Milford chronicle., 1895-01-25

there Is nothing so much 1mpressos ol
as the fact that the missionaries, divine
blessed, are taking the world for God II
horrible war between Japan and Chi
will leave the last wall Of opposition III
in the dust War is barbarism alwa,
and everywhere We hold up our han,
in amazomeut at the massacre at Pc
Arthur as though Christian nations coul
never 60 into such diabolism We forg,
Fort Pillow We forget the fact that du
ing the war both north and south rcjoice
when there were 10000 more Wounde
and slain on the opposite side Wa
whether in China or the United States,
hell let loose. But one good result wi
come from the japanese Chinese conniC
those regions will be more open to civ
li2ation and Christianity than ever before
When Missionary Carey put before an as
sembly of ministers at Northampton, Eng
land, his project for the eyaugollzltiol O
India. they laughed him out of the house
From Calcutta now on tho east Of Iudi
to Bombay on the west there is not
neighb0rhood hut directly or indiroctI
feels the gospel power The Juggeruaut
which did its awful work for centuries,
few weeks ago was brought ont from th
place where it has for years been kept un
der shed as a curiosity, and there was II,
ono revcrcntially to greet it Ahou
5000, 900 of Christian souls in India art
tire advance guard that viii lead on tn,
ESQ, 600, 600 The Christians of Annoy ant
Pcking and Canton are the advance guarC
that will lead the $40, 600. 600 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 with him. OF
course there are high obstacles to be
overcome and great ordeals must be passed
through before the consummation, as wit
ness the Armenians under the butchery of
the Turks May that throne on the banks
OF the Bosporus soon crumblel The time
has already come when the United States
government and Great Britain and Ger
many ought to intone the indignation of
all civilized nations While it is not req
uisite that arms be sent there to avenge
the wholesale massacre of Armcuians, it
is requisite that by cable under the seas
and by protest that shall thrill the wires
from Washington and London and Berlin
10 ConstantinOple the nations anathema-
5ize the diabolism for which the sultan Of
Turkey is responsible Mohammedanism
Is a curse whether in Turkey or New
York "They shall come from the east. "
And they will come at tile call of the love
lest and Praudest and best men and wom-
IN of all time. mean the missionaries
Dissolute Americans and Englishmen who
nave gone to Calcutta and Bombay and
canton to make their fortunes defame the
Missionaries because the holy lives and
ln-e households of those missionaries are
constant rebuke to the American and
English libertines stopping there but the /.
nen and women of God there stationed go
II gloriously with their work-paople /.
ust as good and self denying as was Mis-
ionary Moifat, who, when asked to write /
n an album, wrote these words:
Ny album is in savage breasts,
Whore passion rCigns and darkness rests
Without one ray Of light.
To write the name Of Jesus there,
To point to worlds both bright and fair,
And see the pagan bow in prayer,
Is all my souls delight.
In all those regions are men and women
ith the conservation Of Melville B. Cox,
no, ombarking for the missionary work
Africa, said to a fellow student If I
10 in Africa, come and write my cpl
Iph. What shall write for your cpl
PHI" said the student Write, " said
e, "these words: Let thousand fall be
IRE Africa be given up
Christianity In the West.
There is another point of the compass
at my text includes They shall come
ON the west. " That means America re
emed Everything between Atlantic
i'd Pacific oceans to be brought within
e circle of holiness and rapture. Will it
done by worldly reform or evangelism
i'll it be law or gospel? l am glad that
wave of reform has swept across this
nd, and all cities are feeling the adVan
ge of the mighty movement Let the
cd work go ON until the last municipal
il is extirpated
bout years ago the distinguished edi-
2 OF New York daily newspaper said to
G in his editorial room: You ministers
TX about evils of which you know moth
g Why don t you go with the officers
the law and explore for yourself, so
at when you preach against sin you can
sak from what you have seen with your
n eyes?" 1 said, 4 will " And in I.
AAHhuF Will a N0HlAAlAEs4UAlEL VI R044ItI
d a captain Of police and two.elders of s
church l explored the dens and hiding {
ICES of all styles of crime in New York +
d preached a series Of sermons warning
ing men and setting forth the work
1t must be done lest the judgments of :
d whelm this city with more awful
enlargement than the volcanic deluge L
it buried Herculaneum and Pompeii
received, as nearly as l can remember,
eral hundred columns of newspaper :
Use for undertaking that exploration u
torials of denunciation, double loaded n
with captions in great primer type, II
titled "The FAN of Talmage or "Tal W
ge Makes the Mistake of His Life, " or is
own With Talmage, but l still live al
am in fun sympathy with all move al
nts for municipal publication. Il
But a movement which ends with crime I'll
osed and law executed stops half way oc
?, it stops long before it gets half way of
! law never yet saved anybody, never IS
changed anybody Break up all the ia
ses of iniquity in this city, and you VI
2 send the occupants to other cities ve
ak down all the policemen in New
k, and while it changes their worldly
unes it does not change their heart OF r,
The greatest want in New York to r,
is the transforming power Of the gos- tr,
Of Jesus Christ to change the heart an
the life and uplift the tone Of moral hi,
iment and make men do right, not be- tn
e they are afraid Of Ludlow Street Jail ge
ing Sing, but because they love God ri,
hate unrig ghteousness. 1 have never bli
d, nor have you heard, of anything wi
pit the gospel that proposes to regen- he
Q the heart and by the influence of rol
regenerated heart reotify the life. Mi
cute the law, most certainly, but VIC
ch the gospel by all means-in II
ches, in theaters, in homes, in prisons, ne,
he land and on the sea Tho gospel is ON
1nly power that can revolutionize so del
and save the world. All else is half tn,
half work and will not last In New sa,
( it has allowed men who got by po- or,
bribery their thousands and tens Of
sands and perhaps hundredsof thou
s of dollars to go scot free, while some
were merely the cat S paw and agents
ibery are struck with the lightnings
ie law. 1t reminds me of a scene in
ldelphia when / was living there a