| Show Sll The Chin Chines minister In Washington Wu U h has attracted much attention In this country by hi his oratorical ef efforts t forts fort EIe endeavors to make plain to Americans that tbt the Chinese people ar are civilized though the they have a different durrent from ours our that they have a religion perhaps not as loft lofty II as ou ours yet practical and rood good and the they mutt be judged by their own on standard and nd not lIot by th the standard ot of accidental philosophies and ethics Iii latest effort In thil direction wu was In all sn add address before the Society of Ethical culture In New York followed by another before belore the Contemporary club On both occasions he h spoke poke on Confucius comparIng his teachings to the principles ot of modern Christianity The Th speaker truthfully charged that the foreign soldiers now operating In i hi his countr country and the who call for tor summary vengeance but poorly exemplify tb the prescript Love your our enemies But It t Is Ie not true this thle proves Christianity to be too high n for m mortals True ty not only points out the way of duty but It provides for tor the necessary ry to follow folio this path And ind In Inthis Inthis this It t I Is different from all other reo re systems Th The conduct of at the foreign soldiers In China CAnnot be regarded ns as the fruit ot of true Christianity any more than the murderous attacks on the foreign torIn ministers can be charged to Confucianism That philosophy so ac cording to M I that the dut dutot duty ot of friends toward towan frIends Is to be faith WI ful and truthful Now the foreign ministers were representatives of oC friendly nations They were the friends friend of the Chinese government Tho They were gusts guests In the hou house e ot of friends And yet they were attacked bombarded Ita starved roo and some ot of them or their retinue were cruelly butchered Evi EI Evidently dently Confucianism has no higher claim to being n a practical religion than has modern Christianity If judged b by such uch transgressIons of at the principles taught But neither cnn can be thus judged For Por Forthe the purpose ot of comparison on the grand Krand total of results should be considered China was nn an ancient nation before Christianity let the first drat rays of at shine upon the world Con Can has been Its lis guiding light for centuries nut But what Is China today toony In arts In sciences In wealth In influence In u enee ence In morality compared to those thOle countries over oer which the arms of the Cross Croes have been n extended Christiani Christianity ty though but Imperfectly understood b by the great muses masses and yet et more lm carried out oui In practice has ne been an ual power before Which 1 heathen systems of at phil philosophy philosophy no how practical and rational are as riding lights to lumin out OUI orbs 0 of heaven henen 11 I Wu seems to be 1 a close student If h he knew true Christianity not only anI from a theoretic point ot of view but as a practical force torce In life lite he would see lee that his reasoning Is II not relevant |
