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THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY TO THE STRAITS SETTLEMENT.
We have traced the development of slavery from State-protected brothel
slavery to State-tolerated domestic slavery and "adoption" of boys.
Now we turn to Singapore, to find that all these forms of slavery
exist there under the British flag, with the addition of a
coolie-traffic dangerously like slavery, also, and they are all
under the management of the Registrar General, or "Protector of the
Chinese," as he is always called at the Straits. For the general
description of conditions in the Straits Settlements, more especially
at Singapore, we give in full a paper read by an Englishman, a
resident of Singapore for many years, at the Annual Conference of
American Methodist Missionaries, held in Singapore in 1894,--a paper
which was endorsed by that body:
It has come to be almost universally acknowledged that Singapore
is indebted as much to Chinese as to British enterprise for its
present commercial prosperity, and therefore the subject of
Chinese labour which is vexing America and Australia, assumes a
very different aspect in the Straits Settlements, and the fact
that Chinese immigration has increased 50 per cent in the last ten
years is looked upon as an unmitigated blessing. The magnitude of
the Singapore labour trade will be understood when it is known
that the number of Chinese who came to this port last year, either
as genuine immigrants or for transshipment to other ports, was
122,029, which is actually more than the entire Chinese population
of the town. In connection with the immigration of this multitude
of men and women, speaking many dialects of a language which is
wholly unknown to the officials of the British Government in the
Straits, with the exception of perhaps half a dozen persons, it
cannot be wondered at that many abuses arise, and the suspicion
has gained ground and is frequently given expression to, in the
public pr
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Satan; the earth does not willingly yield her increase to satisfy your
lusts; nor is it willingly a stage for your wickedness to be acted upon;
the air does not willingly serve you for breath to maintain the flame of
life in your vitals, while you spend your life in the service of God's
enemies. God's creatures are good, and were made for men to serve God
with, and do not willingly subserve to any other purpose, and groan when
they are abused to purposes so directly contrary to their nature and
end. And the world would spew you out, were it not for the sovereign
hand of him who hath subjected it in hope. There are the black clouds of
God's wrath now hanging directly over your heads, full of the dreadful
storm, and big with thunder; and were it not for the restraining hand of
God, it would immediately burst forth upon you. The sovereign pleasure
of God, for the present, stays his rough wind; otherwise it would come
with fury, and your destruction would come like a whirlwind, and you
would be like the chaff on the summer threshing floor.
The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present;
they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher, till an outlet
is given; and the longer the stream is stopped, the more rapid and
mighty is its course, when once it is let loose. It is true, that
judgment against your e
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diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this
which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes
us insensibly ruin ourselves. Without this we should be in a state of
weariness, and this weariness would spur us to seek a more solid means of
escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to
death.
172. We do not rest satisfied with the present. We anticipate the future as
too slow in coming, as if in order to hasten its course; or we recall the
past, to stop its too rapid flight. So imprudent are we that we wander in
the times which are not ours and do not think of the only one which belongs
to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and
thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally
painful to us. We conceal it from our sight, because it troubles us; and, if
it be delightful to us, we regret to see it pass away. We try to sustain it
by the future and think of arranging matters which are not in our power, for
a time which we have no certainty of reaching.
Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with
the past and the future. We scarcely ever think of the present; and if we
think of it, it is only to take light from it to arrange the future. The
present is never our end. The past and the present are our means; the future
alone is our end. So we never live, but we hope to live; and, as we are
always preparing to be happy, it is inevitable we should never be so.
173. They say that eclipses foretoken misfortune, because misfortunes are
common, so that, as evil happens so often, they often foretell it; whereas
if they said that they predict good fortune, they would often be wrong. They
attribute good fortune only to rare conjunctions of the heavens; so the
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connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or
misfortune has little to do with the matter. I sometimes struggle against
luck, the glory of mastering it makes me master it gaily; whereas I am
sometimes surfeited in the midst of good fortune.
108. Although people may have no interest in what they are saying, we must
not absolutely conclude from this that they are not lying; for there are
some people who lie for the mere sake of lying.
109. When we are well we wonder what we would do if we were ill, but when we
are ill we take medicine cheerfully; the illness persuades us to do so. We
have no longer the passions and desires for amusements and promenades which
health gave to us, but which are incompatible with the necessities of
illness. Nature gives us, then, passions and desires suitable to our present
state. We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give
ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the
state in which we are not.
As nature makes us always unhappy in every state, our desires picture to us
a happy state; because they add to the state in which we are the pleasures
of the state in which we are not. And if we attained to these pleasures, we
should not be happy after all; because we should have other desires natural
to this new state.
We must particularise this general proposition....
110. The consciousness of the falsity of pre
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been from without, in the midst of the heart. Who does not see the Christian
law in all this?
730.... That then idolatry would be overthrown; that this Messiah would cast
down all idols and bring men into the worship of the true God.
That the temples of the idols would be cast down, and that among all nations
and in all places of the earth. He would be offered a pure sacrifice, not of
beasts.
That He would be king of the Jews and Gentiles. And we see this king of the
Jews and Gentiles oppressed by both, who conspire His death; and ruler of
both, destroying the worship of Moses in Jerusalem, which was its centre,
where He made His first Church; and also the worship of idols in Rome, the
centre of it, where He made His chief Church.
731. Prophecies.--That Jesus Christ will sit on the right hand, till God has
subdued His enemies.
Therefore He will not subdue them Himself.
732. "... Then they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, saying,
Here is the Lord, for God shall make Himself known to all."
"... Your sons shall prophesy." "I will put my spirit and my fear in your
heart."
All that is the same thing. To prophesy is to speak of God, not from outward
proofs, bu