The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-02-15


wall Of opposition fiat In the dust. War Is
barbarsm always and everywhere. Wehold
up our hands In amazement AZ the massacre
az Port Arthur, as though Christian Nations
could never 90 into such dabolism. We
forget Fort Pillow We forget the fact that
during our war both North and South re-
iolced when there were 10000 more
wounded and slain on the opposite side.
War, whether I'm China or the United
States, Is hell let loose. But one good result
will come from the Japanese-C Chinese con-
hict. These regions will DO moro open TO
civilization and Christianity than ever be-
fore. When Missionary Carey put before an
assembly OF ministers at northampton his
project for the eyangelzation of India, they
laughed him out Of tho house. From Cal-
sutta on the east Of India to Bombay on tho
west there Is not neighborhood but directly
or indirectly feels the gospel power. The
Juggernaut, which did ia awful work Tor
centuries, few weeks ago was brought out
from the place where II has for years been
kept under shed as a curiosity, and there
was no one reverentially 10 greet IT, About
5000, 900 OF Christian souls In India are the
advance guard that win lead on the ESQ.,
900 ,0O0 The Christians OF Annoy and Pek-
ing and Canton are the advance guard that
will lead the $40 600, 900 OF China. "rhey
shall come from the East" The last mosque
of Mohammedanism will be turned into a
Christian church. The last Buddhist temple
will become fortress OF light. The last
idol Of Hlndooism will be pitched into the
Gre.
The Christ who came from the East will
yet bring all the East with Him. or course
there are high obstacles TO be overcome, and
great ordeals must be passed through before
the consummation, as witness the Armenians
Al. HNtuH
throne on the banks of the BosphOrus soon
crumhle The time has already come when
the United States Government and Great
Britain and Germany ought TO intome the
indignation of all civilized Nations. While
II is not requisite that arms be sent there to
ayenge the wholesale massacre OF Armen-
ians, It is requisite that by cable under the
seas, and by protest that shall thrill the
wires from Washington and London and
Berlin to Constantinople. the Nations an
alternative the diabolism for which the Sui
tan Of Turkey is responsible. Mohammedan-
ism is a curse whether in Turkey or New
York. "They shall come from the East. ="
And they will come at the call OF the love-
lest and grandest and hest men and women
of all time. mean the missionaries. Dis
solute Americans and Englishmen who have
gone to Calcutta and Bombay and Canton TO
make their fortunes deiame the missionaries
because the holy lives and the pure house
holds of those missionaries are a constant re-
Duke TO the American and English libertines
stopping there, but the men and women of
God there stationed 20 on gloriously with
their work. People just as good and self
denying as was Missionary Molfat, who
when asked 10 write in an album, wrote
these Words
MY album is in savage breasts.
Where passion reigns and darkness rests
Without one ray Of light.
To write the name of Jesus there,
To point to worlds both bright and fair.
And see the pagan bow in prayer,
Is all my souls delight
In all those regions are men and women
with the conservation of Melville b. Cox,
who, embarking for the missionary work In
Africa, said to fellow student, "If die in
Africa, come and write my epitaDh." "What
shall | write for your epitaph?" said the
student. "Write," said he "these words
''Let a thousand fall before Africa be given
up"
There Is another point OF the compass 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
holiness and rapture. Will it be done b,
M0AAl1 lClOilA VI 0NhuSbl5luf VIII II DO
law or gospel? I an glad that a wave o.
reform he's swept across this land and al
the cities are feeling the advantage OF the
mighty movement. Let the good work pC
on until the last municipal evil is ex
/ tirpated. About fifteen years ago the dis
/ tinguished editor of a New York dali,
newspaper said to me in his editoria
room: "You ministers talk about evils o
which you know nothing. Why don't you
| so with the officers Of the law and explore
! for yourself so that when you preach agains
| sin you can speak from what you have seer
/ with your own eyes?" / said, 'T will" an(
in company with commissioner of polio
! and a captain ofpollce and two elders of m,
church explored the dens and hiding place
/ OF all styles OF crime in New York ant
! preached a series OF sermons warning youni
men and setting forth the work that must b
done lest the judgments of God whelm thi
city with more awful submergement than tn
volcanic deluge that buried Herculaneun
and Pompeii. l received, as nearly as l cal
remember, several hundred columns of news
paper abuse for undertaking that explora
ton. Editorials of denunciation, doubl
loaded, and with captions in great prime
type, entitled "The Fall of Talmage,' o.
"Talmage Makes the Mistake of His Life,
or "Down With Talmage," but I still liv,
aud am in full sympathy with all movement
for municipal publication.
But a movement which ends with Grim
exposed and law executed stops half way
Nay, 1t stops long before 1t gets half way
The law never yet saved anybody, never We
changed anybody. Break up ali the house
OF iniquity in this city, and you only sen
the occupants to other cities. Break dow
all the policemen in New York, and while
changes their worldly fortunes II does nc
change their heart or LIE. The creates
want In New York to-day is the transform
ing power Of the gospel OF jesus Christ t
change the heart and the life and uplift th
tone of moral sentiment and make men d
right not because they are afraid OF Ludlo'
Street Jail or Sing Sing, but because the
love God and hate unrighteousness. / hay
never heard, nor have you heard, OF any
thing except the gospel that proposes to re
generate the heart, and by the influence
that regenerared heart rectify the life. e.
ecute the law most certainly, but preach tn
gospel by all means In churches, in theatres
in homes In prisons on the land and on III