The Plundering of China
By Editor
Says Harper’s Weekly: "China contains much more potential wealth than any unexplored country in the world. Perhaps we would be within bounds in saying that if her resources were developed by modern methods and modern men, she would be naturally the richest country in the world, the United States excepted." And it is admittedly because of these great natural resources of wealth that the "powers" are seeking to partition China among themselves. If private individuals were doing such things they would be classed as highwaymen, and their deeds would be set down as robbery. Wherein is the difference in the morality of the thing when this work of plundering is done by great nations? What a commentary it is on these times that "great Christian nations" should give themselves to plundering the "poor heathen" of the Orient! And the most inconsistent and surprising part of it all is that these robber "powers" should be claiming that they are all getting so good that a millennium of peace9and righteousness is about to be ushered in. A millennium of righteousness is indeed about here, but it will be in nowise what these "powers" are looking for; it will be introduced by the second coming of Christ, who will destroy every vestige of this evil work, by destroying every one who refuses to yield to the merciful entreaties of truth and right.