To-day China has only one serious She has grievances indeed, and many of us would do anything in our} power to ce-operate in removing. them. But these grievances are effects, not causes. Who holds any for extraterritoriality or for the so-called unequal treatics—except as temporary makeshifts, Get rid of the real internal evils, for these are root causes, and the unw come effects will disappear a But it may be pointed out that some of these insidious evils that ruin nations come from outside. And if that is true how then is destruction self-destruction?
Baal worship for instance was not native to the Isra The idea of having a king avowedly borrowed from the surrounding people. Their worldly all also involved other nations. Similarly most of us are convinced that the evil seeds that are working ruin China today are not indigenous they have some from outside.
But even that consideration does not invalidate our statement that national destruction is self-destruction. For these outside influences: cannot harm us unless we receive them, Paychologists tell us that all suggestion "if it is to be effective must become auto-suggestion, It may indeed come from without, but it is powerless unless it is accepted, worship on them. No, they voluntarily accepted it. The other nations did not insist that Isreal become a monarchy. They themselves chose it. The well known proverb says, "You may lead a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink." The Bri mongst us this morning are unutrably thankful that our Government has no further official connexion with the opium trade in but surely there never was! one who did not forced to take it.
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