he infamies of the cotton-field filled all the land with shame
reformers arose, declaring that the attempt to compress and confine
liberty would end in explosion. In that hour Northern men made
tentative overtures looking to the purchase of all slaves. But
slavery, Delilah-like, made the southern leaders drunk with the cup of
sorcery. They scorned the proposition. In the light of subsequent
events we see that in saving her institution the South lost it, and
with it her wealth, while in losing her slaves the North gained her
wealth. Under free labor the North doubled its population, its
manufactories, its riches and waxed mighty. Under slave-labor the
South dwindled in wealth and became only the empty shell of a state.
The spark fired at Fort Sumter kindled a conflagration that swept
through the sunny South like a devastating fire and revealed its inner
poverty. When four years had passed by the farmhouses and factories
were ruins, the village was a heap, the town a desolation. Graveyards
were as populous as cities, each village had its company of cripples,
the cry of the orphan and the widow filled all the land.

When Charles Darwin returned from his voyage around the world, he sent
a generous contribution to the London Missionary Society. The great
scientist had discovered that in lessening her wealth through missions
England had saved her treasure through commerce. Traveling in foreign
lands, Darwin noticed that the Christian teachers in schools that now
touch 3,000,000 of young men and women in India, were really commercial
agents for England's trade. In awakening the minds of the darkened
millions the teacher had created a demand for books, newspapers and
printing-presses. In awakening the sense of self-respect the teacher
had created a demand for English clothing and the product of English
looms. Also the influence of each home, with its comforts and
conveniences, created a demand for English tools and improvements of
labor. Summing up his observation, Lord Havelock said that each
thousand dollars England had spent upon her missions had brought a
return of a hundred thousand dollars through her commerce. Hitherto
the interior of China has been closed to English merchants. To that
dark land, therefore, England has sent 200 teachers whose homes are
centers of light and inspiration. When two-score years have passed
English fleets will be taxed to the utmost to carry to China, as now to
India, her fabr