The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1867-02-27

II
OF the night befare the tight Of day. F0i
iiiusrati0a Bu,ldha, who assumes to bs
omniscient., teaches that earth is a place
With a msdntaia in the centre 4 $50. .0ot
mites in hesght, laad st6 .006nmibe in dir
anieter. haviag at;its base ridge of stone
36.O00, ,006 mites in clreasnference { tina,
cclipses are caused by giant. who car
swallow either ssn o. moon in his lnouths 4
that sone cities i,ase stood on earth mit
lions OF Years, and some klngs.have reigSed
quadrillrons al years; that the human race
originally had wings; that they may be &c
ae,atei by aowefs, Perfames. or vocal VT
terances that among the virtues is one
which Is impossible, and another that. il
universally observed. wbuid soon ,erhinate
the hamah race; and that God aud heaven
are. IN the last resalh havana. or noth-.
ingness. To say noihing Of missionaries,
steamships, and Atlantic cables. micro.
scopes. maps and blowp'pes. will blow sach
iollles. and the systems lrresocably com.
,ni,ied ~ them, ~ the winds. Esea with
gu. foreiga AID. they are falling. rhe Chi
nese rebehion--.one Of the most marveious
movements of mankrnd-though no; Chris
tisn. was iconoclastic. and, taken in con-
nection with the subjugation of China by
western arms, has shaken the faiths of The
nation, which can no longer regard her EN-
peror as son u heaven, her empire as ce.
iesiial. or her gods as oIhnipJtent, or even
potent.
5. The access 10 the people. We can
recollect when China was walled up in un-
social eIclusireness. only Que port being
open 10 merchants, and none at all TO mis-
sionTies. Providence. as by thunder
bolt, broke down the wall, aud opeusd the
whole empire. Much as we may blush al
the causes Of the opium war. we can but
rejoice At its consequences.
China is brought into contact with ether
nations. Russian civilization presses up
on IL on the North. French on the South,
British and American all along the cast.
Hung Kong, city Of i50. 900 inhabitants.
silh lis wide aid we'll paved streets.
IFS substantial buildings. its spacioas
It's beauiilul park, its chris
sian temples It's trrraced bull sides, along
whose drives rush splendid carriages with
appropriate retinue, shows that English
science aud society are placed under the
daily observation Of the Chinese. L,rse
steamers plying daily between Hong Kong
aud Canton. carrying hundreds of natives
on their decks, prove that Hong Kongis not
a mere Lighthouse on the COAST but a great
furnace, at which thousand lamps are
lighted daily To be carried inward. The
British and French mail steamers going re.
gularly mp the coast, stopping at all the
Leading c,lies.are 30 many heralds ot brigh.
ter DAY.
$. The urgency o. TIE call. II is popul0us.
Set down the nanber at $40 millions.
Draw them up in a line, beginning At the
mouth Of the ioans flo. allowing each
three feet head on The line through Chi.
nA Thibrt. Hiniustan, Aashanistan, Per.
sis and Turkey. Bridge the MeJiterran.
can, aud draw the line over the Straits Of
GibrAlta. Bridge the Atlantic. and lead
over the column; then through America,
aud over the broad Pacific TO the place vi
beginniag, aud you will 6nd that you mas,
20 round the globe again aud again, sy,
seven times before you have set them In ur-
der. Put the procession 10 motion and SIT
down TO see IL passi you must sit over
200 years before the last inaa shall 20 by,
allowing only three minates 10 each. But
This is not merely living bat dying mass,
IS the whole is renewed every thirty lh &c
years. You would need to provide for il
thousands Of millions of coiins, for every
minute eighteen or twenty must be drop
ped into sra or land.
Every one Of this immense host 10 ra-
.icnal, moral, immortal, redeemed Soul
u the same sorrows, wants. and dangers as
ourselves and can we bee this vast process
lion move on with steady step 10 the tomb,
he judgment. aud the retributions Of etr..
'ity. without seeking ogi,e them the gos.
'el, and yet slip OF TO downy pillows and
ultimately to velvet collins