The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-04-09

Secretary OF the
Committee, announced that the Report
as a whole had been submitted to the
Association and was in the printers
hands, to appear in pamphlet form H.
Illustrated. 1t will shortly be procur-
able at the small price of FIVE cents per
copy, postpaid to any address-free to
the poor. The conclusion of the Re
port is in the nature of Summary,
which he read. We note some of its
more salient points, as follows
Summary of Report
Oriental Christians are about as sin
cere, intelligent and earnest as the
average of church attendants in Eu-
rope and America-few sanity.
Christianizing endeavors seem pref
ty generally to have ceasedl Present
missionary endeavors are almost exclu
sively along the line of secular educa
ton and medical aid.
There is less need of Academic and
Collegiate education, such as the mis-
sionaries forward, than for Common
Schooling. The general Common School
education could best be furnished by
the government and along unsectarian
lines, after the method followed under
the United States supervision in the
Philippine Islands. The tendency OF
the times in the Orient, as In the Occi-
dent, is toward unbelief In any religion
The Orientals are remarkably toler-
ant Of all religions, and are often per
picked at the Missionary competition.
and opposition between Christian de
nominations. They would accept Chris
tianity If it could demonstrate its su
periority.
Orientals are not heathen-sayages.
but their educated classes include
splendid specimens of noble manhood,
the moral and intellectual peers of Eu-
ropeans and Americans. The masses
of these people are less vicious, less
rude, more kind and considerable than
are the masses of Europe and Ameri
ca. Drunkenness and outward i'm
modesty are almost unknown.
Many Of the churches are self-sus-
tanning and the Orientals prefer to
have them so, as they desire native
affairs.
The very suggestion of the worlds
conversion is ridiculous to the peoples
of the East-including the Mission
aries. > The interest on $780,
100000, or the principal multiplied a
&har1 "A limo Oh r
tie except along the lines of secular
ducation-nothing as respects the
worlds conversion. Nothing short of
1.-The Kingdom of Gods dear Son" can
meet the issue.
Pastor Russell's discourse follows:
Pastor Russell's Hippodroms Address.
ASK of Me and toilI gire Thee the
heather for Thine Inheritance. and the
stteymost parts of the earth for Thy pos
session Psalm Ii, 8.
The prophetic words, addressed by
Jehovah to his Son, the Messiah, con
tinually required to my mind as
mingled with and observed the peoples
Of India, China, Japan and the Philip
pines during our recent World Tour
Then certain questions came before my
mind, which with their answers l will
place before you.
The first question was, Why do we
call these people heatheni They are
not barbarous, not savages, not lawless
people. Indeed, long centuries ago,
when osr forefathers were barbarians,
these had much Of the civilization
which they still retain. But, said
we call them heather because the BIZ
BILE so refers to them. Let us see how
and why the Bible uses this term and
what is its significance. In Bible
usage the word rendered heather is
Hons and Gentiles. For centuries 1t APP
piled to all peoples outside the little
nation Of Israel, because that one ma
ton had entered into Covenant-rela
tionship with God, and had become
His people, His dominion.
AL the other nations, not thus relat-
ed to God by Covenant, were styled
keetAes; all the outside nations were
aliens, strangers and foreigners from
the Covenants and promises made to
Israel And this same term continued
to be applicable after the coming of
Jesus. Even though the Gospel favor
which was originally offered to the
Jews, was later thrown open to Cor
nelius and all Gentiles, or heathens.
only those who accepted its terms, and
came into Covenant-relationshi with
God through the begetting Of the Holy
Epirit-only these, Israelites indeed,
are properly reckoned as members OF
spiritual Israel, Of whom st. Peter tells
US, rye are Royal Priesthood, holy
nation, a peculiar people" Conse.
Quently all others than Jews and Spir
itual Israelites are heathens, wheth
ef they live In the Orient or the Occi
dent.
Two Civilizations contrastsd.
Our second question was, On the
whole, to what extent is our Western
civilization, which is often called
Christian civilization, superior to that
Of the East?
Considerable could be said in favor
Of each. We who have been accus.
toned from childhood to Western
methods, customs, dress, ETC., prefer
our own, but the Eastern peoples evi
IDENTIFY prefer their own, and are 10th
to change to ours They are, however
now passively admitting the superior.
ity OF ours in that they are gradually
adopting our schooling system, mill
tary system, naval system and voting
system.
But in our contrasting the two civil.
cations, are we not apt to forget that
the very features of our civilization
which are now being accepted as su.
perior in the East, are comparatively
new to ourselves? Where were our
public schools and compulsory educa.
ton century ago? 1t is only twenty
years ago that Great Britain adopted
the present method. Where were ou1
railroads, which they are now adopt
ing7 Let us remember that there was
not a rail in the world, nor a locomo.
i've, nor car, hundred years ago.
The East is rapidly introducing te
legraphy, the telephone, the wireless
system, the electric railways; but how
long have we had these in the West
Less than a century-some Of then
for only ten years. Viewing the mat.
ter from this standpoint should helr
to keep us Of the West quite humble
when we think Of and speak Of the
awakening in the East-in China, ia
pan, etc.
To What Extent Has "christlan Civil.
h. cation" Blessed the WerIdf