Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-18

tions of Europe and America, and the night
after that addressed a throng of native
= children who are in the schools 9th Chris
tian missions. Christian universities gather
under their wing OF benediction a host OF
the young men OF this country. Bombay
and Calcutta. the two great commercial
cities of India. feel the elevating power OF
an aggressive Christianity. Episcopalian
liturgy, and Presbyterian Westminster cate
chism, and Methodist anxious seat. and Bap-
tist waters of conservation now stani where
once basest idoiatries had uudisputed sway.
The work which Shoemaker Carey iuaugu-
rated at Serampore, 1niia. trauslatfug the
Bible into forty different dialects, ami leav-
ing his wornout body amid the natives
whom he had come to save, and going up in
to the heavens from which he can better
watch all the fleld-that work will be COM
pleted in the salvation of the millions of In
dia, and beside him gazing from the same
high places stand Bishop Heber and Alexan-
der Duff and John Scudder and Mackay,
who fell at Delhi. and Moncrieff, who fell at
Cawnpur, and Polehampton, who fell at
Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell at FUtti-
garb, and all heroes and haroines who for
Christ's sake lived and died for the Christi
nization of India, and their heaven will not
be complete until the GangeS that washes
the CHATS of heather temples shall roll be-
tween churches of the living God. and the
tramped womanhood of Hindooism shall
nave Oil Cn6 rlgDtS purOnaSou Dy MIN VINO
amid the cuts and StabS Of his OWE asSaSs!-
nation cried out, 'Behold thy mother!' and
from Bengal Bay to Arabian Ocean, and
from the Himalayas to the coast of Corom-
andel 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 "cast to the moles and
bats"
If any clergyman asks me, as an unbe lev
ing minister of religion once asked the Duke
of Wellington, ''Do you not think that the
work of converting the Hindoos is all a
practical farce?" answer him as Yelling
ton answered the unbelieved minister
If any one having joined in the gospel at
tack feels like retreattng I say to him, as
General Havelock SAID to retreating regi-
ment, "The enemy are in front, not in the
rear" and leading them again into the
fight, though two horses had been shot un-
der him.
Indeed the taking Of this world for Christ
will be no holiday celebration, but as tre-
mendous as when in India during the
rnutiny of1857 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 mis-
siles and grenades, and fired on them shot
and shell, and poured on them from the
ramparts burning oil until q writer who wit
messed 1t says, ''1t was picture of pande-
nlonium." Then Sir Colin addressed his
troops, saying, Remember the women and
children must be rescued T. and his men re-
pliel: "Aye, aye, Sir Colin! We stood by
you at Balakava, and we stand by you here"
And then came the triumphant assault Of
the battenents. So In this gospel cam
paign, 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 an Iscorn
and obloquy, and many may fall before toe
work is done, yet at every call for new onset
let the cry of the church be: "Aye, aye.
great captain Of our salvation! Westoodby
thee in other conflicts, and we will stand by
thee TO the last" And then; # not in this
world, then from the battiements OF the
next, as the last Appolyonic fertilization
shall crash into ruin, we will join in the
shout, "Thanks be unto God, who giveth Us
the victory!' "Halleluiah, for the Lord Col
omnipotent reigneth y