The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-26

undertaking. 1t takes more power 10
make this world over again than it
took to make it at first A word was
only necessary for the first creation.
but for the new creation the unsleeved
and unhindered forearm of the Al
mighty The reason of that l can I'M
derstand. In the ship yards of Liver
pool, or Glasgow, or New York.
a great vessel is constructed The
architect draws out the plan, the length
of the beam, the capacity of tonnage,
the rotation of wheel or screw, the
cabins the masts and all the appoint
ments of this great palace of the deep.
The architect finishes his work without
any perplexity, and the carpenters and
the artisans toll on the craft so many
hours day, each one doing his part,
until with flags flying, and thousands
of people huzzaing on the docks the
vessel is launched But out on the
sea that vessel breaks her shaft and is
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 it on a
rocky coast. and she lifts and falls in
the breakers until every joint is loose
and every spar is down, and every wave
sweeps over the hurricane deck as she
parts midships. Would it not require
more skill and power to get that
splintered vessel off the rocks and re-
construct it than it required originally
to build her? Ayel Our world that
God built so beautiful, and which
started out with all the flags of Edenic
foliage and with the chant of para
disaical bowers, has been sixty CEN
turtles pounding in the skerries of sin
and sorrow, and to get her out, and to
get her off, and to get her on the right
way again will require more of omnipo-
tence than it required to build her and
launch her.
Now, just look at the enthroned diff
culties in the way, the removal of which,
the overthrow of which seems to re-
quire the bare right arm of omnipo-
tence There stands heathenism, with
its $50, 100000 victims. do not care
whether you call them Brahmins, or
Buddhists, Confucians, or Fetish idol
ators. At the worlds fair in Chicago
last summer those monstrosities of re-
ligion tried to make themselves respect
able, but the long hair and baggy
trousers and trinketed robes of their
representatives cannot hide from the
world the fact that those religions are
the authors of funeral pyre, and Jug
geruaut crushing, and Gauges infanti-
eide, and Chinese shoe torture, and the
aggregated massacres of many centu-
ries 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 mission
aries. who are the most sacrificing and
Christlike men and women on earth,
are making steady aud glorious in
roads upon these built up denominations
of the centuries. All this stuff you see
in some of the newspapers about the
missionaries as living in luxury and
idleness is promulgated by corrupt
American or English or Scotch mer-
chants, whose loose behavior in heather
cities has been rebulzed by the mis-
sionaries, and these corrupt merchants
write home or tell innocent and
unsuspecting visitors in India or China
or the darkened islands of the sea these
falsehoods about our consecrated mis-
sionaries who, turning their backs on
home and civilization and emolument
and comfort, spend their lives in try
ing to introduce the mercy of the Cos
pei among the down-trodden of heath
enism. But notwithstanding all these
men and women of God have achieved,
they feel, and we feel that if the
idolatrous lands are to be Christianized,
there needs to be a 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 shake!
Ave, it is not only the Lords arm
that is needed, the holy arm, the out
stretched arm, but the bare arm.
There, too, stands Mohammedanism
with its 176, 100000 victims Its bible
is the Koran. book not quite as large
as our New Testament, which was re-
vealed to Mohammed when in epileptic
fits, and, resuscitated 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, a polygamist,
with superiority of wives, the first step
of his religion on the body, mind and
soul of woman; and no wonder that the
heaven of the Koran is an everlasting
Sodom, 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
old woman shall ever enter heaven.
When a bishop of England recently
proposed that the best way of saving
Monammedans was to let them keep
their religion, but engraft upon it some
new principles from Christianity, he
perpetrated an ecclesiastical joke, at
which no man can laugh who has ever
seen the tyranny and domestic wretch
edness which always appear where that
religion gets foothold. 1t has marched
across continents, and now proposes to
set up its filthy and accursed banner in
America, and what it has done in
Turkey it would like to do for our ma
ton. A religion that brutally treats
womanhood ought never to be fostered
in our country. But there never was
religion so absurd or wicked that it did
not get disciples, and there are enough
fools in America TO make large dis
cipleship of Mohammedanism- But
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thing supernatural from the heavens,
as yet unseen, something stretched out
of the skies, something like an arm un-