138 makes them, but as the Gospel of Jesus Christ makes them. 2. China’s Perils. Now, let us look at China’s perils. What are China’s perils? (1) I might mention, first Japan, but I do not consider Japan one of the greatest perils of China, but one of the least. I am not defending Japan, God forbid. My blood boiled when I was out in China two years ago and saw with my own eyes what Japan was do ing in Shantung,' and many other prov inces, and heard much more from those who knew and whose word was to be depended upon. I am glad to say, it did not look so bad this year, but the peril is far from over. And when - I was in Korea this year and learned very directly not only what Japan had done in the past, but what Japan is still do ing in that plundered, outraged land, when I came into immediate personal contact with those who had themselves been imprisoned and subjected to tor ture, and gentle Christian women sub jected to gross indignities, when I saw how Japan’s treatment of Korea, espe cially Koreans whose only crime was their being Christians, was as outrage ous as Turkey’s treatment of Armenia, when I heard and saw all this, I did tremble for China, if she should ever fall under Japan’s power. But I re peat, Japan is among the least of China’s perils. Indeed, Japan would be no peril at all if it were not for the way in which China’s own Chinese poli ticians and rulers play into the hands of the Japanese, and are willing to sell China’s means of sustenance and China’s liberty, and China’s everything worth while, to Japan, if only thereby they can line their own pockets with Japanese gold. (2) China’s second peril, and far greater peril, is her lack of men of principle and power among the ruling classes. There are many men of ster-
THE K I N G ’ S B U S I NE S S ling principle in China, and there are men of great power in China, but prin ciple and power are rarely combined in the same man. China sorely needs a Washington or a Lincoln. (3) One of China’s great perils is in her returned students; her students returning from America and other Western lands. Many of these return ed students are a great blessing to their country, but, alas, very many are not. Many bring a measure of Western cul ture, but they bring a vast amount of Western foolishness along with it. A very large proportion of these returned students are unfitted to enter again in to Chinese life. They have been edu cated away from their people. Many of them have learned more of the God less and Christless philosophies that are so widely taught in American Univer sities than they have of the Gospel that made America great. Some of the most dangerous enemies of Christianity (which is the only thing that will save China), I say some of the most danger ous enemies of Christianity in China to day are some of these returned students. Two men, one from America and one from England, Professor Dewey, of Columbia University, and Bertrand Russel, of England, have recently been employed by the Chinese Government to lecture in Pekin, and the leading cities of China, on educational topics. They have had an immense hearing, es pecially in Pekin. Professor Dewey is frankly un-Christian, if not anti- Christian, and Bertrand Russel is an open and avowed advocate of free love, a pronounced and outspoken enemy of marriage and its obligations. Though a married man when he went to China, he was accompanied by, and lived with another woman, who accompanied him to China. His wife secured a divorce from him while he was in China, and he continued living with the other woman, but did not marry her, and both he and she lectured in different
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