Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-02-02

| cabin tha masts AMI all the appointment .,
| tbis ,raat nalace OF the deep. Tne archuece
finishes his work without any perpieH,tS,
and the carpenters and the artisans tol On
tha craft so many hours DAY, etcl Uu9
! doing his part, until with fiags nylhs' an'
thousands Of people huzzalng on Ine uoo ms
| the vessel is launched. But out on Tue sea
| that steamer breaks her shaft and is limpng
elovlv along toward harbor, when Caribbean
1vbirlwinds, those mighty hunters OF the
dean looking out for prey fships, surrounl
that wounded vessel and pitch 1t on rocky
coast and she lifts and falls in the breakers
mill every Joint is loose. and every spar Is
Gown. and every wave sweeps over the
hurricane deck as she parts midships:
Would it not require more skill! and power
10 get that splintered vessel off the rocks
and reconstruct it than it required origin
! ally TO build her2 Aye! Our world that
God built so beautiful, and which started OUT
with all the flags Of Edenlc foliage ana Win
the chant of paradsaical bowers, has Deen
sixty centuries pounding in the skerries OF
! sin and sorrow. and to get her out, and to
| get her of. and to get her on the right way
! again will require more of omnipotence than
| it required to build her and launch her. 80
| ] am not surprised that though in the dry
| dock Of one word our world was made, II
! will take the unsleeved arm of God to lift her
| from the rocks and put her on the right
course again. It is evident from my text
and its comparison with other texts that 1t
| would not be so great an undertaking 10
make whole constellation of worlds, and
whole galley of worlds, and a whole astrono-
my of worlds, and swing them in their right
orbits as to take this wounded world, this
stranded world, this bankrupt world, this
DESTROYED world and make ii as good as
when it started
Now, Just look at the enthrone1 difficulties
in the way. the removal of which, the over
throw of which, seem to require the bare
right arm of omnipotence. There stands
| heathenism, with its $50, 100000 victims.
do not care whether you call them Brahmans
or Buddhists. Confucians or fetch ldolaters.
| At the Worlds Fair in Chicago last summer
| those monstrosties Of religion triel to make
! themselves respectable, but the long mar
and baggy trousers and trlnketed robes OF
! their representatives cannot hide from the
world the fact that those religions are the
authors Of funeral pyre, aud iuggernaut
crushing, and Gauges infanticde, al CnI-
nese shoe torture. and the aggregated mas
sacres OF many centuries. They have their
! heels on India on China, on Persia on
! BorneO. on thr5e-fOurths OF the acreage OF
our poor old world.
know that the missionaries. wdo are the
| most lcrificing and Christlike men and
women on earth, are making steady and
! glorious inrOads upon these built up abomi-
| nations of the centuries. All this stun that
/ YOU sec in some Of the newspapers about tho
missionaries as living in luxury and idlenes5
is promulgated by corrupt American or Eng
lish or Scotch merchants, Whoss loose be-
havior in heather cities has been reouked By
the missionaries and these corrupt mer-
chants write home or tell innocent and un-
suspecting visitors in India or Chi1a or tho
darkened islands OF the sea these falsshO0is
about our consscrate1 missionaries. who,
turning their backs on home and civilization
and emolument and comfort spend their
lives in trying to introduce the mercy OF
the gospel among the downtro1den OF
heathenism. Soma Of those mer-
chants leave their families in Alierica
or England or Scotland and stay for few
years in the ports Of helthenism wdile they
are making their fortunes in the tea or rice
or opium trade, aud while they are thus
absent from home give themselves to orgies
of dissouteness such as no pen or tongue
could. without the abolition of nil decency,
attempt to report. The presence OF the MIS-
| sionaries, with their pure and noble house
holds. in those heather ports is a constant
rebuke to such debauchees and mscreants.
If satan should visit heaven. from which hs
was once roughly but justly expatrlated,
and he would write home to the realms pan
| demoniac his correspondence published in
Diabolos Gazette or ApollyODic News, about
| what he had seen, he would report the
| temple Of God and the Lamb as broken
| down church, and the house OF many
mansions as a disreputabe place, AMI
the cherubm as suspicious OF NOR
ais Sin never did like holiness, aud you
had better not depend upon satanic report OF
the sublime and multpotent work of our
missionaries in foreign lands. But notwlth-
standing all that these men and women OF
God have achieved, they feel and we all feel
that if the idolatrous lands are to be Chris
tanned there needs to be power from the
heavens that has not yet condescended, and
we feel like crying out in the words OF Charles
Wesley:
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake!
Put on Thy strength the Nations shakel
Ave it is not only the Lords arm that is
needed, the holy arm, the outstretched arm,
but the bare arm
There. too, stands MOhammedanism, with
its 176. 900 0C0 victims Its Bible the Koran, a
book not quite as large as our New Iesta-
ment, which was revealed to Mohammed
when in epileptic fits, and resuscltated from
these fits he dictated it to scribes Yet it is
read to-day by more people than any other
book ever written Mohammed, the founder
of that religion. polygamist with superhu-
ity OF wives. the first step OF his religion on
the DO ", mind and soul OF woman, anu no
wonder that the heaven Of the Koran is an
| everlasting Soon, an infinite seragHo,
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 Il bishop OF England
recently proposed that the best way OF
saving Mohammedans was to let them
keep their religion, but engrat upon
if some new principles from Chris
tianitv. he perpetratei an ecclesiastical JOKE,
at which no man can laugh who has ever
seen the tyranny and domestic wretchetness
which always appear where that religion
gets foothold. 1t has marched across CONT
nents and now proposes to set up IT'S nthy
and accursed banner in America, and what
it has done for Turkey it would like TO DO
for our Nation. religion that brutaiy
treats womanhood ought neverto be fostered
i'm our country. But there never was re-
ligion so absurd or wicked that it did not get
disciples, and there are enough fools III
America TO make "A large disclpleship OF
Mohammedanism. This corrupt religion mas
been making steady progress ior hundreds 81
wears. and Notwithstanding all the splehdll
work done by the Jessups, and the Gooielis,
s9d the Blisses. and the Van Dykes, and the
Posts. and the Misses Bowens, and the Misses
Thompsons, and scores OF other men ana Wo-
men Of whom the world was not worthy
there if stands. the giant OF sin, Mohamme-
5anism. with one foot on the heart OF wo-
man and the other on the heart of Christ,
while it mumbles from its minarets this stu,
penduous blasphemy GOD is great an
Mohammed His is prophet" Let the Chris
tan printing press at Beyroot and CONSTANT