Against this, what has China, her near neighbour, to show? Tore is A country of 400,000,000 of people with unimitable natural resources, When the Nationalist Goveeament reached Hankow last year we heard '2 great deal of the forests of chim-moys that that government was going to erect all over China. So far, all we have soon is the closing Jown fof factories wherever the National. ist Government took control, the bankruptey and confiscation of shipping companies and industrial properties. Compare these cnnditions in China with such large in. and. if left alone, an industrious population, torn by internal strife, her railways and her few industries rnincdl, famine stalking the country, hundreds of thousands of hor best citizens driven out of the country, law or order anywhere, and the country regarded with contempt by the outside world. And what for?
Just to satisfy the greed and van~ ity of a few selfish militarists and politicians, who, when they have accumulated' sufficient stolen wealth evening who la conscious that one more of these obataces is hinder: that new life which Christ is waiting. and lansing give him? If 20, may God give you grace to take away the stone stumbling, whatever it may be, find to come' to Him in faith, Ramis and aelteorender; then Service that freedom and joy which surely will experience in the world, with all its attractions, can neither give mor take away. seek refuge under the flags of the foreign Powers they were so voclferously denouncing only a short time before. When one compares Japan with China one is forced to 'the conclusion that the. Japanese are a nation of constructors, and the Chinese a nation of destroyers. It is no wonder that men like Sena-for Goff describe the Chinese nation an impotent mob. Cannot out Chinese friends see the truth, ang take a lesson from Japan?
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