The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-01-09

have god even though he make "
with his own hand Irejoice to know
the day will come when the one God Of
the universe will be acknowledged
throughout India.
That evening on our return to Bonn
bay visited the Young Mems Chris
tian Association with the same APP
pointments that you find in the Young
Mems Christian Associations of Europe
and America, and the night after that
l addressed throng of native children
who are in the schools of the Christian
missions Christian universities gather
under their wing of benediction host
of young men Of this country Bombay
and Calcutta, the two great CONNER
cial cities of India, feel the elevating
power of an aggressive Christianity.
Episcopalian liturgy and Presbyterian
Westminster catechism, and Methodist
anxious sea, and Baptist waters of con-
secration now stand where once basest
idolatries had undisputed sway
The work which shoemaker Carey
inaugurated at Serampore, India, trans
lating the Bible into forty different
dialects and leaving his worn out body
amid the natives whom he had come to
save, and going up into the heavens,
from which he can better watch all
the field-that work will be completed
in the salvation of the millions of
India; and beside him, gazing from the
same high places stand Bishop Heber,
and Alexander Duff, and John Scudder,
and Mackay, who fell at Delhi, and
Moncrief, who fell at Cawnpore, and
Polehampton, who fell at Lucknow,
and Freeman, who fell at Futtyghur,
and all heroes and heroines who, for
Gods sake, lived and died for the
Christianization of India; and their
heaven will not be complete until the
Ganges that washes the Chats OF
/ heather temples shall roll between
churches of the living God, and the
trampled womanhood of Hindooism
shall have all the rights purchased by
Him, who amid the cuts and stabs of
His own assassination, cried out; Be
hold thy mother" and from Bengal
bay to Arabian ocean, and from the
Himalayas to the coast of Coromandel,
there be lifted hosannas to Him who
died to redeem all nations In that
day Elephanta Cave will be one Of the
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moles and bats"
If any clergyman asks me, as an un-
believing minister of religion once
asked the Duke of Wellington, "Do you
not think that the work of converting
the Hindoos is all practical farce?'
answer him as Wellington answered
the unDelieving minister: Look to
your marching orders, sir!" Or if any
one having joined in the gospel attack
feels like retreating, 1 say to him, as
Gen. 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 under him.
Indeed, the taking of this world fol-
Christ will be no holiday celebration
but as tremendous as when in India
during the mutiny of 1857. fortress
manned by Sepots was to be captured
/, by Sir Colin C;tib ,bell and the ai-nyF0
Britain. The Sepoys hurled upon the
attacking column burning missiles, anC
grenades, and fired on them with shot
and she'll, and poured on them from
the ramparts burning oil, until writer
who witnessed IL says: ''It was pic
ture of pandemollium. Then Sir Colir
addressed his troops, saying: "Remem
Der the women aad children must bt
rescued!" and his men replied: "Ay
Ay! Sir Colin! We stood by you at Bal
aklava, and will stand by you herer
And then came the triumphant assault
OF the battlements.
So in this gospel campaign 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
and scorn, and obloquy, and many may
fall before the work is done, yet at
every call for new onset, let the cry Of
the church be "Ay! Ayl great Captain
of our salvation; we stood by Thee in
other conflicts, and we will stand by
Thee to the lastw
And then, if not in this world, then
from the battlements of the next, as
the last Appolyonic fortifcation shall
crash into ruin, we will join in the
shout: Thanks be unto God who Civ.
eth us the victory!' "Hallelnjah! for
the Lord God omnipotent reigneth."