Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-01-26


Now, just look at the enthroned
difficulties in the way, the removal of
which, the overthrow of which, seem
10 require the bare right arm of Om-
Impotence There stands heathenism,
with. its SEQ. 600, 600 victims l do not
care whether you call them Brahmins,
or Buddhists, Confucians or Fetish
idolaters. At the Worlds Fair in Chi
cago last summer those monstrosities
OF religion tried to make themselves
respectable, but the long hair and
baggy trousers and trinketed robes of
their representatives can not hide from
the world the fact that those religions
are the authors of funeral pyre, and
Juggernaut crushing, and Ganges in
fanticide, and Chinese shoe torture,
and the aggregated massacres 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 mission
aries, who are the most sacrificing and
Christ like men and women on earth,
are making steady and glorious in
roads upon these built.up abomina-
tions of the centuries. All this stuff
that you see in some of the newspa-
pers about the missionaries as living in
luxury and idleness is promulgated by
corrupt American or English or Scotch
merchants, whose loose behavior in
heather cities has been rebulled by the
missionaries, and these corrupt mer-
chants write home or tell innocent and
unsuspecting visitorsin India or China
or the darlSened 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
Gospel among the down-trodden of
heathenism. Some of those merchants
leave their families in America or
England 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 thus 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 missionaries with their
pure and noble households in those
heather ports is n constant rebuke to
such debauchees and miscreants. If
Satan should visit heaven, from which
he was once roughly, but justly, expa-
triated, and he should write home TO
the realms pandemoniac, his cores
pondence published in Diabolos
Gazette, or Apollyonic News about
what he had seen, he would report
the Temple of God and the Lamb
as broken-down church, and the
house of many mansions as disrepu-
table place, and the cherubim as sus-
picious of morals. Sin never did like
holiness, and you had better not de-
pend upon satanic report of the sublime
and multipotent work of our mission
aries in foreign lands But notwith
standing all that these men and women
of God have achieved, they feel, and
we all feel that if the idolatrous lands
are to be Christianized, there needs to
be a power from the heavens that has
not yet condescended, and we feel like
crying Oub Al VIC NOlNo VI NA"i ASS
Wesler:
Arm ci 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 out
stretched arm, but the bare arm!
There, too, stands Mohammedanism
with it's 17G, 600, 600 victims. It's bible
is the Koran, book not quite as large
as our new testament, which was re-
vealed TO Mohammed when in epheptic
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 Mohamrned, the
founder of that religion, polygamist,
with supernuity 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 When a bishop of England
recently proposed that the best way of
saving Mohammedans was TO let them
keep their religion, but engraft upon
it some new principles from Chris
tianity, he perpetrated an ecclesiasti-
cal joke, at which no man can laugh
who has ever seen the tyranny and
| domestic wretchedness which always
appear where that religion gets foot
hold. 1t has marched across CONT
nents and now proposes to set up it's
| filthy and accursed banner in America,
and what it has done for Turkey it
would like to do for our nation. A re-
ligion that brutally treats womanhood
ought never to be fostered in our
country. But there never was a religion
so absurd or wicked that it did not get
disciples, and there are enough
fools in America to make a
large discipleship of Mohammedan-
ism. This corrupt religion has been
making steady progress for hundreds
of years, and Notwithstanding all the
| splendid work done by the Jessups