The free press., 1895-01-31

| centuries, q few weeks ago was brought out
| from the place where it has for years been
| kept under shed rs n curiosity, and there
| was no one ereverentially to greet 1t. About
| 5000, 900 of Christian souls in India are the
| advance guard that will lead on the 250,-
| 900, ,OOO The Christians OF Annoy and Pek-
ing and Canton are the advance guard that
will lead the SAC, 900. 900 OF China. "They
| shall come from the East" The last mosque
of Mohammedanism will be turned into a
! Christian church. The last'Buidhist temple
will become a fortress OF light. The last
idol of Hindooism will be pitched into the
| fire.
l.. The Christ who came from the East will
| yet bring all the East with Him. or course
! there are high obstacles 10 be overcome, and
| great ordea]s must be passed through before
| the consummation, as witness the Arnentans
| under the butchery OF tho Turks. May that
throne on the banks OF the Bosphorus soon
crumble The time has already come when
the United States Government and Great
Britain and Germany ought 10 intoms the
indignation OF all civilized Nations. While
it is not requisite that arms be sent there 10
avenge the wholesale massacre OF Armen-
ians, it is requisite that by cable unde- tho
seas, and by protest that shall thrill the
wires from Washington and London and
Berlin to Constantinople. the Nations an
athematizs the diabolism for which tho Sui
tan of Turkey is responsible. Mohammedan
ism is q curse whether in Turkey or New
York. "They shall como from the East.
And they will come mt the call OF the love-
liest and grandest and hest men and women
of all time. mean the missionaries. Dis
solute Americans and Englishmen who have
gone to Calcutta and Bombay and Canton to
mako their fortunes defame the missionaries
because the holy lives and the pure house.
holds of those missionaries are constant re-
buke to the American and English libertines
stopping there, but the men and women of
God there stationed go on gloriousy with
their work. People iust as good and self
denying as was Missionary Moffat. who,
when asked to write in an album, wrote
these words:
My album is in savage breasts.
Where passion reigns and darkness rests
Without one ray of light.
To write the name of Jesus there.
TO point to worlds both bright and fair,
And see the pagan bow in prayer,
Is all my souls delight.
In all those regions are men and women
with the conservation of Melville 3. Cox.
who, embarking for the missionary work in
Africa, said to a fellow student, "If die in
Africa, come and write my epitaph." "What
shall I write for your epitaph?" said tho
student. "Write," said he. "these words
s'Let thousand fall before Africa be given
up"
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 rapture. VIII it be done by
worldly reform or evangelism? Will 1t be
law or gospel2 I 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
lpnt
tirpated. About fifteen 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 you
go with the officers of the law and explore
for yourself, 80 that when you preach against
sin you can speak from what you have see
with your own eyesY" I said, "I WILL" and
in company with commissioner of polics
and captain ofpolce aud two elders of my
church / explored the dcns and hiding places
Of all styles OF crime in New York and
preached a series o. sermons warning young
men and setting forth the work that must be
done lest the judgments of God whelm this
city with more awful subniergement than the
volcanic deluge that buried Herculaneum
and Pompeii. I received as nearly as can
several hundred columns of news
paper abuse for undertaking that explora-
tlon. Editorials of denunciaton, double
loaded, and with captions in great primer
type, entitled "The Fall OF Talmage," or
"Talmage Makes the Mistake of His Life"
or "Down With Talmage," but I still live
aud am in full sympathy with all movements
for municipal publication.
But movement which ends with crime
exposed and law executed stops half way.
Nay, it stops long before 1t gets half way.
The law never yet saved anybody, never yet
changed anybody. Break up all the houses
OF iniquity in this city, and you only send
the occupants to other cities. Break down
all the policemen in New York, and while it
changes their worldly fortunes 1t does not
change their heart or lite. The greatest
want In New York to-day is the transform
ing power of the gospel Of Jesus Christ to
change the heart and the lite and uplift the
tone of moral sentiment and make men do
right not because they are afraid OF Ludlow
Street Jail or Sing Sing, but because they
love God and hate unrighteousness. / have
never heard, nor have you heard, OF any
thing except the gospel that proposes to re-
generate the heart, and by the influence Of
that regenerared heart rectify the life. Ex-
ecute the law most certainly. but preach the
gospel by all means in churches, in theatres,
In homes, in prisons, on the land and on the
sen. The gospel is the only power that can
revolutionize society and save the world All
else Is half and half work and will not last.
In New York 1t has allowed men who got by
police bribery their thousands and tens OF
thousands and perhaps hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars to go scot free, while some
who were merely the cats paw and agents Of
bribery are struck with the lightnings of the
law. 1t reminds mo OF q scene in Philadel-
pha when was living there. A poor wo-
man had been arrested and tried and I'M
prisoned for selling molasses candy on Sun
day. Other lawbreakers had been allowed
to 60 undisturbed, and the grogshops were
open on the Lords Day, and the law, with
its hands behind its back, walked up and
down the streets declining to molest many
OF the Offenders, but we all rose up in our
righteous indignation, and calling upon all
powers, visible and Invisible. to help US, we
declared that though the heavens fell no wo-
man should be allowed to sell molasses
candy on Sunday.
A few weeks ago, after had preached in
one of the churches in this city, mau
staggered up on the pulpit stairs. maudin
drunk saying, 81 am one OF the reiormers
that were elected TO high office at tho last
election" got rid of that '2reat reformer"
as soon as could. but did not get rid OF
the impression that man like that would
cure the abominations of New York about as
soon as smallpox would cure typhoid fever
or n buzzslw render lIaydns 'Creaton.
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