Show CURRENT TOPICS IN EUROPE Lawliss lawlessness niss in london church congress missionary failures religious Bell glou cruelty english sport gordons statue french affairs Willi williams sms Diary African items editor deseret neave the continuance of the series of murders in the east end of london has caused such a popular excite excitement meat that in all probability it will have a political nce the the attitude of official offic lal indifference assumedly assum edby mr matthews has aroused a storm of indignation which perhaps nothing but his bis nation will be able to quell this want of energy has had its effects on the police whose efforts to identity identify the criminal have thus far been f fruit ru ti lea this hesitation was also mani man test feat at the time of the trafalgar square riots when though the course coarse he be pursued was the right one yet the movements were so slow that the law was openly defied and it almost required the abe use of military force to reestablish establish re order in the abe present pread instance mr matthews was petted petitioned on ed by t the be ants to offer a relic reward sr by the in money oney was even raised by pub public a subscription eption and placed at his bis disposal but he be still refused this caused the torrent of public indignation to rise to such a height that his tenure of office was imperiled imperil edit and two days day after the refusal the reward was offered these outrages growing out of ef the moral and material condition to which countless thousands of the london poor have been allowed to sink must mast be considered as a burning shame and disgrace to the abe so called civilization of the nineteenth century one inquest after another has revealed a state of things too shocking for human endurance if humanity were not of very stout heart beart in regard to woes boes not per own it is now certain enough that thousands of women of a certain clatia claa roam the streets at all hours of bf the night the in quests proved that many if not most of these had seen butter battet times but had sunk to their by their own vices intensified in their effect by the ignorance the helplessness the want of all counsel and guidance that constitute their inis miserable erable birthright they ply their avocation as steadily as the plowman goes to his labor in the field they were out last night no doubt by the hanch hundreds reds and the thou sands and whenever the murderer wasta wants a nc new w victim he ae may be as sure of finding them at their post as of andin rats in ft a sewer the rhe meeting of the great church congress at manchester on tuesday Oct october oer 2nd and has discussed some themes that may furnish food for reflection the rev bev dr taylor attacks the resent present missionary system with a pert pertinacity lacity and zeal that must eventa eventually have an effect on the public mind hid reasoning is logical and tue tile facts he be brings forward cannot be ignored the manner babner also aleo in which he be presents these facts is calculated to rivet them upon public attention ile he destroys the rosy picture of progress and possibilities which religious zealots zealous have so fondly painted by chica the public were made to believe that with a littlemore liberality the world would woula speedily become christians Dr Taylor also also shows that at the present rate of pro progress ress the heathen population of the world world increase much more rapidly than the ithe tie so called christian the population ot of asia and africa have an annual increase of 0 nearly eleven millions the total number of nominal converts by all the sects is less than sixty thousand annually that is to say that lor for every additional convert made by the various sect sone hundred and eighty three are added to thi the heathen and moslem population in spite ol of all the eff iris there are now tully fully ten millions more heathen than three were a year ago dr maclear says the increase in the native population of china was over dver last year in the same time the various missionaries baptized one hundred and sixty seven adults at this rate it will take the various missionary societies twenty seven thousand years t overtake the gin to heathenism in a single year dr legge a missionary of thirty four years standing thinks the christian sects will tail kall to make converts amongst the moslems so long loncy as a they are infected with the b tte ater r animosities that at present divide them land and are associated in the minds of the natives with the drunkenness the profligacy and the gigantic social evil conspicuous among amone christian nations sir william hunter said thena the natives of india regard a missionary as a charitable gentleman who keeps an excellent cheap school preaches a modern form of their ancient religion and drives out his wife and children in carrl aee meanwhile the salvationists of lou lon don are carrying on their work in their own peculiar yay ivay the statistics of insanity always shows the danger to even grown up minds of excessive religions and emotional excitement it would be interesting to trace the mental progress of children who are al lowed and even encouraged to write such twaddle as the following which was lately published in a so emeled called re legious paper winchester my aty dear little friends Friend sI l do thank god I 1 am saved my mv sine erne are all washed away a I 1 do wish other children would go to cebue and got get saved and he be as aa happy as aai I 1 am eimm waged Wage W aged dB S years hare is another perhaps unsurpassed in I 1 am a young soldier tor for jesus twelve months ago I 1 gave my heart to god it live to be a big biff man I 1 mean to be a captain then all our family will trill be officers in he ahe salvation army hallelujah lani I 1 am saved it any body unsaved reads this remember I 1 am praying for you wing aged 16 years the society for the repression of cruelty to Chil children drOm might assuredly bear in mind that the emotional tyranny produced by this sort of religiosity Is IB capable of inflicting the keenest intellectual tel suffering it seems strange that parents will allow such a shadow to be thrown over childhoods thought lees loy joy and their own sanity put to such a severe strain the great cricket match between the australian players and the champion team of england aroused the public to an hysterical state of excitement the australians certainly deserved their narrow vlot victory ory which was due chiefly to toe As bowling of turner sad and ferris the latter is a delicate faced youth barely twenty one years old and already he has heard beard thousands of people applaud his bis fine performances and had to flee from them as for his life when at the conclusion of a big match they have burst into the playing space and run after him to pat b him I 1 w deliriously on the back or botet him shoulder high and carry him in triumph sport in england is really a wonderfully robust tio nand seems to be the only means of rousing the phlegmatic islanders lato isto a frenzy of excitement such as no southern nation could equal the memorial of the late general gordon in trafalgar square to is approaching pro aching completion the stone base being nearly ready for the reception ol of the statute the cap of the pedestal is adorned with carved bearing the words gravesend Grave send china soudan and anat others entwined in f foliage the site of the memorial is between the fountains ink in francette Franc ethe the forthcoming opening of Ch chamber aniber de deputes promises to be of a stormy nature the government proposes introducing a revision bill with a view of cutting the ground from under the party and make a step in the direction of reform la in view of the general election next autumn in her foreign relations tra ira changes are taking place one of these is due to te the publication 0 of the emperors diary this publication has had a most disquieting effect upon europe it is felt that in germany a struggle is going on between the forces ot of liberty and autocracy and that on the result of that struggle the peace of europe depends ift the spirit of liberalism which took shape under the short reign of the emperor frederick can gain strength streng tia and increase the policy of the empire will be chap changed ged if it is true as prof Ge geffcken ficken states that the emperor the diary then the imprisonment of the pu publisher betsher will become a question of 0 grave importance the i the only struggle of a similar nature which germany has seen during this century was almost fatal to imperial power although the issues were much less less broad than in the present instance the danger then is that war ma may be declared as a diversion for the res restless liess spirits of europe even as a napoleon did in the summer of 1870 the french ffrench just at present presen tg are concentrating ratings all fl their bapes upon kupyn next years exhibition after that aney know will come the deluge in the shape of an inevitable conflict which as everything gots goes to show will be one of the most min murderous derous and desperate the world has ever seen even the arc french perceive how certain it to is that they must tight with Germi germany any before very long hence france rejoices at anything any that promises dissension ju io germany and it is quite apparent that germany will have her hands bands pretty well fil filled ledwith with her own little interior troubles and scandals which the publication of the diary is likely to bring about the scramble for africa goes on apace every power in europe is engaged in talking taking possession of all it can lay its hands bands upon either by intrigue or force the tae remarkable success of the english colonies in africa has excited toe emulation of other nations who appear to be oblivious of the fact that the mere circumstance of a tract of country lying in africa does not necessarily make it favorable for Euro european pein emigration this struggle for territory has already given rise to a serious amount of friction among the compe competing t ing na nations ti 0 us the anglo german difficulties concerning the Camer district have seen themselves them elvea repeated in masso wah and tunis which have caused such a controversy between italy and france now the center of africa seems to be the object coveted the position of emm emin pasha first drew the attention of europe to this region at the present time besides the stanley expedition two others athers are being fitted out by germany and belgium with the ostensible object of relieving the worthy emin this however as may be more than expected 1 ihnot the only aim of these expedita expeditions spot 8 the centre lof africa to is now known to be a particularly rich count coun there are good reasons for believing that a floura nourishing ming state could be founded there the heroic defense made by amin pasha for the last five vears ears has excited the admiration of ake the whole civilized world whatever may be the re result it of various international intrigues tr tri gue gues a it is to be hoped that the life of byln basha will be weighed in the balance against mercenary gain or international ter rivalry lie ile no do longer be looga longs lut one nation only he be la Is the representative of civilization in the heart ot of the dark continent J H W enrobe october 19 1988 |