Show F l liS AGAIN have no Ito cnut for n R Tn Ament tot for taking up ag ni u of oC the I port part some somo of oT J C in the looting ot at native villages fit t In is I u o subject that the time should be ho slow to cUe oblivion A few Cew daya dayn n ago ngo o nt at a t the meeting of ot the tue Amen Ameri American can board In U he alluded to the matter In II those h nerds norda nordan n fi Missionaries hoWe hata l vo had some HOmo once In tho the of Why not have assisted In let the tho collection e lle Uon of indemnities I Ifor for tho the wh look to 10 them n RII as headers anti and defenders de Why Wh Vh not Christianity recognizes tC the payment of oC honest debts d Christianity t the rights l of Individuals Individual Christianity teaches the tho supremacy of law and the thc privileges of ot treaties While tian may with Joy Jor the spoiling of oC his hits goods goodo ho will vIlI not nOI rail to rejoice when those goods are arc restored to him Being n n a missionary or a convert from tram heathenism In North China Chinn by no makes an n outlaw o of a person not nor Indeed should It h he to so 0 Christ would not no unman a person on onnis his nis becoming a Christian nor deprive him of bt o the exercise of or tile his common commonsense sense nor take ava the vigor Igor and en on energy energy ergy orgy of his manhood od Why hy not those who wh unjustifiably deprive our people pe of cit their heir homos homO anti and property re restore restora restore store stora that which they had stolen ThIs Thin U 18 I the time payment of an 01 honest debt not retaliation Strenuous efforts have h already been made to prove that tnt the missionaries w very Utile to blame In the upton tu ate affairs In Id China It has hns been Bitted d that they acted en n the tho advice of ot high hl h Chinese m authorities and foreign diplomats and In accordance with Chi Chinese nose nese laws Jaws and customs But Dut the lie mv favorable amble Impression thus made Dr Ament effaces with ono one stroke Tho The mission minion missionaries aries Arlel he be again assorts have had some somo Influence In 11 i the be punishment They hayo assisted In tile the ie collection of in 10 indemnities d and nd then he ho triumphantly asks Why nut not Why w not indeed Because a mission minion missionary tory ary as such has no no o business to have lune any Influence n In the punishment of ot it ho lie feels called upon to act In such uh a role rule he should hould secure a position position tion as at a judge or prosecuting attorney or 01 olp policeman or r commissioned soldier act In accordance with law When us i a z missionary he lie assists in collect ing in ini indemnities nd nir and that In a foreign country where here ho has no JI rights except those of ot hospitality he lie assumes duties and authority that do not belong belon to him Tile The fact of ot the matter is that the speaker furnished another proof of ot the very ver radical departure of oC present day Christianity from fr rn tho the standards of the Nazarene The effects of oC modern thought and education are seen In the lowering of Ideals as well as ns asIn Iri In everything elset elsei Science has hn long sac atro discarded d the belief In A I Providence whIch upholds Justice and humanity and substituted for Cor it the tho recognition of ot ruthless force ns as the rulIn principle of at tho the universe College Colle go training has hoe fallen Callen into line and emphasized physical development at nt the expense moral anti mental achievements Popular taste Is cor con corrupted corrupted as 11 seen In the desire for tor prize prizefighting fighting bull fighting t g anti and sports dodd decidedly edly The lie C pulpit has fol Col followed ci lowed the tho general trend t nd and now even ministers lout flout the tho principles taught In Inthe Inthe Inthe the sermon on the rn They uphold war as a a normal source of oC good In Instead stead of ot regarding It as al an all evil some sometimes sometimes times necessary ne e luy an Ln sometimes not In tn this thia general l tendency tenny tnY away from true Christian n standards the sophisms sophism of ot Rev Hev Ament regarding missioner missionary Influence In robbing robb N thieves anti and rob lob robbers lobbers bers and the th alleged manhood thus die dis displayed played find a rational explanation Christian manhood however makes for peace even c v ii If ift u is necessary to suffer utter to some fome extent 4 for tor Its It malaten maintenance ance spec Hut the of violence is Ie abroad In nil the AS AI before the delude It is Ia one one O o te signs of oC the ap up approaching nd L |