The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-07-10

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not included in its general purpose.
England has rendered this service to
the people of India and the United
States is rendering the same service
to the people of the Philippines, while
both England and the United States
have been helpful to Japan and China
in this way. '.'., '..." -.
But the advanced nations cannot
content themselves with the confer
ring Of Incidental benefits, if they
would justify their leadership they
must put forth promotion Of welfare
Of the nations which lag behind. In
cidental benefit may follow even
though the real purpose of a nation
is wholly selfish one, for as the sale
of Joseph into Egypt, resulted in
blessings to his family, aud TO the
land of the Pharaohs, 50 captives
taken in war have sometimes spread
civilization and blacks carried into
slavery have been improved by con-
tact with the whites. But nations
cannot afford to do evil in the hope
that Providence will transmute the
evil into good and bring blessings out
Of sin. Nations, if they would be great
in the better sense of the term, must
intend benefit as we'll as confer it,
they must plan advantage, and not
leave the results to chance.
I take it for granted that our duty
to the so-called inferior races is not
discharged by merely feeding them in
times of famine, or by contributing
to their temporary support when
some other calamity overtakes them.
A much greater assistance is render
ed them when they are led to a more
elevated plane of thought and activ-
ity by ideals which stimulate them to
seafdevelopment. The Improvement
Of the people themselves should be
the paramount object in all intercourse
with the Orient.
Among the blessings which the
Christian nations are at this time
able-and in duty bound-,to carry to
the rest of the world, I may mention
five; education, knowledge Of the
science of Government, arbitration as
a substitute for war, appreciation of
the dignity of labor and high con-
ception of life.
Education comes first, and in moth
ing have the United States and Eng
land been more clearly helpful than
in the advocacy Of universal cduca-
ton. IF the designs of God are dis
closed by His handiworll, then the
creation of the human mind is indubi-
table proof that the Almighty never
intended that learning should be
monopolizcd by a few, and he arrays
himself against the plans Of Jeho-
vah, who would deny intellectual
training to any part Of the human
races 1t is a false civilization, not a
true one, that countenances the per-
manent separation Of society into
two distinct classes, the one encour-
aged to improve the mind and the
other condemned to hopeless ignor-
ance. Equally false is that concep-
tion Of international politics which
would make the prosperity Of one
nation depend upon the exploitation
of another. While no one is far sight
ed enough to estimate with accuracy
The remote, or even the immediate
consequences of human action, yet
as we can rely upon the principle,
that each individual profits rather
than loses by the progress and
prosperity of his neighbors, so we
cannot doubt that it is the advan-
tage of each nation that every other
nation shall make the largest posi-
BILE use of it's own resources and the
capabilities Of its people.
No one questions that Japan's in
fluence has been beneficent one
since she has emerged from litter
acy and endowed her people with
public schools open to all her boys
and girls. The transition from a pos
ition of obscurity into world power
was scarcely more rapid than her
transition from a menace into an ally.
China is entering upon similar ex-
perience and am confident that her
era Of reform will make her, not a
yellow peril, but powerful co-labor-
er in the international vineyard. In
India, in the Philippines, in Egypt
and even in Turkey statistics show a
gradual extension of education and