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SUPPLYING A WAR.
Mont modern wars may be ultimately I to national antipathies which has been largely crafal by newspaper invantives and by the gross
Century."
I admit that this is a hard saying, but there is no doubt is my mind that it indicates the right mares to par And I belive that mid of our missionaries agree with me.
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of the signs of our own time. There is much, and the domestic virtues mist, if it spreads, no doubt, in our civilisation, social and domestic, spell national degeneration, as it did in ancient to which cah pon an indisting real Rome among the masses howhomelena in programs; but there met also hands al beckon the sense of being without a home, or among to the downrd road along, high perial the wealthy who were building themselves are be any don't that thy fealise in home life | worthy of the “ name of home.”—Times,
Ations"--Lock of newspaper_represent-aries in Chios apart from Christianising the | Bomie hustamma ko ito dapay and fall." "Hot can! Palatial rusiḍanon too magicant to
* England in the Eighteenth people such as the stablishment of hospitals and schools and the diffusion of knowledge
"poak? among all classes, what need is there to These things sce known to every foreign resident in Chian
I do not share the opinion of these who think that our missionaries require to be shows how to carry on their work. It seems obvious that those who hare spent the greater part of their Ifres among the Chinese people understand better hor to approach them than those of ne who have never set fool in the country. What is wouted vis more workers and more money for their
support. That is the main thing need fol.
And so the Spanish-American war was about. The cumulativa effect of the oright-lien, slamnies, exaggerated presentations and distorted facts of the situation in Ciba, as presented by the yellow journals, was the creation of a national antipathy to Spain, which led to the heritable class, Despite the warnings at fair winded corres pondents, and the testimopy of those few who actusily witnessed the campaign from the inside, ignoring the statemente cf conservatívo businessmen, residents of the islands, and rejecting the reposted olleisl niterances of the Spanish minister as Hased and false, the American people formed their idea of Spain and Cala from the trael hashed up by the Hearsts and their imitators. And the climax came when the American troops landed in Cuba and for the first time had the opportunity of judging for themselves. The resulsion of feel. ing which took place thera has perer been Feradicated. Then the army found out the truth, and the feeling of hostility to the Spaniards changed to one of friendly sympathy,
And now ten years later, history is repeating. itself. The persistent writings of the same journals are slowly working on a race feeling which cooper of later must strain to the break- ing point the friendly relations existing between Japan and the United States, Since the termination of hostilities between Japan and Fussia, influences have been working, fomenting a spirit of discord between the Occident and the Crient
The labor troubles in San Francisce, Seattle, Bellingham and Vancouver Lave been exaggerated and worked up to meet the editorial policy of the
Not alone in the United Stales, but in Japan and in Europa have the Bensation mongers been at work. To use
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Lastly, the spirit of anty which animates the different missionary bodies in China, as was manifented at the Conference held last summer at Shanghai, is of good sugary for the future. In the Far East the Charsh of England and the Free Churches have agreed to sink their differences in the presence of the common foe, Would that we at home could follow their example,
Yours very sincerely,
(Signed) ERNEST SATOW,
PANEM ET CIRCENSES.
Tho interesting and instructive lecture de livered the other day by Mr. Warde Fowler to the Classical Association at Cambridge, upon the decay of Roman home life saillustrated by the history of the Roman house, was full of suggestive parallels for modern times and for the social conditions of our own land. His- torical parallelt, we know, must not be pushed too far, for they are apt to land as in ominous or
further trouw press bent on stiring up impossible conclusions. But when the lecturer
the
pointed to the gradual substitution of city for country life, of publicity for privacy, of social
Vernacular, a section of the korapesu press. Usa | simplicite self-sertiveness for reserve and
psseet the buck up" to the United States and is doing its best to force Amerion's hand
And so the gate goes merrily on The Terealile and impressioneblo eribes of all nations and especially of the American yellesa, are exhausting their vocabulary in describing the hallucinations of their minds the morning after. Every insignificant inaldent is exagger ared into an important event and the opinion of every globe-trotter who has pa sed through Japan is seized or as the-brais-for a story
If past events are ony criterion America and Japan are rapidly being swept into a position from which the strongest ties of friendship cant extricate them. The same mendacious
which bezin journalism
pablished the unfeanded and pa ely, imaginary reports of alocition from correspond nts who never set foot on the soil of Cabs sad itfamed the parsions of the country against Spain, is gain at work and the pesos of two natious is threatened.
and to the ever-growing demand for pleasure and excitement, it in difficult not 10 infer that to a certain appreciable extent history is even now repeating itself before our eyes. When, further, he went on to sketch the condition of vast mames of the urban population in the later days of the Roman Re, ablic and under the Empire, the analogies between ancient Rome and modern London New York are even more striking. Grat numbers of the lower classes lived not in bome of their own, in which the traditional-virtues of home life were at least. possible, but in huge neulaa as they were
or lodging houses with fats or on several flora, from which anything like rasl home life soon sappesred. In a southern climate it was easy to find in arest and excite- went in a crowded out-of-door life, making home life seperfluous. on life of the strets and the market-plae made the urban popalation sharper then, as it does now; but it also made bem, in Mr. Fowler's words. "reatles", pleasure loring, a. d tou reakl-as and revolutionary, use- less for prompt politio or military notion." We know what this Roman popuince became later, when demoralized by the Imperial policy of Punem et Circenses. The verdict of history has endorsed the seathing estire of Juvenal, written at the heyday of Imperial magnificence and power, already rotten to the core; and even the most optimistic by lief in the fortauss of our on Empire must be affected by conscional" qualms. leat similar cases should in time
The provocation for any sorious break in the relations is lacking. The cause does not exist. But this fact does not worry the war pre- moters, who fabricate and supply the necessary easta belli and the "dope to fire the jingo's heart. Red hot articles that sizzle with the fervor of patriotism and defend the cause of the poor, down trodden white laborer, threatened with extinction by the wily Japanese are written bp the yard. Although the emphaticatiorances of Svaretary Taf, speaking for the admini-produce similar effe's, atration, clearly outline the policy of the United States, and despite the repeated assurances of the highest Japanese dipl. mas that their government desires peace to develop its interests in Kores and Manchuria, the war-slarm insist that the opposite is the case, and that both conutri s are hiding their real sentiments.
To turn from the serious statements of the bighest authorities of both countries having the peace and the welfare of their respective peoples at heart, and accept the braggart and false reports of irresponsible writers is a foily which will pave the road to an uplassant and disastrous climar-Far Eastern Heview.
"HE THAT HATH EARS-**
Following is the text of the letter by Sir Ernest Satow, read at the Chia Mission centenary meeting in London
Ottery St. Mary'
We have not yet, it is trus, reached the fall demoralization of the Imperial policy, which pampered and potted and maintained in dan gornas idleness a populace whom it could neither control nor make up of for the country's good. But there are already in our public life too many signs of a similar leaven at work, since the ex tension of the franchise bas shifted the balance of y
f polio d power from the middle to the work. ing esses, and led politicians to court their votes, Mr. Lowe warned his countrymen that they must ednoate their masters; but he did not propose to relieve parents of all cha ge in per forming this mest necessary duty towards their children. It was not long, however, before tasy were excused even the small school fees which helped to make them value education; and now we har much of schemes for free public meals for schoolchildren, which, however well intestined and in ae cases well bestowed, inevitably tend to relieve numbers of negligent, idle, or vicious parents from the duty of support- ing the obildren whom they bring into the world, Buch gradasi sapping of pa ental responsibility can but act injuriously on national character May it not have something to do with the
I am sorry to tell you that I cannot come up to town to peak at the meeting on the 31st, but I hope that no words of mine are becessary to assure you of the deep interest I take in the work of all the Missionary 8 clatine i Chian,spathy and indifference to everything but the I am convinced that they have done an im- mense amount of good in the past and that they are destined to achieve still grastar things in the future.
pleures and oreature comforts of the moment, and the lack of intelligent interweb in the public welfare, which is so often complained of now? Much of the cheap shoddy codialism pre obed I bave read attentively the four articles by upon so many platforma tanda in the game the Rev. Lord William Gascoyne-Cecil pub direction, as also does some of the agitation by l'abed recently in the Times," in which he which strikes are toouraged, to the untold gave the results of his own studies of the mis- inconveviance of the community at large, and sionary question carried out on the epot. They generally to the nitimate loss and disadvantage are the conclusion arrived at by an unpre- of those who have yielded to the voice of the judiced bserver, who approached the subject charmer lacing them to rain. Vagas promises with મ
- 1 tom a preceived and vagur hopes of a millennium in which
Ibm glad to find myself in com-etste ie to do everybing for everybody, of a plete accord with him
time when we shall have too much and all eball There are two or three points which it appears are enough, and when natural differepces of te me should always be borns in mind by our intellect and industry and capacity aball be missionaries:
merged in s dead level of superficial equality, it ought n t to be forgotten that the are you now leading many astray with dreams Koman
of tisid. We are celebrating the centenary of the pictures of a past innocence and perfeo-
age
te revelled. landing of Robert Morrien in Chios, Battion in which ancient po Father Ricos landed on its sharen in 1582, more We do not, however, with to paint the picture than three centuries ago. Since that day the too dark, or to suggest tob. close a correspond- Roman Catholics in Chins have endured many once between the decay of the social fabrio in persecutions, many of their missionaries and ancient Rome and the fature of our own. There Luzdreds converts have suffered death for is room as all must admit, for anxiety, as we their faith. If sometimes they r-gard us as look at some of the signs of our time; but there later intruders op ground which they had red is also shundant room for hopefulness, and for their ow2c
hould we not bear with thems pati Buch zaberant belief in the fort nes of the rase enlly I rejoic to believe in most paris of and of the Empire as Mr. Kipling has been China the relations between Protestant and preaching to our kinsfols in Canada. Those Roman Catholic missionaries are of a friendly qualities of simplicity, self-relianes, and vivie -character, and that disputes are comparatively virine, which too often appear to be somewhat
In any case 1eleration of dibera seems to.
obseared among our population, we would fain be peculiarly our duty.
bepe are only dormant, ready to be called out once more by some great crisis in the ustion's history. They were so called out by the war la South Africa, which justified Tennyson's pro. phecy that in time of need
Fireholic missions were the first in the of a guiden age to be, as visionary. se those
rare.
econdly, the Chinese are an ancient people, balding Armly certain beliefs and doctrines of their own, banded down to the along twenty centuries and wore. We try to make them acquinted with what we beliers to be a better rule of life. We ought, as it seems to me, to endeavour to make ourselves acquainted with -ke-tosolinga-of their ages and doctors before. To undertake to repl os these by what we have to offer. What is this but saying that among our missionaries there should be some at least who are scholars in the language, history snd philosophy of China, as well as others who are Christian theologians, able to give to every BD that asketh a reason of the hops t that is in them
And lastly, missionaries are not called upon to interfere in the temporal disputes of their converts either among themselves or with Roman Catholic couverte, or with their uncon verted fellow countrymen They should refrain from interrening between their converts and the Chinese magistrates. They are in Chine to evangelia, and teach, not for the purpose of taking up the cudgels on behalf of the oppressed
The enmoth-faced, annd-nosed roguë would leap from his counter and till, "And strike, if he could, were it but with his cheating yard-wand, bome.” We do not believe that Lord Roberts and others. are preaching to sbsolutely deaf ears, even bill and betting and gambling, and even more among people so absorbed, apparently, in foot. Lordid pleasure, as are too many of our country. Inen: Bat thero is at least enough in the decay of Roman society, as sketched by Mr. Warde Fowler, te zake na think seriously about some
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