Nathan Sites; an epic of the East . gs were doing in thosedays in the binding together of East and Atlantic cable; the Suez canal; the UnionPacific railway; restoration and transformationin Japan; the Burlingame mission, which was thefirst real effort to make China acquainted withthe West at home,—these were only a few of thesigns of the times. For us at Foochow perhapsthe most interesting item of all was the beginningof the Pacific Mail steamship service in 1867. To get our mail in six weeks was too good to betrue! How wonderful —writes the missionaryto a college friend— to think of
Nathan Sites; an epic of the East . gs were doing in thosedays in the binding together of East and Atlantic cable; the Suez canal; the UnionPacific railway; restoration and transformationin Japan; the Burlingame mission, which was thefirst real effort to make China acquainted withthe West at home,—these were only a few of thesigns of the times. For us at Foochow perhapsthe most interesting item of all was the beginningof the Pacific Mail steamship service in 1867. To get our mail in six weeks was too good to betrue! How wonderful —writes the missionaryto a college friend— to think of this great steam-ship, a vast floating palace, crossing the widePacific Ocean! Home is one-half nearer than itwas a year ago. Can you believe that London andParis are getting their latest news from us byway of Japan, San Francisco and New York?* Fact is stranger than fiction. And why maywe not hope to see along with these wondrousinventions and scientific achievements a corre-sponding increase of Christian effort to carry the. LARGER STRATEGY 145 gospel of peace to all the nations of the earth?Not in the slow and indifferent manner of thepast, but with a zeal and energy correspondingto the spirit of the times in all material no more toward the Far East over seasand oceans, beyond kingdoms and empires, andfancy China to be a remote, strange, unwieldy,unapproachable nation. Lift your eyes and lookdirectly into the face of this new, mighty, next-door neighbor, with but a Single ocean interven-ing ! I pray that the Church may now arise in thestrength of our God and do valiantly in the re-demption of China. Why has God allowed Prot-estant Christian nations to open up in this daythe golden treasures of California and Australia?Why, but that these nations may be His messen-gers of mercy to heathen lands; accomplishingthe Saviours petition, * Thy will be done on earthas it is in Heaven. Now if extension was good in China, why shouldit not extend also to Japan? Might
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