Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-01-10

under their wing of benediction 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 and
Presbyterian Westminster catechism,
and Methodist anxious seat, and Bap-
fist waters of conservation now stand
where once basest idolatries had un-
disputed sway. The work which shoe
maker Carey inaugurated at Serampore,
India, translating the Bible into forty
different dialects, and leaving his
wornout body amid the natives whom
he had come to save, and going up into
the heavens from which he can better
watch all the field-that work will be
completed in the salvation of the mill
ions of India; and beside him gazing
from the same high places stand Bishop
Heber, and Alexander Duff, and John
Scudder, and Mackay, who fell at
Delhi, and Monteieff, who fell at
Cawnpore, and Polehampton, who fell
at Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell at
Futtyghur, and all heroes and heroines
who, for Christ's sake, lived and died
for the Christianization of India; and
their heaven will not be complete until
the Gauges that washes the Chats of
heather temples shall roll between
churches of the living God, and the
trampled womanhood of Hindooism
shall have all the rights purchased by
him who amid the cuts and stabs of his
own assassination cried out: behold
thy mother!'' and from Bengal Bay to
Ara bian ocean, and from the Himalayas
to the coast of Coromandel there be
lifted hosannas to Him who died to re-
deem all nations. In that Elephanta
Cave will be one of the places where
idols are cast to the moles and bats.
If any clergyman asks me, as an I'M
believing minister of religion once
asked the duke of Wellington, do
you not think the work of converting
the Hindoos is all a practical farce?"
| answer him as Wellington answered
the unbelieving minister: Look to
your marching orders, sir!" Or if any
one having joined in the gospel attack
feels like retreating, L say to him, as
regiment, THE enemy are in front,
not in the rear" and leading them
again into the fight, though two
horses had been shot under him.
Indeed, the taking of this world for
Christ will be no holiday celebration,
but as tremendous as when in India
during the mutiny of 1857, a fortress
manned by Sepoys was to be captured
by Sir Colin Campbell and the army of
Britain. The Sepoys hurled upon the
attacking columns burning missiles,
and grenades, and fired on them shot
and shell, and poured on them from
the ramparts burning oil, until, a
writer who witnessed it says, 1T was
a picture of pandemonium." Then Sir
Colin addressed his troops, saying,
Remember the women and children
'Ay! Ay! Sir Colin! We stood by you at
Balaklava, and will stand by you
here" And then came the trium-
plant assault of the battlements. So
in this gospel campaign which pro-
poses capturing the very last citadel
of idolatry and sin, and hosting over it
the banner of the cross, we may have
hurled upon us mighty opposition, and
scorn, and obloquy, and many may fall
before the work is done, yet at every
call for new onset, let the cry of the
church be cay! ay! Great captain of
our salvation; we stood by thee in
other conflicts, and we will stand by
thee to the last!" And then, if not in this
world, then from the battlements of
the next, as the last Appolyonic forti-
fication shall crash into ruin, we will
Join in the shout: Thanks be unto
God who giveth us the victory" Hal
lelujah! for the Lord God omnipotent
reigneth.