The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-01-27

,.abiu, the masts and all the appointments OF
Ibis great palace OF the deep. The architect
finishes his work without any perplexity,
md the carpenters and the artisans toll on
he craft so many hours q day, each one
ioing his part until with flags flying, and
thousands OF people huzzaing on the docks,
The vessel is launched. But out on the sea
hat steamer breaks her shaft and Is limping
,'owly along toward harbor, when Caribbean
whirlwinds, thosa mighty hunters OF the
leep, looking out for prey Of ships, surround
that wounded vessel and pitch IL on n rocky
roast, and she lifts and falls 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 II not require more skill and power
to get thai splintered vessel off the rocks
and reconstruct II than II required origin
ally to build her? Aye Our world that
God built so beautiful, and which started out
with all the flags of Edenic foliage and with
the chant of paradisaical bowers. has been
sixty centuries pounding In the skerries OF
sin and sorrow, and TO get her out, and to
get her of. and to get her on the right way
again will require more of omnpotence than
IL required to build her and launch her. SO
am not surprised that though in the dry
dock OF one word our world was made, IL
will take the unsleeved arm of God to lift her
from the rocks and put her on tho right
course again. II is evident from my text
and It's comparison with other texts that II
would not be so great an undertaking to
make whole onstellation OF worlds. and n
whole galaxy of worlds, and whole astrono-
my of worlds, aud swing them In their right
orbits as to take this wound"' world, this
stranded world, this bankrupt world. this
destroyed world and make II rs good as
when II started
Now. just look at the enthroned difficulties
in the way. the removal OF which. the over
throw OF which, seem to require the bare
right arm OF omnipotence. There stands
heathenism, with its 500, 900, 900 victims |
do not care whether you call them Brahmans
or Buddhists, Confucians or fetch idolaters
AZ the Worlds Fair I'm Chicago last summer
those monstrosties OF religion tried to make
themselves respectable, but the long hair
and baggy trousers and trinketed robes of
their representatives cannot hide from tho
world the fact that those religions are tho
authors OF funeral pyrc, and juggernaut
crushing, and Ganges infRnticide. and Chi
nese shoe torture. and the aggregated mas
sacres 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.
l know that the missionaries who arc tha
most sacrificing and Christlikc men and
women on earth. are making steady and
glorious inroads upon these built up abomi-
nations OF the centuries All this stun that
YOU see in some OF the newspapers about tho
missionaries as living in luxury and idleness
IL promulgated by corrupt American or Eng
lish or Scotch merchants, whose loose be-
havior In heather cities has been rebuked by
tn" missionaries, and these corrupt mer-
chants write homo or tell innocent and un-
suspectiug visitors in India or China or the
dnrkened islands OF the sea these falsehoods
about our consccrated missionaries. who,
turning their backs on home and civilization
and cmolument and comfort. spend their
lives in trying TO introduce tho mercy OF
the gospel among the downtrodden OF
heathenism. Some OF those mpr-
chants leave their families i'm America
or England or Scotland and stay for a few
years in the ports OF heithenism while they
ar" making their fortunes in the tea or rice
or opium trade. and while they are thus
absent from home give themselves to orgies
III dissoluteness such as no pen or tongue
could, without the abolition of all decency.
attempt 10 report. The presence OF the mis-.
stonaries. with their pure and noble house
holds, inthose heathen ports is n constant
rebuke TO such dehauchees and miscraants
IL satan should visit heaven from which ho
WAS once roughly but justly expatriatei
and he would write home to the realms pan
demoniac. his correspondence published In
Diabolos Gazette or Apollyonic News, about
what he had seen. he would report tho
temple OF God and the Lamb IA n broken
down church, and the house OF many
mansions as disreputable place, and
the cherubim suspicious OF NOR
ais. Sin never did like holiness and you
had better not depend upon satanic report OF
the sublime and multipotent work of our
missionaries I'm foreign lands. But notwith.
standing all that these men and women OF
God have achieved. they feel and we all feel
that III the idolatrous lands are 10 bc Chris
tianized there needs to be a power from the
heavens that has not yet condescended AMI
We feel like crying out I'm the words of Charles
Wesley
Arm Of the Lord. awake. awake!
Put on Thy strength the Nations shake!
Aye, II is not only the Lords arm that is
needed, the holy arm. the outstretched arm,
but the bare arm
There, too. stands Mohammedanism. with
its 10000. 900 victims. Its Bible IL the Koran a
book not quite "a large as our New Testa-
ment, which was revealed to Mohammed
when In epileptic fits, and resusctated from
these fits he dictated II to scribes Yet Il is
read to-day by more people than any other
book ever written. Mohammed. the founder
OF that religion. n poiygamist. with supcrilu-
ity 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 Mobammcd 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 oil woman shall ever
enter heaven. When u bishop Of England
recently proposed that the hest way OF
saving Mohammedans was to let them
Keep their religion. but cncraTt unon
som" new principles from Chris.
'''''''S h' I'IpcNIdlel an eH'ieStagtI"ul iDIp
" "hlch no man can laugh who has eyer
sr'h the tyranny and domestic wretchr.Iuess
which always appear where that religion
gets foothold. IL has marched across cont
hents and now proposes 10 set M It's nIthy
ana H"cursed banner in America and what
II has done for Turkey II would like to do
Tor our Nation. religion that brutaIIy
treats womanhooh ought neyrrto hn fost"roj
IN our country But there never was r..
ilHion 20 absurd or wicked that n dit not yet
disciples, and there are enough fools in
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Mohammedanisn. This corrupt religion has
been making steady progress Tor hundrcds nf
years. and notwithstan ling all the splendid
work done hy the Jcssups. and the GooicII4.
ana the Blisscs. and the Van Dykcs aud the
Posts, and the Misses Bowrns aud the Misses
Ihompsons. and scores OF other men and wo-
men OF whom the world was not worthy
there " stands, the giant OF sin, Mohammc
hahIsm, with one foot on tho heart of yo-
man and the other on the heart OF Christ
while mumbles from it, minarets this stu
penduous blasphemy' 'God II great and
Mohammed His Is prophet Let the Chris.
uan printing press NJ Bayroot and Constant
nupie keep on with thcir W lrk ami TN. men
hnd women OF Gst IN the mission fields toll
Il