Connecticut western news., 1895-01-24

That means Nenezue.n. New Granada, Ecuador and Bolivia Inc southl That means the torrid zone, with all its bloom, and all it's fruitage, and all its exuberance, the redolence of illimitahle gardens, the music of boundless groves. the lands the seas, that night by night look up to the southern crosS which, in stars, transhgures tho midnight heaven as you look up at it all the way from the Sandwich Islands to Australia. ''They shall come from tho south.
 Christ In the East.
 But I must not forget that my text takes in another cardinal point of the compass IT. takes in the east I have tc report that in a journey around the world there is nothing so much impresses one as the fact that the missionaries divine ly blessed are taking the world for God. The horrible WAT between Japan and China will leave the last wall of oppo- sition flat in the dust War is barbafism always and everywhere. We hold up our hands in amazement at the massacre at Port Arthur, as though Christian na. tions could never go into such diabolism. We forget Fort Pillow! We forget the fact that during our war both north and south rejoiced when there were 10, 000 more wounded and slain on the opposite side. War. whether in China or the United States, is hell let loose But me good result will come from the Japanese Chinese conflict. These regions will be moresopen to civilization and Christian ity than ever before. When Missionary l,.1fo of 1fa1S ters at Northampton his project for the avanselization of India they laughed him out of the house. From Calcutta on tho east of India to Bombay on the west there is not q neighhorhood but directly or Indirectly feels the gospel power. The .r-lgSernaut, which did its awful work iur centuries, a few weeks ago was brougl out from tho place where 1t has for yea 3 been kept under shed as cu- riosity, ;cd there was no one reveren- tially to greet it. About 5000. 900 of Christian uls in India are the advance guard that will lead on the 250, 900, 000 The Christi IS of Annoy and Peking and Canton are the advance guard that will lead the $40, ( 70, 900 of China. ''They shall come fren the east. t." Tho last mosque of Siohammedanism 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 ts be overcome, and great ordeals must be passed through before the consumma- tion, as witness the Armenians under the butohery of the Turks. May that throne on the banks of the Bosporus soon crumble! The time has already come when the United States govern. ment and Great Britain and Germany ought to intone the indignation of all civilized nations While it is not req uisite 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 Der lin to Constantinople, the nations an athematize the diaholism for which the sultan of Turkey is responsible. 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 time. mean the missionaries. Dissolute Americans and Englishmen who have gone to Cal cutta and Bombay and Carton to make their fortunes defame the missionaries because the holy lives and the pure households of those missionaries are constant rebuke to the American and English li5ertines stopping there, but the men and women of God there sta toned go on gloriously with their work. People just as good and self denying as was Missionary Moffat, who. when ask 'sd to write in an album, wrote these words:
 My album is in savage breasts,
 Where passion rcigrs and darkness rests
 Without one ray of light.
 To write the name Of Jesus there,
 To point to worlds both bright and fair,
 And sec the pagan bow in prayer.
 Is all my souls delight.
 In all those regions are men and women with the conservation of Mel vile B. Cox, who, embarking for the missionary work in Africa, said to fel- low student, If die in Africa, come and write my epitaph. !" ''What shall write for your epitaph?" said the stu dent. Write, said he, ''these words: Let thousand fall before Africa be given up."
 Worldly Reform In the West.
 There is another point of the compass that my text includes. They shall come from the west' That means America redeemed. Everything between Atlantic and Pacific oceans to be brought within the circle of holiness and rap ture. Will it be done by worldly reform or evangelism? Will it be law or gos- pei? am glad that wave of reform has swept across this land, and all the cities are feeling the advantage of the mighty movement. Let the good work go on until tho last municipal evil is extirpated. About 5 years ago the dis tinguished editor of New York. daily | newspaper said to me in his editorial room: "You ministers talk about evils of which you know nothing. Why don't t you go with the officers of the law and explore for yourself, so that when you preach against sin you can speak from what you have seen with your own eyes?" said, II will, " and in company with Q commissioner of police and a captain of police and two elders of my church I explored the dens and hiding | places of all styles of crime in New York and preached series of sermons warn ing young men and setting forth the work that must be done lest the judg- ments of God whelm this city with more awful submergement than the vol canic deluge that buried Herculaneum and Pompeii. I received, as nearly as I can remember, several hundred columns of newspaper abuse for undertaking that exploration. Editorials of denunciation, double leaded. and with captions in great primer type, entitled ''The Fall of Talmage, or "Talmage Makes the Mis- l taLa of HiS I flo ,, E,x- ssDoxr-z, Xyitla Tal