Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-08-28

IIefnts ni.a IIeroines.
'onffIeht. Louis Klopsch, lso4l
HffA,IsHtF ALAMEDA, Midocean, July
~" fhsl afq some things in the mind
tf SITTER 1ear remaining underlined.
he ltnIt Tor explanation docs not seem
N I aosne We had for years seen allu.
ions to tho southern cross. We knew
erwin lot rhss II meant We supposed it to
m e ni appeafance in the heavens ut GER
ain latitude and longitude, yet we
s1-lnpeW nti csnctly what that appearance
fne Hnt sested few nights ago OH
ho deck Of this ship in our voyage
ucun9 the world, q gentleman bent
3ver mo and said: "Tho southern cross
H visible Let us go and see it. " Going
To 5be pp0psite side of the ship, looked
asup aid bfhold it in all its suggestive
nm NESS looking down upon us and looking
down upon the sea. The southern cross
1t is made up Of four bright stars. One
:. star standing at tho top of the porpen-
0iouIar piece of the cross, and another
star standing for the foot of it, One
star standing for the right hand end Of
M the horizontal piece of the cross and
another star for the left hand end of it
'z@ So clear, 80 resplendent, SO charged with
Significance. SO sublimely marking of
The heavens that neither man nor wori-
Nl nor child nor angel nor devil cai
2 doubt it, The southern crossl To MAXI
!. it God put those four worlds in Their
places Tho tender and tremendous en-
biem Of our religion nailed against the
heavens with silver nails of star. -Four
4 arc enough
God wastes no worlds He WI rot
encourage Stupidity. If you cannot
sec the southern cross in the foul
"a stars, 40 stars will not make you see
il Up yonder they stand, the four
stellar eyangelists upholding the cross.
What a gospel of the firmamentl The
2 cross that Constantine saw in the sky
with the words, "By this conquer, +"
was an evanescent cross and for one
night, but this southern cross is for all
nights, and to last while creation lasts
So every night of this voyage among the
J islands Of the Pacific am reminded by
this celestial crucifix Of the only infu.
ence that has turned the islands from
their cruelty and shamelessness and hor-
ror--the influence of the cross
Excepting the throne of the Deity,
think there viii be no higher thrones
in heaven than those occupied by the
missionaries. Others have lived and died
for their own country These lived and
died for the natives of other countries.
Many OF the missionaries were the grad
yates OF Yale or Princeton or New
Brunswick or Oxford or Cambridge or
Edinburgh and were qualified for pull
pits, for editorial chairs, for medical
achievement, for great words and deeds
in courtrooms, for commercial successes
that would have brought all honors and
all Injuries to their feet Many of the
women Of this foreign mission cause
were brought up i'll refined associations,
could play we'll ON musical instruments
were the charm of best society, had at
tractiveness that fitted them for any cir
ole Of ease OF opulence Such menSand
women took whaleships for foreign
lands, lived on fare that only coarsest
digestive organs could manage, were
tossed for months on rough seas, landed
amid naked savages, abode in grass
hufa, spent their life amid the squalor,
N4ltt NttN EtCllCA, unQ blc
the epidemics, and the low vices of those
whom they had come to rescue OF a
roll Of 180names of such men and wom-
en- not more than four or five of them
were ever heard of outside of their own
kindred Of the circles of barbarians
among whom they lived.
The story of the Christian heroes and
hcroines who came to these islands of
the Pacific in the brig Thaddeus, the
LELAND, the Benjamin Bush, the Ave-
rich and the Mary Frazier under Cap
tain Charles Sumner can never be fully
told All the talents, all the scholar
ship. all the nerve and muscle and
brain, all the spiritual energies of these
Christly men and women put forth ON
behalf Of people whom they had never
seen and whose names they had never
heard pronounced until the day of the
arrival on these islands, Some of these
messengers of light were cut to pieces
and derOlired by cannibals. Some of
fhem foiIed to save the besotted saw
age. while profligates of Christian coun-
tries landed from merchantman or war
vessel or whaling ship were trying to
deetr0Y them The daughter of one of
the missionary families describes her
mother As toiling until the skin was
b,istenod off her arms and says that
M|isla her father was about to preach
group u drunken sailors broke the win
f|1ns efd one brandished knife about
~ EsA= saying: Here he is. ] have
got him Come onl' These missionaries
seiao lhe'F little children to America and
hu14A2 tscause they could not be prop
cry FhNsht up amid heathenism, and
NnNf tHutrending partings took place
a. IA.I|11N and mothers surrendered their
tAiietHn for the voyage across the seas,
"a M4Af cases those parents never see
1AH fpN'f children again. No regular
foetal |tfpgements-letters were often
r4f INt4.fed until IS months or two
ys.a'k ga The ship captain, Charles
fan.aet ipr the first part of the voyage to