The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-09-30


llatiOn Of she Scriptures into that language,
and their circulation throughout the Proyin-
ces Of that vast and populOus Empire. are
the most important political events which
have taken place since The old French
lolution, and their consequences upon she
future history Of the race, 1t is difficult to
oyerestimate. They form one Of those great
national changes which will stand ont prom
inenay upon the pages Of history, marking
an epoch in the chronicles Of the world that
will be referred to BY the student ii future
ages, as the period when Christianity and
Christian civilization, after maintaining q
q long and sometimes almost desperate cons
test for many centuries against the forces Of
Paganism and all its attendant barbarisn,
at last struck blow thai shiyered to its
foundation the strongest bulWark Of religi-
Gus error and superstition. and led to the
speedy conversion Of the whole heather
world to the benign principles and ciyiliza-
ton which are contained in and brought
about by the sacred Scriptures. A country
that is inhabited BY nearly onethird Of the
human race, the entrance to which has al
ways been barred and closed upon the Chris
tian world. into which it has been impossi-
bic for eighteen centuries to disseminate q
single copy Of the Bible, has at last been
opened to the spirit of Missionary enterprise
and zeal, and vast field spread out before
them for cultivation.
It is not a remote and thinly settled island
In the South Seattle residents of which
have to be taught even the most simple
rudiments of civilization before the work Of
religious teaching can be commenced, that
is the limited theatre upon which the great
Christian organizations can operate; and
where, even if they were successful beyond
their most sanguine anticipations, il can.
have but little effect upon the great current
of human affairs, that is now awaiting their
exertions-but the most important and pop
nlous Asiatic Empire in existences which
swarms with three transformations Of men,
the antiquity Of which reaches back to
period when Babylon dourished and Persia
was the dominant power Of the Garth, and
even beyondthat. until its traditions are lost
in the twilight Of fable. and become con-
founded with the sublime stories Of Mythol-
ogy; which was q great nation possessing
many Of the arts of oriental civilization be-
fore the time of Alexander the Great, and
before the City Of the Seven Hills had be-
come Of any importance; which possesses
national language, instead of barbarous
iargon, that almost defes the efforts of the
linguist to write, and which, in case it is re-
claimed from The dominion of error, will,
ere long. be followed by the ful6lment of the
prophecies Of the inspired teachers Of Rev
citation. What a glorious prospect is spread
before the Christian world; it is realiza-
ton of hope which but few years since
would have been considered as happy. but
an enthusiastic dream in religious circles,
AMI had it been predicted as the fruit re-
snlting from the spread of Christian ideas
all over the earth: for. although the event
was looked for, il was placed at much
more remote day and generation than the
present.
Well. may it be said with truth, and with
out it being any figure Of speech, that the
very citidal Of Heathendom has surrender
ed and that the fall of the outposts of the
Prince of Darkness cannot be long delayed,
but viii yield ere long to the organized ef-
forts Of the champions Of the Gross. Strange
is it mott that while Chinese
though entrenehed and fortified
By the prejudices Of centuries. and which
has been most vigorously shut out from any
Intercourse with those who would IN any
wise be likely to dispel its ignorance and
is crumbling away, that anoth
er formidable form of religious error, found
"a upon the Koran Of Mahomet, which for
several centuries threatened to overlun
Europe with It's savage hordes. is
also rapidly declining, and the fall Of is
chief empire has only just been prevented
for season BY the intervention Of some Of
he great Christian poWersthat are inter
ssted il its political preservation. At no
period IN It's history have Christianity and
civilization made more rapid advances and
important conquests than they are now Do
ng, never was an era more fruitful than the
present ii social, moral. religions and politi-
sal progress, and It IS quite difficult indeed