News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-01-24

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strange Dialect Of the Azteys; Mexico
conquered by Herman Cortes, to be more
gloriously cOnquered; Mexico, with IL
capital more than 1000 feet above the
sea level looking down upon the en-
trancement of lake and valley and plain;
Mexico, the homo of nations yet to be
born-all for Christ. The soulful That
means Africa, which David Livingstone
consecrated to God when he died ON his
knees i'll his tent of exploration. Already
about $50, 900 converts to Christianity
in Africa. The soulful That means all
the islands strewn by omnipotent hand
through tropical seas-Malayan Poly
nesia, Melanesia, Micronesia and other
islands more numerous than you can
imagine unless you have voyaged around
the world The soulful That means Java
for God, Sumatra for God, Borneo for
God, Siam for God.
A ship was wrecked near one of these
islands, and two lifeboats put out for
shore, but those who arrived in tho first
boat were dubbed to death by tho can
nibals, and the other boat put back and
was somehow saved. Years passed on,
ard one of that very crew was wrecked
again with others OH the same rocks.
Crawling up on the shore, they proposed
to hide from the cannibals in one of the
caverns, but mounting the rocks they
saw church and cried out: 1--WE are
saved! A church. church," The south !
That means Venezuela, New Granada.
Ecuador and Bolivia. The south! That
means the torrid zone, with all its
bloom, and all its fruitage, and all its
exuberance, the redolence of illimitable
gardens, the music of boundless groves,
the lands, the seas, that night by night
look up to the southern cross, which, in
stars, transfgures the midnight heaven
as you look up at it all the way from
the Sandwich Islands to Australia.
''They shall come from the south
Christ In the East.
But I must not forget that my text
takes in another cardinal point of the
compass. 1t takes in the east. have to
report that in journey around the world
there is nothing so much impresses one
as the fact that the missionaries divine
ly blessed are taking the world for God.
The horrible war between Japan and
China will leave the last wall of oppo-
sition fat in the dust. War is barbarism
always and everywhere. We hold up
our hands in amazement at the massacre
at Port Arthur, as though Christian ma
lions could never go into such diabolism.
We forget Fort Pillow! We forget the
fact that during our war both north and
south rejoiced when there were 10, 900
more wounded and slain on the opposite
side. War, whether in China or the
United States, is hell let loose. But one
good result will come from the Japanese
Chinese conflict. These regions will be
more open to civilization and Christian
ity than ever before. When Missionary
Carey put before an assembly of minis
tiers at Northampton his project for the
evangelization of India, they laughed
him out of the house. From Calcutta on
the east of India to Bombay ON the west
there is not a neighborhood but directly
or indirectly feels the gospel power.
The Juggernaut, which did its awful
work for centuries, few weeks ago was
brought out from the place where it has
for years been kept under shed as Gu
riosity, and there was no one reveren.
TALLY to greet it. About 3, 900, 900 OF
Christian souls in India are the advance
guard that will lead Oh the $50, 600, 600.
The Christians Of Annoy and Picking and
Canton are the advance guard that will
lead the $40, 900, 900 of China. ''They
shall come from the east" Tho last
mosque of Mohammedanism will be
turned into Christian church. Tho last
Buddhist temple will become q fortress
of light. The last idol of Hindooism
will be pitched into the fire.
The Christ who came from the east
will yet bring all the east with him. Of
course there are high obstacles to be
overcome, and great ordeals must be
passed through before the consumma-
ton, as witness the Armenians under
the butchery of the Turks. May that
throne ON the banks of the Bosporus
soon crumble! The time has already
come when the United States govern
ment and Great Britain and Germany
ought to intone the indignation of I'll
civilized nations. While it is not reT-
uisite that arms be sent there to avenge
the wholesale massacre of Armenians, it
is requisite that by cable under the seas,
and by protest that shall thrill the wires
from Washington and London and Ber-
lin to Constantinople, the nations an
athematize the diaholism for which the
sultan OF Turkey is responsible. Moham-
mechanism is a curse whether in Turkey
or New York. "They shall come from
the east" And they will come at the
call of the loveliest and grandest and
best men and women of all time. mean
the missionaries Dissolute Americans
and Englishmen who have gone to Cal
cutta and Bombay and Canton to make
their fortunes defame the missionaries
because the holy lives and the pure
households of those missionaries are
constant rebuke to the American and
English libertines stopping there, but
the men and women of God there sta
toned go on gloriously with their work.
People just as good and self denying as
was Missionary Moffat, who, when ask
ed to write in an album, wrote %lese
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,