Christianization

If this good work is accomplished, the united states england and japan will be china's greatest friends they will be rewarded with commerce and other special privileges in other words they will receive a thousand-fold in return but to grab china by the throat and say to her give us the best you have is barbarous and non-christian for it is contrary to the teaching of christ to take advantage of china's weakness is inhuman china to-day is like a man who married in the late years of his life and was blessed by a large family of children who were too young to be of any service to him for the last few years he has been sickly and weak the house which he himself and family lived was a fine one and was the only inheritance from his father but his many neighbors who were rich and powerful and able to assist and establish him if they wished were unfortunately a little selfish and looked toward his inheritance with longing eyes five of the neighbors with an insatiable desire for gain and with the forced consent of the owner took those rooms which each deemed best for his own interest and gain these neighbors are now devising schemes and pretences by which they may grab the best remaining portions to some minds it seems best that this heritage should be thus partitioned and they claim that it is the only way to develop and improve this possession thus utterly ignoring the claims and interests of the lawful possessors now friends China is the inheritance, and the covetous and greedy neighbors are those whom I have mentioned above.

How much better it would be for all of the great civilized and Christian nations to make a unanimous effort to help preserve and build up and Christianize China rather than tear her to pieces.

Of course, I must admit that the Chinese government, viz.

the Empress Dowager, is also responsible for the present state of affairs in China.

he has preserved her for nearly five thousand years and he will still preserve her to his glory the land of sinai will be won for christ the chinese empire will have the same footing as other nations for her subjects have the making of a great people The Chinese who became Christians in America will also be a great factor in building up China.

God's plan is beyond the comprehension of man.

He saw that America did not send forth missionaries fast enough, so he brought out the secluded Chinese to this country to be Christianized by the disciples of Christ so that they may go back as volunteer missionaries and thus hasten the conversion of China.

We are sincerely thankful to America for taking the initiative in negotiations toward preserving the integrity of China.

When the West Eurasian empires of antiquity wore out due to demographic changes on the continent, the early medieval period began and its power players as likely had roots in Arabia, Germany, or Scandinavia as they did in the traditional power centers of the Mediterranean and Mesopotamia.

In Europe, Christianization and Latin abetted cultural interchange between different groups.

In the central supercontinent, Islamization and Arabic did.

A Welsh kid up in Gwynedd might learn Latin and the Bible in a monastery, while a Turkic kid in what's today Tajikistan might learn Arabic and the Quran.

Participation in trade and warcraft led them to have an acute sense of unfolding geopolitics, and they were not, in a word, just hanging out in timeless sandscapes waiting for stuff to happen.

Just so, a continent away, in between where the Elbe and Rhine empty into the North Sea, the southern shore of this basin was humming with droves of Germanic tribes who, during the 400s and 500s, knew what was going on in the region, knew about Romans and Christians, and had themselves absorbed generations of other barbarian immigrants, just like the Romans had.

Equally, out to the far west, the Celtic and Irish seas, prior to Christianization, were not timeless preserves of Gaelic and Brittonic culture hermetically sealed away from the history all around them.

These are simple points, and I don't mean to belabor them, but they're also good to keep in mind as we prepare to set anthologies of Germanic and Celtic literature on our desk in the next season.

One, of course, important Christian events.

We are looking at a very Christianized society in spite of the apparent survival of a lot of pre-Christian ideas, characters, stories, motifs that survive into the literature.

Everything is still coming through this Christian lens, as we've mentioned before, and so things like Saints' Days, recognizing the Sunday as the holy day where you're supposed to rest, you know, things like that are still really important, especially for the people who can afford to observe them, which are going to be more of the noble classes.

So we're talking about, of course, the members of the church themselves, who are considered among the neveth, among that noble class.