The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-01-18
janitors Of the earth who have spoiled

sermons ano lectures, and poisoned the
lungs of audiences by inefficiency
, ought to visit this cave of Elaphanta
and beware of what the Be doorkeepers
are doing, when instead of leaning on
the angelic they lean or 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 a 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 nearer. Man
| is admirable, and woman is admirable,
! but either in flesh or trap rock a COM
| promise of the two is hideous. Save
us from effeminate men and masculine
| women.
That evening of our return to Bonn
bay l visited the Young Mems Chris
tian association with the same APP
| pointments that you find in the Young
| Mems Christian association of Europe
and America, 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 a 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
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, fc.' Christ's sake, lived and
died for the christianization of India;
and their Heaven will not be complete
until the Gauges thas washes the Chats
of heather temples shall roll between
churches of the living God, and
the trampled womanhood of Hindoo-
ism shall have all the rights pur.
chased by him who amid the cuts and
stabs of his own assassination cried
out: Behold thy mother!" and from
Bengal bay to Arabian ocean, and from
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
to the moles and bats" If any
asks me, as an unbe-
lieving minister of religion once
asked the duke of Wellington,
do you not think that the work of
the Hindoos is all prac-
tical farce?" / answer him as Yelling
ton answered the unbelieving minis.
ter: Look to your marching orders
sir" Or if any one having joined in
the gospel attack feels like retreating,
say to him, as Gen. Havelock said to
4 retreating regiment: "The enemy
Are in front, not in the rear" and
eading them again into the fight,
though two horses had been shot un.
Ter him.
Indeed, the taking of this world for
Christ will be no holiday celebration,
out as tremendous as when in India ,
Turing the mutiny of 1857, fortress
by Sepoys was to be captured
~ Sir Colin Campbell and the army
If Britain. The Sepoys hurled un-
Ter the approaching columns burn
ng missiles and Grenades, and fired
IN them shot and she'll, and poured on
hem from the ramparts burning oil,
Until, a writer who witnessed it saws:
1T was picture of pandemonium." I
Then Sir Colin addressed his troops,
aging: Remember the women 7
md children must be rescued"
nd his men replied: "Ayl Ay! Sir
,olin! We stood by you at Balaklava,
nd will stand by you here" And :,
hen came the triumphal assault Of .
he battlements. So is the gospel cam
'aign which proposes capturing the c