| Show 11111 h Mill KM VT t 1111 ° < cIt c-It the great nations would unite ori come effective plan ot sufficient mno o II nltntle for tile civilization nnd enlightenment en-lightenment of China It would of courseI far the better way to advance 4 l ad-vance her Inhabitants In tile scale ot being But such nn Idea U I of course utterly unfounded In any existing possibility pos-sibility Such n union for such a purpose pur-pose can never occur prior to the elavvn of the Millennium In all that the leading nations do tint will effect the relations of tho people of China to the civilization of modern times they will he Instigated by n deMre to UEKnindl themselv ant oppoo hrra and checkmate each other Hut It seems like the Tluler ot nil na lions has decreed that the days ot Chinas exclusion from contact with the rest ot the world must end that iyIl I modern enlightenment must penetrate ills morally and Intellectually dirk regions ot her Mist domain that her people must be made acquainted with art science literature nnd hlchcr prin clpla nnd tnrm 0 government humnn and divine than they have ever known and that the homogenlety ot all hu fl0t manltj which modern civilization surely E advancca shall embrace the barbaric 413 0 hordes of tho Celestial empire In an 1 effort to raise them to a higher plane I ° g 1b4aI It further seems that tho same ereat nuler In the absence ot all units among the leading nations looking to such an end Is about tu utilize for the 1 purpose their selfishness Jealousies and 1 13 enmities All appearances Indicate that HuBsla Germany Prance and England are about to divide the Chineseempire o among themselves It seems tolerably certain that Ituasla and Germany are fully committed to the proposition Mil tv are now in the very act ot seizing the II portions they covet but lust what dk 031 Trance and England are to get Is I not quite clear as yet though that they will lL 1 omit to present their claims Is I scarcc Iv credible With China divided up umung the great Jtovv crs uf Kuropo and Its Beg regaled parts ruled by them respectively respec-tively Chinese exclusion will be a thing of the past Railroads will In terset Its Iovlne telegraph telc 01 33 phone and electric light win will 0 4Il lIIke II net work over them courts 4 will administer Justice In a higher form 1 4g than the Ignorant masses have ever t known It a comprehension of human l rights and ot the Clements of ethics will I3111 soon begin to lawn upon thm and ceo long the folly ami Inadequacy ot their religion and phlloHol hy will become I apparent to them and they will be willing and prepared to receive something I III some-thing hither The prInting press they + the-y 1 1 school teacher and otter a while the h g franchise will exert their wonderfully potent Influence and these great moral y39 J Jerrlcka will operate to raise the Chi rO I neo race to a plane of exltenco and ii 1P5ti II of intelligence far higher than the one i i if thej now occupj S I This Ire e ess will not be l free from J Ill features Micn the people I of China beceme the subjects European I iI 1 powers there may bo more elrunken It 1tt 1 ress and lths I reverence for parents r i i imong them than there are now but i fh on the 0111110 tIle warmlng million k leilettcrilultuwor h 010 wn u h 114 rr 1 flee to the dell will h I e the gainers 01 hi 1 r It seem n hard thing to coy that the tl 11J iimemllerngntofanatiolo I II bless i 1i tl 1 h ingto It but In I the pnsent case of t13o h China and tho powers of Europe It can no doubt bi Bald with truth Tile t tl41 l i Chinese race has a place to fill In the i I a r 310tj econvqpef the Creator That It may 1 better It that place it must be cn 1 I jhtencd and that Ihls result may be I 4 achIeved It must be i laccel under god go-d 1t I I rnmntnl Inlluence mar advancod i 3t 1 1 l I than the ones It now has The evil 1 hat I is I In 1 human nature nationally 4 I al Individual Is I overruled I to bring I 1 41 443 f1 to pass the purposes ot the Creator nnd Ii tO 7t IS r I Him tIm rah or mn Is I toads to truiso |
