Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-12-10
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| God, Cyprus will come with them, and the
agricultural and commercial opnlence
which adorned it in ages past Will be
| eclipsed by the agricultural and CONNER
cial and religious triumphs of the ages to
come. Why is the world so stupid that II
cannot see that nations are prospered IN
| temporal things in proportion as they are
prospered in religious things? Goodness is
profitable not only for individuals. but for
nations. Questions of tariff, questions OF
silver bill, questions of republic or mon
archy have not so much to do with II ma
| tons temporal welfare as questions of re-
| ligion. Give Cyprus to Christ, give Eng
land to Christ, give America TO Christ,
! give the world to Christ, and he will give
them all prosperity unlimited. Why Is
Brooklyn Que of the queen cities Of the
earths Because it is the queen city OF
| churches
Blndfold me aud lead me into any city
of the earth so that | cannot see street or
a warehouse or home, and then lead me
into the churches and then remove the
bandage from my eyes, and | will tell you
from what | see inside the consecrated
walls, having seen nothing outside, what
is that cty's merchandise, its literature,
its schools, its printing presses, its govern
ment, its homes its arts its sciences, its
prosperity or its depression, and igno-
rance and pauperism and outlawry. The
altar of God in the church is the high
water mark Of the worlds happiness. The
Christian religion triumphant, all other
interests triumphant. The Christian reli-
gion low down. all other interests low
down. SO | thought on the evening OF
that day we stepped from the filthy streets
of Larnaca, Cyprus, onto the boat that
took us back to the steamer Minerva,
which had already begun to paw the waves
like courser impatient TO be gone, and
then we moved on aud up among the is
lands of this Gospel archipelago
Night came down on land and sea and
the voyage became TO me more and more
suggestive and solemn. Ii you are pacing
it alone a ships deck in the darkness and
at sea is a weird place, and an active imagi-
nation may conjure up almost any shape
he will, and it shall walk the sea or con-
front him by the smokestack or meet him
under the captains bridge. But here
was alone on ships deck in the Gospel ar
chipelago, and do you wonder that the sea
was popglous with the past and that down
the ratlines Bible memories descendedy
Our friends had all gone to their berths
Captain said, when will we arrive at
the Island OF Rhodes" Looking out from
under his glazed cap, he responded in sepul-
chral voice, about midnight Though
it would be keeping unreasonable hours,
concluded to stay on deck. for must see
Rhodes one of the islands associated with
the name of the greatest missionary the
world ever SAW or ever will see. Paul
landed there, and that was enough 10 make
it famous while the world stands and fa-
nous ia heaven when the world has be-
come a charred wreck
A WONDERFUL HISTORY.
This island has had wonderful history.
With six thousand knights of st. John, il
at one time stood out against two hundred
thousand warriors under "Solyman the
Magnificent" The city had three thou
sand statues, and statue to Apollo called
Colossus, which has always since been con-
sidered one of the seven wonders of the
world 1t was twelve years in building
and was seventy cubits high, and bad a
winding stairs TO the top. II stood fifty
six years and then was FRUSTRATED by an
earthquake After lying in ruins for nine
hundred years, it was purchased to be con
yerted to other purposes, aud the metal,
weighing seven hundred and twenty thou
sand pounds, was put on nine hundred
camels and carried away. We were not
permitted to 90 ashore, but the lights all
up and down the hills show where the city
stands, and nine boats come out to take
freight and to bring three passengers. Yet
all the thousands Of years OF its history are
eclipsed by the few hours or days that Paul
stopped there.
As | stood there on the deck Of the
Minerva, looking out upon the place
where the Colossus once stood, bethought
myself of the fact that the world must
have a God of some kind. 1t is TO me an
infinite pathos-this Colossus not only OF
Rhodes, but the eolossi in many parts of
the earth. This is only the worlds blind
reaching up and feeling after God. Foun-
dered human nature must have a supernat-
ural arm to help il ashore. All the statues
and images of heathendom are attempts
TO bring celestial forces down into human
affairs Blessed be our ears that we have
heard of an ever present God, and that
through Jesus Christ he comes into our
hearts and our homes, and with more than
fatherly and motherIy interest and affec-
tion he is with us in all our struggles and
bereavements and vicisstudes. Rhodes
needs something higher than the Colos-
sus. and the day will come when the
Christ, whom Paul was serving when he
sailed into the harbor of Rhodes, shall
take possession of that island.
As we move ON up through this archi-
pelago, am reminded of what an impor
tant part the islands have taken in the
history of the world. They are necessary
to the balancing of the planet The two
hemispheres must have them. As you put
down upon a scale the heavy pound
weights, and then the small ounces-and
no one thinks of despising the small
weights-so the continents are the pounds
and the islands are the ounces. A conti-
nent is only larger island. and an island
only smaller continent. Something OF
what part the islands have taken In the
worlds history you will see when remind
you that the Island Of Salamis produced
Scion, and that the Island Of Chios pro
duced Homer, and the Island of Samos
produced Pythagoras and the Island of
Coos produced Hippocrates.
he LoNGED TO SEE PATMos.