Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-03-29
CHINESE MINISTER WI
Gritioizes Racial Prejudice and Re
ligious Intolerance.
ARE MONSTERS OF BARBARIsM."

He Cannot Recall War Between China
and Any of Her Neighbors Wnged
For the Propagation of Any ReIig-
ion or the Enslavement of a People.
New York, March PA public meet
ing under the auspices of the Baron
and Baroness de Hirsch association
was held last night in Calvary Baptist /
church. this city The attendance was (
very large. Gen. Thomas L. James /
presided.
The object of the association is to
erect a monument to the Hirsches and
eliminate racial prejudice and religious
intolerance Many Hebrews as well as
Chinese were present.
The pastor of the church, the Rev.
DR. r. S. Macarthur appeared on the
platform accompanied by WI Ting
Fang, the Chinese minister, and the
other speakers.
After the singing and the reading of
a scripture lesson by Dr.. Macarthur
and prayer by Rabbi Silverman, Gen.
James made an address.
Letters of regret were read from
President Mckinley and Vice President
Roosevelt.
WI Ting Fang then spoke. He said
it was needless for him to say that he
/ was heartily in sympathy with a move
! ment to eradicate racial prejudice.
Put when the secretary of this as
/ sociation went on to tell me" he said,
that the meeting was to be held in
. 10 1a If
that eminent divines were also to
speak l felt a little nervous, and l re-
membered that | had a previous en-
gagement which would prevent my
coming. So l was obliged to decline.
But the secretary wrote me that the
meeting, which was originally set for
last month, had been postponed. He
said it had been postponed until
would come, and that l must come"
The minister then produced a man
uscript and read his address. He said
in substance:
Racial prejudice and religious in
tolerance are two monsters of bar
barism. In former days they seemed
to stalk abroad hand in hand setting
nation against nation, people against
people. The world was in constant
turmoil, although the west suffered the
most. What did the crusades accom-
plish but to infiict untold suffering.
upon Christians and Mohammedan!
alike? Among the most destructive
instances of such persecution was tina
of the HuguenOts in France and thu
expulsion of the Moors from Spain.
Such things, l am happy to say, ar
no longer tolerated, although in man,
countries the laws still discriminate
against the Jews or other classes on ac
count of race or religion It is re
markable, however, how little Their
. has been of these two evils among tn
= eastern peoples | cannot recall wa
between China and any of her neigh
bOrs waged for the propagation of an
= religion or the enslaVement of peopl,
: The way to remove these evils
to remove the cause. Most men fea
: and hate what they dc not know
Some men don't like snakes, but whe
naturalist studies them closely h
finds that most of them are harmless
and that even those that are venom
3 Gus are comparatively harmless
handled right"
4 The minister said that the progres
z, of civilization continually broadens tn
Il minds of men, and the most highl
s civilized men sympathize with the as
4 pirations of all races. AS examples h
e named Lincoln, Wilberforce, Clat
e stone, Alexander II OF Russia an
l. Baron and Baroness de Hirsch.
e Other speakers We're Rev. Heb,
D. Newton, Rev Joseph Silverman, Re
Charles T. Walker (colored), Rev. D
l McArthus, Rev c. H. Eaton and Re
Samuel Schulman. Edwin Markha
y read an original poem.