Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1891 — Page 7

FAITH WITHOUT WORKS

GOOD WORKS UNAVAILING IN THE ABSENCB'OF FAITH. FraetleM Re Igion the Want of the World —Off'rin ■ From IU-Goiten Gaines Not Acceptable—Dr. Talmage • Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn and New York Sunday. Text: Jamess. 11. 20. He said: The Roman Catholic church has been charged with putting too much stress upon good wprlcs and not enough upon faith. I charge Protestantism with putting not enough stress upon good works as connected with salvation. Good works will never save a man, but if a man have not good works he has no real faith and no genuine retigion. There are those who depend upon the fact that they are ail right Inside, while their conduct is wrong outside. Their religion, for the most part, is made up of talk—vigorous talk, fluent talk, boastful talk, per* petual talk. They will entertain you by the hour in telling you how good they are. They come up to such a higher life that they have no patience with ordinary Christians in the plain discharge of their duty. AS near as I can tell this ocean oraft is mostly sail and very little tonnage. Foretopmast stay-sail, foretopmast studding sail, maintop sail, mizzentop sail - e . erything from flying jib to mizzen spanker, but making no useful voyage, Now, the world has got tired of this, and it wants a religion that will work into all the circumstances of life. We do not want a new religion, but the old religion applied in all possible directions.

Yonder is a river with steep and rocky banks, anditrOarsltkeayoung JQiagara as it rolls on over its rough bed, it does nothing but talk about itself all the way from its source in the mountain to the place where it empties into the sea. The banks are so steep the cattle cannot come down to drink. It does not run one fertilizing rill into the adjoining field. It has not one grist mill or factory on either side. It sulks in wet weather with chil ing fogs. No one <ares when that river is 'born among the rockg, and nnonacares when it dies into the sea. But yonder is another riv r. and it mosses its banks with the warm tides, and its rocks with floral lullaby the waterlilies asleep on its boson. It invites herds of cattle and flocks of sheep and coveys of birds to come there and drink. It has three gristmills on one side and six cotton factories on the other. It has the wealth of 200 miles of luxuriant farms. The birds of heaven chanted when it was born in the mountains, and the ocean shipping will press in from the sea to hail it as it comes down to the Atlantic coast. The one river is a man who lives for himself. The other river is a man who lives for others. Do you know how the site of the ancientOty of Jerusa’em was chosen? There were two brothers who had adjoining farms. The one brother had a large family, the other had no family. The brother with a large family Said: “There is my brother w.th no family: he must be lonely and I will try to cheer him up, and I will take some of the sheaves from my fiild in the nighttime and set them ovjr on pis fa.m and say nothing about it. The other brother said: “My brother has a large family, and it is very diffisuit for him to support them, and I will help him along, and I will take lome of the sheaves from my farm in the nighttime and set them over on his faun, and say nothing about it." So the wor k of transference went on night after night, and night after night: but every morning thi gs seemed to be just as they were, for though (heaves had been subtracted from each farm, sheaves had also been added, and the brothers were perplexed and could not understand. Hut one night the brothers happened to meet

while making this generous transference, and the Spot where they met was so sacred that it was chosen as the site of the city of Jerusa’em. If that tradition should prove unfounded. It will, nevertheless, stand as a beautiful allegory setting forth the idea that wherever a kindly and generous and loving act is performed, that is the spot fit for some temple of commemoration. i I have often spoken to you about faith, but now I speak to you about works, for “faith without works is dead.” I think you will agree with me in the statement that the great want of the world is more practical religion. We want practical religion to go into all merchandise. It will super vise the labeling of goods. It will not allow a man to say that a thing was made in one factory when it. was made In another. It will not allow the merchant to say, “That watch was manufactured in Geneva, Switzerland,” when it was manufactured in Massachusetts. It will not allow the merchant to say, “That wine came from Madeira.” when it came from California. Pract cal religion will walk along by tbe store shelves, and tear off all the tags that make misrepresentation. It will not allow the merchant to say, “That is pure coffee." When dandelion root and chicory and other ingredients go into it. It will not allow him to say, “That is pure sugar," when there are in it sand and ground glass. -■ When practical religion gets its full fwlng In the world it will go down the Streets, and It will come to that shoe store and rip off. the fictitious soles of pnany a fine looking pair of shoes and show that it is pasteboard sandwiched l between the sound leather. And this practical religion will go right into a grocery store, and it will pull out tbe rlug of all the adulterated sirups, and will dump into the ash barrel In ► ont of the store the cassia bark that • sold fan cinnamon and the brick

dhet-that is sold for oayenne pepper; and it will, shake out the Prussian nlues from the tea leaves, and it will ship from the* flour plaster of paris and bone dust and soapstone.and it will by chemical analysisi/sepat ate the one quart of Ridgewood water from the few honest drops of cow's milk, and it will throw out the live animalcules from the brown sugar, There has been so much adulteration of food that it is an amazement to me that there is a healthy man or woman in America. Heaven only knows what they put into the spices and into the sugars and into the butter and into the apothecary drug. But chemical analysis and the microscope have made wonderful revelations. The Board of Health in Massachusetts analyzed a great amount of what was ca led pure coffee, and found in it not one particle of coffee. In England there is a law that forbids the placing of'hlum in bread. The public authorities examined fifty-one p ickages of bread and found them all guilty. The honest physician, writing a prescrip, tion, does not know but that it may bring death instead of health to his patient, because there may be one of the drugs weakened by a cheaper article, and another drug may be in full force, and so the prescription may have just the opposite effect intended. Oil of wormwood pure from Boston Was found to have 41 per cent, of resin and alcohol and chloroform. Scammony is one of the most valuable med. ical drugs. It is very rare, very precious. It is the sap or gum of a tree or a bush in Syria. The root of the tree is exposed, an incision made into the root and then shells are placed at this incisLn to catch the sap or gum as it exudes. It is very precious, this scammony. But the peasant mixes it with a cheaper material; then it is taken to Aleppo, and the merchant there mixes it with a cheaper material; then it comes on to the wholesale druggist in London or New York, and he mixes it with a cheaper material; then it comes to the retail druggist and he mixes it with a cheaper material, and by the time the poor sick man gets it into his bottle it is ashes and chalk and sand, and some of what has been called pure scammony after analysis has been found to be noscaminonyat'all. 1111 1 “ Now, practical religion will rectify all this, It will go to those hypocritical professors of religion who got a •■corner” in corn and wheatin Chicago and New York, sending prices up and up until they were beyond the reach of the poor, keeping these breadstuffs in ! their own hands, or controllidg them until the prices going up and up and up, they were after a while, ready to sell, and they sold, making themselves millionaires tn one or two years, trying to fix the matter up with the Lord by building a church or a university or a hospital, deluding themselves with the idea that the Lord would be so pleased with the gift He would forget the swindle.

Ah! my friends, if a man hath got his estate wrongfully and he build a line of hospitals and universities from i here to Al iska, he can not atone for 1 it. After awhile, this man who has been getting a “corner” in wheat, dies, and then Satan gets a “corner” on him. He goes into a great long Black i Friday. There is a “break” in the market. According to Wall street parlance he wiped others out, and now he is himself wiped out. No collater- • alB on which to make a spiritual loan. I But this practical religion will not only rectify all merchandise; it will also rectify all mechanism, and all toil. A time will come when a matt will work as faithfully by the job as he does by the day. You say when a thing is slightingly done. “Oh, that was done by the job.” You can tell by the swiftness or slowness with which a hackman drives whether he is hired by the hour or by the excursion, If he is hired by the excursion he whips up the hors as so as to get around and get another customer.

| All styles of work have to be inspected. Ships inspected, horses ini spected. machinery inspected. Boss to watch the journeyman. Capitalist coming down unexpectedly to watch the boss. Conductor of a city car sounding the punch bell to prove his honesty as a passenger hands to him a clipped nickel. All things must ba watched and inspected- imperfections in the wood covered with putty. Garments warranted to last until you put them on the third time. Shoddy in all kinds of clothing. Chromos. Pinchbeck. Diamonds for $1 .50. Bookbin lery that holds on until you have read the third chapter. Spavined horses. by skillful dose of jockeys, for several days made to look spry. Wagon tires poorly put on. Horses poorly shod. Plastering that cracks without any provocation and falls off. Plumbing that needs to be plumbed. Imperf. ct car-wheel that halts the whole train with a hot-box. So little practical religion in tbe mechanism of the world. 1 tell you, my friends, the law of man will never rectify these things. It will be the all-pervading influence of the practical religion of Jesus Christ that will make the change for the better. Yes, this practical religion will also go into agriculture, which is proverbially honest, but needs to be rectified, and It will keep the farmer from sending to the New York market veal that is too young to kill, and when the | farmer farms on shares it will keep tho man who does the work from making his half three-fourths, and it will keep the farmer from building his post and rail fence on his neighbor’s premises, and it will make him shelter his cattle in the winter storm, and it will keep the old elder from working on Sunday afternoon in the new ground nobody sees him. And this practical religion will hover over the hou-e, and over the barn, and over the field, and over the orchard. Yes, this practical religion of which

I speak will eome into the learned professions. Toe lawyer will feel his responsibility in defending innocence and arraigning evil, and expounding the law, and it will keep him from charging for briefs he never wrote, and for pleas he never made, and for percentages he never earned, and from robbing widow and orphan because they are defenseless. Yes, this practical religion wih come into the physician’s life, and he will feel his responsibility as the conservator of the public health, a profession honored by the fact that Christ himself was a physician. And it will make him honest,and when he does not understand a case he will say so, not, trying to cover up lack of diagnosis with ponderous technicalties, or send the patient to a reckless drug store because the apothecary happens to pay a percentage on the prescriptions sent. And this practical religion will come to the school teacher, making her feel her responsibility in preparing our youth for usefulness and for happiness and for honor, and will keep her from giving a sly box to a dull head, chastising him for what he can not help, and sending discouragement all t irough the after years of a lifetime.,This practical religion will also come to the newspaper men, and it will help them in the gathering o; the news, and it will help them in setting forth the best interests of soc ety, and it will keep them from putting the sins of the world in larger type than its virtu res. and its mistakes than its achievements. Yes, this practical religion will have to come in and fix up the marriage relation in America. There are members of churches who have too many wives and too many husbands. Society need to be expurgated and washed and fumigated and Christianized. We have missionary societies to reform Mulberry street in New York, and Bedford street. Philadelphia, and Shoreditch street, London, and the Brooklyn Docks; but there is need of an organization to reform much that is going on in Beacon street and Madison Square and West End and Brooklyn Heights and Brooks Hills. We want the practical religion to take hold, not only of what are called the lower classes, but to take ho d of what are called the higher classes. The trouble is that

people have an idea, that they cando all their religion on Sunday with hymn book and prayer book anti liturgy, aud some of them sit in church rolling up iheir eyes as though they were ready for translation, when their Sabbath is bounded on all sidi s by an inconsis ent lie, and while you are expecting to come out from under their arms the wings of an angel, there come out from their forehead tne horns of a beast. There has got to be anew departure in religion. I do not say a new religion. Oh, no; but the old religion brought to new appliances. In our time we have had the daguerreotype and the ambrotype and the photograph but it is the same old sun. And the e arts are only new appliances of the old sunlight. So this glorious Gospel is just what we want to photograph' the image of God on one soul, and daguerreotype it on another soul. Not a new Gospel, but the old Gospel put to new work.? In our time we have had the telegraphic invention and the telephone invention and the electric light invention; but they are all children of old electricity, and element that the philosophers have a long while known much about. So this electric Gospel needs to flash its light on the eyes and ears and souls of men, and become a telephone medium ’to make the deaf hear; a telegraphic medium to, dart invitation and warning to all nations; i an electric Tighi to - ern and Western hemispheres. Not a new Gospel but the old Gospel doing a new work.

I Give your heart to God and then fill your life with good works. Consecrate to. Him your store, your shop, your baking house, your factory and your home. They say no one will hear it. That is enough. You hardly know of any one else than Wellington as connected with the victory at Waterloo: but he did not do the hard fighting. ( The hard fighting by the Somerset , cavalry and the Ryland regiments and Kempt’s infantry and the Scots Grays and tbe Life Guards. Who cares, if the ' day was won? In the latter part of the last century J a girl in England became a kitchenmaid in a farm house. She bad many styles of work and much hard work. Time rolled on, and she married the I son of a weaver of Halifax. They were industriou : They saved money enough after a while to build them a home 1 (Up tire morning of the day when they’ were tojenter that home the young wife arose at 4 o’clock, entered the front door-yard, knelt down.consecrated the place to God, and then made the solemn vow: “O, Lord, if Thou will bless ! me in this place the poor shall Lave a 1 share of it. i Time rolled on and a fortune rolled in. Childien grew up and around them, and they ail became affluent, one a member of Pariiment. in a public place declared thathis success came from the prayer of his mother in the door-yard. All of them were affluent. Four thousand hands in their factories. They built dwelling houses for laborers at cheap rents, andwhen they were in. valid and could not pay they had the houses for nothing. One of these sons came to this country, admired our parks, went back, bought land, opened a great public park, and mid 3 it a present to the city of Halifax* England. They endowed an orphanage, they endowed two alm houses. All England has heard of tbe generosity and tbe good weeks of Crossleys. Moral: Consecrate to God your small means and your humble surroundings. “Godliness is profitable unto all things, hav. ing promise of the life that no# is and of that which is to come." “Have faith in God by all means, but remember that faith without works is dead. ’

PROTECTION.

AN ELOQUENT AND FORCIBLE SPEECH ON THE AMERICAN TARIFF BY MAJ. M'KINLEY. Answer to Grover Cleveland's Theory That Cheapness io AL Things Should B« the Aim of AU Classes of Workingmen. Lincoln’s birthday whs chosen as the date for the fourth annual convention of the Ohio League of Republican Clubs at Toledo. The day was devoted to routine business. The officers dlecet for the ensuing year are: President, W. I. Squires, of Toledo, and four vice-presidents; secretary, John J. Chester, of Columbus; treasurer, B. McElroy, of Mount Vernon. Mr. McKinley’s response was essentially a reply to Mr. Cleveland’s speech at the Thurman banquet at Columbus last November. He said: “It is worth something in the discussion of economic questions to have an avowal from our political opponents of the real meaning and effect of their economic theories. It is always well in political controversy to understand one another. It was, therefore, gratifying to the friends of pro'ection to have that eminent Democratic leader from the State of New Yo k, on a recent occasion in the capital city of our State, make an open confession of the purposes which he and bls party associates aim to accomplish by. a free-trade tariff. Assigned to respond to the inspiring sentiment, ‘American Citizenship,’ he made ‘cheapness’ the theme of his discourse, and counted it among the highest aspirations of American life. His avowal is only that which protectionists have always claimed to be the inevitable tendency of his tariff policy which exalts cheap goods from abroad above good wages at home. “The tariff reformer gravely asks why we want manufacturing establishments in the United States when-we-can buy our goods in other countries as cheap as we can manufacture them at home, if not cheaper. Why maintain defensive tariffs at all? Why hot

permit foreign goods to come in unfettered by any custom-house restraints? The best answer, tbe most conclusive, is written in our own experience under the last free-trade tariff regime of the Democratic party, when cheap foreign goods, invited by the Tow tariff of that period, destroy ed our manufactor es, checked our mining, suspended dur -publio works and private enterprisers, sent our workingmen from work to idleness or to the already over-crowded field of agriculture, from remunerative to starvation wages, or to no wages at all surrendered our markets to tbe foreigner, giving work’ so his shops and his men by taking it from our shops and our men, and diminished domestic production, domestic employment, thereby increasing those of other countries and other peoples. This was an era of “cheapness and of poverty to which the great Democratic leader and his faction of the party want us to return. The masses of the people are in no temper for such a suggestion, and will never consent to the inauguration of a policy which will scale down their wages and render it harder to obtain the necessaries of life... The ‘cheap coats’ to which the gentleman is so much attached do not tempt them, for many remember that in previous free trade eras of our history they were too poor to huy them at any price.” THE VOICE OF COBDEN. Mr. McKinley discussed this point at some length, and continued: “This it rung through England nearly fifty years ago. It was the voice and philosophy oL Cobden; it was the false and alluring appeal urged for the reversal of Great Britain's industrial policy from protect on to free trade. It was the hypocritical cant against which the beloved Kingsley thundered his bold denunciation. Here is his characterization of it: ‘Next you have the Manchester doctrine, from which heaven defend us. For of all narrow, conceited, hypocritical and anarchistic schemes of the universe the Cobden and Bright one is exactly the worst. They pretend to be the workingmen’s friends by keeping down the price of bread, when all they want thereby is to keep down wages and increase profits, and in the meantime to widen the gulf between the workingmen and all that is time-honored and cnivalrous in English society.’

“I am charitable enough to believe that many of our tariff reformers, blind followers of Cobden, are wholly unconscious of the end. the ultimate and disastrous end of their doctrine and policy. Is American manhood to be degraded that merchandise may be cheapened? Are cheap goods at such a cost worthy of our high purpose and destiny, and can we believe that he who would advocate them at such a sacrifice is the true friend of his countrymen, however loud his professions? Cheap coats at any price, at any sacrifice, even to the robbery of labor, are not the chief objections of American civilization. We scorn cheap coats upon §ny such terms of conditions. They are ‘nasty’ at such a price. •-Our philosophy includes the grower of the wool, weaver of the fabric, tbe seamstress and the tailor. Our tariff reformers have no thought of these toilers. They can bear their hard tasks in pinching poverty for the sake of cheap coats, which prove by far the dearest when measured by sweat and toil. Our tariff Reformers concern themselves only about cheat) coats and cheap shoes. We do not overlook the comfort of those who make the coats and make the shoe-, and who provide the wool and the cloth, the hides and the leather. J'FFERSON’S docibjne, ••I gratefully commend to the new leader of the Democracy the politic u t.n ances of its leader, Thomas Jeffer-

son. I quote from one of his letters t > Jean Baptiste: ‘The prohibiting dutie* we lay on all articles of foreign manufacture, which prudence requires us to establish at homo, with the pa triotic determination of every good Citi en to me no foreign article which can be made within ourselves, witn i egnrd to difference of price, secures us against a relapse into so eign dependency.’ Jefferson was sol citous that the people shot Id buy nothing abroad which could be had at home. He set the example of buying the domestic goods instead of the foreign goods, even though the former cost more than the latter. He did not have the depth of spmpathy for cheap foreigu clothes which the new leader of the Democratic party boastfully confesses dwells in his breast. Jefferson was for the home product and the home producer, and his exalted patriotism is commended to those who are leading the party from its ancient moorings.” Mr. McKinley followed this line of thought at considerable length, his argument being that free trade could only benefit those living on accumulated or inherited wealth, without being required to labor for themselves, and went on: “If buying where you can buy the cheapest narrows the field of employment at home it will be the very dearest of all buying, the most expensive of all trading, the most unprofitable of all exchange. The more demands there are for labor, the more avenues inviting employmentand enterprise, and the more opportunities for the capital st to invest his money, the better each will be remunerated and the wider will be general prosperity, MUST BE MORE THAN CHEAP CLOTHES. “There must be s imething for the American citi en tnore than cheap clothes. There must be some higher incentive than a cheap coat and a bare subsistence. The farmer’s products must bring him fair returns for his toil and investments. The workingman’s wages must be governed by his work and worth, .and not by what he can barely liveupon. He must have wages that bring hope, and heart, and ambition. which give promise of a future brighter and better than the past, which shall promote his comfort and Independence, and which shall stimulate him to a higher and better, more intelligent citizenship. This was what Lincoln and Garfield taught. These were the principles with which they inspired the people. The great emancipator illustrated his aversion to cheap men when he made them free and gave them theirown earnings and labor; and the beloved Garfield showed his sympathy with God’s poor when he voted to make them citizens. “The gentleman who is now so insistent for cheap necessaries of life, while in office and clothed with authority was unwilling that sugar, an article of prime necessity to every household, should come untaxed to the American people when it was known that the import duty was an annual burden of $60,000,000. He stood then as the uncompromising friend of dear sugar for the masses. During all of his years at the head of the government he was dishonoring one of our precious metals—one of our great products—discrediting silver and enhancing the price of gold. He endeavored even before his inauguration to office to stop the coinage of silver dollars, and afterwards and to the end of his administration, persistently used hie power to that end. He was determined to contract the circulrting medium and demonetize one of the coins of commerce, limit the volume of money among the people, make money scarce and therefore dearer. He would have increased the value of money and diminished, the value of everything else; money the master, everything else Its servant. He was not thinking of ‘the poor’ then; he had left their side. He was not standing fortbin 'heir defense. Cheap coats, cheap labor and cheap money, the sponsor and promoter of these professing to stand guard oyer the welfare of the poor and lowly—was there ever more glaring inconsistency or reckless assumption? ‘•The tariff reformer has at last, In his wild ecstacy over a so-called vict >ry, been betrayed into an avowal of bls real design. He believes that poverty is a blessing to be promoted and encouraged, and that a shrinkage in the value of, everything but money is a national benediction. He no longer conceals his love for cSbap merchand se. even though it entails the beating down of the price of labor and curtails the comforts and opportunities of the masses. He has uncovered at last. He would make the cheapest articles of comfort and necessity dearer to the, poor, for he would diminish the rewards of their labor. THE BASIS OF PROSPERITY. “Mr. President, that country Is the least prosperous where low prices are secured through low wages. Cheap foreign g 'ods, free or practically free in competition with domestic goods, involve cheap labor at home or dependence upon foreign manufacturers. Thoss who advocate duties solely ’or revenue see only as a result cheaper prices, which are but temporary at best, and do not see the other side—that of lower wages, cheaper labor, agricultural depression and general distress. The protective system, by encouraging capital to engage in productive enterprises, has accorded to labor, skill and cenius higher opportunities and greater rewards than could otherwise be secured, defending them against ruinous oreign competition, while promoting home competition and giving the American consumer better products at lower prices and the farmer a better market than was ever enjoyed unde the free tariffs of the Democratic party. ” Mr. McKinley went On to enforce th s by a history of the condition of the English working classes since the re-

peal of the com laws, contracting this with the condition of American workingmen since the war, and closed as follows: “We believe the American policy best adapted to our citizenship and civilization, and this belief issudtained by the highest Ame lean auhorit es from Washington down and by a hundred years experience. We know what it has already accomplished for self-governed people. The wor d knows of the wonderful progress we have made. If this policy is to be reversed it must be done not by clamor or misrepresentation; not by schoolmen and theorists, not by falsehood and hypocritical solicitude for the poor man; not by exaggerated laudation of the cheap coa*, but after a full discussion and investigation, by the sober and intelligent judgment of the majd'ity constitutionally registered. It wilt never be so reversed while we remain a nation of political equals. Time and experience have vindicated the great system. Time and truth will vindicate the new law, which was founded upon it False witnesses will be confounded by the unimpeachable testimony of trade and experience. Their portents have already been impeached. False p:ophecy must fall before good limes ana abounding prosperity. Campaign prices have already been convicted as campaign lies. New industries are being founded; others now established are enlarging their capcity. Idle mills are being started. The only menace to our advancement, and pro perity to our wage-earners and farming interests, Is the party which is pledged to the repeal of the new law and the substitution of the British system in its place. Free and full discussion will avert the danger. Nothing else will.”

JAPANESE WHITE WIVES.

Usually Ends to the Extreme Sorrow of tbe Wife. Cor. Indlananolis Journal. The result is that he soon begins to neglect his white wife for some of his graceful and charming little countrywomen. who are never without a smile both in their eyes and on their lips, and who understood both his waysand character to a degree beyond the comprehension of the foreign wife? ' Inasmrch as there is no Japane e synonym for the English word “chastity,” it will be readily understood that such a thing in Dai Nippon as regard for the marriage vows, or, indeed, for any sort 61 morality, is conspicuous only by its absence, especially in the case of men. In course of time the foreign wife discovers that it is useless to res sent either the neglect or the unfaithfulness of her husband, deeming herself fortunate, indeed, if he does not attempt to impose upon her the society and the residence beneath her roof of one or more native Hagars. It was only the other day that the English papers contained the sad story of a young girl of Newcastle, who had foolishly accepted an offer of marriage from a young Chinese naval officer named Ling, who had been sent to Great Britain to study gunnery. All protes's on the part of her parents were silenced by the apparent sincerity of his proses ions of attachment and by the fact that he professed to be a Christian. His mansion in China was most impressively described, and the girl’s parents were asked to picture her living in the most picturesque of Oriental luxury, amid orange groves and plants of exquisite beauty. The infatuated girl cast in her lot with the Celestial, and started with him for China. Letters of a reassuring character continued to come from the couple onthe outward voyage, but after the arrival at Shanghai, the communications became mysterious, and soon ceased altogether. At length, however, a letter was received at Newcastle, from the chief of one of the missionary station, stating that tbe girl had first been neg >■ lected, then ill-treat-'d, and finally abandoned by her Chinese husband, and that, after having given birth to a child at the mission hospital, she was on her way home to England. Of course, it will at once be pointed out that the case just mentioned is that of a Chinaman, and that the Japenese are far superior in every way. This, however, is an argument which neither I nor any one else who bas had any important dealing with members of both nationalities will admit to be correct Both Japenese and Chinese are decended from tbe same stock. They are each of them members of the Turanian or yellow race, and they possess in the main characteristics that are similar, and, indeed, identical. Any superiority which exists on the score of morality must unquestionably be awarded to the Chinese; who although less demonstrative and more reserved and distant in their relations with foreigners, are infinitely more trustworthy and more moral in every respect than the Japense. A single illustration will suffice. The word of a Chinaman in com mere al dealings is regarded by foreign merchants as being as good if not better than any bond, whereas no amount of verbal or written contracts are adequate to bind a. Japenese. Like the Chinese, and in fact, every other Asiatic race, the Japenese entertain no respect for women, whomthey regard as creatures of inferior intelligence. resembling brutes in being without a soul. Thus it is almost impossible to bring any untrain ed Japenese to comprehend the deference which the men of civilized nations pay to wotuon. The latter, in his eyes, are solely fitted to act as the servants -- nay, even as slaves—of the stronger sex. Seldom, if ever, is the wife permitted to sit at the table with her husband. no matter how high her raiilt may be,* and when admitted to hi« presence she is forced by etiquette to approach in the same manner as the domestics, namely, on all fours, with repeated prosternations. 1