| Show DEAN EDDIE ONGHINA I That Country a Shadow on the World THERE WILL BE NO RETREAT The Dying Words of the Lamented Liscum the Basis of a Strong Declaration to Strong claration in Favor of tho Meting Out of Justice to the Perfidious Government and Barbarous Natives Sermon on Trees Preached by Rev Mr Ingersoll Dr Lough ridge Talks on River of Salvation i At St Marks cathedrallast evening Don Eddie preached to a congregation congrega-tion that crowded the edifice on the subject China the Shadow on the World and the able address was I highly appreciated The title I an expression ex-pression recently usctl < by an eminent lecturer who is well versed In the conditions in the far East Unfortunately said the dean this Is what China has been a veritable shadow on the world n shadow that has deepened and darkened recently r untU it has now become a darkness I that can be felt Again and again he I continued In the history of the world I Western civilization n been l threatened I threat-ened by teeming hordes of barbarians from the Orient and today China has apparently thrown down the gauntlet I to the rest of the civilized world The speaker then gave a description of the repulsion of the Inhabitants of the East from the fifth century when the Persians were beaten back by the Greeks at Marathon until the present time He then referred to the religions re-ligions the barbarous practices and the unprogresslveoess of the Chinese Their wisest men were Ignorant of what we call science Their ethical standards and civic code nro as they were 2500 years ago They destroy 230000 female Infants annually i they discriminate against womanhood and torture foreigners to an extent that death Itself is to bo preferred The Boxers he said were engaged In a react re-act naQ movement encouraged by the Government and It Is Intensely n n t foreign These conditions and practices were all Inconsistent with our clvllizaton The world Is too smaU to hold l hermit nation The Mormon pioneers I settled Utah but they were but the precursors of a greater Immigration and the Boer In South Africa had only opened the way for the people of many countries The 1 present trouble with China he said was tle greatest question of many centuries n China were subjected sub-jected by the powers the Question woutf be then What next 7 I It were divided It meant discord between the powers In closing the dean referred In touching terms to Col Liscum recently re-cently slain In China who when at Fort Doqglas was n member of St Marks cathedral and of the vestny He quoted Llscums dying words Dont retreat boys keep on lighting light-ing and said There will be no retreat re-treat until Justice Inexorable swift justice Js meted out to the perfidious Government and the barbarous natives na-tives guilty of a crime without a I parallel In human history At the close of the sermon the people in at lenj ince Joined In pra p 1eoDle the unfortunate I un-fortunate China white people In danger In I |
