The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-02-01


text brings in the south, notwithstand-
ing its torridity. The fields OF cactus.
the orange groves, and the thickets OF
magnolia are to be surrendered to the
Lord Almighty. The south! That
means Mexico, and all the regions that
William H. Prescott and Lord Kings
borough made familiar in literature;
Mexico in strange dialect OF the
Aztecs; Mexico conquered by her
man Cortez, to be more giorl-
ouslv conquered, Mexico with its cap
ital more than seven thousand feet
above the sea level, looking down
upon the enhancement OF lake. anu
valley, and plain; Mexico, the home OF
nations vet to be born-all for Christ.
The south! That means Africa, which
David Livingstone consecrated TO Uod
when he died on his knees in his tent
of exploration. Already about seven
hundred and fifty thousand converts
to Christianity in Africa. The south!
That means all the islands strewn by
the Omnipotent hand through tropical
seas Malayan Polynesia, Melanesla,
Micronesia and other islands more nu-
merous than you can imagine unless
you have voyaged around the world.
The south! That means Java for God;
Sumatra for God; Borneo for God;
Siam for God.
The south! That means the torrid
zone, with all it's 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
transfigu res the midnight Heaven as
you look up at it all the way from the
Sandwich islands to Australia. "Ihey
shall come from the south"
But 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 i'm
presses one as the fact that the mis-
sionaries divinely blessed are taking
the world for God. The horrible war
between Japan and China will leave
the last wall of opposition 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 nations
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 ten thousand more wounded
and slain on the opposite side.
W.. -, or fba TTnita6
States, is hell let loose. But one good
result will come from the Japanese
Chinese conflict. Those regions will
be more open to civilization and Chris
tianity than ever before. When Mis-
rionary Carey put before an assembly
of ministers at Northampton, England,
his project for the evangelization OF
India, they laughed him out of the
house. From Calcutta, and on the
east of India, to Bombay, on the west,
there is not a neighborhood but di-
rectly or indirectly feels the Gospel
power. The Juggernaut, which did
it's awful work for centuries,
few weeks ago was brought
out from the place where it
has for years been kept under shed as
a curiosity, and there was no one rev.
erentially to greet it. About three
million Christian souls in India are
the advance guard that will lead on
the two hundred and fifty millions.
The Christians of Annoy, and Pekin,
and Canton are the advance guard that
will lead the three hundred and forty
millions of China. 'They shall come
from the east" The last mosque of
Mohammedanism will be turned into a
Christian church. The last Buddhist
temple will become a fortress of
light. The last idol of Hindooism
will be pitched into the fire. The
Christ who came from the east will
vet bring all the east back with Him.
of course there are high obstacles to
be overcome, and great ordeals may
be passed through before that con-
summation-as witness the Armenians
under the butchery of the Turks.
May that throne on the banks of the
Bosphosus soon crumble! The time
has aleady come when the United
States government, and Great Britain,
and Germany ought to intone the
Indignation of all civilized nations.
While it is not requisite 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 Berlin,
to Constantinople. the nations an
athematize the diabolism for which the
sultan of Turkey is responsible. Mo-