St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-25


nature. The heavens declare the glory
of Cod Why? By perfectly perform
ing their duty. The plant declared the
glory of God by perfectly fulfilling it's
place in creation. The man perfectly
gloriffes God when he brings forth the
highest and best that his nature is
capable of producing.
Now, remember that this concep-
ton of moral greatness-that goodness
was the highest greatness possible to
personal 'beings-was announced in
the days when physical greatness was
the only greatness known-when a
nation was great only when it had
great arms, enormous numbers of
slaves, many provinces. when man
was great when he was rich, infiuen-
tial, and the great men of Christs day
were among the worst men of that or
any other time. The very king that
sat upon the throne at the beginning
of his career, Herod, is type of the
very worst thinking and living the
world has ever seen. Greatness was
physical. Christ announced that great
ness was moral, not physical in any
sense
Until the year 1900, say, where does
Christianity stand? Shut up in Eu-
rope. No further advanced than it
was five hundred years before Then
there was a new start Let me give
you an illustration which possibly will
give you some conception of what is
in progress now. In the year 17O5
frederick w, of Denmark, we are
told, was sitting one day in his study
bordering over a petition which was
before him
IN India, where, for ninety years. the
Danish East India company had been
at work. This was the petition of q
widow for redress because her bus.
band had been killed by the savage
natives. AS he sat there thinking the
thought came to his mind, we are told
by his chaplain, For ninety years nv
vessels have gone there; for ninety
years this company has made nro-
dlS1ous sums of money there, and for
ninety years the entire people of that
world have been untouched by any
Christian influence from u.s. And
When' the chaplain came in to discuss
this petition he said: is it possibIe
lot US TO send missionary there?'
Missions were dead. There were M
missionaries then. Elliot, in this
the indians, but the story of his life
had not reached Denmark or Germany
Ihey searched months before thew
could find a man who wo,1Id tbinl IF
going. And then, down in a little viii
lase near Dresden-this chaplain was
German-they found Ziegenbalg
L wish you were all perfectly familiar
win his life, that might simply name
AlthnIIorE
oy the East Indies company, at last
ne could speak to the people, and he
laid the foundations of missions i'm
lhdla' what II he could look back
today and see 100000 communicates
and S,o0o,O0O adherents in that same
India in the Christian church which
has followed him?
Remember that is the work of a
hundred years. Now what was done?
I GU master a language and you have
not yet mastered the thought You
must know language and talk to the
q people Tor years before you will know
the thought within the language.
And when you take the twenty-seyen
languages which are to be faced, one
after the other, you see what the mis-
slonar1es have to go through. The
Indian missionaries have experienced
much opposition from both the Eng
Hsh government and the. English East
India company, and yet in 1872 the gov
ernor general of India sent word to
parliament that the missionaries were
worth all things, else combined in civ
1liz1ng the East And now, at this
time, the governor general of India
is, urging the establishment of Christ
ian colleges throughout India, as the
best means of lifting those people from
the degpeffatlon.. That in spite of ALI
that is said against Christian missions
in India. So of all the other pagan
nations of the present. and in this
grand work of the missionary is tie
truest conception Of the principle of
Christian life. To work it out for
himself one must work it out for
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