The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-02-02

valley, and plain, Mexico, the home O
nations yet to be born-all for Christ
The south That means Africa, which
David Livingstone consecrated to Goo
when he died on his knees In his tent
OF exploration. Already about sever
hundred and fifty thousand converts
to Christianity in Africa. The south
That means all the islands strewn by
the Omnipotent hand through tropical
seas. Malayan Polynesia, Melanesia,
Micronesia and other islands more nu-
merous 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 lifcboets put out
for shore, but those who arrived in the
first boat were dubbed to death by the
cannibals, and the other boat had put
back and was somehow 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 ono of the caverns,
but mounting the rocks they
saw n church and cried out: 1--WE
are savcd A church! A church,"
The south! That means the torrid
zone, with all it's bloom, and all it's
fruitage, and all it's exuberance; the
redolence OF illimitablc gardens; the
music OF boundiess 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"
But | must not forget that my text
takes in another cardinal point of the
compass 1t takes in the east. have
to report that in journey around the
world there is nothing so much inn
presses one as the fact that the mis-
sionaries divinely blessed are taking
the world for God. The horrible war
between Japan and China will leave
the last wall of opposition hst 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 nations
could never go into such diabolism.
We forget Fort Pillow! We forget the
fact that during our war both
north and south rejoiced when there
were ten thousand 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. Those regions will
be more open to civilization and Chris
tianity than ever before. When Mis-
rionary Carey put before an assembly
of ministers at Northampton, England,
his project for the evangelization of
India, they laughed him out of the
house. From Calcutta, and on the
east Of India, to Bombay, on the west,
there is not a neighborhood but di-
rectly or indirectly feels the Gospel
power. The Juggernaut, which did
its awful work for centuries, a
few weeks ago was brought
out from the place where 1t
has for years been kept under shed as
a curiosity, and there was no one rev.
erentially to greet it. About three
million Christian souls in India are
the advance guard that will lead on
the two hundred and fifty millions.
The Christians of Annoy, and Pekin,
and Canton are the advance guard that
will lead the three hundred and forty
millions of China. "They shall come
from the east" The last mosque of
Mohammedanism will be turned into a
Christian church. The last Buddhist
temple will become u fortress of
light. The last idol of IIindooism
will be pitched into the fire. The
Christ who came from the east W i'll
yet bring all the east back with Him.
OF course there are high obstacles to
be passed through before that con-
summation-as witness the Armenians
under the butchery of the Turks.
May that throne on the banks of the
Bosphosus soon crumble! The time
has aleady come when the United
States government, and Great Britain,
and Germany ought to intone the
indignation of all civilized nations.
While 1T is not requisite that arms be
sent there to avenge 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 Berlin,
to Constantinople, the nations an
athematize the diabolism for which the
sultan of Turkey is responsible. Mo-
hammedanism is n curse, whether in
Turkey or New York! "They shall
come from the east" And they
will come at the call of the
,oveliest, and grandest, and best men
and women of all time. / mean the
missionaries. Dissolute Americans and
Ehglishmen who have gone to Calcutta
and Bombay and Canton to make their
fortunes defame the missionaries be-
cause the holy lives and the pure
households of those missionaries are n
constant rebuke to the American and
English libertines stopping there, but
the men and women of God there sta
toned go on gloriously with their
work; people just as good and se1f-de-
nying as was Missionary hoifatt, who,
when asked to write in an album,
wrote these words:
My album is in savage breasts