The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-07-24

life and theirs 70 please : fapine crowd.
eafn performances on 6abbaih or any
49, 49, Gay = dis9raes 10 any Chrissian
csy. True Christian sentiment il shown
- sns opposision thereto manifested by
.ne aofnofitseA IL would pao unchat-
Ieneea N heathendom, bot IA . Christian
e..y thank God for society Tor the pro
secsson Of cruelty 20 snimsis and for the
snsorcement Of good lava
ne present century h pee-eminensiy
Oue o. Christian missioua Ouiy q century
$50, In l79R William Carey preached his
nns missionary sermon In Northampton,
ana vent 10 India With the Gospel. Then
e VS. six months on the voyage. - was
eems voyAGs can % made from Engaand
IN TO wseka, and when James Hill com
Psesee his arrangements We may make Il
rom Seattle - or more quickly. In 119e
the Question uas hos 70 get Christianity
loso Inoia; nov it, opponents. whose ne
Anous practices are inteyfered with. ask.
nov can vse Set y outf The facs 10. Is il
euaes and literature. Their vedic hymns
ese sacred books no longer. They are
dindoo classics. that's al. Christian
seacnin9 - silently permeasine the coun-
sfy, and many Of the nstive chiefs are vol.
unfairly abosishing the hidsous practices
CT cnaid marriage aud perpetual widow
, 1000 During the century iargs prspsr:-
Like in the Ceylon forests. they saw
nearly, not quite. through the trees, and
pfoduce no apparent change in the wav-
Ing branches overhead till the word IL
Hven to sac oil through some. and . few
srees topping over on each other cause .
sa.s s.ash in tn: forests. 90
o heathendom have been undermined
and by-and-bye the heather forest will
fall. leaving the cleared ground TO b. cuisi-
waited for Christ. DR.. Pentscost travelling
IN Poonah two years ago saw boy wor-
shipping IN idol. The doctors companion,
brahmin. said: Twenty years ago yo0
one today The people are aissaiistied
9Th their idols and longing for the Living
God. Bishop Thoburn and others tell us
that their great need Is Christian teachers
and preachers 70 keep pace with the de-
mand Of the people for Christian instruc-
ton.
1T 10 nov . crisis in the history Of
missions. God sets before us an open door
and Voc be TO the church II she enters nos
therein. Il will take money. but there 10
. proverb. You cannot eat omelets with
out breaking EGGS 30 to win victories for
Christ pocketbooks and purses must be
filled.
THE opening up.of Africa il . wonderful
work, indicative Of . Divine Providence.
David Livingstone work has been accom-
plished there during living memory, and
he and others pray the world to eradicate
forever the curse Of slavery. that plague
spot OF the earth, that heart disease of the
dark continent. H. n. Stanley says that
child has been sacrificed; for every two
pounds hut has been destroyed: for
every tusk village swept Away, and for
every ten tusks q district depopuiased
And all to furnish billiard balls and orna-
ments!
"Africa calls by this very curse Of slav-
cry for the Gospel. for in this ago slavery
and Christianity cannot co-exist
"China cries dumbiy by her needs for
the Gospel. She numbers one-quartsr of
the human race. Multiply the letters Of
the Bible eighty times and you geS her
population; 400 OF them died in the last
hour; $500 in one day. Dispatch your
missionary. and before he arrives there one
Christ died will have passed beyond your
"Thsss nations till lately were oil closed
and by many circumstances bolted and
barred against the Gospel. Now the doors
are vide open. and We neglect 20 enter at
our peril. Tho triumphs Of missionary
ID
ago IL was one Of the darkest corners of
the earth. Idoiatry reigned supreme. cruel
wars threatened to exterminate the race,
cannibalism ragged in every direction.
Now. through missionary influence, all
this Is changed. Fifty years ago there
were no Christians: now there are no hea-
then, aud every barbarons practice has
been abolished. Ninety-eight per cent. of
the inhabitants are Methodisss. There are
81, 900 on the class b ,oks. tifty-thres native
ministers. I. ST local preachers, 81, 900 sun
day school scholars. 100 600 attendants at
divine worship every Sunday.
People sometimes talk of the cost of
missions, but it costs three times as much
to convert an American a. il does a
heather. II cost the British government
$500 per head for every native killed in the
wars of the Soudan. Afghanistan and Zu-
luiand. Ii cost So per head to convert the
Fijians TO Christianity. 1t cost New York
state 800 COO to e.ectrocu;e Kcmmler. and
il cost the Christian church III New York
name II household word and whose
Christian work is a wonder in New York
city. How much did il cost TO send Liv-
ingston to Africa? Very little and he gave
q continent to Christian civilization.
Great Britain gives . thousandth part OF /
per cent. OF her net increase for missions,
and God Is so pleased with that Git is so
that He makes her the banker of the ma.
tions
people think missionaries are far of.
but give me your contribution any day
but Monday, and ! will send it to DR..
Leonard. of New York, who will place i,
in the hands Of the missionary, 1,500 miles
back in the Himalayas. twensy-.hree
hours by the clock before you give il me.
'-Christ's Gospel wins its trophies in every
age and cline. Like wheat. that will grow
anywhere, il Is the the staff Of life. and
meets the needs Of every sinner on the
globe.
'Indolent as the Hindu. conservative a.
the Chinauian. voiuptuous A. the Turk,
rude as the Russian. revengeiui a. tho
Spaniard. pieasure-!oving az the French
man. aesthetic - the Italian. phiegmatic
rs the German. weaith-grasping as the
Jew. goid-,hirsty as the Englishman, or
doliar-devouring ~ the American, il suits
them ALL"
Church NOses
The annual excursion OF Trinity pAyiah viii
take place on Monday, July 81. Astsamer will
be chartered to make several trips "a Aiki posns
The Methodist Minister Association meets Ia
the parlor. Of the First Methodist church this
afternoon Ut 2:a0 A full attendance OF ali mem
bers 10 desired.
Tuesday being 81 James day, there will Be
service in 81 Marks Episcopal church q; 10 10
o'clocx in tho morning. There will also to sery-
tee a. $ o clock on Friday evening
Thsre viii b. n CO. cb-atfoa of the Haix car,