The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1895-01-21


10,G00 more wounded and slain on the OPP
posite side. War. whether in China or
the United States, is hell let loose. But
one good result will come from the Japan
ese-Chinese conflict. Those regions will be
more open to civilization and Christianity
than ever before. When Missionary 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 On the
east of India to Bombay the west, there
is not "A neighborhood b directly or indi-
rsCuy feels the gospe' er. The Jugger-
maui. which did its = al work for CEN
turtles a few weeks ago vas brought out
from the place where il has for years
been kept under shed as n curiosity, and
there was no one reverentially 70 greet 1t.
About three million Of Christian souls IN
India are the advance guard that will lead
on the two hundred and fifty million. The
Christians of Annoy. and Picking, and Can
ton are the advance guard that viii lead
the three hundred and forty nili:on OF
China. "They shall come from the east"
The last mosque of Mohammedanism VIII
be turned into Christian church. The
last Buddhist temple viii become q fortress
OF light. The last idol of Hind ooism VIII
be pitched into the fire. The Christ VINO
came from the east will yet bring all the
east with Him. OF course, there are high
obstacles to be overcome, and great ordeals
must be passed through before the con-
summation: as witness the Arme mans un.
der the hutchery of the Turk. May that
throne on the banks Of the BoSpnorus soon
crumble! The time has already come vhen
Britain. and Germany ought 10 intope the
Indignation of all civilized nations. While
il is not requisite that arms be seat tfere
To ayengc the wholesale massacre OF Nltle-
MANS IL is requisite that bv cable uEder
the seas and by protest that shal URN
the wires from Washington. and Londoh,
and Berlin to Constantinople, the racCns
anathematize the diabolism for which the
sultan of Turkey is respoA;lble MtEohl-
mechanism is a curse whether ~ 1ui Key or
New York. They shall come rom lhe
eaetl" And they Will come at tie can OF
the lovelest and grandest ana lest men
and women OF all tme. mean we us
siouarias Dissolute Am aricacs and Els.
Ushmen who have gone to Calcutta, ana
BOMBAY. and Canton to make 'hSl TOT.
tunes, defamc the :nlsSlon1fie5 p,C"OsS
the holy lives and the pure househo Us OF
thosa missionaries are a constant re. IKE
10 the American and English lihertines etop.
ping there. but the men ana N";hI. -
DENYING as was Missionary Motat, VINO,
whGn asked to write in an album wrote
those words:
Where mission rcigns ana darkness rests
without one ray ct h2hi
To write the name or Jesus tAeIFt
m noirt 10 worlds both bcish- and falr;
Ana So the pagan bow in PRAYER
Is all my souis delight.
In all those regions are men ana women
Win he conservation of Melville y. Cox,
who. ombarlng for the missionary WoIh N
Africa. said to a fellow student: II ote
Africa.
,,f1 tho student Write" said he, these
words: Let a thousand fail before Africa De
..Ie,rr is another point OF the compass
that my text Includes. They shal come
from the west mat means America r.
uptme.l Everything between Auanuc ana
Racine oceans TO be brought WITHIN lhe ti!-
Gle oil holiness and rapture. WlH II pe uoie
by worldly reform or eVanSellsm. ~ ~
ug law or EoSpciE / am Sidd lhat a "aNt
of reform mas swept across TINS lahu, anu
am the cities are feeling the advantage %
fb. intt.ntv movement Let the good Work
.,o on uuul the last municipal eva Is tNtu-
ptt.u. About uitccn years aEo the ulStN-
..tisH.l tultoT OF a New II rk dally hcWSpa-
per sand 10 me IN his editorial ROOM 1ou
ministers tax about tNiiS OF MAttu ~"
know nothing. Mny dOn You 20 WIN tIle
officers oi the law ana explore Tor SoulStl
50 that when you preach against san ~ b.
can speak TOm what you nave seen
Your own - - i said, Il WILL AT 81
, company with cCmmlsslonei oil l-he
and a vaI,ulu OF the ponce ANA Two ~ g.
All my cnutrh 4 explored the dtiIa = 4 .... & i.
ing places ot an styles OF CRIME At 49,,
York and preached series oh StI+
uatuiug young men, anu SciuhS lollhu
work Iuar must be done lest the JudSn'l-
OF tiud Nhcuu TINS city win more tN3
SulmtrGymcuJ tnat the volcano "cies
that barred Hcr-ulaneum ana IolhleH.
received, as nearly as 1 can remember, sew
tlal hundred columns on newspaper abuse
Tor INCREASING mat exploration bdilu
riaIs OF Cruuuciauon, uouhic-iedbch, anu
Win captions ln great primer type chu-
ti.d ".lue rail- of 1almage, or 'lalmaAe
Makes tue Mistake OF It's Life, or Down
with Tauagc,' but 1 sun live and am IN
tuU sympathy with all movements Tor lnu-
uicipal purncatiuu. But a movement Whl'h
ends with crime exposed ana law 'AesutVu
stops hair way. Inc law never yet s"NN4
any body; never yet changed ANYBODY.
Break up AN the houses of lntquity IN TINS
city anu you only send the occupants 10
other cities Break down all the policemen
ina >ew York ANA while NJ changes theF
worldly fortunes, II does not change theli
heart or Nte Z he greatest want m Sew
York today rs the transforming power OF
thc gospel OF Jesus Christ 10 change the
heart and life ;fud uplIft the tone OF moral
sentiment and make men do right, not ne
cau-, tuev are AFRAID of Ludlow street jan
on sing sing. but because they love God ana
nate uurg business. have never htdlui
nor have YOU heard. OF anything except the
gospel that proposes TO rcgenerate the heart,
and by Tho influence OF that resencTated
heart. rccufy the life. Execute the laws,
a most certainly, but preach the gospel. py an
mrauS-In churches, ln thcalerS. IN homes,
ia prisons, uu the land and on the sea-. The
.O-u,I IS IN. only power that can TeyOlu-
ii0uIZe society and save the ~Orlu. All
else rs half and half work, and VIII not last.
Ina New York II has allowed men VINO got
boy police bribery their thousands ana tens
% thousands, and perhaps hundreds on
thousands ot dollars 10 80 scot Tree, VINE
some who were merely the cat paw ana
accents uf bribery are struck with the h7hl~
uiu-ss of the law. IL reminds me of a scene
in Philadelphia when 1 was living there. \
poor woman mad been arrested and tr'ed
on Sunday. other law-breakcrs hau been
allowed 10 20 undisturbcd, ami the GroS
shops were open on the Lords day, and the
l41. with it's hands behind it's back walked
ln and down the streets declining TO mo-
Itst MANY of the offenders, but We all rose
m, i'm our righteous Indignation tud calling
Iilon an powers visible ana invisible 10 ncip
NJ No declared that though the heavens
fell no woman should be allowed TO sell mo-
laSsus candy on sunday.
A few weeks ago. after had preached
IN one of the churches in this city @ man
staggered up on the pulpit stairs, uaudhn
drunk SAYING: Il am one of the retOrmers
that was elected to high office at the last
election" / gOt rid OF that great reform
err as soon as 1 could but did not get rid
OF the impression that a man like that
,yould cure the denominations of New York
about as soon as smallpox would cure ~
photd fever, or a buzzsaW would render
HaVdn's Creation. Politics IN all our
Citics has become so corrupt that the only
difference between the republican and dem
ocratic parties is that each is worse than
the other. But what nothing else in the uni
verse can do the gospel can ana Will ac-
complish. They shall come from the
west" and for that purpose the evangclis-
. tic batteries are planted all along the Pa
CiGc coast, as they are planted all along
the Atlantic coast. All the prairies, All
tho mountains all the valleys, all the ci-
tics are under more or less gospel influence
and when we get enough faith and consc-
Grafton for the work. this whole American
continent will cry out for God. They shall