The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-21

level, looking down upon the entrance
ment of lake and valley and plain;
Mexico, the home of nations yet to be
born-all for Christ The south! That
means Africa, which David Livingstone
consecrated to God when he died on
his knees in his tent of exploration.
Already about 750, 900 converts to
Christianity in Africa The south!
That means all the islands strewn by
Omnipotent hand through tropical
seas. Malayan. Polynesia, Melanesia,
Micronesia, and other islands more
numerous than you can imagine unless
you have voyaged around the world
The south! That means Java for God;
Sumatra for God; Borneo for God;
Siam for God.
A ship was wrecked near one of these
islands and two life boats put out for
shore, but those who arrived in the
first boat were dubbed todeath by the
cannibals, and the other boat put back
and was somehow saved. Years passed
on, and one of that very crew was
wrecked again with others on the
same rocks Crawling up on the shore
they proposed to hide from the canni-
balls in one of the caverns, but mount
ing the rocks they saw 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
torrid zone, with all its bloom, and all
its fruitage, and all its exuberance;
the redolence of illimita BILE gardens;
the music of boundless groves; the
lands, the seas, that night by night
look up to the southern cross, which in
stars transfigures 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.
, It takes in the east. I 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 for
! God. The horrible war between Japan
and China will leave the last wall of
opposition fiat in the dust. War is
barbarism always and everywhere
! We hold up our hands in anazement
| at the massacre at Port Arthur, as
! though Christian nations could never
go into such diabolism. We forgot
Fort Pillow! We forget the fact that
during our war both north and south
ejoiced when there were 70, 900 more
wounded and slain on the opposite
side. War, whether in China OF
the United States, is hell let
loose. But one good result viii
come from the Japanese-Chinese
conflict. Those regions will be more
70 as "
than ever before. When Missionary
Carey put before an assembly of min
! listers at Northampton, England, his
project for the evangelization of India,
they laughed hin out of the house.
From Calcutta on the east of India tc
| Bombay on the west, there is not {
neighborhood but directly or indirectly
feels the gospel power. The Jugger
naut, which did it's awful work fol
centuries, a few weeks ago was brought
out from the place where it has fol-
years been kept under shed as a curl
Osity, and there was no one reverential
ly to greet it. About three million o.
Christian souls in India are the ad
vance guard that will lead on the two
hundred and fifty million. The Chris
tians of Annoy and Pelzin and Cantor
are the advance guard that will lead the
three hundred and forty million o
China. They shall come from th'
east" The last mosque of NOLAN
mechanism will be turned into
Christian church. The last Budhis
temple will become a fortress of light
The last idol of Hindooism will b,
pitched into the fire. The Christ VIII,
came from the east will yet bring al
the east with him. Of course, Their
are high obstacles to be overcome, ant
great ordeals must be passed through
before the contamination: as witnes
the Armenians under the butchery o
the Turk. May that throne on tn
banks of the Bosphorous soon crumble
The time has already come when tn
United States government and Grea
Britain, and Germany ought to inton
the indignation of all civilized nations
While it is not requisite that arms b
sent there to avenge the whOlesal
massacre OF Armenians, it is requisit
that by cable under the seas and b
protest that shall thrill the wires froI
, Washington, and London and Berlin t
, Constantinople, the nations anathems
tie the dia bolism for which the su
; tan of Turkey is responsible. Mohan
mechanism is curse whether i
, Turkey or New York. ''They sha
; come from the eastn And they wi
. come at the call of the loveliest. an
grandest, and best men and women {
{ all the time. [ mean the missionarie
! Dissolute Americans and Englishme
who have gone to Calcutta, and Bon
bay, and Canton to make their 70
tunes, defame the missionaries b.
cause the holy lives and the pun
households of those missionaries al
a constant rebul1e to the American an
: English ibertines stopping there, bl
= the men and women of God there st
+ toned go on gloriously with the
+ work; people just as good and sci
: denying as was Missionary Moffat, WI
: xuha., asl.ad "a ..-1.ita in an bur