The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-04

Rev. Hampden c. DuBose. D. D., one Of
the most noted and scholarly of the mis-
| sionaries of the Southern Presbyterian
Church, preached two sermons in Mont
delivered to a large congregation In the
| lecture room of the First Presbyterian
| Church, Sunday morning at il o'clock,
| the second in the Central Presbyterian
| Church Sunday evening at 1880 o'clock.
| DIR. DuBose has devoted a large part of
| a useful life to missionary work in the
| Chinese Empire and has made careful
| study of the present conditions in that
| country. He has worked among the ma
| tives and is well informed as to the mis-
| sionary situation In Cathay. Both of his
sermons were delivered on Chinese sub
| jects.
In his morning sermon DR.. DpBose told
| of the conditions in China before the
Boxer uprising; how the missionaries
| struggled with those conditions; how the
| legations were defended. and the condi-
tions for missionary work after the fall
| of Pekin.
At the night service DIR. DuBose's sub
ject was "China's New Era" In this
sermon he followed up the idea of his
morning sermon and told how the condi-
tions in which the uprising made China
| fertile field for mission work.
characteristic" said DR.. DuBose at the
evening service. When We behold the
Patriarch of Nations who bears upon
his shoulders the weight of forty centu--
rieS yet whose eye Is unuinhneu. anu
| whose form is erect and step firm, we
| see the fulfillment of that first command
ment with promise to those who honor
| father and mother
Before the vastness of its population
| 400 O00,O00. a vast multitude beyond the
| grasp of the human intellect. we stand
| in awe as we contemplate their present
condition and future destiny.
I'VE see them, too, standing as solid
! mass, not as the aborigines of America
! or the scattered tribes of Africa, but as
one great people, with a common life,
sweeping through its millions and com
mon thought controlling its numbers The
Chinaman is not an individual as the
American, but is only a cog in the great
/ social wheel which revolves round and
round.
Here. too, are these hundreds of mil.
lions who, by reason Of the constant
.ygIe for existence have been
its Of economy and industry who
I the civilization of the West. >and as one
| fourth of the Inhabitants OF the giobe
are to become competitors In commerce
| and manufactures. They, too, possess
| civilization Of a very high order. To dress
they have given more attention than any
/ people who have ever existed. In hnance,
| whether considered as bankers or mer-
! cha nts they take the chief seats among
commercial men, and the influence of the
| China trade is felt across the seas
THE nation has for millennums given
! special attention to literature, and by
| their civil service examinations men rise
to office. Also the teachings of the sages
| have filtered down among the people and
| become their intellectual warp and wool.
The glory of the nation is their high
| ethical system.
During the ages of the past they have
| been perfectly satisfied with their attain
| ments but in recent years four new pow
| ers have been brought to bear upon the
Countrywide power of arms, the power
| of commerce. the power OF science anu
| the power of religion.
six years ago they were conquered by
| the Japanese. people inhablting coun-
| try no larger than one of its eighteen
| provinces who sent over an army COM
| posed of 'pigmy dwarfs. as they con-
| temptuously called them and routed their
| undisciplined forces. Thus this little
island country became the teacner OF the
| the closest alliance being formed between
I the two countries.
Recently three events have been pow
erful in forwarding the cause of Chris
| tianity In the land. The one is the siege
| of Pekin. Christian England ana Chrls-
| tian America sat at ease in reference 70
the great nation across the Pacific when
| God permitted the Boxers TO seize the
representatives of the great powers aud
, place them under hot shot and shell for
| eight long weeks. turing which time such
volume of prayer in behalf OF China
! ascended to heaven as the church has
| never known before.
The second IS the persecution of the
| native church during which hundreds
and Thousands of those who mad recently
| been brought into the Christian church
| stood faitlf unto death when they had
| only to recant ami their lives would have
! been spared. This has demonstrated the
stability Of the church in China and that
| no wear of man can shake its founda-
! lions. 1t has also caused the native
| Christians to he held up to the admiring
! gaze OF the whole of Christendom.
! THE third is the martyrdom of the
! missionaries. During the past century
| Till next to it's closing year only one hun
dred and thirty missionaries on the islef
| of the sea and amidst the savage tribes
| of Africa had been called upon to lay
| Cwn their lives, JIt during July and Au-
| gust. 1900 in China alone. 1888 Of
! these 1856 were adults and 90 were chill
dren-were numbered among the martyr
| Of Jesus As the blood Of the martyrs
is the seed Of the church and as this
seed has been broadcast on China's plains
we may expect very large harvest dur
| ing the next few years
9The special charges that are noticed in
| China are the breaking down of the great
| wall Of prejudice and the springing up
| of a teachalEe spirit. There IS COM
ple revolution in the mental recpuvity
| Of the people Whereas before they were
| proud and had need Of nothing they now
| call to the West. Come over and teach
| us
| aminations have proved foe 20 progress
! but by the cd.ct Of the Emperor western
science and literature have been inroduc-
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