The Gavelyte, February 1911

1111p11rt. I h • ii• it P f111 , 't' ilLh, p, it.inn and pr w •r h I he.. n qui .. ly \\ ,rl 111•" 1t tlw \l'I' • f11ur lnLion of 1111r 111oral lit .. 11nlil it i w, • kin, lllll' l 'hrislian h 1111;. ( 'hrii:1ti,111 in. tit11tion., :rn I L.h • \' •ry f~11 p •l r,t l 'hri ti,111 liri,w. I mpl'l'ali,· • a. lw . nluLion of th«'~l' qu · tionl'\ i.. 1 h •r • i Lill a1111t,h1•r of far ~rt>nler imporlan!' • th1• '(llPStion of 1•,·,111~t'li;r,,1tion "th, '\',tng<'lizali ,n of th(• worltl in thi. gt 1wr.. tion" whi ·h th• mi1,.;h1y w 1rlcl fnrct•s and worlrl movPm<·nt. h 1VP wo1 lwd up n I nr shor •sand I •ft to full vi v a qu 1 .:;Lion W(• cann L ignor it mu. L \ip fac d. ~olv~ thi. 11rohl ,m. and it will Himplify th,• 11lu– ti11n of all the others 'egl cL th solution of thi~. and thL· otlwrfl must n•ntually ·omP to naught in a common ruin. 'omnwrci.il intercourse. tr.,vrl, migration of students. anrl c·on– tad with the civ ilization of th We t haH kind\ rl a spirit of natir,n d s lf-consciousne.'s among the non-christian r,1ces. The pro~r . ,:;, vietory, and power of th "bmpir of the Rising .'un." eagerly told in 1he marts of 'hina. the bazaar..; "f India. th barios of Luzon; diR– ('U ·se I in the pre s of Per ia, and tJ)kerl about in the caravan ari"H nf .\.r,\bia and Africa, \us fanned this spirit of hoµe into a flame, whi h i no v threatening t ,) becom ~ a conflagration The spirit of nati nalism i sweeping ov r the n1n-chri~tian world The growth of thi pirit is se n pre-eminently amona the Asiatic race.. AcroRs that va t continent, from the Inland Sea of Eur,1pe to the seas of Japan and China, there is a most startling manifestation of new national aspirations. The present unrest seen in India arises from a new patriotism and a growing national consciousnesH. Thi· unrest is th unre t of those who aspire to better things and sePk after higher ideals and nobler ambitions. Japan, by sheer merit, has emancipated herself from an intra-territorial position among nations and is rapidly becom– ing the dominant power of the East. Persia is slowly awakening from her sleep of ages and feebly but hopefully struggling toward constitutional government. Of no other country can it be so truth– fully said as it is said of Turkey, ''A nation born in a day." Her marvelous change came unexpectedly and with lightning raridity. No newspaper reporter, missionary, consul or emba 'sador predi 'led it. It is the mo t extraordinary revolution that has ever tiken place either in recent times or the remote past. Within a few "eeks Turkey changed from a most absolute despoti m to one of tbe free t countrie of the world. Unless evangelized, the nation most to be feared i.- C'hina We now know the Chinese to be a people large of body, ::strong of limb, and by nature of a quick, keen and powi->rful intellect --a people of marvels. Where can you find another nation that f,.r centuries