Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-02-01

1Ge CnrlSt VINO came from the East Will
yet bring all the East with Him. or course
there are high obstacles to be overcome, and
great ordeais must be passed through before
the consumnation, as witness the Armenians
under the butchery Of the Turks. May that
throne on the banks OF the Bosphorus soon
crumhlel The time has already come when
the United States Government AMI Great
Britain and Germany ought TO intome the
indignation of all civilized Nations. While
it is not requisite that arms be sent there to
avenge 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
athematize the diabolism for which the Sui
tan of Turkey is responsible. Nohammes.an-
ism Is a curse whether in Turkey or New
York. "They shall come from the East"
And they will come Mt the call OF the love-
lest and grandest and best men and women
of all time. mean the missionaries. Dis
sOlute Americans and Engishmen who have
gone to Calcutta and Bombay and Canton to
make their fortunes defame the missionaries
because the holy lives and the pure house.
holds of those missionaries are constant re-
buEe to the American and English libertines
stopping there but the men and women Of
God there stationed go on gloriously with
their work, People just as good anl self
denying as was Missionary MOffat, who,
when asked to 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 AMI women
with the conservation of Melville B. Cox,
who, embarking for the missionary work in
Africa, said to fellow student, 'Tf die in
~ nd
shall [ write for your epitaph?" said the
student. "Write," said he, ''these words
LET a thousand fall before Africa be given
up"
There ls 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 Il be done by
| worldly reform or evangelism? Will it be
law or gospel2 I an glad that a wave OF
| reform has swept across this land, and all
| the cities are feeling the advantage of the
mighty movement. Let the good work go
on until the last municipal evil ls ex.
tirpated. About fifteen years ago the dis
! tinl,uished editor of New York daily
/ newspaper said to me in his editorial
| room "You ministers talk about evils ol
i which you know nothing. Why don't you
| go with the officers of the law and explore
for yourself so that when you preach against
}
with your own eyes?" l said, "I WILL" and
! in company with commissioner of police
and captain fpolice and two elders Of my
church 1 explored the dens and hiding places
| of all styles OF crime In New York and
/ preached a series OF sermons warning Young
| men and setting forth the work that must be
done lest the judgments of God whalm this
city with more awful subnlergement than the
volcanic deluge that buried Herculaneum
and Pompei I received as nearly as can
oborS hTJD Jra6c Of
| paper abuse for undertaking that explora-
ton. Editorials of denunciation, double
loaded, and with captions in great primer
type, entitled "The Fall of Talmase," or
''Talmage Makes the Mistake of His Life, ;"
or "Down With Talmage," but still live
aud am in full sympathy with all movements
for municipal publication.
But a movement which ends with crima
exposed and law executed stops half way.
Nay, it stops long before it gets half way
The law never yet saved anybody, never yet
changed anybody. Break up all the houses
of iniquity in this city, and you only send
the occupants to other cities. Break down
all the policemen in New York, and while II
change their heart or life. The greatest
want in New York to-day is the transform
ing power Of the gospel Of Jesus Christ tO
change the heart and the life and>uplift the
tone OF moral sentiment and make men do
right not because they are afraid Of Ludlow
Street Jail or Sing Sing, but because they
love God and hate uurighteousness. 1 have
never heard, nor have you heard, of any
thing except the gospelt that proposes to re-
generate the heart, and by the influence OF
that regenerared heart rectify the life. Ex-
ecute the law most certainly, but preach the
gospel by all means in churches, in theatres,
in homes, In prisons, on the land and on the
sea. The gospel is the only power that can
revoutionize society and save the world. All
else Is half and half work and will not last.
| In New York 1t has allowed men who got by
police bribery their thousands and tens OF
thousands and perhaps hundreds of thou
sands of dollars to go scot free, while some
who we're merely the cats paw and agents oi
bribery are struck with the lightnings Of the
law 1t reminds me of a scene in Philadel.
phia when 1 was living there. A poor wo-
man had been arrested and tried and i'm
prisoned for selling molasses candy on Sun.
day. Other lawbreakers had been allowed
to 90 undisturbed, and the grogshops were
open On the Lords Day, and the law, with
its hands behind its back, walked up and
down the streets declining to molest many
of the offenders, but we all rosa up in ou,
righteous Indignation, and calling upon al
powers, visible and invisible, to help US, We
declared that though the heavens fell no wo
man should be allowed to sell molasse:
candy on Sunday.
A few weeks ago, after had preached in
one Of the churches In this city, a mar
staggered up on the pulpit stairs. maudlr
drunk. saying, 81 am one OF the reformerE
that were elected TO DlSQ ONCE at the las
election" l got rid of that "great reformer'
as soon rs could, but l did not get rid OF
the impression that a man like that would
cure the abominations OF New York about as
soon as smallpox would cure typhoid fever
or a buZZSaw render HaydnS "Creatton. "
Politics in all our cities has become so cor
rupt that the only difference between the
Republican and Democratic parties Is that
each Is worse than the other. But what
nothing else in the universe can do the gos
md will NIL iSh hal
come from the West" and for that purpose
the evangelistic batteries are planted all
along the Pacific coast, as they are planted
all along the Atlantic coast. All the prai
ries, all the mountains, all the valleys, al
the cities are under more or less gospel In
fuence, and when we get enough faith and
consecretion for the work this whole Ameri'
can continent will cry out for God. "They
shall come from the West"
The work is not 50 difficulty as many sup
pose, You say, ''There are the foreign pop
ulations" Yes, but many Of them are HoI
landers, and they were brought up to love
and worship God, and it will take but little
to persuade the Hollanders to adopt the re
licion OF their forefathers. Then there are
among these foreigners so many OF th
Scotch They or their ancestors heart
Thomas Chalmers thunder AMI Robert Nc
Cheyne pray. The breath O God so often
swept through the heather of th e highlands
and the voice of God has often sounded
through the Trossachs, and they all know
, how to sing Dundee, so that they will no
. have often to be invited to accept the God
John Knox and Boutwell, Bridge.
Then there are among these foreigners 81
many of the English. They inherited tn
same language as we inherited-the EnSl1st
: ! in which Shakespeare dramatized, and Mil
ton chimed his cantos, and Henry Melville
gospelized, and Oliver Cromwell proroguet
parliament, and Wellington commanded hi
eager hosts. Among these foreigners ar
: the Swiss, and they were rocked in cradle
under the shadow of the Alps, that cathedra
of the Almighty in which all the elements
= snow and hail and tempest and hurricane
worship. Among these foreigners are vas
host of Germans. and they feel centurie
afterward the power Of that unparallele