The Progress., 1895-01-26

HlclI VI 4"NI anu valley anu pam I
Mexico, tn. home of nations yet to be
born-all for Christ The south That
means Africa, which David Livingstone
consecrated to God when he died or
his knees N his tent of exploration
Already about 100000 converts t,
Christianity in Africa. The south!
That means Ill the islands strewn bv
OmnlpOtent hand through tropical
seas. Malayln, Polynesia, Melanesia,
Micronesia, and other islands more
numerous than you can imagine unless
you have voJ aged around the world.
The south. hat means Java for God,
Sumatra for Cod BOrneo for Coz:
Siam for God
A ship was wrecked near one Of these
islands and 40 life boats put out for
shore, but those who arrived in the
! first boat VIC :e dubbed to death bv the
cannibals and the other boat put back
and was son chow saved. Years passed
on, and one of that very crew was
wrecked a.ain with others on the
same rocks. Crawling up on the shore
! they proposed 10 hide from the canni
! balls in one of the caverns, but mount
ing the rocks they saw a church, and
cried out: I'VE are saved, A church.
A church," The south. That means
Venezuela. New Granada, Ecuador and
Bolivia. The south. That means the
| al III oil
its fruitage, and all its eXuberancc;
the redolence of illimitable gardens:
the music of bOundleSs groves; the
lands, the seas, that night by night
look up to the southern cross, which in
stars transfgures the midnight heaven
as you look up at it all the way from
the Sandwich islands to Australia.
They shall come from the south.
But I must not forget that my text
takes in another point of the compass.
1t takes in tho east have to report
that in Journey around the world
there is nothing so much impresses one
as the fact that the missionaries divine
ly blessed are taking the world fol
God. The horrible war between japan
and China will leave the last wall O.
opposition flat in the dust. War /:
barbarism always and everywhere
We hold up our hands in amazemen
at the massacre at Port Arthur, a.
though Christian nations could neve
{ 60 into such diabolism. We forgo
Fort Pillow. We forget the fact tina
during our war both north and soutl
rejoiccd when there were 10000 NOR
wounded and slain on the opposite
, side. War, whether in China o
/ the United States, is hell le
loose. But one good result vii
5 come from the Representatives,
5 conflict. Those egions will be NOR
t open to civilization and Christianlt.
than ever before When Missionar.
Carey put before an assembly of min
: listers at Northampton, England, hi
' project for the evangelization Of India
f they laughed hi q out of the house
c From Calcutta on the east of India t.
t. Bombay on the west, there is not
4 neigh borhood but directly or indircctl
feels the gospel power The Juggel
t naut. which did its awful work TO
i; centuries, few weeks ago was brough
I out from the place where it has TO
!; Yeas been kept under shed as cur
e osity, and there was no one reverential
n
o Christian souls in India are the ad
y vance guard that will lead on the tw
n hundred and fifty million The Chris
8 tians of Annoy and Pekin and Canto
r are the advance guard that will lead tn
n three hundred and forty MILL Q
q China They shall come froin tn
p east" The last mosque of M"llam
s. mechanism will be tur rcd in'r
e Christian church. The last b his
/: temple will become a fortress Of i int
q The last idol of lIindo ii ,m Wi b
|. pitched into the FIRE The Chri i VII
e came from the east will yet bril- a.
f. the east with him
O there is that mother who tl""uC
d all the years of infancy and childhoo
l. was kept running amid sick trundl
=, beds. now to shake up the pillow fc
S that faxen head, and now to give
If drink to those parched lips, and no.
r to hush the frightened dream of Ii
g. tie one; and when there was one LEI
Il of the children because the great love
= of children had lifted one out of til
S Group into the easy breathing Of cele
It tial atmosphere, the mother putin
d all the more anxious care on those VIII
70 were lest; so weary of arm, and foo
and back, and head, so often cryin
ID out, II am so tired. / am so tired!
- Her work done she shall sit down. An
<. that business man for thirty, fortyfift
10 years has kept on the run, not urge
N by selfshness, but for the purpose c
% achieving livelihood for the house
= hold On the run from store to store
le or from factory to factory; meetin
!. this loss, and discovering that inaccr
II racy, and suffering betrayal or disal
"a pointment; never more to be cheate
n. or perplexed, or exasperated, ne sha
S. sit down. Not in a great arm chair {
"a heaven, for the rockers ofsuch cha
3. would imply ones need Of soothing
=. rlinping to easy posture. or seml-lnd