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July 30. 191S.
A h'A.Mll.V I'A PER.
Friday, July 4, was given over to a Sabbath 'boys from doing these things that men do. tact with western olvdizaacn, because the pagan
peoples find more attraction in western
School Parade and addresses:
May it not be that the same advice would
"While scheduled to begin at 10 a. m., it was
nearly 1 o'clock before those who participated in
best be given in reference to secret societies?
vices than in western virtues. So the Chinese
may become fascinated by our material
the parade were all assembled. While tb^y were The school boards in several of our large
assembling the long wait was filled with the singing
bf Sabbath school songs, class yells and the
inventions, which are indeed blessings in
cities 'have prohibited secret societies in the
public schools, including high schools. The
taking of photographs. The different bands as
National Teachers' Association has, I believe, themselves springing from our Christianity,
they came on the stadium played patriotic airs.
Mayor Albee, when introduced to the audience,
strongly (if not unanimously), endorsed this and may adopt our railways and telegraphs
addressed his remarks chiefly to the children, telling
them the world would be far better as a result questions of prohibiting these organizations manufacturing, our western science and edu­
position; State legislatures are discussing the and telephones, our methods of mining and
o£ the c6nference. He referred to a derisive remark
that he heard the other day that the "mayor
cation, and may remodel their government af­
in the State universities (note the recent bill
before the Wisconsin Legislature) ; some universities
are seriously raising the same ques­
TOS going to make a spectacle by leading a Sunday
school parade through the streets."
ter the pattern of a constitutional monarchy
He asked the children to try to be right, to play tion voluntarily (note the case of Ohio State or an American republic, and imagine that
fiir, and then they need not care what people said and of Wooster, tfhe latter of which has forbidden
all such organizations).
give China. If China simply adopts the ma­
these blessings are all that the west has to
ahout them.
• "It is every day Christianity that we are seeking,"
said he.
Is it best to encourage our youth to enter terial civilization of western nations without
organizations which are today on trial before
the Christian coiv^ience, and the legal
s Mayor Albee introduced Dr. H. C. Minton, the
accepting the spiritual .Hfe and the moral discipline
which underlie and are the cause of
presiding .officer of the conference, who in turn
KoBtlously Introduced the foreign speakers. Bach judgment of our land? Is it best to foster
one of these speakers prefaced their brief address secretiveness among boys? Will it promote our material progress, then the new civilization
will become rotten before it is ripe."
with a few sentences in their native tongue, afterward
interpreting it.
frankness, manliness, straight-forwardness ?
I .The speakers were Drs. Bernt Stoeylen, Norway;
Armenag H. Haigazian, Asia Minor, Turkey; cret have I said nothing." He assured us that
Jesus declared concerning himself: "In se­
The Opportunity.
"There is now an unparalleled demand, not
' Joseph S. Motoda, Japan; Ng Poon Chew, China; there was "nothing hidden, but should be revealed;"
He encouraged us to place all our
^William Hay, New Zealand; William Rochester,
only for books on the Christian principles of
Canada; Pyong K. Yoon, Korea; R. J. Patterson,
good things where the world could get at
government, on the constitutions and forms
' Ireland; John Lamond, Scotland; TheophilMann,
them—our light not "under a bushel, but on
of governments, on Christianity and reforms,
Germany; F. DeRougemont, Switerland, and
Ctarles M. D'Aublgne, France.
a candle-stick."
but also for the Bible itself, and especially
Dr. Spooner's second argument is—the success
resulting from his own efiforts. Now I "It is significant that ex-President Sun is
for the New Testament."
EDITORIAL
like his programme—all except the secrecy. a Christian and that General Li Yuan-hung
Give the boys the baseball, the Saturday trips
is strongly in favor of Christianity. Years
NEW YORK, JULY 30, 1913.
to the woods and fields, the glad fraternal
ago. Dr. Sun Yat-sen said: 'Our greatest hope
fellowship; then give them the winsome gospel
as I do not doubt the writer does, and
is to make the Bible and education, as we
i BOYS AND SECRECY.
have come 'to know them by residence in America
and Europe, the means of conveying to
¥' ' '
we will answer him—"Thanks! we are with
Tbe Presbyterian of July 9 has the following
under the mild heading a "Difference you!"—C. G. Sterling.
our unhappy fellow-countrymen what blessing
may lie in the way of just laws, what
of Opinion." We were surprised at the proposal
of May 21, but why should we be? The
CONCERNING CHINA.
relief from their sufferings may be found
through civilization.' The words of General
writer has said that boys "like to do what There is perhaps no better means of gaining
an accurate knowledge of the present con-
Li Yuan-hung on this subject are equally to
men do," and gave as examples: "Tbey smoke,
the point. He said: 'Missionaries are our
because men smoke," etc. W e noticed at the ditiofts in China than by reading the "China friends. Jesus Christ is better than Confucius,
and I am strongly in favor of more
time, that he had not said, they like a secret
Mission Year Book" for 1912. As this book
society, because men like secret societies, because
he was going on to recommend thein.
is not in very general circulation, a few extracts
from its pages may not be uninteresting ianity and going into interior provinces. W e
missionaries coming to China to teach Christ­
But iht examples are all bad. Yet, true it
shall do all we can bo assist missionaries, and
is, that, men, yes, clergymen, yes, Presbyterian
cliergymen, belong to the Masonic or­
/: Danger Signal.
to the readers of the Christian Nation.
the more missionaries we get to come to
China, the greater will the Republican Government
be pleased.' Associated with these
der with its oaths, its regalia and folly.
"It is possible for a pagan people coming
In your Home Circle department of your
into contact witb an imperfect Christian civilization
to accept such portions of tbis half-
patriots in the new Government are men who
issue of May 21, appears an article, entitled
"A New Discovery," in which the writer, Rev.
are products of missionary schools. The Republic
will undoubtedly lay stress on popular
Dr. A. W. Spooner, recommends to his brethren
in the ministry, as a means of holding and leave