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The heart of a continent : vol.1 |
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not be claimed as a convert! Conversion means the changed
state of the whole person; and the whole person, especially
when he is a stolid Chinaman, changes very slowly indeed, so
that it is impossible to say exactly when and where he has
become a new man. I think, then, that those who have had
most to do with peoples of other religions than the Christian,
and have realized how difficult and slow the change from one
state to another must be—and how valueless, if ever it is effected
rapidly—will have the least faith in any mere statistics of
converts to Christianity.
But, on the other hand, men who have studied the whole
effect of Christianity upon European civilization, and have
traced the first germ, planted nearly two thousand years ago,
growing and expanding, till it influenced all the nations of
Europe;—those who compare the state of society before that
germ was implanted, with the state of society at the present
day, have recognized what marvellous good the Christian
religion has done. Men may not agree as to the truth of
many of the doctrines which have become encrusted on to the
central truth and essence of Christianity, but all can see the
truth and force of the primary Christian doctrine of love
toward their neighbour. And the results of the infusing of
this principle into the human race are evident in the increased
amount of sympathy displayed by European nations.
A well-informed writer in the Times, in the winter of 1894–95,
stated that in London alone the amount annually given for
charity by contributions, by legacies, and by the interest on
legacies, did not fall far short of twenty million sterling. Every
Christian country has numbers of benevolent institutions for
the sick, the aged, the orphans, the lame, the blind, the deaf, the
dumb, the weak-minded, and the fallen. And not for men and
women only, but for horses, dogs and cats, and other domestic
pets. Contrasted with the state of feeling one notices in Asiatic
countries at the present day, there is, too, among Christians, a
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