102 CIVIL WAR, The, and Foreign Missions, C. H. Cayce An article from the Wadesboro (N. C) Messenger and Intelligencr, by Rev. W. Bruce Doyle, has been sent to us, and we wish to reproduce a few sentences from it and say a few words by way of comment. He says:
We owe the avoidance of war largely to the missionary; Until our missionary era war was the normal condition of nations. England waged a hundred years war not long before she sent out the cobbler to India. We had five French and Indian wars, a long war with England, and still another war with England, and war was almost the normal condition of the American people before Carey set sail as a missionary.
The gentleman enumerates some wars we have had, but failed to mention the bloodiest struggle the United States had, which was of about three years duration. This was the Civil War— the war between the States. The gentleman also fails to tell the cause which brought about any of these wars. What did the missionary religion have to do with the hundred years war of England? Does the gentleman not know that this war was the outgrowth of the teaching of some who engaged in missionary enterprises?
Was not the Revolutionary War brought about primarily by the religious intolerance of those who engage in missionary enterprises? Was not the Civil War the result of churches which engage in missionary enterprises interfering in political matters? The gentleman certainly knows, if he is informed, that the Civil War was waged as a result of mixing politics and religion— a uniting of church and state— by the modern missionary religionists.
What gave rise to the Boxer uprising in China a few years ago, which Rev. Doyle mentions in his article? The missionaries. They went to China under the pretext of preaching the gospel, being supported by the people at home. Perhaps many a poor widow gave her last penny for the support of those missionaries, who were living in luxury.
These missionaries meddled with Chinese governmental affairs which was none of their business. As a result there was an uprising among the Chinese to drive them out. Who can blame them? No reasonable and sane person can, If they should come here and begin to interfere with our governmental affairs they would be driven away. But the missionaries asked for protection from their home countries.
The “Powers” — Uncle Sam, England, and perhaps others— immediately sent warships, guns, and ammunition over, with soldiers, to subdue John Chinaman, and he had to submit to the missionaries remaining. Yes, these missionaries would have the gospel shot into people with Gatlin guns if other means fail. This has been Roman Catholic policy in the centuries past, and seems to be the policy of others. The Primitive Baptist, July 14, 1914.