The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-08-12
MUST GO TO EAST
WITH CLEAN HANDS
Or. King Declares West Must
Present Its Best Side to Re-
form the Far East.

The Orient can not be considered a
dumping ground for things outworn in
tho West, and if the Occident is going
TO do its full duty to the yellow race
il must offer its best in religion, morals
and commerce, according to DR.. Henry
Churchill King, President of Oberlin
College, in an address last evening at
the Central Union church. Doctor
Kings subject was the program of
western civilization in the East. His
audience was large and attentive.
Doctor King declared also that near
ly all real good accomplished by Anglo
Saxon people in the Far East has been
through religious and economic move
ments, and that religious work has been
the principal line of approach in the
spread of western civilization in the
Orient.
"The principles of Christianity" he
went on to say, "underlie all the prin-
ciples of western civilization, and our
political principles had their origin in
/ Christianity. In the case of the spread
of western civilization in the East com
merce has taken the lead, and religion
as world movement must accompany
economic movements.
| "Western civilization was introduc.
1sd in the East for commercial reasons,
and, for the most part, by force. The
compulsorYa opening of Japan was for
commercial, reasons, and the religious
movement Followed the. commercial.
"The East had it's choice between
two alternativesAthe adoption of west.
ern inventions and education or sub
ordination and exploitation. Western
education is absolutely essential to tho
preservation of national existence by
the Japanese and Chinese.
-" After a careful study of conditions
in the. Fast / am thoroughly convinced
| that China is in earnest in the mat
ter of taking on western civilization. -
Doctor King asserted his belief that
Americans were not showing the best
side of their civilization in dealing
with the Orient, also that the true
western civilization is misrepresented
there.
Japan is suffering greatly from ex.,
aggerated blame as a reaction from
exaggerated praise, continued Doctor
| King. The Japanese are justly proud
of the fact that they have accomplish
ed in fifty years what it took European
nations two thousand years to achieve
| Christianity has never taken real hold
upon the japanese Modern science
and invention are used as sort of
garb by them, and they put on Chris
tianity mechanically.
Doctor King declare further that
the East must find religion that will
withstand the scientific test, and that
he believed oriental peoples would
eventually adopt Christianity. He be-
lieyes that if the western world is to
uplift the East, it must be more Chris
tian in its dealings with the East.
cit is not so much question whcth-
or we exploit the East as whether we
lose our best in our dealings with the
East, he added. 90 Booker T. Wash
ington once said that one man could
not keep another man in the ditch
without staying in the ditch himself
No nation can keep another nation in
the ditch without staying in the ditch
ITSELF
Doctor King win deliver another adj
dress at the Central Union church, next
Sunday evening. and will answer such
questions as may be asked by persons
in the audience.