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CHINA'S CIVILIZATION.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8TM¤, 1918.

BY THE IT. REV. BISHOP

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CAUSE OF THE EARLY CIVILIZATION OF CHINA.

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Civilization, like every other movement on earth, is subject to the law of cause and affect. Life from life is as truo of mental and spiritual progress

of material advances. The attempt to demon. strate th emergence of a lasting and progressive civilization out of sheer barbarism, with no contact with ny higher souren of life, is as, vain as was the sitempt to demonstrate the origiña tion of physical life from dead matter.

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Other writes, however, hold that China's 3. LEVER GALVANIZED civilization is indigenous. While tho of the earlier view, it matters little which weight of authority is decidedly in favour theory we adopt as to the proximate DEED AND cause of Chinese civilization. Either

ETC.. there is an historical connection between the Chinese and those receiving God's original revelation, or else the Chinese learned the invisible things of God from the things which were seen, even His eternal power and godhead." The cause of China's early civilization, therefore, was communion with God and the recep tion of life and light from Him-either through her early connection with nations. of watern Aaia, or else, through Him who is the true light which lighteth every man coming into the world."

CAUSES OF THE ABREST OF CHINA's'

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But a second and more interesting quest once arises, namely, how id the imise if they once enjoyed contact with the western nations, and above all, with the true God, lose that contact, and how did their civilization become arrest- ed? If the principle with which we started is true, namely, that civilization arisee From contact with nations of higher civilization, or else from direct divise impulse, then the arrest of China's civilization would result from lessening contact with those higher sources of mental and spiritual life. This is apparently what occurred in China, and a brief study will reveal the causes of the isolation of China and, therefore, of the arret of her civilization.

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It must be confessed, how- of the Temple of Heaven was monopolised by some Emperor, or by succession of ever, that neither in what he rejected or emperors, until in time the people were accepted did Confucius rise to the religi ous height of Moses or of Socrates and robbed of what many sinologues regard as

Fe fell in with the ignorance of China's original worship of the ons God. Plato. The Chinese emperor, like the Roman em- the times and the customs of his fathers. peror, usurped the place of Christ and far enough to practise and advise the wor- Moreover, became the mediator between God and ship of ancestral spirits. men, the connecting link between heaven while he carried his superstition too for Thus the maperor has been on the one side, on the other side he car- First, China lost her contact with the and earth. rest of the world through physical causes.

regarded down to the present day as the ried his seepteism also beyond ris

To Plato God The Chinese, on reaching their present! Son of Heaven, just sa the enperors of Socrates or Moses

Any other person was the supreme First Cause. Socrates seat of civilization, found themselves Rome were deified. largely cut off from the rest of the world, presuming to worship at the Temple of not only believed in one righteous God. Heaven would have been executed sum- but so fully accepted his own guidance by on the east and south by the Pacemarily for high treason, on the ground the spirit that he became the unconscious Ocean, until about 1,500 A.D. We need that he was usurping the highest lines of the Holy Spirit. So Mesis on the one pre-Christian discoverer of our doctrine not dwell upon China's contact with aive of the emperor. (2) The Japan on the east, because the Chinese gave civilization to the Japanese and could receive little from thein until re- cently, when Japan herself was awakened to new life by the Christian nations. On the west communication between China and India was practically barred by the Hiralayas and the huge mountain system of Tibet It is indeed probable that a pathway once existed from the valley of the Tigris and Euphrates, north of the Himalayas and south of the Caspian, across central Asia and down through the Tarim Valley. It is possible, and indeed probable, that this is the original road by which the people now called Chinese advanced from western Asia to their early home in Shansi and Shensi. But by some inexplicable decrease of rainfall the route by which the original Chinese came into eastern Asia became impassable:

advanced

mast remember

But

people, like every other nation, followed, side far surpassed Confucius in the re- in some measure, the course of history jection of the superstition of the Egyp portrayed by St. Paul in Romans. Like tians, while on the other side he advanced all of us at times they held down the far beyond Confucius in his belief in

Indeed, to him

and truth in unrighteousness, until they them- personal Cod. selves were ready to yield to the emperors through him to the Israelites God was the the worship of the true God connected with most real being in the universe. the Temple of Heaven, and to accept for while Plate and Socrates and Moses themselves the worship of the spirits of reached theistic ground, Confucius feared their ancestors. Whether we regard the all communication with the unseen world, worship of ancestral spirits as due to and advised his people, aside from the retrogression, or whether we say that the customary sacrifices to ancestral spirita from to have ne little connection as possible Chinese gradually animism to the worship of spirits, and with the unseen realms. He was indeed then paused in their upward progress, in no denier of the supreme God. Rather either case their early acceptance of this he seems clearly to believe in a supreme lower forin of worship helps to account God and in an over-ruling Providence for for the arrest of civilization in China. himself. But cortainly he was an agnos (3) Recognizing the influence of great tic in his teaching in regard to such a persons in history we regard Confucius God; and this agnosticism contributed to as an additional cause of the arrest the neglect of the worship of the true There was indeed a second route open of Chinese civilization. Confucius was God, and discouraged any earnest search from western Asia to China, running the child of the ages and the father of for a knowledge of him. Confucius is so north of the Caspian and over the plains the ages. More than any other man in colossal a figure that we rank him with of Siberia and Manchuria-substantially

China, Confucius was the product of the the forces of nature in his influence upon Summing up the the route of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

past and the creator of the ages which the Chinese people. But this route was so far north that the succeeded him. He did more than any causes of the arrest of Chinese civilization journey had to be made in a single sum-

other mortal to confirm China in material. we may say, therefore, that Chinese mer, or else the caravan perished with ism through spiritual isolation. Before civilization was paralysed through geo- cold; and the journey was too long to be blaming Confucius too severely for his graphical isolation, through the people cowred on foot or with ox teams in at

that losing in some measure their contact with agnosticism single samoter. lence, the northern Socrates was put to death by the Greeks God, through disregard of such light as route was inpracticable. It is true that for unbelief, and had Moses been over- they had, and repecially through the in- Mongol hordes gradually spread over thes: taken by Pharoah he would have been fluence of Confucias. From China, the plains in successive generations, and at executed as disloyal, not only to the gov quarterly record of the Christian Litera las burst with fury upon China through het northern gateway.

ernament but to the worship of the ture Society for China. These devasta tions led the Chinese to erect, some two hundred years B.C., the Great Wall along her northern frontier. Thus Ching re inforced her natural isolation by artificial wans of exclusion, and-lived almost from the beginning of her history, down to 1500 AD.. shut off froin the rest of the world. The large size of China and the variety of her climate enabled the Chinese to supply their physical wants without foreign commerce, and encouraged them in keeping the gates barred against foreign nations. These centuries of isola tion resulted in national pride and con- servatism, just as the similar isolation of

family, or a neighbourhood,

produces similar results to-day. Moreover, isola tion results in inbreeding, and inbreeding results in infertility. The Chinese BOOT discovered the dangers of physical in- breeding and guarded against them by prohibiting marriages within the clan. But, alas, the Chinese made no provision against the infertility of intellectual

and Indeed the poison Lara inbreeding. worked to such an extent in her veins that, long before the Great Wall was built. China had lost all contact with foreign nations, and the Great Wall was only the outward expression of Chinese exclusion policy. Here then, in the isola tion of the Chiness for perhaps thirty- five hundred years through geographical. Teases, we have one cause of the arrest of

Chinese civilization.

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Second, China not only lost in a large measure her contact with the rest of the world through physical causes, but she also lost in some measure her contact with God through spiritual causes. These pro- cesses of decreasing spiritual life may be traced to three sources: (1) Some time in the early history of China the worship

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Pas letting by Public Auction Sale, DARTICULARS and CONDITIONS of on MONDAY, the 10th day to be hald of February, 1913. ut 3 P.., at the Offices of the PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, by Order- of HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR, of Two Lots of CROWN LAND near Chip Street, ond balow Kennedy Road, in the Colony of liong kong, for a term of 75 years, commencing from 18th September, 1899, and 10t1 February, 1913, respectively. with the option of renewal si CROWN RENTS, to be fixed by the Sarveyer of HIS MAJEETY THE KING, for onu further term of 75 years.

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