Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-02-02

Glasgow or New York great vessel is con-
structed. The architect draws out the plan.
the length Of the beam. the capacity of ton
mage. the rotation Of wheel or screw. the
cabin. the masts an all the appointments OF
this great palace OF the deep. The architect
finishes his work without anv perpleXttv.
and the carpenters and the artisans toll on
The craft 50 many hours a day. each ono
Join. his part, until with flags flying, and
thousands Of people hrzzainS on the docks,
the vessel is launched. But out on the sea
that steamer breaks her shaft and Is limp.ng
slowly along toward harbor, when Caribbean
whirlwinds. those mighty hunters of tho
deep, looking out for prey of ships, surround
that wounded vessel and pitch it on rocky
coast and she lifts and falls in the breakers
until every Joint is loose, and every spar is
down. and every wave sweeps over the
hurricane deck as she parts midships.
Would it not require more skill and power
to get that spIintered vessel off the rocks
and reconstruct it than it required origin.
ally 10 build herp Ayei Our world that
Col built so 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 oi
sin and sorrow. and to get her out and to
get her off. and 10 get her on the right way
again will require more of omnipotence than
it required to build her andlaunch her. So
/ am not surprised that though in the dry
dock of one word our world was made. il
will take the unsleeved arm of God to lift hnl
from the rocks and put her on the righ!
course again. 1t is evident from my text
and its comparison with other texts that it
would not be 80 great an Undertaking to
make whole constellation of worlds, and a
whole galaxy of worlds, and whole astrOno-
my 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 as
when it started.
Now just look at the enthrone difficulties
in the way, the removal of which, the over
throw of which, seem to require the bare
right arm of Omnipotence. There stands
heathenism. with its $50, ,OOO,O 900 victims. 1
do not care whether you call them Brahman5
or BuddhistS. COnfucianS or fetch idOlaterS.
At the Worlds Fair in Chicago last summer
those monstrosities of religion trie to make
themselves respectable, but the long hair
and baggy trousers and trinketed rooes OF
their representatives cannot hide from the
world the fact that those religions are the
authors OF funeral pyre, and juggern lut
crushing, and Ganges infanticide, AMI Chi
nese shoe torture, and the aggregated mas
Sacres of many centuries. They have their
heels on India, on China, on Persia, on
Borneo, on three-fourths of the acreage of
our poor old world.
[ know that the missionaries, who are the
most sacrificing and Chrstlike men and
women on earth. are making steady and
glorious inroads upon these built up abomi-
nations of the centuries. All this stuff that
you see in some of the newspapers about the
as living in luxury and idleness
is promulgated by corrupt American or Eng
llSh or Scotch merchants, whose loose be-
hayiOr in heather cities has been rebu!Ied by
the missionaries, ana these corrupt mer-
chants write home or tell innocent and I'M
visitors in India or China or the
islands of the sea these faISehoOds
about our cOnSecrateI missionaries, who,
turning their backs on home and civilization
and emO!ument and comfort. spend their
lives in trying to Introduce the mercy OF
the gospel among the dOwntroIden of
heathenism. Some of those mer
chants leave their families in America
or EnSland or Scotland and stay for few
years in the ports of heathenism while they
are making their fortunes in the tea or rice
or opium trade, and while they are thug
absent from home give themselves to orgies
of dissOluteneSS such as no pen or tongue
could, without the abolition of all decency
attempt to report. The presence of the mis-
with their pure and noble house,
holds, in those heather ports is a constant
rebuke to such debauchees and miscreants.
II Satan should visit heaven. from which he
was once roughly but Justly expatriated
and he would write homo to the realms pm
demOniac his correspondence published in
DiabO!Os Gazette OF ApollyOnic News, about
what he hal seen, he would report the
temple of Goa ami the Lamb as broken
down church, and the house of many
as disreputabIe place, and
tho cherubim as suspicious Of Nor
ais. Sin never did like holiness, and you
had better not depend upon satanic report OF
the sublime and multipOtent work of our
in foreign lands. But notwith-
all that these men and women of
God have achieved. they feel and we all feel
81 4 l.
ianized there needs to be a power from the
heavens that has not yet cOndescended, and
we feel like crying out i'll the words OF Charles
Wesley
Arm of the Lord, awake, awake!
Put on Thy strength the Nations shake!
Aye. it is not only the Lords arm that is
needed, the holy arm, the Outstretched arm,
out the bare arm
There. too. stands Mohammedanism, with
is 176 0O0. 900 victims. Its Bible is the Koran, a
book not quite as large rs our New Testa-
nent, which was revealed to Mohammed
when in epileptc fits, ana resusctated from
hese fits he dictated it to scribes. Yet it is
-ead to-day by more people than any other
oOOk ever written. MOhammed, the founder
If that religion, polygamtst, with superfu-
ty of wives, the first step of his religion on
he body. mini and soul Of woman, and no
wonder that the heaven OF the Koran is an
everlasting SOGOm. an infinite seragio,
lbOut which Mohammed promises that each
OlOwer shall have In that place seventy-twO
wives, in addition to all the wives he had on
'arth, but that no oil woman shall ever
inter heaven. When Il bishop OF England
'ecently proposed that the best way Of
avlng Mohammedans vas to let them
Keep their religion, but engraft upon
t some new principles from Chris
iantty, he perpetrated an ecclesiastical JOKE,
It which no man can laugh who has ever
ba tyr nd a oh
which always appear where that religion
gets fOOthold. 1t has marched across cOnti-
lentS and now proposes to set up its filthy
nd accursed banner in America. and what
t has done for Turkey it would like to do
or our Nation. A religion that brutaIly
reats womanhood ought neverto be fostered
n our country. But there never was re.
igion so absurd or wicked that it did not get
disciples, and there are enough fools in
America to make a large discpleship OF
Mohammedanism. This corrupt religion has
been making steady progress for hundreds OF
Years and Notwithstanding all the splendid
work done by the Jessups, and the Goodells,
md the BliSseS. and the Van Dykes, and tho
Posts. and the Misses BOweGs, and the Misses
ThompsOns, and scores of other men and wO-
men of whom the world was not worthy,
here it stands. the giant of sin, Mohamme-
laniSm. with one foot on the heart Of WO-
nan and the other on the heart OF Christ.
while it mumbleS from its minaretS this stu
oenduous blasphemy: God is great, an /
Mohammed His is prophet" Let the Chris
ian printing press at Beyroot and CONSTANT
lOplc keep on with their work and the men
and women of God in the mission fields toll
Intil the Lord crowns them, but what We
are ali hoping for is some supernatural fro Il
he heavens, as yet unseen, something
stretched down out of the skies, something
ike an arm uncovered, the bare arm OF the
God of Nations
There stands also the arch demon of alco-
lclism. Its throne is white and made Of
Dleached human skulls. On one side of that
hrone OF skulls kneels in obeisance and
worship democracy. and on the other side
,epublicanism, and the one that kisses the
and gangrened foot of this despot
he oftenest gets the most benedictions.
There is Hudson River, an Ohio. a Missis.
,ippi of strong drink rolling through this
Nation. but as the rivers from which take
ny figure of speech empty into the Atlantic
,r the Gulf this mightier flood of sickness
md insanity and donlestic ruin and crime
nd hopl anf int no