The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1895-03-07
BENTON LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, MARCH l. 1895.

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through my text got the north, in not
withstanding its frosts, and the same
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 iterature;
Mexico in strange dialect of the
Aztecs; Mexico conquered by Her
man Cortez, to be more glori-
ously conquered, Mexico with its cap
ital more than seven thousand feet
above the sea level, looking down
upon the enhancement of lake, and
valley, and plain; Mexico, the home OF
nations yet to be born-all for Christ.
The south! That means Africa, which
David Livingstone consecrated to God
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, Melanesia,
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 boundiess groves; the lands,
the seas, that night by night look up
| to the southern cross, which in stars
| transfg ures the midnight Heaven as
you look up at it all the way from the
Sandwich islands to Australia. s'They
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. l have
to report that in a journey around the
world there is nothing SO much inn
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.
| War, whether in China or the United
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 aot neighborhood but di-
rectly or Indirectly feels the Gospel
power. The Juggernaut, which did
it's awful work for centuries, a
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
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 fortress of
light. The last idol of Hindooism
will be pitched into the fire. The
Christ who came from the east ill
yet 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 ChuU UhIouC cl CAC UdhhS VI GIlt
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-
hammedanism is curse, whether in
Turkey or New York! ''They shall
come from the east" And they
will come at the call of ths
ioveliest, and grandest, and best mer
and women of all time. ] mean tht
missionaries. Dissolute Americans ant
Englishmen who have gone to Calcutta
and Bombay and Canton to make theil
fortunes defame the missionaries be
cause the holy lives and the pur,
households OF those missionaries are
!