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bones of Asia are moving ; the warm breath of the Nine- 

 teenth Century is breathing a Uving soul under her ribs 

 of death. The world is to be Christianized and civilized. 

 There are about 1,000,000,000 of the world's inhabitants 

 who do not enjoy a Christian civilization. Two hundred 

 millions of these are to be lifted out of savagery. Much 

 has been accomplished in this direction during the past 

 seventy -five years, but much more will be done during 

 the next fifty. And what is the process of civilizing but 

 the creating of more and higher ivantsl Commerce fol- 

 lows the missionary. Five hundred American ploAvs 

 went to the native Christians of Natal in one year. The 

 millions of Africa and Asia are some day to have the 

 wants of a Christian civilization. The beginnings of 

 life in India demand $12,000,000 worth of iron manufact- 

 ures, and $100,000,000 worth of cotton goods in a single 

 year. During the last thirty years her foreign trade has 

 nearly quadrupled. What will be the wants of Asia a 

 century hence? A Christian civilization performs the 

 miracle of the loaves and fishes, and feeds its thousands 

 in a desert. It multiplies populations. A thousand civ- 

 ilized men thrive where a hundred savages starved. 

 What, then, will be the population and what the wants 

 of Africa, a century hence? And with these vast conti- 

 nents added to our market, with our natural advantages 

 fully realized, what is to prevent the United States from 

 becoming the mighty workshop of the world, and our 

 people "the hands of mankind? " 



If it is not unreasonable to believe that our agricul- 

 tural resources alone, when fully developed, are capable 

 of feeding 1,000,000,000, then surely, with our agricul- 

 tural and mining and manufacturing industries all fully 

 developed, the United States can sustain and enrich such 

 a population. Truly has Matthew Arnold said : ' ' Amer- 

 ica holds the future." 



