Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . entous issues, now at stake inChina, it seems to me that it is solemn trifling to manufacture po-litical catch-words like expansionist or anti-expansionist. I believein God, and of course believe in what is popularly called Provi-dence, which in fact is another word for God. I believe with thefirst Christian missionary mentioned in history, that when Godmade al


Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . entous issues, now at stake inChina, it seems to me that it is solemn trifling to manufacture po-litical catch-words like expansionist or anti-expansionist. I believein God, and of course believe in what is popularly called Provi-dence, which in fact is another word for God. I believe with thefirst Christian missionary mentioned in history, that when Godmade all nations of men on the face of the earth, he i fixed thebounds of their habitation. There was a time when the Spaniardsowned Florida and California, and when the French owned theMississippi valley and Canada. God had given those nations res-ponsibilities for which, on trial, they were not found fitted, and Ibelieve as fully that it was God who placed their territory in thehands of the United States and Great Britain, as that in the earlierage he gave Judea to the Hebrews. I believe that God, overrulingthe evil purposes of men, gave the United States possession of thePhilippine Islands. I believe that God has purposes concerning.


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