The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-01-12

Bous, tnlS OF demons,
this pantheon of indifferent deities,
and came to the steps and looked off
upon the waters which rolled and
flashed around the team yacht that was
waiting to return with us to Bombay.
As we stepped aboard, our minds filled
with the idols of the Elephanta caves,
l was impressed as never before with
the thought that man must nave a re-
ligion of some kind, even if he has to
contrive n himself, and he must have
q god. even though he make it with
his own hand. | rejoice to know the
day will coine 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 Mems 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 n 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-
terian Westminster c~atechism, Meth
Odist auXious-seat, and Bap.
fist waters of conservation now
stand where once basest idolatries
had u~ndispu'ed sway. The work which
Shoemaker Carey inaugurated at Ser.
ampore. India, translating the Bible
into forty different dialects. and leav-
ing his 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
Cawnpore, and Polehampton, who fell
at Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell It
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 rs.
sassination cried out: ''Behold thy
mother!" and from Bengal bay te
Arabian ocean, and from the Hima.
layas to the coast of Coromandel there
be lifted hosannas to Him who died &c
redeem all nations. In that day Ele.
phanta cave will be one of the
places where idols are ''cast to the
moles and bats" If any clergyman
asks me, rs 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
o practical farce?' I answer him as
Wellington answered the unbelieving
minister: Look to your marching or.
ders, sirw Or II anyone having Joined
in the gospel attack feels like retreat
ing. l say to him, rs Gen. Havelock said
to q 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 1887, q fortress
manned by Sepoys q to be captured
by Sir Colin Campbell aud the army of
Britain. The Sepoys hurled under the
approaching columns burning missiles
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: at was
o picture Of Paudemonium.' Then Sir
Colin addressed his troops, saying:
Remember the women and children
must be rescued.' and his men replied:
"Ay! Ayl Sir Colin! We stood by
you at Balaklava, and will stand by
you herel'' And then came the
triumphal assault of the battlementa
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-
guy, and many may fall before tho
work is done, yet at every call for new
onset. let the cry of the church DO: .Ay!
Ay! Great Captain of our salvation;
we stood by Thee in other conflicts,
and we will stand by Thee to the last!"
And then, If not in this world, then
from the battlements of the next, as
the last Appolyonic fertilization shall
crash into ruin, we will join in the
shout: Thanks be unto God who Civ
eth US the victory" ''Hallelujah! for
the Lord God Omnipotent r%eignethr'