The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-02-08

Topeka, Feb. lS12-
The people of Kansas will no. forget that
the supporters of Sidney Clarke for Senator
sfter his defeat, nearly unanimously voted
for Caldwell. What has Clarke learned since
that election, that he did not know when
he turned over his support to Caldwell?
The Acts Of the Apesiles.
From the New York Tribune.l
Clearly it is not the vocation of a daily
newspaper to sustain the tenets or the pros
elytism of any sect. But the annual reports
of the various missionary Associations may
incline even . secular editor to moments
consideration Of the worldly value Of mission
outside their peculiar claim to the other
worldlinese.
Its plain, We think, THAT the missionary
spirit in the Protestant Church is the only
element which answers to the ardor of the
Church of Rome. Long ago, DR.. Newman
declared that Tin the present day mistinea
is the mother of wisdom. The hope of the
Church is said to be he who can guide it
through the channel of no-meaning, between
the Scylla and Charybdis of Aye and No."
And Robertson, who vas certainly as ortho-
do1 as he was sweet, found popular Chirtian-
ity to be sat once devotional, slanderous,
timid, gossiping, narrow, shrieking, and
prudish." But the solitary men and women
who, with courage above that of armies.
penetrate foreign and hostile lands, there to
live or to die, for an idea, recall the apostolic
days and the dauntless faith Of the primitive
Christians, Their work is either QniXo,ic
or inspired, as one looks at it. But their
attempt is sublime.
They plant the outpoets of civilization.
Doctrines send them where dollars could not.
and commerce and the arts follow in the track
they have cleared. They carry with them
that vast engine of progress, the English
language. In Asia and Africa, alone, they
have reduced to written characters nineteen
barbarous tongues, which must give place
to English speech. They have built school
houses. They have taught habits OF de-
cency, order and sobriety.
We observe, with come surprise, that the
good fathers in Israel speak deprecatingly Of
educational and civilizing agencies, and ex-
hort the missionaries to remember nothing
save Christ and him cruci6ed. Schools,
farms, and cav mills are well enough, but
church-membership is prerequisite, they be-
lieve. In their order, baptism precedes civil
ization. but all history shows that neither
men nor nations can long hold to faith
which is higher than their intelligence.
They will observe rites and ceremonies, they
will repeat formulas, they will offer up lip
tervice. But their hearts are where their
civilization holds them. The Christianity
of the year 800 had no claim to the name
of its founder. With fourteen centuries in
which to ripen, it had rotted because of the
ignorant superstiiions Of men. Mr.. Mofat
found, among the Bechuanas, that an eager
ness to understand the mysteries Of the white
mans dress-n,aking, tailoring. cooking in
pots, preceded any eagerness to divine the
white mans religion. He observed also that
they discovered candle-naking to be be-
wi,ching employment, and that after they
had run numberless candles il occurred to
them that books to read by candie-light, and
capacity to spell out the books, would he ex-
cellent acquisitions, On which revelation
they acted. The explanation of the pros
perity of the South African mission at Gen.
adenthal, is not for to seek. There the mis-
sionaries have established girls; mill, a
smithy. drug store, printing office, from
which issue two monthly periodicals, and in
the tidy chapel Hottentot plays the organ
on Sundays. 1t is however, the negro cous-
ins of these converts across the straights Of
in Madagascar, who have fought their
good fight and have finished the faith
Holding already rude and partial civil,za-
ton. these Madagassy gave ready welcome
to the new doctrines and new industries of
the missionaries, the king himself laying the
cornerstone of the first school-house. Five
years of royal protection developed Thousands
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mo'her ana people ana 9Sme; 10 sPena
ms DAYS IN oesola'e Treenlanu. peseecn-
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said, with wet eyes, that all the treasure
spent in missions was not too much for one
such NE. II would ensn a1 Inc hasteis
the lener hosn;,al on Robben Island. and
there lived amid such horrors as our small