The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-02-01

Run line from the center Of the forehead
straight to'the floor OF the rock, and you d.
vide this idol into masculine and feminine.
Admired as this idol Is by many, It was to me
about the worst thing that was ever cut into
porphyry, perhaps because there 10 hardly
anything on earth 50 Objectionable as be-
ing half man and half woman. Do be one or
other, my nearer Man is admirable and wo-
man Is admirable, bit either In flesh or trap
rock compromise OF the two is hldeous
Save us from eifeminate men and masculine
Womeni
Yonder is the King Ravana worshiping.
Yonder Is the scultured representation Of
the marriage OF silva and Parhah Yonder ID
Daksha, the son OF Brahma, born from the
thumb OF his right hand. He had sixty
daughters. Seventeen Of those daughters
were married TO Kasyapa and became tho
mothers Of the human race. Yonder Is a
god with three heads. The center God has
a crown wound with necklaces OF skulls.
The right hand god Is In paroxysm OF rage,
with forehead Of snakes, and in its hand Is a
cobra. The left hand god has pleasure in all
its features, and the hand has flower. But
there are gods and goddesses In all direc-
tions. The chief temple OF this rock Is 1870
teet square and has twenty-sx pillars rising
10 the roof. After the conquerors OF
other lands and the tourists from all
lands have deiaced and chipped and blast
ed and carried away curios and mementos
for museums and homes, there
are enough entrancements left to detain one
unless he is cautious until he is down with
some OF the malarias which encompass TINS
island or get bitten with some OF Its snakes.
Yes, / felt the chilly dampness Of the place
and left this congress Of gods; this paHde-
monium OF demons, this pantheon OF indif-
| ferent deities, and came to the steps ana
looked off upon the waters which rolled and
| flashed around the steam yacht that was
waiting TO return with US TO Bombay. AS
we stepped aboard, our minds filled with the
| idols of the Elephanta caves, l was inn
| pressed as never before with the thought
| that man must have a religion OF some kind
| even II he has to cOntrive one himself, and
| he must have god even though he make 1t
/ with his own hand. I rejoice to know the
/ day will come when the one God Of the uni
verse will be acknowledged throughout
| India.
That evening OF our return TO Bombay
visited the Young Mems Christian As7ocia-
| tion with the same appointments that you
find In the Young Mems Christian Associa-
lions of Europe and America, ana the night
after that addressed throng OF native
children who are in the schools OF the Chris
tian missions. Christian universities gather
under their wing of benediction a host Of
the young men OF this country. Bombay
and Calcutta. the two great commercial
cities OF India, feel the elevattng power OF
an aggressive Christianity. Episcopalan
liturgy, and Presbyterian Westminster cate
chism, and Methodist anxious seat, and Bap-
fist waters of conservation now stand where
once basast idolatries had undisputed sway.
The work which Shoemaker Carey inaugu-
rated at Serampore, India. Transmitting the
Bible into forty different dialects, and leav-
ing his Wornout body amid the natives
whom he had come to save, and going up in
to the heavens from which he can better
watch all the fleld-that work will be CON-
pleted in the salvation of the millions OF In
dia, and beside him gazing from the same
high places stand Bishop Heber and Alexan-
der Dun and John scudder and Mackay
who fell at Delhi. and Moncried, who fell at
Cawnpur, and Polehampton, who fell al
Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell Mt FUtu
garb and all heroes and heroines who fol
Ohrist's sake lived and died for the Christi
nization of India, and their heaven will no
be complete until the GaDges that washes
the CHATS OF heather temples shall roll be
tween churches OF the living God, and tn
trampled womanhood of Hindooism shall
have all the rights purchased by him whit
amid the cuts and stabs of his own assassi
nation cried out, "Behold thy mother !" ant
from Bengal Bay to Arabian Ocean, ant
from the Himalayas to the coast OF Corom'
nndel there be lifted hosannas TO Him VIII,
died to redeem all nations. In that day
Elephanta cave will be one of the places
where idols are "cast to the moles anC
bats"
If any clergyman asks me, as an unbeliev
ing minister OF religion once asked the Duk
of Wellington, "Do you not think that thu
work Of converting the Hindoos is all {
practical farceP" l answer him ne yelling
ton answered the unbelieved minister
"Look to your marching orders, sirp d
If any one having joined in the gospel at
tack feels like retreating / say to him, al
General Havelock said to q retreating regt
ment, "The enemy are In front, not in thu
rear" and leading them again into thu
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 tire.
mendous as when in India during the
mutiny Of 1857 a fortress manned by sepoyi
was to be captured by Sir Colin Campbell
and the army Of Britain. The sepoys hurled
upon the attacking columns burning mis-
stiles and grenGdes, and Aired on them sho
and she'll, and poured on them from tn
ramparts burning oil until writer who wit
messed Il says, "It was a picture OF pande
moDium." Then Sir Colin addressed hii
troops, saying, "Remember the women anC
children must be rescued r. and his men re
piled: "Aye, aye, Sir Collin We stood By
you at Balaklava, and we standby you here.
And then came the triumphant assault o.
the battlements. So in this gospel 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 Westood BY
thee In other conflicts, and we will stand by
thee to the last. And then, II not In this
world, then from the battlements OF the
next, as the last Appolyonic fertilization
shall crash into ruin, we will join in the
shout, "Thanks be unto God, who glveth US
the victory" "Hallelulah, for the Lord God
Omnipotent reignethw