The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-01-11

| rlgnI nanu. lie nad Sixty daughters.
Seventeen of those daughters were
married to Kasyapa and became the
mothers of the human race. Yonder is
god with three heads The center
god has crown wound with necklaces
of skulls. The right hand god is in a
paroxysm of rage, with forehead of
snakes, and in its hand is a cobra. The
left hand god has pleasure in all
its features and the hand has
a flower But there are gods
and goddesses in all directions. The
chief temple of this rock is 100 feet
square and has twenty-six pillars ris-
ing to the roof. After the conquerors
of other lands, and the tourists from
all lands have Clipped, and defaced,
and blasted, and carried away curios
and mementos for museums and homes,
there are enough entrancements left to
detain one, unless he is cautious, until
he is down with some of the malarias
which encompass this island or gets
bitten with some of its snakes. Yes,
L felt the chilly dampness of the
place, and left this congress of the
| gods, this pandemonium e< demons,
this pantheon of indiffe -nt deities,
and came to the steps and looked off
upon the waters which rolled and
flashed around the steam yacht that was
waiting to return with us to Bombay.
As we stepped aboard. our minds filed
with the idols of the Elephanta caves,
| was impressed as never before with
the thought that man must have a re-
ligion of some kind, even if he has to
contrive one himself, and he must have
a god, even though he make it with
his own hand. | rejoice to know the
day will come when the one God of the
universe will be acknowledged through
out India.
That evening of our return to Bonn
bay visited the Young Mems Christian
association with the same appointments
that you find in the Young Men 5 Chris
tian associations of Europe and Amer
lea, and the night after that addressed
a throng of native children who are in
the schools of the Christian missions.
Christian universities gather under
their wing of benediction a host of the
young men of this country. Bombay
and Calcutta, the two great CONNER
cial cities of India, feel the elevating
power of an aggressive Christian
ity. Episcopalian liturgy, Presby-
terrain Westminster catechism, Meth
odist anxious-seat, and Bap-
fist waters of conservation now
stand where once basest idolatries
had undisputed sway. The work which
Shoemaker Carey inaugurated at Ser
ampore, India, translating the Bible
into forty different dialects, and leav-
ing his WORKOUT body amid the natives
whom he had come to save, and going
up into the heavens from which he can
better watch all the field-that work
will be completed in the salvation of
the millions of India; and beside him,
gazing from the same high places,
Bishop Heber, and Alexander Duff. and
John Scudder, and Mackay, who fell at
Delhi, and Moncrieff who fell at
Cawnpore, and Polehampton, who fell
at Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell at
Futtyghur, and all the heroes and
heroines who, for Christ's sake, lived
and died for the Christianization of
India; and their heaven will
not be complete until the Ganges
that washes the Chats of heather
temples shall roll between the churches
of the living God, and the trampled
womanhood of Hindooism shall have
all the rights purchased by Him who
amid the cuts and stabs of His own as
sassination cried out: ''Behold thy
MOTHER and from Bengal bay to
Arabian ocean, and from the Hima-
layas to the coast of Coromandel there
be lifted hosannas to Him who died to
redeem all nations. In that day Ele-
phanta cave will be one of the
places where idols are least to the
moles and bats" If any clergyman
asks me, as an unbelieving minister of
religion once asked the duke of Well |
ington: do you not think that the |
work of converting the Hindoos is all |
a practical farce?' l answer him as
Wellington answered the unbelieving |
minister: Look to your marching or
ders, sir" Or if anyone having joined |
in the gospel attack feels like retreat
ing, say to him, as Gen. Havelock said |
to retreating regiment: 1.-THE enemy
are in front, not in the rear" and lead
ing them again into the fight, though |
two horses had been shot under him.
Indeed, the taking of this world for
Christ will be no holiday celebration,
but as tremendous as when in India
during the mutiny of 1857, a fortress
manned by Sepoys was to be captured
by Sir Colin Campbell and the army of
Britain. The Sepoys hurled under the
oh IN |
and grenades, and fred on them shot
and shell, and poured on them from
the ramparts burning oil, until, a
writer who witnessed it says: 1T was
a picture of Pandemonium." Then Sir
Colin addressed his troops, saying:
Remember the women and children
must be rescuedr' and his men replied:
SAY! Ay! Sir Colinl We stood by
you at Balaklava, and will stand by
you herer' And then came the
triumphal assault of the battlements.
So is the gospel campaign which pro-
poses capturing the very last
citadel of idolatry and sin, and
hosting over it the banner of the
cross, we may have hurled upon us
mighty opposition and scorn and oblo-
luy, and many may fall before the
work is done, yet at every call for new
onset, let the cry of the church be: "Ay!
Ay! Great Captain of our salvation;
We stood by Thee in other conflicts,
md we will stand by Thee to the lastr'
And then, if not in this world, then .
rom the battlements of the next, as ,
he last Appolyonic fertilization shall .
rash into ruin, we will join in the ,