THE China Question.
E\er\body has been having a slap a John Chinaman, and the local pools have made the tlneatened inilux the theme of their lucubration^ Hero is what Harry Smith, a fouith "tandatd school boy has to viy >ni the subject, and, though the poetic lee I may halt, it certainly proves him to ha\e <;oud thinking powers and a discriminating i-ympnUiy :—: — Thou poor, bcni-rhteri heathen from afar. You fed the jmm^s of life's relentless war. Unytuded, eaine you here from your Colestia homo, On fair Zealandia's sunny shores to roam. Youv prospects here are gloomy, yet they will Perhaps be gloomier, butyet still Your cause may iiounsh here like morning sun, And then j our day of triumph a\ ill be won. God's people are the same, he black or white All Christians shall rise up on resurrection nicjht. Shall Uod then havedistinetion for all these, Or v. ill the white be mixed with the poor Chinese? 1 think, perehunce, the answer will be no, Kor oven men's hearts melt like winter's snow, Kor men cannot withstand the hand of time "Which inure the Chinese to this clime.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 270, 6 June 1888, Page 6
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190THE China Question. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 270, 6 June 1888, Page 6
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