The Progress., 1893-04-22

and we fight with children's toys. W.
are Dlaving with issues, and our enemle'
laugh at us in our helplessness. WITT
our delicate white ties and our clerlca
cut clothes we are trifiing with the grea'
question of the salvation of people. ol
a generation. Of race. There are times
when Christian manhood should take
firm stand. Only in such stand car
the people be saved. Our enemies ar'
capable Of persuasion. The devil III th'
modern city is Turk III spirit.
Sir Charles Euan-Smith, the rocaa'
British envoy 70 Fcz. III thc empire oi
Morocco. had perilous experience III
the a.ti-C ChriStian riots of last July. The
mission house had Seen attacked. The
windows were smashed with stones. II
became unsafe to venture In the gar
ders. IA Sir Charles WAS giving the
necessary orders for the defense of IN.
mission. IN embassy from tine sultan ap-
peared and implorcd him 10 go mt once
to the paiacc. Courier after courier,
mounted on magnificent Barbary horses,
dashed up, repeating the summons.
Bending at his feet they declared; My
lord we pray thee 10 hasten. Our lord
beseeChes that you come to HIM. lie
will neither eat nor drink nor sleep nor
have any peace until you come TO him.
Our lord languisheth for the light of
your countcnancc. 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" hG
said. Your wife and your people mus
come Immediately TO the palace. The
populacc Is greatly excited against you. |
can no logger protect You. Come tonight
and sleep here. In the morning ! will
send a thousand soldiers to escort you Ia
the coast Your majesty is mistaken,
replied Sir Charles coOlly. My life Is
not in danger. | am in your majcsty'j
safe keeping" Il am powcrlcss 10 pro
tect you cried the sultan. IF you re
turn 10 the mission. you viii be killed. ~
"Pprh1ps am 60 be killed, replied Sir
Charles The mission may be massa-
cred. but there will be another British
minister in Fez within a month. who
viii be accompanied by Il staff rs well
equipped as mine and better, for, added
the minister in deliberate tones, then
there VIII not be sultan at Fcz.'
IL is needless to say that Sir Charles
and the mission Were projected. The
men who were responsible for the riots
werc beaten and imprisoned. The pasha
who urged the mob 10 stone the British
vice consul was fined $i0,0 He crawled
on foot and placed the money at Minis
ter Smiths feet. He sworc on the Koran
he had not melted the riots His guards
were hogged before the palace. And
Minister Smith gavc the money to the
poor OF Fez and rewarded his faithful
servants and soldiers.
FACE SATAN L; 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 oyerturn and Overturn, and
with scourgc 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
it again. Referring TO the inevitable cri-
sis which the forces of evil are bringing
10 pass in orr modern cities, he says:
when such commercial crisis has
closed factories by the ten thousand and
wage carners have been thrown out of
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
Yorks Londons; when class antipathies
are decpened; when socialistic 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
ernmcnts is grown apace; when crops
fail, or some gigantic corner doubles
the price of bread; with starvation in the
home; with idle worllmen gathered. sui
len and desperate, in the saloons; with
wealth ut hand; with the
tremendous forces of chemistry within
easy reach, then, with the opportunity,
the means, the Gt agents, the mOtire, the
temptation 10 destroy, oil brought into
eca conjunction, then will come the real
test of our institutions. then will appear
whether we are capable of self govern
ment."
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