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homes,
and no

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or ,p,h antrapcements left to detain one
nlees he is cautious until he is down VIZ VIZ
i mo of the malarias which encompass .n'
y ,land or get bitten with some OF its shan mae
s-as falt the chilly dampness OF the pif,oo
nd left this congress of gods; TINS paHu.e ps.s
lanonjum OF demons, this pantheon OF lnun und
| ferent deities, and came 70 tne Hp5 s'np55 and
iooi.ad Off unon the waters which rolled anu
| flashed around the steam yacht ina. A.
,raitino TO return with us to BOMBAY; 40
we stepped aboard, our minds 1iieu WI" -; ~
| idols of the Elephanta caves, was III
nressed as never before with the thoughi
that man must have religion OF son,e so,e h'nt nd
| even If he has to contrive one hlhsel', ~ -
ba must have god even though he make !.
nJ ,,'5.h u bis own hand I rejoice to know the
dav will come when the one God OF the UNI.
verse will be acknowledged throughout
| India. po,b,v
Visited the Young Mems Christian As5ocia-
tion with the same appointments that YOU
find in the Young Mems Christian Associa. A.
tions of Europe and America, and the nlght
oftar that 7 addressed throug OF native
| cbildren who are in the schools oil the Cnfis-
tian missions. Christian universities gather
under their wing of benediction most OF
the voune men of this country. BOMBAY
and Calcutta. the two great commerclai
cities of India feel the elevatinS power vi
an aggressive Christianity. Eplscophiian
| lituroy. and Presbyterian Westminster cate
nbism and Methodist anxious seat. and Bap-
fist waters of conservation now stand where
! once basest idolatries had undlsputed sway.
The work which Shoemaker Carey 1naugu-
| rated at Serampore, India. transiatlnS tue
| Rihle info forty different dialects, and leav-
inc his wornout body amid the natives
| whom he had come to save, and going up IN
| TO the heavens from which ne can petter
~ hat
| nleted in the salvation OF the millions OF lh-
| dia. and beside him gazing from the same
hioh places stand Bishop Heber and Alexan-
der Duff and John Scudder and Mackay,
who fell at Delhi. and MoncrieH, VINO rel at
Cawnpur, and Polehampton, who fell at
Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell at fultl-
parb, and all heroes and heroines VINO Ior
Christ's sake lived and died for the CHRISTI
njzation of India, and their heaven Will NOT
be complete until the Ganges that washes
the CHATS OF heather temples shall roll be-
tween churches of the living God. and tho
tramped Womanhood of HindoolSm snail
have all the rights purchased by MN VINO
amid the cuts and staDs OF his own assass'.
nation cried out, "Behod thy mother" ana
from Bengal Bay to Arabian Ocean, and
from the Himalayas to the coast OF Corom-
nndel there be lifted hosannas to Him who
died to redeem all nations. In that day
EIephanta cave will be one OF the places
where idols are 'cast TO the moleS anj
bats"
If any clergyman asks me, as an unbe lev,
ing minister of religion once asked the Duke
of Wellington. "Do you not think that the
work of converting the Hindoos is all q
practical farce?" / answer him rs yelling
ton answered the unbelievel minister,
Look to your marching orders, sir" Or
if any one having joined in the gospel at
tack feels like retreating 1 say to him, as
General Havelock said TO a retreatinG rag-
ment. "The enemy are in front, not In the
rear" and leading them again into the
fight. though two horses had been shot un-
der him.
Indeed the taking of this world for Christ
will be no holiday celebration, but as tre
mendous as when in India during the
mutiny OF 1857 a fortress manned by sepoy5
was to he captured by Sir Colin Campbell
and the army of Britain. The seDoys hurled
upon the attacking columns burning mis-
sles and grenades, and fired on them shot
and shell, and poured on them from the
ramparts burning oil until a writer who wit
messed it says, at WIS a picture of pande-
monum Then Sir Colin addressed his
troops, saying, "Remembar the women and
children must be res ,ued !" and his men re-
pliei: ''Aye, aye, Sir Colin We stood by
you at Balaklava, and we stand by you here"
And then came the triumphant assault OF
the battlementS. 80 In tulS SoSpei CAM
paign, which proposes 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 an 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: "Aye, aye.
great captain of our salvation! We estoodb 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 foriiflcation
shall crash into ruin, we will join in the
shout, "Thanks be unto God, who giveth us
the victory (" "Haleuiah, Tor the Lord Gol
omnipotent reigneth!" !"