Suppressing the Opium Trade
By S. S. Workman
Our Bible Teacher aptly remarks, that "men interested in the manufacture or sale of liquors are seldom friendly to the success of churches and Sabbath-schools: They recognize an inevitable antagonism between these and their trade. In China the strongest enemies of Christian missions are the merchants engaged in the opium trade. This business is the source of their greatest gains. The late treaty between the United States and China forbids Americans engaging in this nefarious trade, and so will prove material aid to the success of the missionaries, as well as relieve in some measure the calamities which foreign nations have brought upon China by forcing upon its people this mischievous drug." We hope that all good people, and especially members of churches and Sabbath-schools, will exert their influence in favor of educating the masses to favor the enactment of a general prohibitory law for the suppression of this nefarious trade.—S. S. Workman.