252 HEREDITY. 



Everybody, I think, will allow me to affirm that 

 we have seen the beginning of the end of the Turk- 

 ish power in Europe. Mohammedanism will decline 

 so far as it has been a force on the sunset side of 

 the Bosphorus. But now, unless great good judg- 

 ment is employed, there can hardly be an avoidance 

 of a collision, or certainly not of misunderstanding, 

 between Great Britain and Russia in the heart of 

 Asia. When that collision comes, or is threatened, 

 can America do any thing toward bettering the con- 

 ditions of the solution of the greater Eastern ques- 

 tion ? If you will stand by your American mission- 

 aries, you may do much toward casting light among 

 the Mohammedan people who now lie as a wedge 

 between Russia and India. If you will not shut your 

 doors on the Pacific coast, you may do much toward 

 sending out Christianity through returning China- 

 men into the greatest empire of Asia. [Applause.] 

 When the Chinese question comes before Congress, 

 the repeal of the Buiiingame treaty, I hope, is not 

 likely to be effected. America has some part to 

 take in regard to the greater question of the East. 

 Her work is to be performed in the Christian man- 

 ner, by the spreading abroad of schools among the 

 Asiatic populations, by shooting the slant javelins of 

 the gospel's radiance into Chinese Tartary, into Thi- 

 bet, into Persia, into Arabia, into Asia Minor, into 

 Syria, and by not putting a tax on every Chinaman 

 who comes here ! [Applause.] Let us have impar- 

 tial police regulations both for the Chinese and the 

 whizzing hoodlums of San Francisco. Let us apply 



