Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-01-07

the universe will be acknowledged
throughout India.
That evening of our return to Bonn
bay 1 visited the Young Mems Chris
tlan association with the Same appoint
ments that you find in the Young Mems
Christian associations of Europe and
America, and the night after that adj
dressed a thrOng of native children who
are in tic schools of the Christian mis-
sions Christian universities gather un-
der their wing of benediction q host of
the young men of this country. Bonn
bay and Calcutta, the two great COM
mercial cities of Incia, feel the elevat-
ing power Of an aggressive Christianity.
Episcopalian liturgy, and Presbyterian
Westminster catechism, and Methodist
anxious seat, and Baptist waters of con-
secratlon now stand where once basest
idolatries had undisputed sway. The
work which Shoemaker Carey inaugu-
rated at Serampore, India, translating
the Bible into 40 different dialects, and
leaving his wornout body amid the ma
tives 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 stand
Bishop Heber and Alexander Duff and
John Scudder and Maekay, who fell at
Delhi, and Moncrieff, who fell at Gavin
pur, and Polehampton, who fell at
Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell at
Futtigarh, and all 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 churches of
the living God, and the trampled wom-
anhood Of Hindooism shall have all the
rights purchased by him who amid the
cuts and stabs of his own assassination
cried out, ''Behold thy motherp' and
from Bengal bay to Arabian ocean, and
from the Himalayas to the coast of
CorOmandel 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 to the
moles and bats. "
If any clergyman asks me, as an I'M
believing minister of religion once ask
ed the Duke of Wellington, do you
not think that the work Of converting
the HindOos is all practical farce?" l
answer him as Wellington answered
the unbelieved minister, "Look to your
orders, sirr' Or if any one
having joined in the gospel attack feels
like retreating l say to him, as General
Havelock said to = retreating regiment,
''The enemy are in front, not in the
rear, >" and leading them again into the
fight, though two horses had been shot |
under him.
Fighting For Christ.
Indeed tho taking of this world for |
Christ will be no holiday celebration,
but as tremendous as when in India |
during the mutiny of 1857 q fortress
manned by sepoys was to be captured |
by Sir Colin Campbell and the army of
Britain. The sepoys hurled upon the
columns burning missiles and
,renades, and fired on them shot and
she'll, and poured on them from the
burning oil until writer who
it says, 1T was a picture of
!" Then Sir Colin adj
dressed his troops, saying, Remember
he women and children must be res
,uedP' and his men replied: faye, aye,
Sir Colin! We stood by you at Bala-
,lava, and we stand by you here. " And
hen came the triumphant assault of the
attlements. So in this gospel campaign,
which proposes capturing the very last
itadel of idolatry and sin and hosting
ver it the banner of the cross we may
AVE hurled upon US mighty opposition
nd scorn and obloquy, and many may
all before the work is done, yet at every
all for new onset let the cry of the
hurch be: AYE, aye, great captain of
ur salvation! We stood by thee in 9TH
T conflicts, and we will stand by thee
0 the last" And then, if not in this
7orld, then from the battlements of the
ext, as the last Appolyonic fortifica-
ion shall crash into ruin, we will join
i the shout, Thanks be unto God,
Tho giveth US the victory!" 'Hallelu-
ah, for the Lord God omnipotent
aioneth E'