What Will the Effect Be?—If Li Hung Chang reads our papers and our books, if he notes the statistics of poverty and wealth, if he sees the statements which are made repeatedly of how millions of dollars are made in “cornering” the necessities of life to force up the price, by illegal combines and trusts, by watering stock, by secret rebates, by the purchase of city councils and state Legislatures,—if these and a thousand other illegal methods and devices of a greedy plutocracy present themselves before him, what will be the effect? How will this “Christian nation,” declared so to be by Supreme Court, affect him? Will it lead to a higher regard for genuine Christianity? Would that he and all others could but know the truth that the world is not Christian; that between Christ and the greedy, grasping, pleasure-loving world there is no concord.