The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-19

EHUugHb HuU HU0au HBpTF6tOUS. That
will be the day when our Lord and Savior will
be recognized az the universal Lord of humanity
all round the globe.
will tell you Of two great mission fields
have recently visited to show you how the pro-
cess 10 going on and how it will terminate. Let
rs turn first to India. The church has brought
India to our doors and made it familiar as .
household word. India is a vast land; one of the
largest territorial districts found under form
Of COVER rent in the world. Russia
has few lore square miles than India the
United States has few more, but it is one OF
the largest districts in the world It is beauti-
ful one, too-more beautiful. perhaps, than this
land, thing difficult for us in the United States
to believe. In physical condition it is much
better handled than own land. Without
your intelligence. without the aid which you
have created by your ingenuity. it presents the
appearance Of a better tended and Guilt
vaJed land than this of ours. 1t is swarming
with two hundred and sixty-two millions of
people; your country has ffty-fve millions
China, lying alongside of India, has four hun
dred Millions and If You put the neighboring
countries in, you have more than half the entire
human raco right there together, SO thickly
mile. There is district in India where
there Is human being to every $50
feet square. When you come to think
of them you think of them, perhaps, as being as
much in the state you are in. wish to describe
them. They are men and women, human be-
as regards condition There are educated people
in India, the Brahmin class, the high-caste type
of India, numbering. perhaps, all told, three
millions. The other 260, 000, 900 are lying down
In the basement. When you think Of home you
do not think Of the gypsy camp or the forlorn
cabin in which poverty shelters itself but the
Christian home with comforts. You think Of
family well clothed with habitable place to
dwell, with adequate conditions. And even
then you are thinking only of the animal In
India ON nm 000 0f rann1o-1aa IA o ont 10 000
for the Parsees, wealthy Brahmins and English
and the same is true Of nine Of the ten millions
of the people Of Mexico. live In the homes am
going to describe. Remember, these are your
Two hundred and fifty millions in India
are almost naked, these human beings.
with a scarf thrown round the del
cate parts of tho body. naked to all
intents and purposes, dress that all told, could
be bought for IS cents. The home is sheltered
place. a room perhaps ten by twelve feet square,
without particle of furniture Of any kind.
simply one or perhaps two, small rooms, naked
of everything that makes physical comfort or
indicates human wants The resort of these
like you are, the resort occupied by from two to
twenty at night has no chair, no table, no bed
absolutely nothing in the way of furniture.
In Mexico the homes of the peon population
are as cherries. There is door to enter, no
is as beautiful as Indianapolis. It has magnif-
cent cathedral that cost $2,000,000 That land is
filed with costly churches. Your beautiful
church would pale before many / went into, at
whose affairs knelt many naked Indians. And
this is to the glory of the Catholic Church-that
at its altar all men and women are equal. It is
to the reproaeh of Professionals that we make the
distinction. But the superstitiOns and errors or
the Catholic Church hold the people down. The
light of Professionalism is wanted in that land to
educate them. and clothe them, and bring them
into human conditions
For the most part in every Romish and Greek
Church land the condition of the people is that
of animals. the same as in pagan lands, and it
is the province Of the missionary movement to
bring them into higher and better conditions of
life. Two-thirds OF the human race still in
the region Of the shadow of death; still without
hope and home. without the principle Of proper
fatherhood and motherhood; still in the condi-
ton of animal, no proper childhood; still
dark, still desolate, still gazing around the sky,
with a wistful, appealing look that would break
ones heart There is something pathetic in the
eountenances Of the people of the heather land.
One thousand millions sweeping across the stage
to-day, to be followed by one thousand millions
to morrow. There is no hope for it, except the
hope that centers in such churches as this We
are what the refining and purifying genius has
made us, made us out Of savsges. Go back a
few hundred years and your father and mine
were as low down as the Hindoo or Mexican saw
age. Nay, worse, for we come from cannibal,
man-eating race
AS said. India has beautiful cities. In Agra
is building 1.-THE Tai Mahal) that transcends all
other achievements of art on the face OF the
globe. There is nothing to compare with il for
beauty. magnifcence and cost. This building,
that cost $40, 00O 600, transcends human magma
ton for splendor. It was built by million
slaves, and hundreds of thousands were starved
in its erection. There are cities as beautiful as
of them is this humanity I have de-
scribed. But what are cities compared to human
ity2 In Benares saw two sights most shocking.
but everyday sights there, and lutte regarded.
/ went to the monkey temple. 1t is four times
large as this building, with four times the ex-
penditures upon its surrounding. I saw there
a company Of thousand men and women,
and a thousand monkeys. The monkeys
filled the arches and braces Of the temple and
rushed over the roofs from house to house. chat
tering and jabbering-a thousand monkey gods,
and q thousand human beings worshiping them,
and caring more to harm them than you would
your child. Benares is the very Mecca. the Jeru-
salem of that great Hindoo system. There is
another temple with rites dare not mention
the most obscene symbol ever conceived of by
the human mind-and thousands are bowling
down to worship it.
The bishop described the pilgrmages to the
Ganges and the rites that are performed on its
banks, and the Parsee tower at Bombay, where
the dead are not buried, but fed to the vultures
He said that outside of Bombay he went to see
the temple of the terrible blood dripping goddess
Kali, and related conversation he had with a
fat and almost naked priest Of that temple The
priest spoke English we'll The causeway to the
temple was lined on both sides with stone gods.
II asked said the Bishop, fare these your
gods? You don't believe these are godsp
Eyes," the priest answered, with a sinister
smile. "they are our gods"
~ asked him." said the Bishop, show he dared
impose the people in that way, and he said
that they wanted to be imposed upon and. be-
sides, it was his bread and butter. And then, he
said, 1t was all passing away, and in plaintive
tone-everybody uses a plaintive tone when
speaking of anything passing away, no matter
what it is; and asked him what is coming
next, and he said, Christie, Christie is coming to
take all the people That pagan priest saw the
change that is coming. I asked him how long.
He said fifty years. think he was too soon,
but it is coming, and it is for us of Protestant
America, to whom the light has come, to say,
here, take these means and carry forward the
cause take our children and build up the king
DOM"