Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-01-24

Herman Cortes, to be more gloriously
conquered; Mexico with its cap
ital more than 1000 feet above the sea
level, looking down upon the entrance
nent of lake and valley and plain;
Mexico, the home of nations yet to be
born-all for Christ The south! That
means Africa, which David Livingstone
consecrated to God when he died on
his knees in his tent of exploration.
Already about 100000 converts to
Christianity in Africa. The south.
That means all the islands strewn by
Omnipotent hand through tropical
seas. Malayan, Polynesia, Melanesia,
Micronesia, and other islands more
numerous than you can imagine unless
you have voyaged around the world.
The south! That means Java for God;
Sumatra for God; Borneo for God;
Siam for God.
A ship was wrecked near one of these
islands and two life boats put out for
shore, hut those who arrived in the
first boat were dubbed to death by the
cannibals, and the other boat put back
and was somehow saved. Years passed
on, and one of that very crew was
wrecked again with others on the
same rocks Crawling up on the shore
they proposed to hide from the canni-
balls in one of the caverns, but mount
ing the rocks they saw church, and
cried out: 1--WE are saved! A church.
A church," The south! That means
Venezuela, New Granada, Ecuador and
Bolivia. The south! That means the
torrid zone. with all it's bloom, and all
its fruitage, and all its exuberance;
the redolence of illimita bic gardens;
the music of boundless groves; the
lands, the seas, that night by night
look up to the southern cross, which in
stars transfigures the midnight heaven
as you look up at it all the way from
the Sandwich islands to Australia.
They shall come from the south"
But / must not forget that my text
takes in another point of the compass.
1t takes in the east / have to report
that in journey around the world
there is nothing so much impresses one
as the fact that the missionariesdivine
ly blessed are taking the world for
God. The horrible war between Japan
and China will leave the last wall of
opposition fiat in the dust. War is
barbarism always and everywhere.
We hold up our hands in amazement
at the massacre at Port Arthur, as
though Christian nations could never
go into such diabolism. We forgot
Fort Pillow! We forget the fact that
during our war both north and south
rejoiced when there were $1,000 more
wounded and slain on the opposite
side. War, whether in China or
the United States, is hell let
loose. But one good result will
come from the Japanese-Chincse
conflict. Those regions will be more
open to civilization and Christianity
than ever before. When Missionary
Carey put before an assembly of min
listers at Northampton, England, his
project for the evangelization of India,
they laughed him out of the house.
From Calcutta on the east of India to
Bombay on the west, there is not a
neighborhood but directly or indirectly
feels the gospel power. The Jugger-
naut, which did its awful work for
centuries, a few weeks ago was brought
out from the place where it has for
years been kept under shed as curl
osity, and there was no OH reverential-
ly to greet it. About three million of
Christian souls in India are the ad-
vance guard that will lead on the two
hundred and fifty million. The Chris
tians of Annoy and Pekin and Canton
are the advance guard that will lead the
three hundred and forty million of
China ''They shall come from the
east" The last mosque of Moham-
mechanism will be turned into
Christian church. The last Buddhist
temple will become fortress of light.
The last idol of Hindooism will be
pitched into the fire. The Christ who
came from the east will yet bring all
the east with him. Of course, there
are high obstacles to be overcome, and
great ordeals must be passed through
before the consummation: as witness
the Armenians under the butchery of
the Turk. May that throne on the
banks of the Bosphorous soon crumble!
The time has already come when the
United States government and Great
Britain, and Germany ought to intone
the indignation of all civilized nations.
While it is not requisite that arms be
sent there to avenge the wholesale
massacre of Armenians, it is requisite
that by cable under the seas and by
protest that shall thrill the wires from
Washington, and London, and Berlin to
Constantinople, the nations anathema-
tie the diabolism for which the sui
tan of Turkey is irresponsible. Moham-
mechanism is curse whether in
Turkey or New York! "They shall
come from the east!" And they will
come at the call of the loveliest, and
grandest, and best men and women of
all the time. l mean the missionaries.
Dissolute Americans and Englishmen
who have gone to Calcutta, and Bonn
bay, and Canton to make their for
tunes, defame the missionaries be-
cause the holy lives and the pure
households of those missionaries are
a constant rebuke to the American and
English libertines stopping there, but
the men and women of God there sta