ence. . . . No evolution is stable which neglects
the moral factor or seeks to shake itself free from
the eternal duties of obedience and of faith. . . .
The Song of Lamech echoes from a remote an-
tiquity the savage truth that 'the first results of
civilization are to equip hatred and render revenge
more deadly . . . a savage exultation in the fresh
power of vengeance which all the novel instru-
ments have placed in their inventor's hands.' "

Unless our best Christian men and women go
to China to teach and exemplify a nobler faith,
the last state of the Chinese will be worse than
the first.

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