Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1895-01-21

.cott and Lord Kingsboroupi,

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gloriously conquered; Mexico, with its
capital more than Z, 900 feet above the
sea level looking down upon the en-
trancement of lake and valley AID plain;
! Mexico. the home of nations yet to DO
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 $50, coo converts to Christianity
in Africa. The soulful That means all
the islands strewn by Omnipotent hand
through tropical seas-Malayan Poly
nesia Melanesia Micronesia and other
islands moro 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 the first
boat were dubbed to death by the can
nibals, and the other boat put back and
was somehow saved. Years passed on,
and one Of that very crew was wrecked
sgain with others Oh the same rocks
Crawling up on the shore, they proposed
to hide from the cannibals in one of the
caverns, but mounting the rocks they
saw church and cried out: eve are
saved! A church, 81 churchp' The south
That means Venezuela, New Granada,
Ecuador and Bolivia The SOUTH That
means the torrid zone, with all its
bloom, and all it's fruitage, and all it's
exuberance, the redolence of illimitable
gardens, the music of boundless groves,
&hO dc no +bo4 Ivrr, sol,
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 the East.
But I must not forget that my text
takes in another cardinal point Of the
compass. It 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 flat 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 forgc5 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 OH
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 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 rs a Gu
riosity, and there was no one reveren-
TALLY to greet it, About 3, 900, 600 of |
Christian souls in India are the advance |
guard that will lead on the $50, 900, 600. |
The Christians Of Amoyand Peking and !
Canton are the advance guard that Will |
lead the $40, 600, 600 of China. ''They |
shall come from the east. I" Tho last |
mosque of Mohammedanism will be |
turned into u Christian church. The last
Buddhist temple viii become a fortress
of light. The last idol of Hindooism
will be pitched into the fire.
The Christ who camo from the east
will yet bring all the east with him. Of
course there arc high obstacles to be |
overcome, and great ordeals must be
passed through before the consumma-
tion, as witness the Armenians under
the butchery of the Turks. May that
throne OLE the banks of the Bosporus
soon crumble! The time has already |
come when the United States govern
ment and Great Britain and Germany
ought to intone the Indignation of ali |
civilized nations. While it is not req |
uisite that arms be sent there to avenSe
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 Der !
lin to Constantinople, the nations an
athematize the diabolism for which the
sultan of Turkey is responsible. Moham
mechanism is curse whether in Turkey |
or New York. ''They shall come from
the east And they will come at the |
call of the loveliest and grandest and
best men and women of all time. mean |
the missionaries. Dissolute Americans |
and Englishmen who have gone to Cal
cutta and Bombay and Canton to make |
their fortunes defame the missionaries
because the holy lives and the pure
households of those missionaries are a
constant rebuke to the American and
English ibertines stopping there, but
the men and women of God there sta
toned go on gloriously with their work.
People just as good and self denying as