Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-02-07

Il
he chant of paradfsaical bowers, has been
dxty centuries pounding In the skerries Of
| ain and sorrow, ald to get her out, and to
| get her OF, and TO get her on the right way
/ again will require more of omnipotence than
/ L required to build her AID Iaunoh her. So
[ am not surprised that though in the dry
| look OF ons word our world was made, ii
| will take the unsleeved arm of God to lift her
| rom the rocks ant put her on the right
course again. II is evident from my text
| and its comparison with other texts that il
you'd not be 50 great an undertaking to
make whole constellation OF worlds, and q
Ehole galaxy of worlds, and Z whole astrono-
ny 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
| Than 1t started.
Now. Just look at the enthronei difficulties
| n the way, the removal of which, the over
| hrow of which, seem to require the bare
/ light arm of omnipotence. There stands
leathenism, with its $50, ,000, 900 victims. 1
| 10 not care whether you call them Brahmans
)r Buddhists, Confucians or fetch idolaters.
| " the Worlds Fair in Chicago last summer
hose monstrosities of religion tried to make
themselves respectable, but the long hair
md baggy trousers and trinketed robes of
| heir representatives cannot hide from the
world the fact that those religions are the
| Iuthors of funeral pyre, and juggernaut
] anu NTln8tS lliaD-lcllrt AM Oll-
lese shoe torture, and the aggregated mas
| acres OF many centuries. They have their
! leels on india, on China, on Persia, on
| 3orneo, on three-fourths OF the acreage OF
)ur poor old world.
| / know that tbe missionaries, VINO are the
most sacrificing and Christ!ike men and
women on earth, are making steady and
glorious inroads upon these bsit up abomi-
nations of the centuries. All this stun that
TOu see in some OF the newspapers about the
missionaries as living in luxury and idleness
s promulgated by corrupt American or Eng
! ish or Scotch merchants, whose loose be-
lavior in heather cities has been rebuked by
| he missionaries, and these corrupt mer-
| rants write home or tell innocent and un-
inspecting visitors in India or China or the
iurkene ed islands of the sea these falsehoods
about our consecrated missionaries. who,
turning their backs on home and civilization
and em0lument and comfort, spend their
ives In trying to introduce the mercy of
he gospel among the downtrodden OF
aeathenism. Some of those mer-
.hants leave their families in America
Or England or Scotland and stay for few
years in the ports Of heathentsm while they
! are making thsir fortunes in the tea or rice
or opium trade, and while they are thus
Ibsent from home give themselves to orgies
Of Gissoiuteness such as no pen or tongue
could, without the abolition of.all deceney,
It1mpt to report. The presence of the mis-
3lOnErleS, hHn tneAr pure aHu nODie mousse
holds, in those heathen ports Is a constant
rebuks to such dEbauchees and miscreants.
n satan should visit heaven, from which he
was once roughly but Justly oxpatriated,
and he would write home to the realms pam
iemoniae, his correspondence published in
Olabolos Gazette or APollyonic News, about
what he had seen, he would report the
.empIe of God and the Lamb as a broken
loWn church, and the house of many
mansions as disreputable place, and
me cherubim as Suspicious OF NOR
ais. Sin never did like holiness, and you
had better not depend upon satanic report OF
.hs sublime and multipOtent work of our
missionaries in foreign lands. But notwith-
standing all that these men and women OF
God have achieved, they feel and we all feel
that II the idolatrous lands are to be Chris
danized there needs to be power from the
heavens that has not yet condescended, and
We feel like crying out in the words of Charley
Wesley:
Arm of the Lord, awake awabeI
Put on Thy strength, the Nations shakel
Aye, It is not only the Lords arm that is
needed, the holy arm, the outstretched arm,
but the bare arm
There, too, stands Mohammedanism, with
It's 1T6 0O0, 600 victims Its Bible is the Koran q
book not quite as large as our New Testa-
nent, which was revealed to Mohanmed
when in epileptic fits, and resuscitated from
read to-day by more people than any other
book ever written. Mohammed, the founder
Of that religion, polygamist, with super1u-
lty ofwives, 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 SoGom, an infinite seraglio,
about which Mohammed promises that each
follower shall have In that place seTenty-two
wives, in addition to all the wives he had on
earth, but that no oil woman shall ever
enter heaven. When bishop OF England
recently proposed that the best way Of
saving Mohammedans was to let them
keep their religion, but engraft upon
il 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 wretchednnss
which always appear where mat religion
gets foothold. 1t has marched across conti-
nents and now proposes to set up its filthy
and accursed banner in America, and what
IL has done for Turkey it would like to do
for our Nation. A religion that brutally
treats womanhood ought nevertO be fOstered
in our country. But there never was n re-
hgion so absurd or wicked that it did not get
disciples, and there are enough fools in
America to make n large discipleship OF
Mohammedanism. This corrupt religion has
been making steadyprogress for hundreds OF
years, and Notwithstanding all the splendid
work done by the Jessups, and the GOOdells
=
Posts and the Misses Bowens, and the Misses
Thompsons, and scores of other men and wO-
men of whom the world was not worthy,
there il stands, the giant OF sin, Mohamme-
danism, with one foot on tho heart OF wo
man and the other on the heart OF Christ
while It mumbles from its minarets this stu
penduous blasphemy "God is great, anc
Mohammed His is prophet" Let the Chris
tian printing press at BeyrOot and CONSTANT
nople keep on with their work and the mer
and women OF God in the mission fields toi
until the Lord crowns them, but what W,
are all hoping for i. some supernatural from
the heavens, as yet unseen, somethir
stretched down out OF the skies, somethfnS
like an arm uncovered, the bare arm of the
God OF Nations
There stands also the arch demon OF alco-
holism. Its throne is white and made OF
bleached human skulls. On one side of that
throne OF skulls kneels in oSeisance and
worship democracy, aud on the other side
republicanism, and the one that kisses the
cancerous and gangrened foot OF this despot
the ottenest gets the most benedictiOns.
There Il n Hudson River, an Ohio, Missis-
sippi Of strong drink rolling through this
Nation, bat as the rivers from which take
my figure Of speech empty into the Atlantic
or the Gulf this mightier food OF sickness
and insanity and domestic ruin and crime
and bankruptcy and woe empties into the
hearts, and the homes. and the churches,
anu tue litne. ana the eternity OF 4 uulCIu4e
beyond all statistics to number or describe.
All Nations are mauled and scarife3 With
baleful stimulus, or killing narcotic. The
pulque OF Mexico. the cashew OF Brazil, the
hasheesh OF Persia the opium OF China, the
guavo of Honduras, tho wedro OF
Bussia, the soma OF IDdi-- the aguardiente
OF syria, the raSI OF Turkey, me pser or Ger
many, the whisky OF Scotland, the ale OF
England, the all drinks of Amsrisa, are do
ing their best to stupefy, infams, dem snt,
brutalize and STAY the human
race. Human power, unless re-enfOrced
from the heavens. can never extirpats, the
evils mention. Much good has beer. ac-
complished by the heroism and fidelity of
Christian reformers, but the fact remains
that there are more splendid men and mag
nifcent women this moment going over the
Niagara abysm OF inebriety than at any time
since the first grape was turned into wine
and the first head OF rye began to soak in a
brewery. When people touch this subject,
they are apt to give statistics as to how many
millions are in drunkards' graves, or with
Quick tread marching on toward them The