The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-02-21
SAYS RELATION OF |. $. WITH CHINA SHAMEFUL DE. SMITHS STRONG WORDS AT MISSIONARY CONFER
 ENCE.

Declares We Have a Treaty With China
 and Have Not Kept It--Confronted
 by the Greatest Asiatic Problem
 Since the Time of Napoleon Because
 1t Involves the Whole of Europe
 China Now Moving Faster Than Any
 Country in the World.
 Hartford, Feb. 20.-At the missionary conference held here under the auspices of the American Board of Foreign Mis- sions at Center church this afternoon Rev. A. H. Smith. D. D., of the North China mission, delivered an address in which he discussed the relations be- tween the Occident and the Orient. He said, ill part:
 New America is matched by new Asia. In the past the relation between the east and the west has been a very wrong one, because it has been the re- lation of the superior talking to the race he inwardly despised
 The Chinese are a great people and they have come to consciousness. Ten years have made great difference in Asia. There has been more develop ment in China and Japan than in the United States, and China is moving faster than any other country on the face of the globe. If you wish trade of the Orient you have got to go there to get it. There is going to be great change in the constitutional govern ment and great revolution in the east. It is going to be commercial, industrial and political but 1t will also be q moral revolution. If you want to do any good to the Oriental people you must use your utmost effort to bring moral force to bear.
 "The relation of the United States with China has been shameful. We have made a treaty with China and have not kept it. We are confronted with great Asiatic problem-the greatest since the time of Napoleon, be- cause it involves not only Europe, but the whole world.
 | China is going to the front. The | Pacific ocean is now a great Mediter- ranean; the Atlantic has been abandon | ed for the Pacific. Where will you gc after that? Nowhere The whole world has been discovered. It Is not by talk, | ing the constitution of the United States and bringing it into China, and 1 talking about the great and glorious republic, that we are going to elevate them. We are going to elevate them by saying that we believe i'll the golder rule. They have one, too. It Is: Dc not unto others what you would moi have them do unto you The United States has not lived up to this rule We want in our international relations to live the golden rule and to implani in the Chinese people the idea that God the Supreme Ruler, is Father of man kind; that we are His children anC must do His work in His way and Illus trate 1t in our own life. If we want tt influence China we must do that.
 You remember In 1872 Yu Wins brought over choice company of Chi nese, they all went through New Eng land and they were New Englander and Americans, These are the mel who are making the new China Dr. Smiths address was followed b! a discussion of the work of the Micro neslan mission by Rev. Irving M. Chap man, a member of the board.
 This evening Dr. Smith told of hi experiences in China. Other speaker were Rev. Dr. w. E. Gritils, of Utica | N. Y, who spoke on '"The New Japan, and Secretary c. H. Patton, of tn American Board of Foreign Missions Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, D. D., pre- sided.