The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-01-27

dIi cNcIN SlOdi 10 uoNNh. II tNtIN NdNc
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 hat
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
turtles 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-
tencc. There stands h~eathenism, with
its $50. O0O, 900 victims. l 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 md trinkcted robes of their
representatives cannot hide from the
world the fact that those religions are
the authors of funeral pyre, and Jug
gernaut crushing, IN Ganges nfanti-
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. i know that the mission
aries, who are the most sacrificing and
Christlike men and women on earth,
are making steady N 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 T. 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 IL 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 out in the
words of Charles Wesley:
Arm Of the Lord, awake, awake
Put on thy strength, the nations shakel
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 l78. GOO. 600 victims. Its bible
is the Koran. a book not quite as large
as our New Testament, which was re-
vealed to Mohammed when in epileptie
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 superfiuity of wives, the first ster
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 eacl
follower shall have in that place
seventv-two wives. in addition to al
the wives he had on earth, but that nc
old woman shall ever enter heaven
.., D--- -
that the best way of saving
- raI;o;on N n mon n som,
naw n,;nc;nles from Cbr;stian;tv h,
nerretra,ed an eccles;astical Joke a,
which NO man can lauob who has eve,
seen tho tyranny and domestic wretch
edpess which ALWAYS appear where tina
religion gets foothold. 1t has marched
across continents. and now I,
sct nm its filthy and accursed banner In
America. and what it has done /,
Turkey IL would like to do for our ma
tion A religion that brutally treat.
womanbood ought never To he fosteret
In our country. But there never was 8
ro,;o;on 90 absurd mr. wicked that IL di,
not get d~isciples. and there are enough
TOOLS in Amer;ca to make a large dis
cinIasb;n of Mohammedanism. In,
what we are all hopinp for is some
thing supernatural from the heavens
as vet unseen. something stretched Oh
of the skies. something like an arm IN
covered. the bare arm of the God O
nations,
There stands also the arch demon O
alcoholism. Its throne is white an,
made of b,eached human skulls. o,
one side Of That throne of skulls kneel
in obeisance and worship, Democracy
and oil the other side Republicanisn
and the one that kisses the cameron
and gangrened foot of this despot til
~oftenest gets the most benediction
There is a Hudson river, an Ohio,
Mississippi of strong drink rollin
through this nation, but as the rive
from which l take my figure
speech empty into the Atlantic Or Il
Gulf, this mightier flood of sickness al
insanity, and domestic ruin. and Grim
and bankruptcy, and woe, empties in
the hearts, and the homes, and Il
churches, and the time and the eternit
of n multitude beyond all statistics
number or describe. All nations a
mauled and sacrificed with rbalef
stimulus or killing narcotic. II
pulque of Mexico, the cashew of Brazi
the hasheesh of Persia, the opium
China, the guavo of Honduras, I'll
wedro of Russia. the soma of India, u