ense and the moral sentiments
of the nation itself. This has been the case as regards the nation's
treatment of the emancipated negroes. It was this Society which, so
promptly and gloriously, lifted up and bore aloft with something of a
divine intrepidity, God's own banner of human rights and the divine
sympathy. It is this Society which has done more than any other one
agency, to revolutionize and harmonize the national sentiment as
regards the rights of the Indian to civilization and to
Christianization. If now the churches of our country will hasten to
do their duty, as in sight of him who is Father of us all, towards
our Chinese neighbors, it will not be long before the National
Government will wake to its shame and wipe off the deep disgrace of
its recent demagogy and international perfidy.

Moreover, a more complete mistake could not be made than to imagine
that the Imperial Government of China is unobservant, whatever the
seeming invincibility of its pride and exclusiveness. China is
neither blind nor insensible. Japan has awakened; China is wakening.
Its hour is at hand; the dust of ages is stirring. The Chinese wall
is vanishing. The Supreme Government of the four hundred millions of
the Empire is at length getting in touch with the other great and
advancing Powers of the world. And the startling sublime fact of the
new _world sociability_, if we will but see it, is giving tremendous
urgency to every possible means of originating, multiplying,
communicating, and sending on and around from nation to nation, the
forces of the world-redeeming Gospel of Jesus Christ. We, therefore,
are most earnestly agreed in the conviction that, not only is the
noble work of missions among the Chinese in our country, now being
done by this Society, of inestimable value, but that it ought by all
means to be greatly and immediately enlarged and re-enforced.

That great missionary, St. Paul, once said--and he may have often
said it--that he gloried in his own infirmities; adding that the
power of Christ might rest on him. This is our glory--if we have any.
Here is this American Missionary Association; and over against it,
face to face, is China. What proportion is there between the two? How
preposterous, one may say, the thought which we are trying to frame
into actual purpose for the regeneration of this enormous part of the
human family? Most true. And yet, along with Paul's thought, how
infinitely inspiring this purpose should