The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-06
A CHRISTIAN WARRIOR.
The Religious Faith Which Leads Chinese
Gordon On To Victory.
Extracts from a Recent BioEFuphy.

Gordon On To Victory.
| Extracts from a Recent BioEFuphy.
On the frontier of Darfour he hoped to make
| friends of the rebel tribes between Fogia and
| Faschar, and to march on the latter city
with a body guard of subdued and converted
enemies. Such superb self-eonfdence is habitual
! to him. 1t is an outcome OF that profound re
| ligiousness which Is an integral part OF his
| character and his life. The Cross true soldier,
a mystic and leader Of men. he fights and con
| quers much Columbus yoyaged and as Crom-
| well ruled. praying for the people ahead of
! me whom l am about to visit, he says
| "gives me much strength; and it is Won
derful how something seems already to
| have passed between US when | meet 4
chief flor whom I have prayed for the
! first time On this base my hopes Of a trium-
| phant march to Fascher. | have really no troops
! with me- but ] have the Shekinab, and do like
| trusting to Him and not to men. Remember.
unless He gaze me the confidence and encour
| aged me to trust Him. could not have it; and so
l consider that have the earnest Of success in
| this confidence.
| Another phase Of his work is thus described
| His movements at this juneture were so rapid
and so many that it is impossible to give more
than mere sketch of them. They were con
| fined for the most part to tho immediate neigh
| borhood of Cairo and Fufar; to clearing the road
at one point to dispatehing expeditions against
hostile tribes at another; to searching for grain,
of which there was a great scarcity; to capturing
SPIES and TO vainly essaying to control the
cordially as he loved the oppressed blacks, for
whom he would have given his life"
After he had done his tremendous work. with
innumerable victories to be thankful for and
wearied with the fearful strain, he went to Der
Der, and on his way down the Nile wrote to a
| friend II feel a great contentment. A star
when it makes its highest point is said to have
| eliminated and feel have eliminated O.,
| wish for no higher or other post than the one
have and know cannot be removed unless it
is Gods will so | rest rock, and can be con
tent Many would wish a eliminating point
| with less wear and tear. But that very wear
| and tear makes me cling more to the place. and
! | Thank God. He has made me succeed. not in
! any very glorious way, but in substantial and
lasting manner | entirely take that prophecy
of Isaiah as my own, and work to 1t as far as
| can
OF his great and successful struggle for the
suppression of the slave trade and of the com
| pete destruction of the power of Sebehr in the
power of his son Suleiman it is impossible to
speak here, nor Of his later career, which Is
! familiar to most newspaper readers
| There is only space to quote Gordon's own
words, in illustration of his character, which is
! the secret and cause of his success, and is tho
noblest development of this century. Here are
some of the maxims of this man of destiny, as
| follows: 1T is delightful thing to be a
fatalist, not as that word is generally employed,
but to accept that, when things happen
| and not before. God has for some wise reason so
! ordained them TO happen-all things, not only
lfe that is what is meant TO me by the words
you are dead in St Paul to Colossians" Again:
eve have nothing further to do when the scroll
| of events is unrolled than TO accept them as be-
ing for the best Before 1t is unrolled it is
another matter, and you could not say | sat
still and let things happen with this belief.
All can say is, that amidst troubles and wor-
ries no one can have peace till he thus stays
upon his God; it gives :, man a superhuman
strength And elsewhere: eff we would take
| all things as ordained and for the best, we
| should indeed be conquerors of the world Moth
ing has ever happened to man so bad as he has
| anticipated it to be- If we would be quiet under
our troubles they would not be so painful to
bear cannot separate the existence of God
from His preordination and direction of all
things good and evil; the latter He permits, but
still controls And for glimpse of his outlook
on life as it is ''There would be no one so un-
welcome to come and reside in the world rs
Christ while the world is in the state it now is.
| He would be dead against say, nearly all Of our
| pursuits, and he altogether outre'
| This is ''Chinese" Gordon.