"THE RISING TIDE OF COLOUR."

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17128, 25 April 1921, Page 5

"THE RISING TIDE OF COLOUR."

Under the title of "White Man, Yellow Man, Brown Man, Black Man: Aro we Going to have a Kace War?" the Kev. J. Napier Milne discussed last night in the Eugby street Methodist Church the question of colour in relation to Christianity. The races of mankind, ho said, were rolling onward into light. We haa given them instruction, and they had not been slow to learn. They no longer regarded the scientific aids to the white man's domination as miracles and mysteries ; they understood them, and were ready to use them for their own purposes. Japan was claiming her place in the eun. China was making emphatic protest against a policy which lefy her out of account. Africa was seething with discontent, and her black'millions were deliberately and consciously challenging the whole conception that they are a permanently dependent race, incapable of developing into a self-governing people. In America the negro was openly rejecting the idea that it is his endless fate to reap and sow, buy and sell, labour and sweat for the white man. What was going to happen when the coloured races, like the working men of to-day, had well drunk of the new wine of freedom and democracy? The menace of a race war was very real and very terrible to contemplate. The white world had always been weaker than the coloured world, and this numerical weakness had been greatly accentuated- by the ravages of the war. It was inevitable that, as knowledge grew from to more, the domination of the white man should diminish. And if not by n. race war—how? The problem bristled with | the most perplexing difficulties. But what- i erer the solution of the problem might be, it ] was certainly not the exploitation of world labour. Ultimately the indenture Bystem must go. A gradually increasing co-opera-tion should take place in which white', yellow, brown, and black would each discover its ipower to serve the good of the whole. The whites must renounce the dreams of dominating the entire world, while Asiatics, would have io abandon their desires to migrate to white lands. And finally, and, above all, we must support to the utmost limit of our capacity all the work bem? done to educate and Christianise the coloured peoples of the world. As Darwin once said, "The lesson of the missionary is the enchanter's wand."