Connecticut western news., 1893-05-04

and we fight with children's toys. We are playing with issues, and our enemies laugh at us in our helplessness. With our delicate white ties and our clerical cut clothes we are trifing with the great question of the salvation of people, of a generation, of a race. There are times when Christian manhood should take firm stand. Only in such a 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 Fez, in the empire of Morocco, had perilous experience in the anti Christian riots of last July. The mission house had been attacked. The windows were smashed with stones. It 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- matic 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. I can no longer protect you. Come tonight and sleep here. In the morning 1 will send thousand soldiers to escort you to the coast" "Your majesty is mistaken" l" replied Sir Charles coolly. My life is not in danger. am in your majesty's safe keeping" "I am powerless to pro- tect you" cried the sultan. If you re- turn to the mission, you will be killed" Perhaps I am to be killed, replied Sir Charles. 1.-The mission may be massa- cred, but there will be another British minister in Fez within month, who will be accompanied by staff as well equipped as mine and better, for, added the minister in deliberate tones, ''then there will not be sultan at Fez."
 It 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 pasha who urged the mob to stone the British vice consul was fined $10 ,000. 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 fogged before the palace. And Minister Smith gave the money to lhe poor of Fez 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 Dr. Strong uttered in 1885 today rings in our ears with more startling emphasis than when he first gave it utterance. It is well to read it again. Referring to the inevitable cri- sis which the forces of evil are bringing
 
 to pass in our modern cities, he says:
 "When such commercial crisis has closed factories by the ten thousand and wage earners have been thrown out of employment by the million; when the public lands, which hitherto at such times have afforded relief, are all ex- hausted; when our urban population has been multiplied several fold, and our Cincinnatis have become Chicagos, our Chicagos New Yorks, and our New Works Londons; when class antiquities are deepened; when socialstic organiza- tions, armed and drilled, are in every city, and the ignorant and vicious power of crowded populations has fully found itself; when the corruption of city gov ernments is grown apace; when crops fail, or some gigantic corner doubles the price of bread; with starvation in the home; with idle wo-ilmen gathered, sul- len and desperate, in the saloons; with unprotected wealth at hand; with the tremendous forces of chemistry within easy reach, then, with the opportunity the means, the it agents, the motiue, the temptation to destroy, dU brought i,atc evl conjunction, then will come the real test of our institutions. then will appear whether we are capable of self govern. napt