Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-02-15

the authors of funeral pyre, and jug
gernaut crushing, and Ganges infant
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. / know that the mission
aries, who are the most self-sacrificing
and Christ-like men and women on
earth, are making steady and glorious
inroads upon these built-up abomina-
lions of the centuries. All this stuff
that you see in some of the newspapers
about the missionaries as living in lux
ury and idleness is promulgated by
corrupt American or English or Scotch
merchants. whose loose behavior in
heather cities has been rebulSed by the
missionaries, and these corrupt mer-
chants write home or tell innocent and
| unsuspecting visitors in India or China
or the darkened islands of the sea.
these falsehoods about our consecrated
missionaries who. turning their backs
on home and civilization and emolu-
ment and comfort, spend their lives in
trying to introduce the mercy of the
gospel among the down-trodden of
heathenism. Some of those merchants
leave their families in America or En-
gland or Scotland and stay for few
years in the ports of heathenism while
they are making their fortunes in
the tea or rice or opium trade,
and while they are thus absent from
hnu4A rrfsr y. -, -
dissoluteness. such as no pen or tongue
could, without the abolition of all de-
ccncy, attem )t to report. The pres
ence of the missionaries, with their
pure and noble households in those
heather parts, Is constant rebuke TO
snch debauchees and misereants If
satan should visit Heaven, from which
he was once roughly, but justly, ex-
patriated, and he should write home to
the realms pandemoniac. his correspond
ence published in Diabolos Gazette, or
Apollyonic News about what he had
seen, he would report the temple of
God and the Lamb as a brol1en-down
church, and the Il Use o. Many Man /!
sions as disreputable place, and the !
cherubim as suspicious of morals. Sin |
never did like holiness, and You had |
better not depend upon satanic re-
port of the sublime and multipotent |
work of our missionaries in foreign |
lands But, Notwithstanding all that
these men and women of God have
achieved, they feel, and we all feel,
chat if the idolatrous lands are to be
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!
Aye, 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, 900, 900 victims. Its Bible
IS the Koran, book not quite as large
Is our New Testament, which was re-
'ealed to Mohammed when in epileptic
its, and, resuscitated from these fits,
lie dictated it to scribes. Yet it is to-
lay read by more people than any
'ther book ever written. Mohammed,
he founder of that religion, polyga-
mist, with superfluity of wives, the
irst step of his religion on the body.
mind, and soul of women. and no
Wonder that the heaven of the Koran
5 an everlasting Sodom, an infinite
eraglio, about which Mohammed
romises that each follower shall have
n that place seventy-two wives in
Ill 1. |
arth. but that no old woman shall
yer enter Heaven. When a bishop of
highland recently proposed that the
est way of saving Mohammedans was
} let them keep their religion. but
ngraft upon it some new principles
'om Christianity he perpetrated an
joke, at which no man !
IN laugh who has ever seen the
yranny and domestic wretchedness !
hich always appear where that re-
gion gets foothold. 1t has marched !,
cross continents. and now proposes to
It up its filthy and accursed banner in
merica. and what it has done for rur-
ey it would like to do for our nation.
religion that brutality treats woman
BOD ought never to be fostered in our
'untry. But there never was reli- /,
on so absurd or wicked that it did
IT get disciples. and there are enough
OILS in America to make large dis :"
pleship of Mohammedanism. This 4
rrupt religion has been making "
eady progress for hundreds of years, :
ID notwithstanding all the splendid /"
ork done by the Jessups. and the :
,odells. and the Blisses, and the Van =
ylxes, and the Posts, and the Misses :,
,wens and the Misses Thompsons =
d scores of other men and women of %
lom the world was not worthy, there :
stands, the giant of sin. NOLAN y
.danism, with one foot on the heart !,
,man, and the other on the heart of -
rist. while it mumbles from its min y
cts this stupendous blasphemy: God u. ~
great and Mohammed is his -
0phet." Let the Christian printing
esses at Bevrout and Constantine
! keep on with their work, and the -, -,
n and women of God in the mission