The Irish standard., 1901-10-12
mouth? Has he not heard of the Brit
fsh-made famineS in India. in'which #


Is computed that at least 27,OOO,O0O
Hindus have starved to death since
Anglo-Sa civilization, like sirocco,
has swept over that unfortunate coun-
try? India is forced to send millions
Of pounds sterling each year to re.
plenish her masters Golfers, and to
witness her own population die of hun
ger in the midst of plenty. Christian
England is a curse to pagan India.
God save the people of India from the
inhumanity of Anglo-Saxon domina-
ton. But will allow Englishmen to
say more than enough to condemn
their foreign missions as fiat failures
elm India, with its great population of
350,000,O00, the number of converts
made by the Church Missionary socl.
ETY., after more than a century's labors,
is $780, although no fewer than
1924 agents are at work. How many
of these converts are genuine is diff.
ferent matter. ''-Reynolds' Newspaper
London. Mr. Seymour Keay writes
of the decentralization of the people un-
der British rule: Gas to the democrat
izing effect of our control on the char
acter of the natives, we have presented
to us the most fearful confederation
of what was asserted by Shore and re-
iterated by Campbell. Both these
11o Sot +1,o Ia,
native states are under our control,
the more marked is the depreciation
of native character. In the course of
a few years we have succeeded in de-
stroying whatever of truthfulness and
honesty they have by nature and sub
shutting in it's place trickery, chican-
cry and fraud. Our whole system of
law, government and education tends
to make the natives clever, irreligious
and litigious scamps. No man can
trust another "-Nineteenth Century.
July, 1888.
Another eminent witness, DR.. Bow
ring, thus arraigns his own country:
'We boast that we are a civilized, re-
ligious and instructed country. What
of all these blessings have we con-
ferred upon India? We have boosted
of our religion. Have we impaired
any Of it to the natives of India? No,
alas! We hear much more of the
complainings of these poor natives
than of their gratitude"
w. S. Caine, M. F., in the Birming-
ham Daily Post, February IA, 1889,
gives this opinion of England's at
tempt to Christianize India: "Edu-
Gated India is looking for religion,
but turns it's back on Christ and His
teaching as presented by the mission
airy. AS far as turning the young
men they educate into Christians their
(the missionaries failure is complete
and unmistakable."
What savage race has Professionalism
civilized?
We now pass on to Japan, Of which
Rev. Hambly boasts: "In half Il CEN
tury Japan, under Anglo-Saxon, and
principally Protestant teaching, has
become a world-power." Let me sug-
gest that ancient Rome became Il
world power, and yet it was Pagan to
the core. Will the gentleman come to
the point? Has the Protestant mis-
sionary system Christianizcd or civil
lied Japan? Emphatically no.
MI. Francis Freeman, who lives in
Japan, writes: '"rhere are at present
independent Protestant churches in ia
pan; but in the first place their Chris
tianity has become so vague that it
can hardly be called Christianity ut
all; and in the second place they are
not making headway." A Japan writ
er says: IF we ask tho amount of
real faith in Christianity in the coun-
try, the aswer must be discouraglng."
Whatever progress Japan has made in
material things is evidently due not to
Anglo-Saxon teaching alone, but to
European and American influences.
What savage race has Professionalism
civilized? At Rev. Hambly's request
we have considered his system Of civlli-
zntion in Africa, India and Japan, and
we have found it wanting. He Dis Ger
tainly entitled to all the consolation
hn can derive from those countries
II we come nearer home, and study
his policy among the Indians of Amer
lea, we will find the same bitter fruits.
1t is Ezra G. Seaman, a Protestant
writer, in his work, 1.-The American
System of Government" who thus re,
cords the same sad story that has been
verified everywhere: "With our boast
ed free institutions, Protestant ciyiliza-
ton and exclusive spirit, keeping our
Indians at arms length, we have sue
ceeded in half-civllizing about 100000
during the period Of $50 years (the
100000 left after the determination Of
all the others), whilst our Spanish
American neighbors, with the aid of
the Catholic priesthood by mixing
with and intermarrying with the Ind-
ans, extending to them the civilizing
agencies of law and government have
subjected to law, to Gospel, Catholic
civilization and to some degree of reg
ular industry and raised to higher