（三月廿二日）
The Christians are Christians in giving charities and in their private and civil dealings. But they are not Christians when they come to international relations. They "strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel!" So long as the professedly Christian nations recognize no authority but that of the "mailed fist"; so long as they have no regard for the right and claims of the weaker nations; so long as they place national and commercial gain and territorial aggression over and above the dictates of justice and righteousness, —so long Christianity can never become a world power, so long all your missionary work can never long endure and will all be swept away at a signal of Mars!
This was the statement of Suh Hu, a well-known Chinese, in his lecture last night at the Presbyterian Church on "The Christian Opportunity in China," the fifth in a series of talks on "The Spiritual Significance of Secular Callings. " Such was his opinion, he said, after considering the German seizure of Kiac-chau of 1897 and the French seizure of Kwangchow Bay of 1898, under the pretext that two German missionaries and one French missionary had been killed by the mob, both acts being responsible for the Boxer uprising in 1900. Suh Hu continued:
"If Christianity is to become a world religion, it is the duty of every individual Christian and every Christian Church to pledge himself, herself, or itself to raise the present standard of international morality. Most of you take it for granted that what you are fond of calling 'civilization' is based upon the solid rock of Christianity. But let me tell you with all sincerity that the present civilization is founded, not upon the Christian ideals of love and righteousness, but upon the law of the jungle—the law that might makes right! Think of the many Christian nations now praying in the churches and to the Christian God for victory and success in their efforts to destroy their fellow Christians! And then think of the Christian commandment: 'Love
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