Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-01-26


the craft 80 many hours a dly. each one
doing his part. until with flags flying, ani
thousands OF nsople huzzaiug on the docks,
tn. vessel is launched. But ont on the sea
that steamer breaks her shat and Is limping
slowly along toward Larbor, when Caribbean
whirlwinds thoS" mighty hunters 81 TIA"
deep. looking out for prey OF ships, surround
that wounded vessel an / pitch it on "a rocky
coast, aud she lifts AN falls in the breakers
until every joint Is loose. anI every spar Is
down, and every wave sweeps ovsr the
hurricane deck as sh" parts milshlps.
Would it not require more skill and power
to get that spiintered vessel on the rocks
and reconstruct it than 1t required origin.
ally to build her! Aye Our world that
God built SO beautiful and which started out
with all the flags OF Edenic foliage and with
the chant OF paradisuieal bowers has been
sixty centuries pounding IN the skerries of
sin and sorrow. and t. get her out, and to
get her of. and IL get her on the right way
again will require more of omnpotcncc than
il required to build her and launch her. So
am not surprised thar 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 put her on tho right
course again. Ii is evident from my text
and its comparison with other texts that 1t
would not be so great au undertaking TO
make n whole constellation oi worlds. and Il
whole galaxy of worlds, and whole astrono-
my of worlds, aud swing them in their right
orbits as to tax" this wounded world. this
stranded world. this bankrupt world, this
destroyed world, AMI make it rs COOL "a
when it started.
Now, Just looS at the enthrouel difficulties
in the way. the removal 81 which, the over
throw OF which, seem TO require the bare
right arm Of omnlpo,once. There stands
heAthensm. vita it, 500 900. 001 victims. |
do not care whether you call them Brahmans
or Bttddhists Confurians or fetch dolaters.
At the Worlds Fair in Chicago last summer
those monstrostics OF religion tried to make
themselves respectable. but the long hair
and baggy trousers anl trtn<etei robes o!
their representatives. cannot hiie from the
world the fact that thOs religions ARE the
authors OF funeral pyre. aud IugSernaut
crushing. and Gauges lntan.icd" AMI Chit
nos" shoe torture, aGi tn agGr 'clt"i mas
sacres oil many centuries They have their
heels on India. on China. on Persia, On
Borneo on three-fourthS q! tn" acreage 81
our poor old world.
know that the missionaries, who are the
most slcrincin; and Chrstike men and
women on earth. are making steady an |
glorious inrnals upon these bIilt up ahom!-
nations Of the centuries. All this stun thnt
YOU Sc III some 81 the newspapers about tn"
missionaries as Twin: in luxury and tiIenes'
Is promulgated by corrupt Nm"rlcan or fnS-
llsh or scotch merrhhhts, WhoS' iooSc ne-
havlor III heather titles has h'en re6u Nei hv
the misslon1ries and thes' corrupt meE-
chants write home nr tell innocent ana I'M
suSpectihS VISITORS ~ luiGL or ANA OF tlr
darNcned Islands "t n" $50 tdtS' iaN'1ol Is
about our rons"'rnt"l m.sSIoA1ir's, vino,
turning their hack ON home and civilization
and "moium"nt and 'omtort. spen their
lives III trying to intro Tue" tn" mercy 81
the gospel among IN" doWntro id"u o'
heatheh'sm. som" 81 tioS" mrF-
'utn'9 i've '''.t '1''." ~ , ~"
or LhEahl or scotland AN stay !"F r."
are mnLiny tbrir fortune, in fine ten or re-
or opium ira L.. ami while they are thus
absent from home givn themselves to orgies
Of dissolutenrss such as no upn or tongue
could. without the abolition Of all dorrnrv.
attempt TO rrpori. The prn-en,e Of the mis-
sionnrtps with their p,ir,, pni noble house
holds. in those heather uorts is a constant
rebuke to .uclT debaurh,rs and mtscraants
II satan should visit heaven. from which hs
was once roughly bur Justly cxpatriat IT
and he would write home to the realms pan
demoniar his corr spondcnce published In
Dinholos Gazette or Apollvonic News. about
what he had seem he would report the
tenplr of Gol and the Lamb as "A broken
down church and the house OF many
mansions us a disreputable place. and
the cherubim "a suspicious OF NOR
mis- Sin never did like holiness, AMI YOU
had better not depend upon satanic report OF
tho sublime md multipotcnt work OF our
missionaries in foreign ands. But notwith-
standing nil that these men and women OF
Gol have achieved. they feel and we all feel
that il the idoiatrous Lands are to be Chris
tiauiyeI there needs 10 he IA mower from tho
heavens that has not Vet c0ndrsrendcd, and
we feel like cryingotlt in the words Of Charles
Wesley
,o,,,.. To-, .,,,t., .,r,,.,
Phi an THY strength ihr NaIion, .hak.
Aye, 1t Is not only the LORI irm that *
needed, the holy arm. tn "itstret'h"l arm,
but tho bare arm
There. too. stands Aohammedahsm, with
Its ,WNl victims lis Eioielst ne Moran,
BOOK not quite ~ large as our New Ic-th'
meht, whlrh was revealed 10 M"Aahlmeu
| when IN cplleptl' MS. ana reNuSfHatra from
these fits he dictated 1t to s2ribcs. letlt Is
| read to-day ny more people thah any other
! book ever written. M"hammed' Ia" founder
| oil that Religion, noiyEamist, with superhu'
| l.v oI wives, the Urst step OF MS reilSioh on
| the body, mlni anu soul OF woman, ana no
| everlasting soon, an minute scraSho'
about whlrh M"almmei promises th"t eh'h
| follower shall nave IN that place seIehty-tWo
wives, IN addition To az thr wives II" had on
carth, but that NJ OH woman shn'' ever
enter heaven. when Il hshop OF England
recently proposed that the best way oil
saving M"hammeiahS was To let them
keep their religion, but enyrat upon
some ne" ptlh'tp'c7 rom mrs
nj when no man tih laugh Wh" mas ever
seen the tyranny AMI domestic Wre1'heihrSs
Wnlch AWAY appear Wh"t' that rriISlon
gers ioo'uo'd' IL mas ihht'hel across CONT
hen'S ANA now proposes To- 81 up us h'thy
anu a'iursou banner III Anler'S,' una "hh'
II mas ""he l"' urN'y II W"un l'He 10 90 90
| ior our Nh'lVh' Iti'E'oh tl'al etuthny
treats ""Inan"o' n u:1' neNtr'o pn loS'ero"
IN iil our 'puh..!. hut l'e'' ho.p. m19 re.
| IlBloH ~ HpSuTh VI Nlckth thHl II ulu NOT Bet