The Grenada sentinel., 1894-12-22

was converted through reading one Of
my sermons among the hills OF In
dia. The songs Of the two Christian
assemblages I visited in this city, al
though the tunes were new, and the
sentiments not translated, were uplift-
ing and inspiring to the last degree.
There was also a school of six hundred
native girls; an institution esta blished
by a rajah of generosity and
wealth, u graduate OF Madras
university. But more than all,
the missionaries are busy, some Of
them preaching on the CHATS, some Of
them in churches, in chapels and ba.
Ears. The London Missionary society
has here its college for young men,,
and its schools for children, and it's
houses of worship for all. The Church
Missionary society has its eight schools,
all filed with learners. The evan.
gelizing work of the Wesleyans and
the Baptlsts is felt in all parts of Ben.
ares. In its mightiest stronghold Hin
ooOlsm is Oelng aSsalled.
And now as to the industrious ma.
lignment of missionaries: 1t has been
said by some travellers after their re.
turn to America or England that the
missionaries are living life full of in
dolence and luxury. That is a false
hood that l would say is as high as
Heaven if it did not 70 down
in the opposite direction. When
strangers come into these tropical
climates, the missionaries do their
best to entertain them, making sacri.
fees for that purpose. In the city Of
Benares a missionary told me that
gentleman coming from England into
one of the mission stations of India, the
missionaries banded together to enter.
tain him. Among other things, they
had ham boiled, prepared and beauti-
fully decorated, and the same ham was
passed around from house to house
as this stranger appeared, and in
other respects conspiracy or kindness
was effected. The visitor went home
to England and wrote and spoke of the
luxury in which the missionaries Of
India were living. Americans and En-
glishmen come to these tropical regions
and find a missionary living under
palms and with different styles of fruit
on his table, and forget that palms are
here as cheap as hickory or pine in
America, and fresh fruit are cheap
Us plain apples. They find here
missionaries sleeping under pun
kas, these fans swung day. and
night by coolies. and forget that four
cents day is good wages here. and
the man finds himself. -Four cents
day for o coachman; missionary can
afford to ride. There have been mis-
sionaries who have come to the hot
climates resolving to live as natives
live, and one or two years
have finished their work, their
chief use of missionary ground
being that Of furnishing for
large funeral the chief object of inter.
est. So far from living in idleness, no
men on earth work so hard as the mis-
sionaries now in the foreign field.
Against fearful odds. and with three
millions Of Christians opposed to two
hundred and fifty millions of Hindoos,
Mohammedahs and other false reli-
gions, these missionaries are trying to
take India for God. Let the good
people of America, and England.
and Scotland, and of all Christendom,
add ninety-nine and three-quarters per
cent. to their appreciation of the
fidelity and conservation of foreign
missionaries. Far away from home, in
an exhausting climate, and compelled
to send their children to England
Scotland, America, so us to escape the
corrupt conversation and behavior
OF the natives, these men and wom-
en- of God toll on until they drop
into their graves. But they will get
their chief appreciation when their
work is over and the day is won,
as it will be won. No place in
Heaven will he too good for them.
Some Of the ministers at home who live
on salaries of four thousand or five
thousand dollars year. preaching the
Gospel Of Him who had not where to
lay his head, will enter Heaven and be
welcomed, and while looking for a
place to sit down. they will be told
"Yonder in that lower line of thrones
you will take you places. Not on the
thrones nearest the King; they are re-
served for the missionaries!'
Meanwhile let all Christendom be
thrilled with gladness. About twenty
five thousand converts in India every
year under the Methodist missions,
and about twenty-five thousand under
the Baptist missions, and about sew
enty-tive thousand converts under all
missions every year. But more than
that, Christianity is undermining
heathcnism, and not city, or
town, or neighborhood in India
but directly or indirectly feels
the influence, and the day speeds
on when Hindooism will go down with
a crash. There are whole villages
which have given up their gods and
where not an idol is left. The scrf-
dom of womanhood in many places
is being unloosened, and the iron grip
Of caste is being relaxed. Human
sacrifices have ceased, and the last
spark Of the funeral pyre on which
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