The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1894-03-17

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winds. those mighty hunters of the
deep, looking ont for prey of ships.
surround that wounded vessel to pitch
! It on a rocky coast, and she lifts and
falls in the breakers. until every joint
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| every wave sweeps over the hurri-
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made. IL Wi iefIeti arm
of God TO lifU;d r85ks and
mt her ON N, n Fse aca;n. IT
is evident from nv taxi. andsfts COM
parison with other tcy IT. It would
not be so rreat,-ar undertaking. to
make whole constellation Of worlds.
and a whole galaxy of worlds. and a
whole astronomy OF worlds. and swing
them IN their right orbits. as to take
this wounded world. this stranded
world. this banlxrupt world. this de-
stroved world. and make il as ronds as
when II started.
Arm Of the Lord. awake. awake.
Puton thy strength, the nations shake,
Aye, il is not only the Lord s arm
that is needed, the holy arm, the out
stretched arm. but the bare arm.
There, too, stands Mohammedanism,
with its one hundred and seventy
six million victims. Its bible is
the Koran, a book not quite as
large as our New Testament, which
was revealed to Mohammed when in
epileptic fits, and. resuscitated from
these fits, he dictated it to scribes
Yet II is read to-day by more ueop]e
than any other book ever written.
Mohammed. the founder of that re-
liriop. a polvramist with sunerf,,;tv
of wives. the first stem of his
religion ON the body. mind
and soul of woman: and no
wonder that the heaven of the Koran
is an everlasting Sodom. an infinite
seraglio about which Mohammed prom
ises that each follower shall have in
that place seyenty-two wives. in addi-
ton to all the wives he had ON earth
but that no old woman shall ever enter
Heaven. When a bishop of England
RECENTLY proposed that the best ,vav Of
saving Mohammedans was to let them
keep their religion. but engraft upon
it some new principles from Chris
tianity, he perpetrated an ecclesi-
astical Joke. at which no man can laugh
who has ever seen the tyranny and
domestic Indebtedness which ALWAYS
appear where that religion gets foot
hold. 1t has marched across continets,
and now proposes to set up its filthy
and accursed banner in America. and
what it has done in Turkey it would
like to do for our nation. A religion
that brutality treats womanhood ought
never to be fostered in our country.
But there never was religion so abb
surd or wicked that it did not get dis
ciples, and there are enough fools in
America to make a large discipleship of
Mohammedanism. This corrupt religion
has been making steady progress for
of years, and Notwithstanding
all the splendid work done by the Jes-
sups, and the Goddells, and the Blisses,
and the Van Dykes, and the Posts, and
the Misses Bowens, and the Misses
Thompkins, and scores of other men
and women of which the world was not
worthy. there il stands, the giant of
sin, Mob ammedanism, with one foot
on the heart of woman. and the other
on the heart of Christ, while it num-
bles from its minarets this stupend-
ous blasphemy: God is great. and
is His prophet. . Let the
Christian printing presses at Bevrout |
and Constantinople keep on with their
work, and the men and women of God
in the mission fields toll until the Lord |
crowns them. but what we are all hon.
ing for is something supernatural from |
the heavens, as vet unseen, something |
stretched down ont of the skies. some
thing like an arm uncovered. the bare
arm of the God of nations,
There stands also the arch demon of |
alcoholism. Its throne is white and