Could “Christian” Nations Do Better?
—In speaking of the present situation in China, and the killing of the two German priests by Chinese banditti, the Chinese minister to America, Wu-Ting-Fang, in an interview printed in the Thrice-a-Week World of December 31, says:— “We do not invite these people to China, but when they are there my government protects them by extraordinary laws and permits them special privileges not enjoyed even by its own subjects. “If extraordinary difficulties arise it is not just that China should suffer. Her civilization is the oldest known, and at the same time she freely permits foreigners to exploit their ideas. “What more can be done than to rectify wrongs? I feel sure, therefore, that when the position of my government is made known it will be seen that Germany has no cause for complaint.” Do “Christian” nations, so called, do as well? Has America been as willing to right wrongs done to Chinese as China is to rectify wrongs done to foreigners? And when China does as far as lies in her power to rectify wrongs, ought not that to be sufficient to a “Christian” nation without dividing up her territory? Righteousness and justice inhere in the act, not in the character of those toward whom they are exercised.