The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-01-30

church. \ church" The south!
That means Venezuela, New Grenada,
Ecuador and Bolivia. The south.
That means the torlid zone, with all
lis bloom and ali its fruit&ge aud all
lis eXuberance, the redolence of illim-
liable 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 1t
all the way from the Sandwich Is
lands to Australia. They shall come
from the south
But must rot forget that my text
takes in another cardinal point of the
compass. 1t takes in the east. | have
to report that in a Journey around the
world there is nothing so much I'M
presses one as the fact that the ms
sionaries. divinely blessed, are taxing
the world for God. The horrible war
between Japan and China will leave
the last wall of opposition flat IN the
dust. War is barbarism always ana
everywhere We hold up our hands
in amazement at the massacre at Fort
Arthur as though Christian nations
could never 60 into such dlaboilsm:
We forget Fort Pillow. We forget
the fact that during the war both
north and south rejoiced when there
were 10. 600 more wounded and slam
on the opposite side. War, whether
in China or the United States, is hell
let loose. But one good result will
come from the Japanese-Chinese con-
flict-those regions will be more open
to civilization and Christianity than
ever before. When Missionary Carey
put before an assembly of ministers at
Northampton. England, his project
for the evangeiiZation of India, they
laughed him out of the house. From
Calcutta now on the east of India to
Bombay on the west there is not a
neishborhood but directly or indi-
rectly feels the gospel power. The
Juggernaut, which did its awful work
for centuries. u few weeks ago was
brought out from the place where 1t
has for years been kept under shed as
a curiosity. and there was no one rev
erentiallv to greet it. About 3,OO0,-
900 of Christian:.souls in India are the
advance guard that will lead on the
250.OO0, GOO. The Christians Of Annoy
and Peking and Canton are the adj
vance guard that will lead on the 340,-
900, ,OC0 OF China. They shall come
from the east. The last mosque of
Mohammedanism Will be turned into
a Christian church. The last BUD
dhist temple will become a fortress of
light. The last idol Of Hindoo!sm
will be pitched into the fire.
The Christ who came from the east
will yet bring all the east with him.
Of course there are high obstacles to
be overcome, and great ordeals must
be passed through before the consum-
nation, as witness the .Armenians un-
der the butchery of the Turks. May
that throne on the banks of the Bospo-
rus soon crumble. The time has al
ready come when the United States
government and Great Britain and
Germany ought to intone the indigna-
ton of all civilized nations. While
it is not requisite that arms be sent
there to avenge the wholesale massa-
ere of Armenians, It is requisite that
by cable under the seas and by protest
that shall thrill the wires from Wash
ington and London and Berlin to Con-
stantinople the nations anathematize
the diabolism for which the sultan of
Turkey is responsible. Mohamme-
danism is a curse whether In Turkey
or New York. They shall come from
the east. And they shall come at
the call of the loveliest and grandest
and best men and women Of all time.
I mean the missionaries. DisSolute
Americans and Englishmen who have
gone to Calcutta and Bombay and
Canton to make their fortunes defame
the missionaries because the holy lives
and pure households of those mis-
sionaries are a constant rebuke to the
American and English libertines stop
ping there, but the men and women
of God there stationed 60 on glorious
" with their work-people just as
good and self denying as was Mission
ary Mofat, who, when asked to write
in an album, wrote these words:
Ny album is in savage breasts,
Where passion reigns and darkness :es.s
Without one ray of light.
To write the name Of Jesus there.
To poiut to words both bright and fair.
And see the pagan bow In prayer,
Is all my souls delight.
In all those regions are men and wo-
men with the consecration of Melville
B. Cox, who, embarking for the mis-
sionary work in Africa, said to afel-
low student, "If die in Africa, come
and write my epitaph." What shall
I write for your epitaph2' said the stu
dent. Write, " said he, these words:
Let thousand fall before Africa be
given up.
There is another point of the com
pass that my text includes. They
Shall come from the west. That
means America redeemed. Everything
between Atlantic and Pacific oceans
to be brought within the circle of holi
ness and rapture Will it be done by
worldly reform or evangelism? VIII
it be law and gospel? l am glad that
a wave of reform has swept across this
land, and all cities are feeling the ad-
vantage of the mighty movement.
Let the goodswork 60 on until the last
,,,nicina1 evil is eytirpated.