The Penn's Grove record., 1894-01-26

/ first creation. but for the new creation the
4 unsleeved and unhindered fore arm OF the
Almighty! The reason OF that I can under
stand. In the shipyards of Liverpool or
| Glasgow or New York a great vessel is con-
structed. The architect draws out the plan,
the length OF the beam. the capacity ofton-
mage, the rotation of wheel or screw, the
cabin, the masts and all the appointments OF
this great palace OF the deep. The architect
finishes his work without any perplexity.
and the carpenters and the artisans toll on
the craft so many hours n day. each one
doing his part. until with flags flying, and
thousands OF people huzzaing on the docks,
the vessel is launched. But out on the SEA
that steamer breaks her shaft and Is limpins
slowly along toward harbor, when Caribbean
whirlwinds, those mighty hunters OF the
deep, looking out for prey Of ships, s%urrounl
that wounded vessel and pitch it on a rocky
coast, and she lifts and falls In the breakers
until every joint Is loose, n every spar Is
down, and every wave sweeps over the
hurricane deck as she parts midships.
Would 1t not require more skill and power
TO get that splintered vessel off the rocks
and reconstruct 1t than it required origin
ally to build her? Ayel Our world that
God built 80 beautiful, and which started out
with all the flags Of EdenIc foliage 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 of, and to get her on the right way
igain will require more OF omnipotence than
It required to build her andlaunch her. 50
am not surprised that though in the dry
lock OF one word our world was made, it
will take the nnsleeved arm Of God to lit her
rom the rocks aud put her on the right
;ourse again. 1t Is evident from my text
md its comparison with other texts that it
would not be so great an undertaking TO
make a whole constellation OF worlds, and II
whole galaxy of worlds. and n whole astrono-
ny of worlds, and swing them in their right
orbits as to take this wounded world, this
stranded world, this bankrupt world, this
destroyed world, and make it as good Is
when 1t started.
Now. just look at the enthrone ! difficulties
nthe way. the removal of which, the over
brow of which, seem TO require the bare
light arm OF omnipotence. There stands
ieathenism, with Its $50, 900, 900 victims. |
10 not care whether you callthem Brahmans
Dr. Buddhists, Confucians or fetch idolaters.
Vt the Worlds Fair in Chicago last summer
hose monstrosities of religion trie to make
themselves respectable, but the long hair
Ind baggy trousers and triniieted rooas OF
heir representatives, cannot hide from the
vorld the fact that those religions arr the
authors of funeral pyre. anl juggern9ut
rushing, and Ganges infan.icide, AMI Chi
iese shoe torture, and the aggregated mas
acres of many centuries. They have their
reels on India, on China, or Persia, on
3orneo, on tbree-fourths of the acreage of
)ur poor old world.
1 NOV that tbp missionaries, who are the
most sieriieins and ChrlstliSe men and
yomen on earth. are making steady and
~slorlous inroads upon these built up abomi-
nations of the centuries. All this stun that
fou see in some OF the newspapers about the
Missionaries as living In luxury and idleness
g promulgated by corrupt American or Eng
ish or Scotch merchants, whose loose be-
layior in heather cities has been rebuSed by
he missionaries, and these corrupt mer-
| .iants write home or tell innocent and I'M
Inspecting visitors in India or China or the
iYrkened Islands OF the sea these ~iaisehoois
shout our consecratet Missionaries, who,
turning their backs on home aud civilization
,ni emolument and comfort, spen1 their
ives in trying to introduce the mercy of
he gospel among the downtrolden 81
| leathenism, Some OF those mer-
| chants leave a. their families in America
Or England OF cotIand and stay for a few
years In the ports of heathsnism while they
ire making their fortunes In the tea or rice
or opium trade, and while they are thus
absent from home give themselves to orgies
| II dissoluteness such as no pen or tongue
could, without the abolition OF all deeency,
attempt to report. The presence of the mis-
,ionaries, with their pure and noble house
holds, In those heather ports is q constant
.ebuke to such debauchees and misoreants-
In satan should visit heaven, from which he
was once roughly but justly expatriated,
and he would write home to the realms PAN
iemoniac, his correspondence published In
Diabolos Gazette or Apollyonic News, about
what he had seen, he would report the
temple OF God and the Lamb as a broken
Town church, and the house OF many
mansions as a ~disreputable place, and
The cherpbim as suspicious OF NOR
as. Sin never did like holiness, and you
had better not depend upon satanic report of
the sublime and multipotent work of our
missionaries in foreign lands. But notwith-
standing all that these men and women OF
Igod have achieved, they feel and we all feel
that II the idalatrous lands are to be Chris
ltiaaized there needs to be Q power from the
heavens that has not yet eehdesoended, and
we feel like crying out In the words Of Charles
Wesley:
Arm of the Lord, awake. awake!
Put on Thy strength, the Nations shakel
Aye, It is not only the Lords arm that is
needed, the holy arm, the sutstFetched arm.
but the bare arm
There, too. stands Mohammedanism, with
its 176. 600, 900 victims. Its Bibleisthe Koran, a
book not quite as large as our New Testa-
uent, which was revealed to Mohammed
when In epileptie fits, and resgscitated from
these fits he dictated 1t to scEibes. Yet it Is
Tread to-day by more people than any other
hook ever written. Mohammed, the founder
of that religion, a p~olygamist, with superfiu-
lily Of wives, the first step Of his religion on
The body, mind and soul Of woman, and nc
everlasting So6om, an infinite seraglio,
about which Mohammed promises that each
follower shall have In that place seventy-two
wives, In addition to all the wives he had on
earth, but that no old woman shall ever
lenter heaven. When q bishop Of England
recently proposed that the best way OF
saving 4aAammedaps was t9 Let them
It some new principles from Chris
tianity, he perpetrated an ecclesiastical joke,
at which no man can laugh who has eyer
seen the tyranny and domestic wretchedness
Whinh always appear where that religion
gets foothold. 1t has marched across eoatlr
nents and now proposes to set up its filthy
and accursed banner in America, and what
II has lone for Turkey 1t would like to do
for our Nation. A religion that brutally
treats womanhood ought neverto be fostered
/ In our country, But there never was a re-
| ligion so absurd or wicked that 1t did not get
| disciples, and there are enough fools in
AIaericato make q large discipleship 81
Mohammedanism. This corFnnt Eeilgio4 has
been making steady progress for hundreds o.
years, and Notwithstanding all the splendid
work done by the Jessups, and the Goodells,
and the Blisses. and the Van Dykes, and the
Posts, and the Misses Bowens, and the Misses
?Ehompsens, and scores Of otherm men and wo'
mer Of whom the world was pot worthy,
there it stands, the giant Of sin, Mohamme-
danism, with one foot OF the heart OF wo-
man and the other on the heart OF Christ,
while 1t mumbles from its minarets this stu:
penduous blasphemy +: .'God is great, and
Mohammsd His Is prophet" Let the Chris
tian printing press at Beyroot and CONSTANT
NOBLE keep on with their work and the met
and women Of God IN the mission fields tot
until the Lord crowns them, but what w
lafs all hoping for is some supernatural IRON
the heavens, as yet unseen, somethir
stretched down out OF the skies, somethtns
like an arm uncovered, the bare arm OF tina
God OF Nations!
There stands also the arch demon Of alco-
holism. It's throne is white and made Of
bleached human skulls. On one side Of that
throne Of skulls kneels in obeisance and
EorshiB democracy, aud On the other side
republfoanism, and the one that kisses the
cancerous and gangrened foot of this despot
the oftenest gets the most benedietions.
There is a Hudson River, an Ohio, a Missls-
slppi Of strong drink rolling through this
Nation, but as the rivers from which l take
my ag4ge OF speech empty into the Atlantic
or the Gulf this migttieI Good Of eickness
and insanity and domestic ruin and crime