Show Bishop Moore of the Methodist persuasion per-suasion and I many other churchmen hold that tho present China tragedy Is simply f ploughing of the field for the Gospel Some men arc Inspired and see a long distance ahead but the necessity of killing all tho Christians In China In order to fit the soil for a new crop Is a little severe at least Our own judgment Is that as a rule reforms re-forms In this world are worked very much as nature works her reforms When the aIr grows fetid under tho 1 summer heat nature sends her hurricane hurri-cane to purify the air but this Is very apt to be most uncomfortable for those who arc caught in the vortex of the storm In the same way the I winter when spring comes to kiss and melt away the snows as if furious over the Interference Inter-ference often sends the frost which destroys the first crop of the farmers and devastates the orchards The proofs arc written on tho rocks that It required ages of convulsions some of which absolutely crushed to atoms the earths surface In order to fit this planet to become a habitation for man In the same way through ago after age the glaciers grind their way In the frozen flow to make soil outof which tho Inhabitants of the earth can raise food I Is possible that In the same way from this upheaval in China from I these absolute bursts of frantic mob violence and the glacier advance of fighting men there may como eventu ally order and peace out of which religion re-ligion can act new stakes Justice begin j to build her temples and education begin be-gin Its enlightenment But no bishop of tho church can fix the day or do anything any-thing but speculate upon tho possibility of what may be And reasoning from experience In other lands It seems to us that the Immediate future of China presents a problem more difficult to solve than the world has been called I upon to solve for a long time and there Is not a rift in the f louds over that distressed dis-tressed country through which there shines any light except It be to the eye of faith which reconciles human beings to believe that the darkest night will finally pass away and the dawn will come smiling on the hills and turn to opal the sky |