The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-01-25

conquered py herman Cortes, To DO moro
eloriously conquered; Mexico. with its
capital moro than 1000 feet above the
sea level looking down upon the en-
tranoement of lake and valley and plain
Mexico, the home 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 in his tent of exploration. Already
about 750, 900 converts to Christianity
In Africa The south! 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 south! 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 the cam
nibals, and the other boat put back and
was somehow saved. Years passed on,
and 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 ono Of the
caverns, but mounting the rocks they
saw church and cried out: "We are
saved! A church, q 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 tho East.
But l must not forget that my text
takes in another cardinal point of the
compass. 1t takes in the east. have to
report that in a 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 fiat 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
tions 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 neighborhood but directly
or indirectly feels the gospel power.
The Juggernaut, which did Its awful
work for centuries, a 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 5000, 900 Of
| Christian souls in India are the advance
guard that will lead on the $50, 600, 900.
The Christians of Annoy and Peking and
Canton are the advance guard that will
lead the $40, 900, 900 of China, "They
ahall come from the east. y The last
mosque of Mohammedanism will be
| turned into Christian church. Tho last
B1adhist temple will become 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. Oh
course there are high obstacles to be
overcome, and great ordeals must be
| passed through before the consumma
ton, as witness the Armenians undel
the butohery of the Turks May that
throne on the banks of the Bosporus
soon crumble! The time has already
come when the United States govern
rent and Great Britain and Germany
60ght to intone the indignation Of al
civilized nations. While it is not reg
uisite that arms be sent there to avengt
| tho wholesale massacre of Armenians, il
is requisite that by cable under the seas
and by protest that shall thrill the wires
from Washington and London and Der
lin to Constantinople the nations an
alternative the diabolism for which tht
| sultan Of Turkey is responsible. Moham
! mechanism is a curse whether in Turkey
OF New York. "They shall come from
the east. !" And they will come at tn
best and women Of all time. Imeal
the missionaries. Dissolute American
| and Englishmen who have gone to Cal
cutta ard Bombay and Canton to max
their fortunes defame the missionarie
because the holy lives and the pur
constant rebuke to the American ant
English libertines stopping there, bu
the men and women of God there sta
toned go on gloriously with their work
People just as good and self denying O
was Missionary Moffat, who, when ask
ed TO write in an album, wrote thes
.,ords:
My albul-l is in savage breasts,
Where passion reigns and darkness rcsts
Without one ray Of light
To writc tie name of Jesus there,
To roi.,t to worlds both bright and fair,
And see The pagan bow in prayer
Is al r.y souls delight
~ all those regions are msn ali
women with the conservation Of he
vita + Cox, who. embarking fer lii
mission ~ work in Africa, said to 10
low student. II | die III Africa, cora
a',d write ,ly cpitaph. !" "Whas shall
write f47 yaar cpit-p,,?" said the SIT
don't: write, said be, '.thcse words
Let arlonsend fail before Africa /
siven up.
Worldly Reform In the West.
Tnerc IL another point Of tho compa;
that my t,ss includes. They SIN
eDh!n from the west" That nlcaz
America redeemed Everything bctwe,.
Atlantic ami Pacific oceans to be brougt
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