The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-02-21
NUMBER 81.
janitors of the earth who have spoiled
sermons and lectures, and poisoned the

are doing, when instead of leaning on
the angelic they lean on the demoniac.
In these Elephanta caves everything
is on Samsonian and Titanian scale.
With chisels that were dropped from
nerveless hands at least eight centu-
ries ago, the forms of the gods Brahma,
and Vishnu, and silva were cut into
the everlasting rock. silva is here rep.
resented by figure sixteen feet nine
inches high, one-half man and one
half woman. Run line from the
center of the forehead straight
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 a
being half man and half woman. Do
be one or the other. my hearer. Man
| is admiral BILE, and woman Is admirable,
but either in flesh or trap rock COM
| promise of the two is hideous. Save
| us from effeminate men and masculine
| women.
That evening of our return to Bonn
bay visited the Young Mems Chris
tian association with the same ap-
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 Mackay, 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
j of heather temples shall roll between
7 churches of the living God, and
: the trampled womanhood of Hindoo-
: ism shall have all the rights pur-
stabs of his own assassination cried
t out: ''Behold thy mother!' and from
Bengal bay to Arabian ocean, and from
j 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
t ! to the moles and bats" If any
: clergyman asks me, as an unbe.
: lieying minister of religion once
4 asked the duke of Wellington
: 'Do you not think that the work Of
converting the Hindoos is all prac
| tical farce?" answer him as Yelling
S ton answered the unbelieving minis
4 ter: Look to your marching orders
e sirw Or if any one having joined In
! the gospel attack feels like retreating
a say to him, as Gen. Havelock said tx
i retreating regiment: 1.-THE enemy
J. are in 'front.' not in the rear" and
i leading them again into the fight
i though two horses had been shot un
i der him.
r Indeed, the taking of this world TO
l. Christ will be no holiday celebration
; but as tremendous as when in India
n during the mutiny of 1857, fortres
e manned by Sepoys was to be capture,
e by Sir Colin Campbell and the arm,
n Of Britain. The Sepoys- hurled un
e der the approaching columns burn
D. ing missiles and grenades, and fire
e on them shot and shell, and poured o
Is them from the ramparts burning oil
is until, writer who witnessed it says
n ssIt was picture of pandemonium.
d Then Sir Colin addressed his troop.
,e saying: Remember the wome
,e and children must be rescued
il and his men replied: '.Ay! Ay! 81
I Colin! We stood by you at Balaklav;
Id and will stand by you here" An
e. then came the triumphal assault /
the battlements. So is the gospel can
os paign which proposes capturing Il
" very last citadel q idolatry and sil
o. and hoisting over it the bann'
= Of the Cross, we may have hurled upe
j us mighty opposition and scorn az
TO obloquy, and many may iali before Il
IN work is done, yet at every call for ne
dis onset let the cry Of the church b
he "Ay! Ay! Great Captain Of our ST lv
ed tion; we stood by thee in other confiict
a. and we will stand by thee to t
:. last!' And then, if not in this worl
,e- then from the battlements of the ne,
m as the last Appolyonic fortiicati.
ed shall crash into ruin. we will join in t
"a shout: Thanks be INTO God who &
en- eth US the victory" ''Hallelujah! for
d. Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.'