The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-02-02

w IIidSS.ioItS VI lHduy SCiluI
les. They have their heels on India, ON
China, on Persia, on Borneo, on three
fourths Of the acreage Of our poor old
world. l know that the missionaries,
who are the most sacrificing and Christ
like men and women on earth are
making steady and glorious inroads up
on these built-up denominations OF the
centuries. All this stuff that YOU see in
some Of the newspapers about the mis-
sionaries as living In luxury and idle
ness is promulgated by corrupt Amcri-
can Or English or Scotch merchants,
whose loose behavior in heathen cities
has been rebuked by the missionaries,
and these corrupt merchants write
home or tell innocent and unsuspecting
visitors In India or China or the darIlcn-
ed islands Of the sea these falsehoodS
about our consecrated missionaries,
who. turning their backs on home and
civilization and emolument and com
fort, spend their lives in trying to intro
duce the mercy Of the Gospel among
the doWn-trodden of heathenism. Some
Of these merchants leave their families
in America or England or Scotland and
stay for few years in the ports or
heathenism while they are making their
fortunes in the tea or rice or opium
trade, and while they are thus absent
from home, give themselves to orgies
OF diSsoutcness such as no pen or ton
que could, without the abolition or all
decency, attempt to report. The pres
ence OF the missionaries with their pure
and noble households in those hcathen
ports is constant rebuke to such de-
bauchees and miscreants. If Satan
S~h 4 ,iE4
once roughly, but justly, expatriated,
ana he should write home to the realms
randemoniac his correspondence pub
lshed in Diabolos Gazette, or Apony-
onic News, about what he had seen, he
would report the Temple Of God and
the Lamb as a broken-down church,
and the house of Many Masions as Il
disreputable place. and theCherubim as
suspicious of morals. Sin never did like
Holiness and you had better not de-
pend upon Satanic report Of the sub
lime and multipotent work of our mis-
alonarlcs In foreign lands But not
WthStanding all That these men and wo-
men Of God have achieved they feel,
and We all feel that if the idolatrous
lands are to be Christanzed, there
needs to be a power from the heavens
that has not yet condesCendad, and we
feel Ike crying ont in the words OF
Charles Wesley:
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake.
Put on thy strength, the nations
shake
Aye, it is not only the Lords arm
that is needed, the holy arm, the out
stretched arm, but the bare arm
Much good has been accomplished by
the heroisln and fidelity of Christian re-
formers. bat the fact remains that
there are more splendid men and mag
nillccnt women this moment going over
the Niagara abysm Of inebriety than
at any time since the first Crane was
turned into wine, and the first head Of
rye began to soak in brewery When
people touch this subject they are apt
to give statistics as to how many mil
hons are in drunkards' graves, or with
quicl tread marching on toward them
The land is full OF talk of high tariff
and low tariff, but what about the high
est Of all tariffs in this country, the
tariff of $500, 100000 which rum put up
on the United States in 1891, for that
is what it cost us. You do not tremhle
or turn pale when | say that. The fact
| Is we have become hardened by statis-
| ties and they make little impression.
| l1ut II SpIit OIie NOuIu SijIltT IUt0 one
| mighty lake all of the tears that have
been Wrung out Of orphanage and wild
oWhood; or into one organ diapason al,
the groans that have been uttered by
the suffering victims of this holocaust;
or into one whirlwind all the sighs Of
centuries of dissipation, or from the
wicket Of one immense prison have
look upon us the Glaring eyes OF thi
those whom strong drink has end1n-
geoned, we might perhaps realize the
appalling deSofation. But no, no, the
sight would forever blast our yison:
the sound would forever stun our souls
Go on with your temperance literatuI !;
90 on with your temperance platforms, !,
go on with your temperance laws. But
we are all hoDing for something from
above, and while the bare arm Of suf-
fcring. and the bare arm Of invaliuism,
and the bare arm Of poverty, and the
bare arm Of domestic desolation, from
which rum hath torn the sleeve are
lifted uD in beggary and suppfication
and despair. let the bare arm Of God
strike the breweries, and the liquor
stores. and the corrupt politics, and
the license laws, and the whole inferno
Of grog-shops all around the Nfrld.
Down, thou accursed Bottle. from the
Throne! Into the dust thou king of the
Demijohn! Parched be thy lips, thou
Wine cup, with fires that shall never be
quenched!
But l have no time to specify the
manifold evils that challenge Christian
ity. And I think l have seen in some
Christians, and read in some news pa
pers, and heard from some pulpits
disheartenment, us though Christian
ity were SO worstcd that it is hardly
worth while to attempt to Nin this
world for God, and that all Christian
work would collapse, and that it is no
use for you to teach 4 Sabbath class,