The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-12-22
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filed with learners.
: And now as to the industrious ma
lignment of missionaries: 1t has been
said by some travellers after their re-
turn to America or England that the
missionaries are living a life full of in
dolence and luxury. That is a false
hood hat 1 would say is as high
as heaven il it did not go down
in the opposite direction. When
strangers come into these tropical
climates, the missionaries do their best
to entertain them, making sacrifices
for that purpose. In the city Of Ben
ares q missionary told me hat a gen.
tleman coming from England into one
of the mission stations of India, the
missionaries banded together to enter
tain him. Among other things, they
had q ham boiled, prepared and beauti-
fully decorated, and the same ham was
passed around from house to house
as this stranger appeared, and in
other respects a conspiracy of kindness
was effected. The visitor went home
to England and wrote and spoke of the
luxury in which the missionaries of
India were living. Americans and
Englishmen come to these tropical re-
gions and find a missionary living un-
der palms and with different styles of
fruits on his table, and forget hat
palms are here as cheap as hickory or
pine in America, and rich fruits are
cheap as plain apples. They find here
missionaries sleeping under punkas,
these fans swung day and night by
coolies, and forget that 4 cents a day is
good wages here, and the man finds him.
self. Four cents q day for q coachman;
q missionary can afford to ride. There
have been missionaries who have come
to these hot climates resolving TO live
as the natives live, and one or two
years have finished their work,
their chief use on missionary ground
being that Of furnishing for a
large funeral the chief object of inter-
est. So far from living in idleness, NJ
men on earth work so hard as the mis-
sionaries now in the foreign field.
Against fearful odds, and with 1000, 600
Of Christian opposed to $50. OO0, 900 Of
Hindoos, Mohammedsns and other
false religions, these missionaries are
trying to take India for God. Let the
good people Of America and England
and Scotland, and Of all C~hristendom,
add 99H per cent. to their appreciation
Of the fidelity and conservation of for
eign missionaries. Far away from
home, in an exhausting climate,
and compelled to send their chill.
dren to England, scotland, America, so
as to escape the corrupt conversation
and behavior of the natives, these men
and women of God toll on until they
drop into their graves. But they will
get their chief appreciation when their
work is over and the day is won, as 1t
| will be won. No place In Heaven will
be too good for them. Some Of the
ministers at home who live on salaries
Of a. 900 or IS, 900 . year, preaching the
gospel of Him who had not where to
lay His head, will enter Heaven and be
welcomed, and while looking for .
place to sit down, they will be told,
"Yonder in that lower line of thrones
you will take your places Not on the
thrones nesrest the King; they are re-
served for the missionariesr'
Meanwhile let all Christendom be
thrilled with gladness. About s5. 900
converts In India every year under the
Methodist missions, and about $4,000
converts under the Baptist missions,
and about 5000 converts under all
missions every yea But more than
that, Christianity is undermining
heathenism, and not q city, or
town, or neighborhood Of India
but directly or indirectly feels the
l l-A.o-- ~-l Ak H. ~o~l-
ON when Hindooism will 60 down with
q crash. There are whole villages
which have given up their gods and
| where not an idol is left. The serfdom
Of womanhood in many places is being
uploosened, and the iron grip of caste
Is being relaxed. Human sacrifices
have ceased, and the last spark Of the
funeral pyre ON which the widow must
leap has been extinguished, and
the juggernaut, stopped, now stands
rs . curiosity for travellers to
look at. All India will be taken for
Christ. II anyone has any dishearten-
ments let him keep them rs his own
private property; he Is welcome to all
Of them. What we wan in the church
and the world Is less croakipg owls of
the night, and more morning larks
with spread wing ready to meet the
advancing day. Fold up Naomi and
Windhsm, and give us Ariel or
Mount Pisgah, or Coronation. l
had the joy of preaching In many
Of the cities Of India, and seeing
the dusky faces of the natives illumi-
mated with the heavenly anticipations.
In Calcutta, while the congregation
were yet seated, l took my departure
for Q railroad train. preached by the
watch up to the last minute. A swift
carriage brought me to the station not
more than half q minute before start
ing. / came nearer to missing the
train than l hope any Of us will come
to missing Heaven.