The Irish standard., 1901-10-12
Facts and Figures from Reliable Sources
Have Convinced Him of His
Mistaken Views.
How Professionalism Has Utterly Failed to
Civilize Savage Races the
Wide World Over.

tuuSuC us TO EfC up our hands to
heaven in prayer, and while we I'D
this you have stolen our lands from
under our feet" But Rev. Hambiy
seems satisfied with the spiritual con-
ditlon Of Hawaii because that country
furnished commercial trade with
San Francisco alone of $5OO,OOO an
nually." He should bear in mind that
the work of the Christian missionaries
Is not to establish profitable trade re-
lations with heathen peoples, but to
teach them ''to seek first the Kingdom
Of God" Hls loyalty to the Anglo
Saxon ideal of civilization, CONNER
cial gain, has led him to lose sight Of
the controlling motive In Christlanity's
mission to the hcathen. What savage
race has Professionalism civilized? In
answer to my charge that Protestant
Ism tends to exterminate the barbar-
GUS people among whom 1t works,
Rev. Hambly writes: II would direct
my friend to the whole of South Afri-
ca, to India and to Japan" gladly
accept the Invitation, and to those
countries we shall go to witness tho
workings Of his policy. First, let us
take n glance ut Afrlca and find that
there, rs elsewhere, one must speak
Of the natives in the past tense. OF the
three native races in Africa, the Bush,
men, the Hottentots and the Kafflrs;
two, the Bushmen and the HottentotA
have already vanished under the de-
structive power of Protestant methods.
1t cannot be that the reverend gentle
man wishes to attract attention to
the humane methods of the Anglo
Saxon in giving the Beers the bless
ings Of his civilization! OF course, the
atrocities committed in the conduct Of
his altruistic mission are merely for
the good of the benighted people who
are being despoiled of something
which he 80 ardently covets! 1t Is an
open secret that lust for the diamond
mines has set his heart aglow with
the desire to better the condition of
their possessors. After putting the
natives hors de combat this magnani-
nous clvilizer is willing to bear the
''white mans burden in the despoiL
ment of his white neighbors. 1t was
ever thus. Let commercial opportu-
nifty present itself, and he ls always
ready to shoulder his gun for the sal
walton of souls.
Sir III. FL. Johnson, the British spe-
cial commissioner for Uganda, Prot
estant, and man of many years. ex-
perience in Africa, testifes to the low
moral condition to which the British
missionary policy has brought the peo-
pie Of Africa. (Nineteenth Century for
November, 1879 1T is not in the
spread of Christianity that our Afri-
can missions at present base their
claims to our gratitude, respect or
support" "In many important dis
tricts where they have been at work
for twenty years, they can scarcely
number in honest statistics twenty
sincere Christians" "In
other parts of Africa, principally Brit
ish possessions, where large numbers
Of nominal Christians exist, their reli.
glon is discredited by numbering
among It's adherents all the drunkards,
liars, rogues and unclean livers of the
colony" "In the oldest of our West
African possessions all the unrepent-
ant Magdalens Of the chief city are
protesting Christians"
What savage race has Professionalism
civilized?
Again, let US look at India, to Rev.
Hambly's hearts content. What do
we see there, but spoliation, degrada-
tion and determination. In that op-
pressed land the Protestant British
policy operates on the principle that
"the only good Indian is dead one"
There the Anglo-Saxon is doing his ut.
most at his game of plunder and race
obliteration. His many wars Of exter-
mination are the foulest blots on his.
tory's page. Does Rev. Hambly forget
the horrid spectacle of the Anglo-saxon
shooting sepoys from the cannon's