Christianity Has Not Lost Its Hold
THE Independent, with real concern, observes: “It is a very serious question that is facing the Christian world in China. Has Christianity, or even civilization, lost its hold? It would almost seem so, from the reports that come of the conduct of the allied troops. Bitter and cruel as was the savagery of the Boxers, it was no worse than that of those who have sought to visit upon them the punishment for their crime. The testimony is too uniform and too detailed to admit of any doubt.” The answer to all that is: (1) There is no Christian world in China; (2) there is no Christian world on this terrestrial ball; (3) Christianity has not lost its hold; (4) and from the time of Nimrod until now, “civilization,” especially of those who boast of theirs, is a term that covers very thinly the same old original barbarism, which will quickly be revealed when customary restraints can safely be disregarded.