The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-10-14
The Evolution of a
Heathan Nation or a
Little SermOnette on
PEACE Ind WAR.I

derful progress Japan has made IN re-
cent wears along certain lines, gives
a sly dig at our so-caIed civilized ma
tiOns.
Indeed, It seems TO Is thai Mr..
Havashi hits Us almost a solar plexus
blow.
He says that for twenty-five hun
dred years the japanese have been
|. the very best farmers in all the world
On little piece of arabic land not
bigger than the little state of New
jersey, and not any more fertile, the
japanese farmers have managed 70
abundantly feed a population of 40,-
OOO, 900 souls.
While sixty per cent of the pOPula-
ton were engaged in the peaceful
employments Of agriculture and made
a garden of fair Japan, the other
forty Der cent were engaged in mer-
chandising and manufacturing and in
studying the arts and sciences and
all these departments were assuccess-
ful as the sixty per cent who were
employed in agricultural and pastoral
pursuits.
In those twenty-five hundred years
Japan produced painters, sculPtors,
poets and authors OF renOwn and
philosophers Of no mean distinction.
A. early a. the sixteenth century,
Mr.. Hayashi says there were printed
in japanese the fables Of Esop. He
makes this observation in1proof Of
the intellectually Of the japanese
But in ali those twenty-five centu-
ries or % long a those patient and
industrious people cultivated the arts
OF peace. and speeded its white wing
ed messenger. Japan was styled by
all christian and occidental peoples
a. a heather nation and it. forty
millions inhabitants but little remov-
ed from bar5arism.
But a. soon a. the statesmen OF ia
pan tooka peep al our western methods
and began the manufacture or gun
powder. muskets and swords, and
built battleships and torpedo boats,
and organized an army and a navy.
and put itself on a powerful war foot
ing. and began a carnival OF slaugh-
ter and death on land and sea, red
dening its waters and its fields with
human gore, and filling its homes with
sad faced women weeping for their
dead. Mr.. Hayashi naively says, you
Occidentals meaning Us good chris
tians who claim that We march under
the banner of the Prince Of Peace'')
say to Us YOU have now civilized your
selves and won a place in the ranks
of civilized nations!'
Mr.. Hayashi's soft rebuke is ex-
quisitely put.
1t Is not true that we are soldiers
of the cross. 1t l. not true that we
love peace better than war. Our ut
terances and our performances belle
our professions of faith. We deceive
ourselves in believing that we are a
christian people and delight to walk
in the steps of the Man of Galilee.''
In the simplicity and loftiness of
speech, and in his manner of living,
the nearest earthly approach TO the
teachings OF Christ we must cite TO Lo-
gan. the untutored Indian chieftain.
Here are his memorable words:
Il appeal to any white man to say
if he ever entered Logan's cabin hun
gry, and he gave him not meat; if
ever he came cold and naked, and he
clothed him not"
Yet, the broken faith of his chris
tan teachers made this man, capable
of this speech, glut his revenge for
his slain kith and kin, in red handed
war.
No, we are not christians except in
profession and name.
Christ never marched with a sword
at his side nor a musket on his shout
der. He had no army nor navy and
never fought a battle nor raised the
ensign OF war. He was not a warrior
and the business of war was not hi:
mission on earth.
re did not breathe the spirit of war
did not advocate it, nor justify it.
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