Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1853-12-30

tlJuo Vi the NOtlds lIctduus hA-tdttu
ireland, has been pouring her living
tides of population upon our shores;
and such is the result of the reception
with which this wretched and down
trodden people have been met, that the
population of that country is becoming
exhausted by an exodus to this land,
where there is bread and work for all.
Protestant Germany. too. has sent her
hundreds of thousands, and every yes
sci that lands upon our shores is
freighted with multitudes who seek a
home in this land ofplenty and peace.
And while these thousands are COM
ing to our land, God, in providence,
is enlarging our borders. First, Lou
isiana, then Florida, then Texas, Mex
leo, and California, and thus the fields
are opening wider and wider.
Seventeen years ago our beloved
DR.. Mast commenced his mission
among bis fellow-countrymen in this
city, and here was a remarkable prov
idence. Had he at that time been
sent to Germany nothing would have
been accomplished, as the time had
not arrived. Under trials and diff
culties. such as would have complete
ly discouraged an Anglo Saxon or an
American, and caused them to have
abandoned the field in hopeless de-
spair, the patient. unweiried, perse-
vering Teutonic Mast toiled on in hope.
believing against hope till the dark
cloud passed away, and The mountain
barriers of rationalism and in6delity
were broken down, and the Gospel, as
the power of God unto salvation, car
ried its way to German hearts,
Among the first fruits of the labors Of
this man of God was Jacoby ;and now,
in the city Of Bremen, with a score Of
fellow laborers distributed throughout
various parts Of the country, the work
Of evangelization is going on in their
father.land. We have now in this
country one hundred and seventy
German preachers and eleven thou.
sand COMMITMENTS, as the fruits Of
seventeen years Of labor in this de-
partment OF our work.
But, sir, God is opening the area Of
freedom all over the world by the in
PRODUCTION of the Bible. TO fit the
people OF continental Europe for res
idencc in our land. the deep under
ground current Of free thought in the
year 1919. like the volcanoes Of Vesu-
vius and Etna. shook every throne in
the old world. Free principles in the
United States, rs they are widely dis.
sominated, accomplished all this ex.
element in the despotisms Of Europe.
Then, ut the proper time, Providence
lifted the cover from the land Of Cali
fornia, and exhibited the glttering
wealth beneath its surface. America
then shouted across the Pacific 10 far.
oil China and TO all the rest of man.
kind, Come over and share with US"
and Africa. Asia, Europe, and the far.
thest isles OF the sea sent their ships
into the golden gate to the golden
shores of this new Eldorado.
The Sandwich islands. too, are COM
ing 10 our embrace, and our ships Of
war are bearing messengers OF peace
even TO the hitherto sealed islands OF
Japan, opening up the last unyisilcd
region by the missionary to the intro
duction of the revelation contained in
the Decalogue and fragments of the
Gospels. When this is accomplished,
and China will have been Christian
lied: when the nations OF the earth
shall have found an asylum in our land
and it is our manifest destiny to re-
ceive them; when Ireland, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, and China shall have
sent here their hosts, this land would
become u great battle-ground; here
would be an intcrnccine war, and MUIR
dcrous brother fall on brother, II the
historian OF the past were to write Of
our future. Unless something more is
accomplished. the sons and daughters
Of men now living will not pass away
ill they witness this awful drama of
blood. But, for this state of moral
putrescence which is coming upon us,
there is the salt of the Gospel. Ii il
can save one, it can save millions. IL
can break all bonds, put out all fires,
and melt the most obdurate hearts,
The question is, Shall the foreign pop
ulation here be nodded by the Gospel?
If so, the muldtudes speaking different
languages must be addressed in their
own tongues. We must have a poly
glossal ministry. Who shall receive
these multitudes? Men OF their own
class must be raised up. Among the
Germans, who are mainly sober and
useful citizens, are devotces of ncology
aud iniidelity, disregardins the Sab
bath, engaged in dissipation and amuse-
ment ON that day, captivating by their
professions Of freedom, and alluring by
their social enlices. You are not out
of danger. Your daughters may mar
ny with them, and your sons become
partners in trade; and unless you mold
them they will inevitably mold you
You must give them your Christianity,
or they will give you their infdelity.-
Methodists are under special obliga-
tons TO the Germans, beside, they are
nearer to them in influence than any
other Church, and possess greater ia
eilities for doing them spiritual good.
The Methodist heart, through the
masses, beats with the common heart
OF humanity. The money expended in
the missionary work among the Ger
mans, here so happily begun seven.
teen years ago, could never have ne
complished so much abroad.
We have Bethel ships IN New York
TO welcome the Swede. the Dane, and
the Norwegian. We have missions in