Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-01-12

the universe will be acknowledged
throughout India.
That evening of our return to Bonn
bay visited the Young Mems Chris
tian association with the same appoint
ments that you find in the Young Mems
/ Christian associations of Europe and
America, and the night after that | ad
dressed throng of ativo children v 20
are in the schools CT tho Christian mis-
sions. Christian universities gather TN
der their wing of benediction host of
the young men of this country. Bonn
/ bay and Calcutta, the two great COM
mercial cities of India, feel the eleyat-
ing power of an aggressive Christianity.
Episcopalian liturgy, and Presbyterian
/ Westminster catechism, and Methodist
anxious seat, and Baptist waters of con-
secration now stand where once basest
idolatries had undisputed sway. The
work which Shoemaker Carey inaugu-
rated at Serampore, India, translating
the Bible into 40 different dialects, and
/ leaving his WORKOUT body amid tho ma
tives whom ho had come to save, and
going up into the heavens from which
he can better watch all the field-that
work will be completed in the salvation
of the millions of India, and beside him
gazing from the same high places stand
| Bishop Hober and Alexander Duff and
John Scudder and Maekay, who fell at
Delhi. and Monorieff, who fell at Gavin
pur, and Polehampton, who fell at
Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell at
Futtigarh, and all heroes and heroines
who for Christ's sake lived and died for
the Christimization of India, and their
heaven will not be complete until the
Ganges that washes the CHATS of heather
| temples shall roll between churches of
the living God, and the trampled wom-
anhood of Hindooism shall have all tho
rights purchased by him who amid tho
cuts and stabs of his own assassination
cried out, Behold thy mother'' and
from Bengal bay to Arabian ocean, and
from the Himalayas to the coast Of
Coromandel there be lifted hosannas to
him who died to redeem all nations In
that day Elephanta cave will be one of
the places where idols are least to thu
moles and bats. -
If any clergyman asks me, as an IN
believing minister of religion once ask
ed the Duke of Wellington, do you
not think that the work of converting
the Hindoos is all a practical farce?' l
answer him as Wellington answered
the unbelieved minister, Look to your
marching orders, sirl' Or if any one
| having joined in the gospel attack feels
like retreatirg l say to him, as General
| Havelock said to retreating regiment,
'The enemy are i'll front, not in the
rear" and leading them again into the
fight. though two horses had been shot
under him.
Fighting For Christ.
Indeed tho taking of this world for
Christ will be no holiday celebration,
but as tremendous as when in India
| during the mutiny of 1857 fortress
manned by sepoys was to be captured
by Sir Colin Campbell and the army of
Britain. The sepoys hurled upon the
attacking columns burning missiles and
grenades, and fred on them shot and
| shell, and poured on them from the
ramparts burning oil until writer who
witnessed it says, . 1t was picture of
pandemonium. Then Sir Colin adj
dressed his troops, saying, Remember
tho women and children must be res
cued!" and his men replied: Aye, aye,
Sir Colinl We stood by you at Bala-
klava, and we stand by you here :" And
then came the triumphant assault of the
battlements. lin this gospel campaign,
which proposes capturing the very last
citadel of idolatry and sin and hosting
over it the banner of the cross we may
have hurled upon us mighty opposition
and scorn and obloquy, and many may
fall before tho work is done, yet at every
call for new onset let the cry of the
church be: Aye, aye, great captain of
our salvation! We stood by thee in 9TH
er conflicts, and We will stand by thee
to the last. F." And then, if not in this
world, then from the battlements of the
next as the last Appolyonio fortifica-
ton shall crash into ruin, we will join
in the shout, Thanks be unto God,
who giveth us the victoryp' "Hallelu-
iah, for the Lord God omnipotent
reigneth!'