Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-04-26

md we fight with children's toys. We
ire playing with issues, and our enemies
liaucA at us in our helplessness. With
ltur delicate wHte ties and our clerical
int clothes we are trifing with the great
Question of the salvation of people, Of
D generation, of race. There are times
when Christian manhood should take a
firm stand. Only in such stand can
the people be saved. Our enemies are
capable of persuasion. The devil in the
MODERN city is Turk in spirit.
Sir Charles Euan-Smith, the recent
| British envoy to Fee, in the empire OF
Morocco, had perilous experience IN
the anti Christian riots of last Rly. The
mission house had been attacked. The
windows were smashed with stones. 1t
became unsafe to venture in the gar
dens As Sir Charles was giving the
necessary orders for the defense of the
mission, an embassy from the sultan ap-
peared and implored him to go at once
to the palace. Courier after courier,
mounted on magnificent Barbary horses,
dashed up, repeating the summons.
Bending at his feet, they declared: MY
lord, we pray thee to hasten. Our lord
beseeches that you come to him. He
will neither eat nor drink nor sleep nor
have any peace until you come to him.
Our lord languisheth for the light of
your countenance. No less than 20 of
these messengers delivered their dra-
matte summons on the way.
The sultan met Sir Charles in great
agitation. "Your life is in danger" he
said. Your wife and your people must
come Immediately to the palace. The
populace is greatly excited against You. /
can no longer protect you. Come tonight
and sleep here In the morning l will
send a thousand soldiers to escort you to
the coast" "Your majesty is mistaken"
replied Sir Charles coolly. MY life is
not in danger. am in your majesty's
safe keeping" Il am powerless to pro-
tect you," cried the sultan. "If you re-
turn to the mission, you will be killed"
perhaps am to be killed, replied Sir
Charles. 1.-The mission may be massa-
cred, but there will be another British
minister ia Fee within a month, who
win be accompanied by staff as well
equipped as mine and better, for" added
the minister in deliberate tones, ''then
there viii not be sultan at Fez."
1t is needless to say that Sir Charles
and the mission were protected. The
men who were responsible for the riots
were beaten and imprisoned. The pasta
who urged the mob to stone the British
vice consul was fined $40, 600, He crawled
on foot and placed the money at Minis
ter Smiths feet. He swore ON the Koran
he had not melted the riots. His guards
were fiogged before the palace. And |
Smith gave the money to the |
poor Of Fee and rewarded his faithful |
servants and soldiers.
FACE SATAN IN HIS STRONGHOLD.
SO the great soldier of today has but
to face the devil in his stronghold, draw
his sword and defy him, and the victory
will be his. The hour has come, if the |
future of the city is to be Christian, when |
we must overturn and overturn, and |
with scourge and sword drive out the
forces that now make life impossible.
The prophecy which DIR. Strong uttered
in 1885 today rings in our ears with
more startling emphasis than when he
first gave it utterance. 1t is well to read
L again. Referring TO the inevitable cri-
us which the forces of evil are bringing
10 pass in our modern cities, he SAYS
when such commercial crisis has
,losed factories by the ten thousand and
wage earners have been thrown out of
by the million; when the
public lands, which hitherto at such
lines have afforded relief, are all ex-
when our urban population has
been multiplied several fold, and our
incinnatis have become Chicagos, our
Ihicagos New Yorks, and our New
forks Londons; when class antipathies
ire deepened; when socialistic organiza-
ions, armed and drilled. are in every
ity, and the ignorant and vicious power
# crowded populations has fully found
tself; when the corruption of city gov
is grown apace; when crops
all. or some gigantic corner doubles
he price of bread; with starvation in the
Iome; with idle workmen gathered, sui
en- and desperate, in the saloons: with
wealth at hands with the
forces of chemistry within
asy reach, then, with the opportunity,
he means, the fit agents, the mofire, the
smptation to destroy, oil brought into
I'll coVuaction. then will come the real
est of our institutions. then will appear
7hether we are capable of self govern
lent."