The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-01-25


dislSsartened Christian workers. II God ac-
con 'lished so much with His fingers. what
| can u do when He puts out all His strength
and hen He unlimbers all the batteries OF
His nnipotence2 The Bible speaks again
and gain OF Gods outstretched arm. but
| onl, nee. and that In the text OF the bare
arm God.
N text makes Il plain that the rectinca-
tiot 7 this world Is a stupendous under
TAX II takes more power to make this
woi fer again than II took to make II at
drs,. word was only necessary for the
| hrs' creation. but for the new creation the
unsleeved aud unhindered fore arm OF the
Almighty The reason Of that can under
stand. In the shipyards OF Liverpool or
Glasgow or New York great vessel IL con-
~tructei. The architect draws out the plan,
the length OF the beam. the capacity OF ton
mage. the rotation Of wheel or screw. the
cabin. the masts and all the appoint msnts OF
this great palace OF the deep. The architect
finishes his work without any perplexlty.
and the carpenters and the artisans toll on
ths craft 50 many hours day. each one
dong his part. until with flags flying. and
tho usands OF people huzzaing on the docks
the vessel IL launched. But out on the sen
that steamer breaks her shaft and IL limping
slowly along toward harbor. when Caribbean
whirlwinds. those mighty hunters OF the
deep. looking out for prey OF ships. surround
that wounded vessel and pitch II on a rocky
coast. and she lifts and falls In the breakers
untll every joint IL loose. and every spar Is
down. and every wavs sweeps over the
hu -rlcane deck Ms she parts midshps.
Would II not require more skill and power
TO ret that splintered vessel on the rocks
and reconstruct " than II required origin
allg 20 build her? Ayel Our world that
God built so beautiful. and which started out
with ali the flags OF Edenic foliage and with
the chant OF paradisaical bowers. has been
L., q
SIN and sorrow and TO get her ont. and TO
get her of. andto get her on the right way
again will requlrr more OF omn ipotence than
Il required TO buihi her and launch her. 80
I am not surprised that though In the dry
dock OF one wori our world was made. IL
will take the unsl-.eed arm of God 10 lit her
from the rocks ani put her on the right
course again. II IL evident from nv text
ami its comparison with other texts that II
would not be so great an undertaking 10
make whole constellation OF worlds and a
whole galaxy OF worlds. and a whole astrono-
my OF worlds, aud swing them In their right
orbits as to take this wounded world this
stranded world. this bankrupt world. this
destroyed world, and make It as good as
VIXEN II started.
Now, Just look nj the enthrone difficulties
in the way. the removal OF which. the over
throw OF which. seem 10 require the bare
Right arm OF omnipotence. There stands
heathensm with its $50, ,000. 900 victims.
dol not care whether you call them Brahmans
orlBuddhists. Confucians or fetch idolaters.
Al the Worlds Fair in Chicago last summer
those monstrosities OF religion tried TO make
themselves respectable, but the long hair
aud baggy trousers and trinketed robes OF
thoir representatives cannot hide from the
wbrld the fact that those religions are the
authors OF funeral pyre. aud juggernaut
criIshing, and Ganges intan.icide. and Chit
.nese shoe torture aud the aggregated mas
sa,res OF many centuries. They have their
he,ls on India, on China. on Persia. on
Borneo. on three fourths OF the acreage Of
GU. poor old world.
know that the missionaries. who are the
nest sicriicing and Christike men and
women on earth. are making steady and
glorious inroads upon these built up abomi-
mai Ions Of the centuries. All this stun that
yon see In some OF the newspapers about the
missionaries as living In luxury and idleness
Is promulgated by corrupt American or Eng
lish or Scotch merchants. whose loose be-
htvior In heather cities has been rebuked by
tie missionaries, and these corrupt mer-
chants write home or tell innocent and un-
Inspecting visitors in India or China or the
tarkened islapds OF the sea these ialsehoods
-. .-..-. '--- who
urnins .neir backs on home and CIVILIZATION 7
md emolument and comfort. spend their
ives In trying to introduce the mercy OF .
leathenism. Some OF those mer-
'hants leave their families in America
Or England or Scotland and stay for few
Years IN the ports OF heathenism while they /
are making their fortunes in the tea or rice
)r opium trade, aud while they are thus !
ibs ent from home give themselves TO orgies .
)t dissouteness such as no pen or tongue .
,ould. without the abolition OF all decency. /
attempt 10 report. The presence Of the mis- .
with their pure and noble house, /
holds. In those heather ports Is "A constant .
rebuke to such debauchees and Iniscreants. /
II satan should visit heaven. from which he |
was once roughly but Justly expatrlatsd. /
and he would write home TO the realms pan /
iemoniac. his correspondence published in
Diabolos Gazette or Apollyonic News. about /
what he had seen, he would report the /,
temple OF God and thc Lamb as "a broken |
iown church, and the house Of many
maasions as disreputabe place, and !
the cherubim as suspicious OF NOR
ais. Sin never did like holiness. and you
had better not depend upon satanic report of
the sublime and multipotent work OF our
In foreign lands. But notwith-
standing all that these men and women OF
God have achieved they feel and we all feel
hat IL the idolatrous lands are 20 bc Chris
lianized there needs to be power from the
heavens that has not yet condescended, and
Wa feel like crying out In the words OF Charles
Wesley
Arm of the Lord. awake. awakel
Put on Thy strength, the Nations shakel
Aye. it is not only the Lords arm that Is
needed. the holy arm, the outs,retched arm,
but the bare arm
There. too. stands Mohammedanism. with
Its l76. 900 900 victims. Its Bible is the Koran.
book not quite rs large ~ our New Testa-
ment which was revealed to Mohammed
when in epileptic fits, and resuscitated from
these fits he dictated II to scribes- Yet II is
read to-day by more people than any other
book ever written. Mohammed, the founder
OF that religion, polygamist. with superfiu-
ity OF wives, the first step OF his religion on
the body, mind and soul OF woman, aud no
wonder that the heaven OF the Koran Is an
everlasting Socom, an infinite seraglio,
about which Mohammed promises that each
follower shall have in that place seventy-two
wives, In addition TO all the wives he had on
earth, but that no oil woman shall ever
enter heaven. When n bishop OF England
recently proposed that ths best way OF
saving Mohammeians was to let them
keep their religion, bur engraft upon
IL some new principles from Chris
tianity. he perpetrated an ecclesiastical joke,
at which no man can laugh who has ever
seen the tyranny and domestic wretchedness