The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-02-01

when he died on his knees in his tent
Of exploration. Already about seven
hundred and fifty thousand converts
to Christianity in Africa. The soulful
That means all the islands strewn by
the Omnipotent hand through tropical
seas. Malayan Polynesia, Melanesia,
Micronesia and other islands more nu.
tnerous than you can imagine unless
you have voyaged around the world.
The south! That means Java for God;
Sumatra for God; Borne0 for God;
Siam for God.
ship was wrecked near one of
these islands and two lifeboets 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 one of the cavcrns,
but mounting the rocks they
saw a church and cried out: ''We
are saved! A church! A church,
The south! That means the tOrrid
zone, with all its bloom. and all its
fruitage, and all it's exuberance; the
redolence of illimitable gardens; the
music of boundiess groves; the lands,
the seas, that night by night look up
to the southern cross, which in stars
transfg ures 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 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 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 viii
be moro 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 it
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 a fortress of
light. The last. idol of Hindooism
will be pitched into the fire. The
Christ who came from the east will
yet bring all the east back with Him.
OF course there are high obstacles to
be overcome, and great ordeals may
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 fol' which the
sultan of Turkey is responsible. Mo
hammedanism is 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
Englishmen 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 a
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 self-de-
nying as was Missionary Moffatt, who,
when asked TO write in an album,
wrote these words:
NY album Is in savage breasts
Where passion relgns and darkness rests,
Without one ray Of light,
To write the name Of Jesus there:
To paint the words both bright and fair;
And see the pagan bow Ia prayer,
Is all my soul S delight.
In all those regions are men and
women with the conservation OF Mel
vile B: Cox, who, embarking for the
missionary work in Africa, said to
fellow-student: "If I die in Africa,
come and write my epitaph." What
Shall / write for your epitaph?" said
the student. ''Write," said he, these
words: Let thousand fall before
Africa he given"
There is another point of the com
pass that my text includes: They