The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-24

west there Is not neighborhooi 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 II has for years been
Kept under shed as n curiosity, and there
was no one reverentially to greet IL. About
3.0OO,OOO OF Christian souls In India are the
advances guari that will lead on the 25O,-
O00,0C0. The Christians OF Annoy and Pes-
ing and Canton are tho advance guard that
will lead the $40, 100000 oil China. They
shall come from the East" The elast 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 will
yet bring all the East with Hin. OF course
there are high obstacles TO be overcome. and
great ordeals must be passed through before
the consummation. rs witness the ArrnenIans
under the buichery OF the Turks. MAY that
throne on the banks of the Bosphorus soon
crumhle ! Tho time has already come when
the United States Government and Great
Britain and Germany ought TO intome the
Indignation OF all civilized Nations. While
IL Is not requisite that arms be sent there TO
avenge the wholesale massacre OF Armen-
inns, II 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-
nthematizs the diabo,sm for which the Sui
tan OF Turkey Is responsible. Mohnmmednn-
Ism Is curse Whether In Turkey or New
York. "Tney shall come from the East :"
And they Will come Mt tho call oi the love-
liest and grandest and hest mon and women
OF all time. mean the missionaries. Dis
solute Americans and Englishmpn who have
gone 10 Calcutta and Bombay and Canton TO
make their fortunes defamc the missionaries
bprQugn thA hole liyaC nd Nbs,
holds OF those missionaries are n constant re-
buke to the American and English iibertines
stopping there, but the men and women OF
God there stationed go on gloriously with
their work. People just as good and solf
denying as was Missionary Mofrat. who,
when asked TO write in an album, wrote
these words:
My album is In savage breasts.
Where passion reigns and darkness rcs,s
without one ray OF light.
TO write the name of Jesus there,
To point TO worlds both bright aud fair,
And SEQ tho pagan bow In prayer,
Is all my souls delight.
In all those regions are mon ana women
with tho conservation Of Melville Il. Cox.
who. embarking for tho missionary work In
Africa, said to 4 fellow student, "If die in
Africa. como and write my op!taph." "what
shall write for your epitaph?" said tn.
student. Write" said he. ''thosc words
Let thousand fall before Africa be given
up"
There is another point OF tho compass that
my text includes. "Thcv shall come from
the West That means America releomed.
Everything between Atlantic md Pacific
Oceans TO he brought within the circle OF
holiness and rapture. VIII IL be done by
worldly reform or evangelism? viii IL be-
law or gospel? | an glad that wnve of
reform has swept across this land, and all
the cities are feeling tho advantage of the
mighty movement. Let tho good work go
on until the last municipal evil is OK
trpated. About fifteen years AGO the dis
tinguished oiitor OF n New YORK daily
newspaper said 10 me in hts editorial
room You ministers talk about evils OF
which you know nothing. Why don't YOU
60 with the officers OF tho law and explore
Tor yourself, so that when YOU preach az ainst
sin you can speak from what you have seen
with your own eyesy" | said, AZ will" and
In company with n commissioner OF police
and captain oipolice and two elders OF my
church explorel the dens AMI hiding places
OF all styles OF crime In New York and
preached series OF sermons warning younl
men and setting forth the work that must be
done lest the judgments OF God whelm this
city with more awful suhnergement thanthe
volcanic deluge that buried Herculaneu-,
and Pompeii. / received. as nearly ns can
remember, several hundred columns OF news
paper abuse for undertaking that expora-
tion. Editorials OF denunciation, double
loaded, and with captions in great primer
typo, entitled "rhe Fall OF Talmage." or
"Talmage Makes the Mistake OF His Lie"
or down With Talmage." but I still live
and am in full sympathy with all movements
for municipal publication.
But movement which ends with crime
exposed and law executed STOPS half wav
Nay, 1t stops lon!; before 1t gets half way.
lhe law never Yet saved anybody. never yet
changed anybody. Break up an the houses
OF iniqulty IN this city, and You only send
the occupants 10 other cities Break down
all the policemen in New York, aad while It
changes their worldly fortunes IL does not
change their heart or life. The greatest
want In New York today ia tho transform
ing power Of the gospel OF Jesus Christ 20
change the heart and the lite and upiit the
tone OF moral sentiment and make mon do
right not because they arc afraid OF Ludlow
street Jail or Sing Sing, but because they
love God and hate unrlghteousness. have
never heard, nor have you heard, OF any
thing except the gospelthat proposes 10 re-
generate the heart and BY the influence OF
that reSenerared heart rectify the life. Ex-
ecute the law most certainly. tu, preach the
gospel by all means In churches, In theatrps.
in homes, In prisons, on the land and on the
sea. inc gospel Is the only power that can
rovoutionize society and save the world. All
else Is half and half work ami will not last.
In New York 1t has allowed men who rot by
police bribery their thousands and tens OF
thousands and perhaps hundreds OF thou
sands oil dollars 10 80 scot ireo, while some
who were merely the cats paw and agents OF
bribery are struck with the lightnings Of tho
law. II reminds me of a scene In philadal-
phia when was living there. A poor wo-
man had been arrested and tried and i'm.
prisoned for selling molasses candy on sun.
day. Other lnwbreakers had baen allowed
10 so undisturbe1, and tbs grogshops were
open on tho Lords Dav, and tho law, with
its hands behind Its back. wake up and
down tho streets declining 10 molest many
OF the offenders, but we all rosa up in our
righteous indisnl,ion, and calling upon all
powers, visible anl invisible, 10 help US, W.
declared that though the heavens fell no wo.
man should be allowed 10 sell molasses
candy on Sunday.
A few weeks ago, after had preached in
ono OF the churches in this city, man
staggered up on the pulpit stairs, maudlln
drunk. saying, II am one o. tho reiormcrs
that were elected to high o!lics at tho last
election" got rid OF that great reiormer''
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