Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-02-08
MANKIND MUST AND WILL HAVE
BOTH FAITH AND FREEDOM

man ever conceived. the French Revo-
luton In the midst of which Madame
Roland exclaimed, 20 Liberty, what
crimes are committed in thy name,'
ought to have taught the world lesson
about lawless freedom which it could
never forget.
The spread of popular institutions
throughout the earth will be perilous to
the race unless christian motives to sus-
tain and direct such institutions are pro-
pagated as rapidly as these ideas of
freedom advance. 1.-The Young Turks"
with a parliament may do more harm
than the old Sultan with his harem and
manifold diabolism; they are many and
he was but one. The despotism of mob
ocracy is vastly more dangerous than
the oppression of monarchy. The
world knows how to deal with the Chi
nese Empire as at present existing and
operating; but who shall say what would
come to pass II the four hundred mill
lions of heather Chinese fell to voting
and setting up leaders under some such
slogans as "China for the Chinese" and
Death to the Foreign DEVILS? We
have seen what few demagogues on the
Pacific Coast can do to embroil our whole
nation; what If they were answered on
the other side of the world by goddess
themselves? And they will be thus an
swered as soon as popular government
in China has been set up. The rulers of
Japan are more sensitive towards us than
are those of China just in proportion to
the more popular character of the jap
anese government. THE Yellow PERIL
of the near future will not be weak
Japan; it will be great and mighty China,
aroused from the slumber of centuries
and frenzied with a new sense Of free
dom and power.
AS the political bonds of the nations
are relaxed the moral bonds must be
strengthened, or the freedom of the
world will fan the passions of the race
into a worldwide conflagration.
French revolution of planetary proper
tions is both possible and probable, If the
peaceful principles of christianity are not
spread as rapidly as its forces of free
dom move. Partial christianity is more
perilous than paganism, If 1t be not in
truth a sort of paganism. A prescription
most skillfully compounded for giving
health may become a deadly poison II
some of it's constituents be left out.
The world needs a more christian
christianity in christendom and a more
rapid PRONUNCIATION of this christianity 10
all lands. 1t is clear that the crowns
are coming off the heads Of earthly po-
tentates, or IL left on their heads that
they are to be much dimmed by the cur
tailment of the ancient prerogatives which
they have symbolized hitherto. But man.
kind must have a ruler to whom to look
Anarchy can not be the means of re-
gaining the lost Paradise of the race.
We can not break into the golden age OF
universal peace by the attacks of bowling
mobs deifying liberty and abdicating rea-
son. Nor can we climb into II as the
builders of Babel undertook to scale the
walls of heaven; no political structure
which men can erect can bring them any
thing but confusion of tongues II God is
not enthroned in their hearts. The aspi
ration for universal peace can only be
fulfilled by the recognition of the Prince
of Peace: the longing for liberty can be
satisfied only by the acceptance of HIM
of whom It was said, eff the Son shall
make you free, you shall be free indeed
There has not arisen among men any
one fit for universal dominion but Jesus.
Alexander dreamed of 1t and died drunk
at Babylon. Napoleon entertained the
thought, and showed himself incapable or
ruling in purity his own household. Only
the Son of Man has shown Himself en-
titled to reign over men and capable OF
giving them good government by His rule.
If mankind can not take his law as the
the earth; only the religion of Christ Is
of worldwide application. Buddhism and
Brahminism are Oriental. and can not
pass over the seas to the West. Mo-
hamedanism is ethnic and immoral,
stricken with paralysis in the home of its
wild designations and horrid cruelties.
The systems of modern philosophy have
no more staying power or life giving quar-
tiles than the theories of Aristotle. or the
speculations Of Plato; they entertain a
small class of academies in the lands
where they are most esteemed and inf1u-
ence inappreciably the masses of the
people
BY every token our world Is shut up
to be a Christian world or a religionless
world; and II 1t is going to be a relig-
ionless world 1t can not be a free world.
The worldwide movement towards popr-
lar government must be accompa MEL by
worldwide spread of christian life and
doctrine, or IL will end I'm disaster and q
return to despotism.
Men can not afford to go back to des-
potism; they must go forward TO ~nrist's
reign. The hope of mankind Is In the
modern missionary movement therefore.
This movement issues from the free land
of christendom,-mos from England
and the United States. This is as 1t should
be. Since these nations have been tina