The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-05-05
LESSON OF THE CRISIS.
Missionary from China on Meaning
of Events.
THE NEED OF REGENERATION APPARENT
Nothing But Conversion Can Save the
Heather Empire and Avert
a Flood OF Evils.

byterian church Oh the subject OF Inc
Present Crisis in China.
He took his text from the 10th verse OF
the 52d chapter Of Isaiah: THE Lord hath
made bare His holy arm in the eyes %
al. the nations and all the ends OF the
earth shah SEE the salvation Of our God
In opeulng. he said the present events
In China sgnifed TO the Christian that the
ctorturning of the present order OF things
meant the making way for the reign OF
the Son Of Righteousness, whose right IL
u q rule
He said many complex problems were
presented by the present conditions IN
Chisa, all of which however, arose from
one common cause and the question OF
their solution was involved Ia the 'proper
Understanding Of that cause and the ap-
pllcation of the remedy This cause OF
al! the troubles 10 China was the Intense
hatred which the Chinese entertained Tor
foreigners OF all classes and everything
tlut was foreign. But this, he said, had
not always been the case.
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Then, going back into the history OF
China. he reviewed the question of their
relations with the nations Of Europe In
connection with events which had trans
pred centuries ago.
He referred first to the first notable visit
OF q European to China, wien Marco Poo
was first entertained by tho Chinese en-
pcror In The Thirteenth century. The en-
pcror received him graciuusly allowed him
the privilege of visiting every town In the
empire aud through MIN sent TO the pope
an Invitation to send a hundred mission
aries 10 teach the people the mysteries Of
the Christian religion This suggestion, he
continued, was nor acted upon and IT was
not untll the Sixteenth century that the
pope took active steps In this direction.
1hcn missions were established In Cnina
and the JeSults placed in charge. great
many of them went 10 that country and
they were treated With every considerations.
But they began to take sides In the Strug
gle between different dynasties and the
suspicious of the people were aroused, The
Chinese saw the JeSuits riding over the
country In sedan chairs, distinction which
had hitherto been accorded only to Chi
uese rulers of the highest rank, and, see
ing the activity of the foreign priests In
their domestic nnnlls, began to ask II
the Jcsuits were not merely using their
religion as n cloak for other purposes, and
lf. Instead Of desiring the advancement
OF their religion. they were not seeking tn
SOW discussions among the Chinese and to
make way for the coming OF European
armies aud the overthrow nf the empire.
| This suspicion had taken such strong hold
upon the minds of the Chinese people that
| from that day forward they began TO mis-.
trust Europeans Of all kinds and classes,
/ III.
the greatest difficulties which the mission
ary OF the present day had to deal with
was this suspicion which had become So
rocted in the Chinese mind that nothing
| could remove IT, The speaker had been
| frequently asked how much the emperor
of America paid him for representing his
country n China. II seemed impossible
missionaries were not working in the in
terest of their respective nations.
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Then. following the history of events.
he related bow, IN 172ay She Jesults had
teen expelled front China by an edict Of
the emperor. and how they had since bee.
regarded with an aversion and hatred in
which all missionaries had shared and
which had grown steadily more intense
down TO the present time
Then he passed to the subject Of lcan.
ers and related how in the Eighteenth
century another class of Europeans had
made their adYcnt In China, the result OF
whose actions was to bring foreigners into
lisrepnto and Intensity the hatred already
lelt in emma for Europeans He said that
the leaders were class of men whose
commercial instincts moved them 10 sncri
nee everything 10 the desire to accum
ulate wealth.
lie told Of the beginning Of the opium
trahlc aud how Ii had been greed upon
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against the protests of their rulers until
In 1899 1t had been the cause OF wal
which resulted after the Chinese cities had
been hombarded In the negotiation of
treaty Of peace in which China was hunt,
lated and forced 10 pay heavy indemnity
not only to the British government. hui
10 the merchants who had been carrying
on the nefarlous traffic which had brought
so much misery upon the Chinese people.
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Coming down to more recent events be
rcfcmed to the receptions which had
been practiced upon the Chinese people
by which they had been made to believe
that the foreign ambassadors were the re
personalities Of tributary nations, until
the Chinese had become completely con
yinced that the foreigners were inferior
to the Chinese who had frst been taught
. hy the Jcsults to disregard European:
twlth suspicion and then with disrespec
until II was not to be wondered at thai
the general hatred Of the foreigners haC
resulted In the recent events.
He then referred to the manner In whlcl
the European nations had been making
ont the consent OF thc government appro
prlatlng ports and otherwise making them
selyes, odlous by hggressions which If com
mtted by foreign nations on the people o
o country Ike this could only inspire II
them Leslie, to drive the invaders Init
the sea, and This was Just exactly wha
| tht buNNtN were lTNlhE W w.
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Then summing an the facts of hstor!
and referring to the present conditions. tn
speaker said II had heen thoroughly dem
oustrated that China needed Regeneration
which could only be brought about by tn
| Christian religion. He answered the argu
ment that China should he let alone AM
left To her own religions by saving tina
their inefficaCy bad been fully demenstrat
cd In the present state OF the nation. a
well as In the lives OF individuals VIII
needed the regenerating influences of tn
| Christian religion. He quoted an eminen
| EnGiShman who had said that the pFcscn
condition was full OF peril to the ciViilZe
world and that the only hope WAS for tn
partition of China under conditions whlc
seemed 10 him Impossible or the miraculAtl
spread OF the Christian religion, whcl
seemed to him equally impossible
But the speaker referred 10 the zeal an
stcadfastneSs OF the native Christians 1
the present crisis aud thought that IN
spread of Christianity throughout the On
| pirc and the complete conversion OF tn
| people could easily he foreseen with m
| owes Of faith aud this would he but In
| fulhlIment Of the prophecy which had with
| In it's purview China. as well us all tn
, rest of the world
Death OF Miss Henrietta Cohen.
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