The Washington times., 1895-02-11

Goods footprints in the occident and ORR
ents was the subject of an able sermonic lee
ture delivered by Prof. Frederick j. Stanley,
at the First Presbyterian Church, last night
DIR. Stanley has been for several years pro-
fessor of English literature in the College of
Count Ohuma, at Toxic, Japan. He is a
speaker CT magnetic address and delivery.
There are two terrestrial crescents, midway
between which lies this continent. the island
empires of Japan and England. These. said
the speaker, solsimiar in geography, are his
torlcally SO radically different. England has
spread its territory over the globe so that the
sun never sets on its subjects. Japan has no
territory save its 1000 islands. One has had
the Bible, the other has not.
sLUMBERED FOR 400 YEARS.
Yet marvellous has been the history of this
island empire OF Japan. Rising out of the
depths of barbarism and feudalism, in which
it was locked in silent slumber for 24O0 years,
it has become the marvel OF the nineteenth
century. In the war now in progress China.
ten times the size of Japan, has met lts Sedan
and its Trafalgar. In the recent capture OF
Wei-hei-wei on the Gulf OF Pechili. Japan has
gained the Gibraltar of the northern Chinese
coast.
Gladstone, when asked what was the great
question OF the century. replied that 1t was
the Gospel Of our Lord Jesus Christ. Preach
that Gospel in London, in the world and you
have found the remedy for all the ills which
oppress mankind. The need is great.
Four hundred and ten million souls hold in
their hands and hearts this Bible. Eight hun
dred and fifty million are in the depths OF
a II. .I,1 CHI e hali
the one-third which enjoys the glorious privi-
leges of tho Gospel deny that blessing to the
other two-thirds?
''As I put my ear TO the centuries of the
past, as | 90 through the mining camps OF
the West, through the busy mgrts OF trade.
everywhere l hear the question asked why
should / interest myself in tho spread Of
Christianity.
IsAIAH's WORDS APPLIED.
ITO this 1 would reply, Whence am T.
The prophet Isaiah saith: Look unto the rock
whence ye are hewn and to the hole of the pit
whence We are digged.' We are are so highly
blessed to-day because hundreds of years ago
somebody carried the Bible to our ancestors
in the pit of heaihenism. How then shall we
ever repay this labor of love, the benefits of
which are so dear to us?
Cannon opened India and China TO the
world. The Bible opened Japan to the infiu-
ences of civilization. The Burlingame treaty
with Japan came from the singing of hymn
on the flagship of Commodore Perry. DR.. S.
Weles Williams was the Christian interpreter
who won the hearts of those japanese, and
by his his name should that treaty be known.
"The latent power of the church is rapidly
being developed. The last decade of the
nineteenth century is the beginning of new
era in the propagation of the Gospel. The
young people. through their Christian En-
deavor societies, through their Epworth
Leagues are doing mighty work in this great
cause. AS electricity has nlRde OF the world
vast whispering gallery by the wires under
the seas, so will agencies be found by which
the Gospel will be spread over the earth"