The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-01-23


New York, 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 appointments OF TINS
great palace of the deep. The architect
finishes his work without any pe1pleXlty,
and the carpenters and the artisans toll on
the craft so many hours day, each one
doing his part, until with flags flying, ana
thousands of people huzzaing on the docks,
the vessel is launched. But out on the sea
that steamer breaks her shaft and is limp
ing slowly along toward harbor, when Carp
bean WhirlWindS, those mighty hunters OF
the Deep looking out for prey of ships,
surround that wounded vessel and pitch II
rocky coast, and she lifts and falls IN
the breakers until every joint is loose ana
every spar is down, and every wave sweeps
over the hurricane deck as she parts md
ships. Would it not require more skill ana
power to get that Splintered vessel OH the
rocks and reconstruct it than 1t required
originally to build her? Ayel Our world
that God built SO beautiful, ana when
started out with all the flags OF Edenlc foL-
age and with the chant of paradisaical
bowers has been sixty centuries 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, VIII require more OF
Omnipotence than it required to build her
and launch her. So L not surprised that
though in the dry-dock of one word our
world was made, it will take the unsleeVed
arm of God to lift her from the rocks and
nut her on the right course again. 1t is evil
dent from my text and it's comparison with
other tex.r, that it would not be so great an
undertakiog to make a whole constellation
of worlds, and whole galaxy of worlds,
and a whole astronomy of worlds, and
swing them in their right orbits. to take
this wounded world, this stranded world,
this bankrupt world. this destroyed world,
and make it as good as when it started.
Now, Just look at the enthroned difficult
ties in the way, the removal of which, the
overthrow of which seem to require the bare
right arm of Omnipotence. There stands
heathenism, with it's 100000 600 victims l
do not care whether you call them Brah-
MINIS, or Buddhists, Confucians or Fetish
idoIaters At the worlds fair in Chicago
last summer those monstrosities of religion
tried to make themselves respectable, but
the long hair and baggy trousers and trink-
eted robes of their representatives cannot
hide from the world the fact that those reli-
gions are the authors Of funeral pyTe. and
JuEernaut crushing, and Ganges infantcide,
and Chinese shoe torture. and the aGgre-
gated massacres of many centuries. They
have their heels on India, on China, on Per-
STA on BOrneO, on three-fOurlhS or the
acreage of our poor old world. ] know that
the missionaries, who are the most sacri-
0cing and Christ-like men and women on
earth, are making steady and glorious in
roads upon these bullt-up denominations of
the centuries. All this stuff that you see in
some OIL the newspapers ABOUT t9e iiI9Sloil-
ares as IFIng III luAuty anu iu'e"eS9 II
promulgated by corrupt Americans OF Liz
hsn or Scoich merchants, WilCSe l'"Te le
haVior IN heathch ci'leS mas peeu Itp'lf>eu
by the MISSIONARIES ana theSe oiI''p' ne
chants write nome or ieu lliilocguI ana IN
suspecting visitors in India or China or the
darkeheu iSlailNS OF Itie sea- theSe ialSci"o"S
ABOUT the cohStcTa'eq MISSIONARIES Wno'
turning thelT hacNs on nome anu cay '4''lioil
ana enoluilleHI ana C"IliloIl, Sp''p 'HSil
lives IN trying 10 introduce uie mercy Oh
the &oSpel among lhe uoWHt''V'ieii vi Ht"-
thenism. some OF lhose IHertn5IllS leaFe
their families ~ America or hhSlahd or
Scotland, and stay lor rev years IN the
ports Of heathenlsm While lheY are MAKING
their fortunes in the tea or rice or OPIUM
trade, and while they are thus absent from
home. give themselves to orgies of disS0-
luteness, such as no pen or tongue could,
without the abolition of all decency, at
tempt to report. The presence Of the mis-
sionares with their pure and noble house
holds in those heather ports, is constant
rebuke to such dehauchees and mIsereant5-
If Satan should Visit heaven, from when
he was once roughly but justly eNPaIIdLea'
ard he should write nome 10 the realms
pandemOniac, his correspondence pubiiShed
in Diabolos Gazette, or Apollyonjc 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 a disreputable place, and the
Cherubium as suspicious Of morals sin
never did Ike holiness, and You had better