Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-24

VI gOh Noll w Duu-
dhists, Confucians or fetch idolaters.
AT the Worlds fair in Chicago last
summer those monstrosities of religion
tried to make themselves respectable,
but the long hair and baggy trousers
and trinketed robes of their representa-
tives cannot hide from the world the
fact that those religions are the authors
of funeral ryre, aud Juggernaut crush
ing, and Ganges infanticide, and Chi
nese 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 missionaries, who
are the most sacrificing and Christlike
men and women on earth, are making
steady spd glorious inroads upon these
built up denominations of the centuries.
All this stuff that you see in some Of
the newspapers about the missionaries
as living i'll luxury and idleness is pro-
mulgated by corrupt American or Eng
lish or Scotch merchants, whose loose
behavior in heather cities has been re-
buked by tire missionaries, 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 missionaries, who, turning
their backs on home and civilization
and emolument and comfort, spend
their lives in trying to introduce the
mercy of the gospel among the down
trodden of heathenism. Some of those
merchants leave their families in Amer
ica or England or Scotland and stay for
a 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 dissolute-
ness 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
constant rebuke to such debauchees and
miscreants. If satan should visit heav-
en-, from which he was once roughly
but Justly expatriated, and he should
write home to the realms pandemoniac,
his correspondence published in Diabo'
los Gazette or Apollyonic News, about
what he had seen, he would report the
temple of God and the Lamb as bro
ken down church, and the house of
many mansions as disreputable place,
and the cherubim as suspicious of NOR
lslza hOliuoCo oTnA
you had better not depend upon satanic
report of the sublime and multipotent
work of our missionaries in foreign
lands. But Notwithstanding all that
these men and women OF God have
achieved, they feel and we all feel that
if the idolatrous lands are to be Chris
tianized there needs to be power
from the heavens that has not yet con-
descended, 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!
Aye, it is not only the Lords arm
that is needed, the holy arm, the out
stretched arm, but the bare arm!
AN ECCLESIASTICAL JOKE.
There, too, stands Mohammedanism,
with its 176, 900, 600 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
today by more people than any other
book ever written, Mohammed, the
founder of that religion, a polygamist,
with superhuity 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 seragiio, about which
Mohammed promises that each follower
shall have in that place 70 wives, in
addition to all the wives he bad on
earth. but that no old woman shall ever
enter heaven. When bishop of Eng
land recently proposed that the best
way of saving Mohanmedans was to
let them keep their religion, but engraft
upon it some new principles from Chris
tianity, he perpetrated an ecclesiastical
Joke, at which no man can laugh who
has ever seen the tyranny and domestic
wretchedness which always appear
where that religion gets foothold. 1t
has marched across continents and
now proposes to set up its filthy and ac-
cursed banner in America, and what it
has done for Turkey it would like to
do for our nation. A religion that bru-
tally treats womanhood ought never to
be fostered in our country. But there
never was religion so absurd or wick
ed that it did not get disciples, and
there are enough fools in America to
make a large discipleship of Moham-
mechanism. This corrupt religion has
been making steady progress for hun
dreds of 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 Thomp-
sons, and scores of other men and wom-
en- of whom the world was not worthy,
there it stands, the giant Of sin, Mo
hammedanism. with one foot on the
heart of woman and the other on the
heart of Christ, while it mumbles from
its minarets this stupendous Dlasphemy
God is great, and MOhammed is his