seems
to overlook certain facts. Even though
the 10 b e S report was inaccurate,
letter over his own signature was subse-
quently published making corrections
according to his own pleasure and Xix
ing; and, therefore, Father LAWYERS let
ter was written, not simply with the
G o b e S report, but with Mr. Ham
bly's corrections, also, before him. It.
therefore, follows that, if Father LAWYER
ignored Mr.. Hambly's letter an injustice
was done the latter; but, on the other
hand, if he fully recognized it and gave
it fair place in his mind when COM
batting Mr.. Hambly's utterances, an es-
cape by way of what he claims to be
1.-The thoughtlessness of a green reporter
who, in his eagerness to spring sensa-
lions deliberately charges" (him) me
with things that I never uttered is not
open to Mr.. Hambly However that
may be, the discussion is of a nature
not suitable to the columns of the
G o b e; and they are, therefore, closed
against it's continuance.