Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-01-26

IA every wave sweeps over tho
down. deck as she parts midsbips.
hurley not require more skill and power
WouSat splintered vessel OF the rocks
10 get nsfriict It than it required origin
and renild her? Ayel Our world that
> ally Kim so beautiful. and which started out
God the flags OF Edenlc foliage and with
william OF paradislical bowers. has been
the centuries pounding in the slerries o;
sNnA sorrow. an1 10 get her Out. anl to
r6er 81. and 10 get her on the right wav
g'in will require more OF Omnipotence than
=, heouired 10 build her and launch her. So
I'm not surprised that though IN the dry
sek OF one word our world was made. IL
I'm take the unsleeyed arm Of Col TO lit her
J lrom the rocks AMI put her ON the RIGHT
.our5e again. II is evident from nv toxt
land its comparison with other texts TINT il
would not be so great an undertaking TO
4 make whole constellation oil worlds ami
whole galaxy OF worlds. and whoie as,rono-
my OF worlds, and swing them in their right
orbits as TO ta6e this wounded world this
stranded world. this bankrupt world. this
destroyed world, and make it rs good as
when il started.
Now. just look at the din. uiues
in the way. the removal OF which. the over
throw OF which, seem TO require the bare
right arm OF omnipoienee. There stands
hclthenism. with its $50 900 900 victims
do not care whether y0u call them Brahmans
or Buddhists. COniuciaus or fetch idolatars.
At the Worlds Fair i'm Chicago last summer
those mOnstrosties OF religion tre to mako
themselves respectable. but the long hair
and baggy trousers and trinSeted robes OF
their representatives, cannot hide from the
world the fact that those religions arr the
authors OF funeral pyre. and iuggernlut
nrffeniur and f1ys |f.,r
nese shoe torture, and the aggregated mas
sacres OF many centuries. They have their
heels on India. on China. on Persia. on
Borneo. on three-fourths OF the acreage OF
our poor Old world.
! know that the missionaries. wlO are the
most sacrificing AMI Christlke men AMI
women on earth. are making steady AMI
glorious inroads upon these built up abomi-
nations Of the centuries. All this stun that
you sec in some OF the newspapers about the
missionaries as living in luxury AMI idlenoss
IS promulgated by corrupt American OrEny-
lish or Scotch merchants. whose loose be-
havlOr In heather cities has been rebuSe1 By
the missionaries, and these corrupt mer-
chants write home or tell innocent and UNI
suspecting visitors in India or CHM or tins
darkened Islands OF the sea these falsehoo Is
about our cOnsecrate1 missionaries. who,
turning lltlT DICKS on nome dAil fiflilliltpA
and emolument and comfort. spend their
lives in trying to introduce the mercy Of
the gospel among the downtrolden o,
heathenism. Some OF those mer-
chants leave their families in America
or England or Scotland and stay for few
years in the ports Of helthenism while they
are making their fortunes in the ten or rica
or opirm trade, and while they are thus
absent IRON home give themselves TO orgies
Of dissoluteness such as no pen or tongue
could without the abolition Of all decsncy
attempt TO report. The presence Of the mis-
sionaries, with their pure and noble house
holds. in those heather ports is a constant
rcbuke TO such debauchees and miscreants
II satan should visit heaven. from which he
was once roughly but justly expatriatel,
and he would write home TO the realms pau
demoniac his correspondence published IN
DiabOlOs Gazette or ApOllyonc 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
mansions as disreputabIe place anil
the cherubim as suspicious OF NOR
ais. Sin mover did like holiness, and You
had better not depend upon satanic reportot
the sublime and multipotcnt work of our
missionaries in foreign lands. But nOtwith-
standing all that these men and women oil
God have achieved. they feel and we all feel
that IL the idOlatrOus lands are 10 bee Chris
tanned there needs to be a power from the
heavens that has not yet cOndescended. AMI
we feel like cryingout in the words OF Charles
Wesley