The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-01-25
I. Prescott and Lord Kingsborough

COuQuSrou W lloruau OOIbthS 10 Do NOR
gloriously conquered; Mexico, with il
capital more than 1000 feet above tn
sea level looking down upon the en-
trancement of lake and valley and plain
Mexico, the home of nations yet to b
born-all for Christ The south! Tha
means Africa, which David Livingston
consecrated to God when he died on hi
knees in his tent of exploration. Alrea(f
about 750, 900 converts to Christianit,
In Africa. The south That means al
the islands strewn by omnipotent hant
through tropical seas--Malayan Poly
nesia, Melanesia, Micronesia and othe
islands more numerous than you cal
imagine unless you have voyaged around
the world. The SOUTH That means jaw,
for God, Sumatra for God, Borneo fol
God, Siam for God.
A ship was wrecked near one of these
islands, and two lifeboats put out fol
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 somealw saved. Years passed on,
and one of that very crew was wrecked
again with Others on 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 a church and cried out: "We are
savedl A church, church, The south
That means Venezuela, New Granada.
Ecuador and Bolivia. 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 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 the East.
But I 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 Pillowl 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
ters at Northampton his project for the
of India, they laughed
him out Of the house. From Calcutta on
The east of India to Bombay on the west
here is not neighborhood but directly
Or indirectly feels the gospel power.
The Juggernaut. which did its awful
work for centuries, few weeks ago was
'rought out from the place where it has
or years been kept under shed as Gu
iosity, and there was no one reveren-
tally to greet it. About 5000, 900 of
christian souls in India are the advance
uard that will lead ON the $50, 900, 900. |
he Christians of Annoy and Peking and |
anton are the advance guard that will |
cad the $40, 900, 900 of China. "They
hall come from the east. " The last |
1osque of Mohammedanism will be
urned into Christian church. The last
buddhist temple will become fortress
light. The last idol of Hindooism
7ill be pitched into the fire.
The Christ who came from the east
ill yet bring all the east with him. Of
curse there are high obstacles to he
vercome, and great ordeals must be
assed through before the consumma-
on, as witness the Armenians undnr
le butchery Of the Turks. May that
nrone on the banks of the Bospor''s
,on crumblel The time has already
,me when the United States govern
ent and Great Britain and Germany
1ght to intone the indignation of all
yilized nations. While it Is not req
site that arms be sent there to avenge
le wholesale massacre of Armenians, it
requisite that by cable under the seas,
Id by protest that shall thrill the wires
ON Washington and London and Ber-
n to Constantinople, the nations an
hematize the diabolism for which the
Titan of Turkey is responsible. Moham-
edanism is a curse whether in Turkey
New York. ''They shall come from
10 east. ?" And they will come at the
II of the loveliest and grandest and
st men and women Of all time. Imean
Q missionaries. Dissolute Americans
I'd Englishmen who have gone to Cal
tia and Bombay and Canton to make
cir fortunes defame the missionaries
cause the holy lives and the pure
of those missionaries are
instant rebuke to the American and
lglish libertines stopping there, but I
Q men and women of God there sta I
med go on gloriously with their work. ]
ople just as good and self denying as
rs Missionary Moffat, who, when ask
to write In an album. wrote these 8
,rds:
My album is in savage breasts, s
Where passion reigns and darkness rests q
Without one ray of light. 4
To write the name Of Jesus there,