The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-09-24

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chnsdans lsnm Enaland,and America
sre gathering Tie children OF both sexes.
81 lens Of thousands. into Scholastic
youth INTO colleges; lhey are esisblishing
churches and lhe preached gospel, an,lIhe
result i not pFoblemalieal. These same
e4nses. with vastly msgni6ed power. must
sa0n be operative IN every section Of the
East. The doom Of psganism Is seal
ed. aH ts t-a~ sr t.s8a.n n-y
And look n The Mohammedan power,
once ihe tenor of al the world. LIS right
amis Wilhered. France. with ealhedrals is
sapplanling the mosques Of Northern ARR
"a. England and France and Russia are
unlurling lhe cross above the crescent on
alhousand minsrels ofthe Moslem empire.
The bell Of every steamer which ploughs
ihe B0Fphorus, tolls the knell OF Moham-
med's power. Every European army,
which enramps on the banks Of the Indus
or The shores Of the Caspian. haslens The
decay Of lllal lesyul delusi0n which was
established By arms and BY blood. Eve
~ ship from Europe or America, which
drops her anchor in the Golden Horn, pro-
claims 10 ihe disheaTfened followers OF
The false prophet, the intellectual energy
which Christianity inspires. Every am
bassador from Europe, and every travelling
scholar who enters the gale OF I'onstanti-
nople, Shiraz or Teheran, even be he an
inidel, is influential, in the overriding pro-
violence Of God, in undermining The loun.
daiions Of Mohsmmed's reign. "a 3d.. -.a.
i And when We add to all this The perse-
yering and sleepless zeal OF Christian mis-
sionaries, kindling, with the accompanying
aida Of The Holy Spirit, the fires Of jeyo-
tion--of spiritual renovation, in ten thou
sand hearts, we cannot doubt that the delu-
sions OF Mohammed will soon follow the
idolairies Of Greere and Rome 10 utter OBJ.
Iiylon, and the Christian religion win ex.
tend without a rival over the habiiable
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And when all hearts shall be brought
under the spiritual influence Of the religion
Of Christ; when all men shall be truly born
again Of the Holy Spirit; when all wrong
shall cease, and the ties OF brotherhood
shall be universally recognized, then will
this world again appear as il did on that
bright morning when, at its birth, all the
sons Of God shouted together for joy.
LEGATION and thought to gil up its details;
il may deepen the readers interest in OBJ
serving The signs Of the ,imes--those won
derful developments which are ever open
ing around US in the nineteenth century.
And his heart must be indeed cold, and his
faith must be indeed weak, who is not ami
matedby these views 10 redoubled exertion.
in diffusing a spiritual Christianity through
this agitaied world. And now, when Got
is overriding the speculations Of the closet
the experiments Of the laboratory, the skill
Of the artisan, the policy of cabinets, The
tramp Of armies, to usher in the glories o
the millennial day, let not the sacramento
hos, Of Gods elect sleep. When God is
compelling the toll even Of the atheist and
the infdel TO be subject 10 Christ, elevat
ing the valley and depressing the mountail
for Messiah to ride triumphant in the cha
riot OF paternal deity, o! may the Chris.
tan be awake 10 the signs of the times. and
be true 10 his privileges and his RESPONSE
bilities. +" .r N. T. EUan gfiist. r,