The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-24

lace OF herScnelI or our own Mltcleil
ever saw We're so easily made that they
were made with the fingers. AS easily
as with your fingers you mold the wax,
or the clay. or the dough to particular
shapes, so he decided the shape of our
world, and that it should weigh six sex
tillion tons. and appointed for all worlds
their orbits and decided their color-the
white TO Sirius. the rudy TO Aldebaran,
the yellow TO Pollux, the blue to Affair
marrying some of the stars, as the 400
double stars that Herschel observed ad-
m1nistering TO the whims of the variable
stars as their glance becomes brighter or
dim, preparing what astronomers called
the girdle Of Andromeda" and the ne
bula in the sword handle of Orion.
Worlds on worlds! Worlds under worlds
Worlds above worlds Worlds beyond
worlds. So many that arthmetics
are Of no use in the calculation
But He counted them as He made
them with His fingers! Reservation Of
power! Suppression of omnipOtencei Re-
sources as yet untouched Almightiness
yet undemonstrated Now. I ask for the
benefit of ali disheartened Christian
workers. IL God accomplished so much
with His fingers, what can He do when
He puts out all his strength and when
He unlimbers all the batteries of his
omnipotence? The bible speaks again
and again of Gods outstretched arm. but
only once, ard that in the text, of the
bare arm Of God.
Great Undertaking.
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 fore arm of the Al
mighty! The reason of that L can UNDER
stand. In the shipyards of Liverpool
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 ca bins the maStS
and all the appointments OF this great
palace of the deep. The architect fin
ishes his work without any perplexity,
and the carpenters and the artiZans toll
on the craft so many hours a day, each
one doing his part. until with flags fly
ing and thousands Of people huzzaing
on the docks the vessel is launched.
But out on the sea that steamer breaks
her shaft and is limping slowly along
toward harbor when Caribbean whirl-
winds. those mighty hunters of the
deep looking out for prey Of ships, sur
round that wounded vessel and pitch II
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 reconstruct il than it required orig
inally to build her? Aye! Our world
that God built so beautiful. and which
started out with all the flash of Edenic
foliage and with the chant of paradisai-
cal bowers, has been sixty centuries
pounding in the skerries of sin and sor-
row, and 10 get her out and to get her
off, and to get he on the right way
again will require more of omnipotence
than it required TO build her and launch
her. So / am not surprised that though
in the drydock Of one word our world
was made it win take the unseeved
arm of God to lift her from the rocks
and put her on the right course again.
1t is evident from my text and its COM
parison with other texts that it would
not be so great an undertaking to make
a whole constellation of worlds. and a
whole galaxy Of worlds, and a whole
astronomy of worlds and swing them in
their right orbits as to take this wound
ed world, this stranded world. this bank
rupt world this destroyed world and
make it as good as when it started.
Need Of Power from Heaven.
4NUNs just iVOA at tAl+ tiAAAll OllEu VII
fculties in the way, the removal of
which. the overthrow Of which. seem to
require the bare right arm Of omnipo-
tence. There stands heatheEism, with
its $50, 900 victims. 1 do not care
whether you call them Brahmans or
Buddhists. Confucians or fetch idola-
tiers. 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-
t1VeS cannot hide from the world the
facts that those religious are the au-
| thors Of funeral pyre. and juggenaut
| crushing, and Ganges infanticide, 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 acre
| age of our poor old world. I know that
| the missionaries, who are the most sac
rificing and Christ-like men and women
on earth are making steady and glorious
| inroads upon these built up abomina-
| tons Of the centuries. All this stuff
| that you see in some Of the neWspaDers
| about the missionaries as living in lux
ury and idleness is promulgated by cor
| rupt American or English or Scotch
merchants, whose loose behavior In
| heather cities has been rebuked by the
| missionaries, and these corrupt mer-
| chants write home or tell innocent and
| unsuspecting visitors in India or China
| or the darkened islands of the sea these
| falsehoOdS about our consecrat ted mis-
| sionaries, who, turning their backs on
| home and civilization and emolunent
| and comfort, spend their lives in trying
| TO introduce the mercy Of the gospel
| among the downtrodden of heathenism.
Some of those merchants leave their
| families in America or England or Scot
| land and stay for a few years i'm the
| ports Of heathenism while they are MAX
| ing their fortunes in the tea or rice OF
| 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 constant rebuke to
/ such debouchees and miscreants II
| satan should visit heaven, from which
| he was once roughly but justly expatri-
| ated. and he should write home to the
/ realms pandemOniac, his correspondence
/ published in DiabolOs Gazette or Apol-
| lyOnic 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 a disreputa-
\ bic place, and the cherubim as suspicious
| Of morals. Sin never did like holiness
| and you had better not depend upon
i satanic report of the sublime and multi.
| potent work Of our missionaries I'm for.
| eign lands. But notwithstanding al
| that these men and women of God have
| achieved, they feel, and we all feel that
| il the idolatrous lands are to be Chris.
| tanned there needs TO be a power from
/ the heavens that has not cop1a