The Globe-republican., 1894-01-26

complished so much with His fingers,
what can He do when He puts out all
His strength? and when He unlimbers
The Bible speaks again and again OF
Gods outstretched arm. but only once,
and that in the text, of the bare arm OF
God
| My text makes it plain that the recti-
fication of this world is a stupendous
undertaking. 1t takes more power to
make this world over again than it
took to make it at first A word was
only necessary for the first creation,
but for the new creation the unsleeved
and unhindered forearm of the AL
mighty. The reason of that l can un-
derstand. In the ship yards of Liver
pool, or Glasgow, or New York.
| a great vessel is constructed The
| architect draws out the plan, the length
of the beam, the capacity of tonnage,
| the rotation of wheel or screw, the
cabins, the masts and all the appoint
ments 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 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 vessel breaks her shaft and is
limping slowly along toward harbor,
when Caribbean whirlwinds, those
mighty hunters of the deep. looking
out for prey of ships, surround that
wounded vessel and pitch it on a
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
splintered vessel off the rocks and re-
construct it than it required originally
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 para
disaical bowers, has been sixty CEN
turies pounding in the skerries of sin
and sorrow, and to get her out, and to
get her off, and to get her on the right
way again will require more of omnipo-
tence than it required to build her and
launch her.
Now, just look at the enthrOned diff
culties in the way, the removal of which,
the overthrow of which seems to re-
quire the bare right arm of Omnipo-
tence. There stands hea tn enism. with
its 6O,OOO,O0O victims. do not care
whether you call them Brahmins, or
Buddhists, Confucians, or Fetish idol
ators- At the worlds fair in Chicago
last summer those monstrosities of re-
ligion tried to make themselves respect
able, but the long hair and baggy
trousers and trinketed robes of their
representatives cannot hide from the
world the fact that those religions are
the authors of funeral pyre, and Jug
gernaut crushing, and Ganges infanti-
eide, and Chinese shoe torture, and the
aggregated massacres of many centu-
ries They have their heels on India,
on China. on Persia, on Borneo, on
three-fourths of the acreage of our poor
old world. l know that the mission
aries, who are the most sacrificing and
Christlike men and women on earth,
are making steady and glorious in
roads upon these built up denominations
of the centuries. All this stuff you see
in some of the newspapers about the
missionaries as living in luxury and
idleness is promulgated by corrupt
American or English or Scotch mer-
chants, whose loose behavior in heather
cities has been rebuked by the mis-
sionaries, and these corrupt merchants
write home or tell innocent and
unsuspecting visitors in India or China
or the darkened islands of the sea these
falsehoods about our consecrated mis-
sionaries, who. turning their backs on
home and civilization and emolument
and comfort, spend their lives in try
ing to introduce the mercy of the gOs-
pei among the down-trodden of heath
enism. But Notwithstanding all these
men and women of God have achieved.
they feel, and we feel that if the
idolatrous lands are to be Christianized,
there needs to be power from the
heavens that has not yet condescended,
and we feel like crying out in the
words of Charles Wesley:
Arm Of the Lord awake, awake
Put on thy strength, the nations shake.
Ave, it is not only the Lords arm
that is needed, the holy arm, the out
stretched arm. but the bare arm.
There, too. stands Mohammedanism,
with its l16,OOO.O0O victims Its bible
is the Koran. book not quite as large
as our New Testament, which was re-
vealed to Mohammed when in epileptic
fits, and, resuscitated from these fits.
he dictated it to scribeS Yet it is read
to-day by more people than any other
book ever written. Mohammed. the
founder of that religion, a polygamist,
with superfluity of wives, the first step
of his religion on the body, mind and
soul of woman: and no wonder that the
heaven of the Koran is an everlasting
Sodom, 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 enter heaven
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