The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-18


to the floor of the rock, and you
divide this idol into masculine and
feminine. Admired as the idol is by
many, it was to me about the worst
thing that was ever cut into porphyry,
perhaps because there is hardly any
thing on earth so Objectionable as
being half man and half woman. Do
be one or the other, my hearer. Man
is admirable, and woman is admirable,
but either in flesh or trap rock COM
promise of the two is hideous. Save
us from effeIninate men and masculine
women.
That evening of our return to Bonn
bay visited the Young Mems Chris
tian association with the same APP
pointments that you find in the Young
Mems Christian association of Europe
and America, and the night after that
l addressed throng of native children
who are in the schools of the Christian
missions. Christian universities gather
under their wing of benediction host
of the young men of this country.
Bombay and Calcutta, the two great
commercial cities of India, feel the
elevating power of an aggressive
Christianity. Episcopalian liturgy
and Presbyterian Westminster cate
chism, and Methodist anxious seat,
and Baptist waters of conservation
now stand where once basest idola-
tries had undisputed sway. The
work which Shoemaker Carey in.
augurated at Serampore, India,
translating the Bible into forty
different dialects, and leaving his
worn-out body amid the natives whom
he had come to save, and going up into
the heavens from which he can better
watch all the feld-that work will be-
completed in the salvation of the
millions of India; and beside him, gaz.
ing from the same high places, stand
Bishop Heber, and Alexander Duff,
and John Scudder. and Maclay, 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 he
roines 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
churches of the living God, and
the trampled womanhood of Hindoo-
ism shall have all the rights pur-
chased by him who amid the cuts and
stabs of his own assassination cried
out: ''Behold thy mother!" and from
Bengal bay to Arabian ocean, and from
the Himalayas to the coast of COro-
mandel there be lifted hosannas to him
who died to redeem all nations. In
that day Elephanta cave will be one OF
the places where idols are least
clergyman asks me, as an unbS-
asked the duke of Wellington,
''Do you not think that the work of
converting the Hindoos is all a prac-
tical farce?" / answer him as Yelling
ton answered the unbelieving minis
ter: Look to your marching orders,
sir!" Or if any one having joined in
the gospel attack feels like retreating,
| say to him, as Gen. Havelock said to
a retreating regiment: '"rhe enemy
are in front, not in the rear" and
leading them again into the fight,
though two horses had been shot un-
der 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, fortress
manned by Sepoys was to be captured
by Sir Colin Campbell and the army
Of Britain. The Sepoys hurled un-
der the approaching columns burn
ing missiles and grenades, and fired
on them shot and shell, and poured on
them from the ramparts burning oil,
until, 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 rescued"
and his men replied: "Ayl Ay! Sir
Colin! We stood by You at Balaklava,
and will stand by you here" And
then came the triumphal assault of
the battlements. So is the gospel cam
oaign which proposes capturing the
very last citadel of idolatry and sin,
md hosting over it the banner
If the Cross, we may have hurled upon
is mighty opposition and acorn and
DblOquy, and many may fall before the
work is done, yet at every call for new
)nset let the cry of the church be-
'Ay! Ay! Great Captain of our saliva,
ion; we stood by thee in other conflicts,
md we will stand by thee to the
ast!" And then, if not in this world,
hen from the battlements of the next,
is the last Appolyonic fortifcation
hall crash into ruin, we win join in the
hout: Thanks be unto God who Civ
,th us the victory" ''Hallelujahl for the
Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!''