Peking, Jan. 5, At the tim pf the Revolution in 1911 © very fair proportion of the Chinese people were able to understand why the Manchu dynasty should-'be attacked" and the Manchus were aliens, overthrown. In the, first place of the last few gene all suffered detent and jpn ab the hands of foreign aggressors while their suppression of native rebellions in every case be credited to ders and not, to the Manchu toon.
After d military organiza the death of the Empress Dowager it was patent to all China that the fore of the Dynasty had. spent. iti, that rertige was gone and that the Princes yho® were Handling Pubic. admire were Their right to, rule as. cultural high priests. The modera Army, hich promised to give China tome prestige in the Sight of the rorid, had been, suggested in the first place by "Chinese viceroys, had been organized throughout by nese and. was offered almost exclusively by" Chinese. "There was no. Manchu in' the Government "toho had. the ability. Gireet te' growth oF control. ite movements, © There was indeed ino excuse. loft forthe, Manchus all. Collapse wae inevitable And everyone realized it, s0 that
chagrined or surprised whom, erg few Chine re thor after " revolution of sorts, Yuan Shih-kai and the other confunilern of the modern army invited. the Manchus to abdicate.
What the great mass of the Chinese people did" not uaderstand, and do not yet understand, was the substitution. of this nev! thing called Republic. for the Empire. All" that. was -understood, except inn very" limited circle, was that it was tometiiing neve, imported from abroad, and therefore probably efficient." The Mnseating' of the Sanch good. thing. The unseating of the Manches was achieved by the modern army, butt entirely pon imported standards. All foreign motitations therefore came in for share of the popularity. which the overthrow of the dynasty and the ""modern army "enoys Foreign learning, foreign tel ous. teaching, foreign. medicine, Iachinery "and. "science, evel foreign clothes. and. manners (or an approximation of them) were on the erect of the wave for when done in a man's.full senses. Again, there are other sins, which have less and less to say for them-sodyes. They are on sufferance, condemned already. Take heavy. drinking once more. No one, however "wet," defends that. Not 20, Tong ago they did. There can be
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doubt, that alcohol, as 2, be. Furiher ome can point out sine non-Christian countries, arch infanticide, which are, disap ing, though the countries concern-dare not Christian. The tide of Christian truth and purity has swept into their orders and des troyed these sins. I might go on to shew, that it just the same.
vogard to sins of" the soul as well as those of virtue, The Stoic superman was chokeful of pride, that he was "not og other men." 'That, kind of pride has been utterly discre-ited. No one defends it now. So we might goon and show, that in fact sin is not as virulent as it was, "Its Marne was the ment' on which the Saviour of the world was tried, was Calvary on which He died, shedding His blood for the sins of the, world. Gritty a nob an, verientng wearying hopeless fight, again foo as fr ever. No. It is a fight against a beaten foe. Much remains to be done: you and afl the rest of us and all mankind need much sanctifying po doubt: but the grand battle has. been fought and won, He said. a8 hi died, "It is finished." And no it was.
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