Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-02-01

under the butchery of the Turks. May that
throna on the hanks OF the Bosphorus soon
crumble The time has already come when
the limited States Government ana drea'
Britain and Germany ought 10 lntom9 tne
indignation of all civilized Nations. WING
| II Is not requisite that arms be sent there 10
ovenge the wholesale massacre OF Armen'
| jans. it is requisite that by cable under tne
seas, and by protest that snali t9rln .ns
Tr;rea from Washington and London and
berlin 70 Constantinople. the Nations an'
athematize the diabolism for whicn the sui
ton of Turkey is responsible. Mohammedan'
| ism ia n curse whether in Turkey or New
York. "They shall come from the East.
| And thew will come at the call oil the love
| Hest and grandest and hest men and women
| OF all time. mean the missionaries. DIS
! solute Americans and Englishmen VINO haV1
| zone to Calcutta and Bombay and canton 10
make their fortunes defame the missionaries
because the holy lives and the pure mousse
| holds of those missionaries are constant re-
| buke to the American and English 1Dertlnes
stopping there, but the men and women OF
| God there stationed so on glorlously VIII
their work. People just as good ana sen
denying as was Missionary Moirat, VINO,
| when asked 10 write in an album, wrote
| these wor3s
Ny album is in savage breasts,
| Where passion reigns 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 ara men AMI women
| with the conservation OF Melville B. Cox,
who, enbarking for the missionary work In
Africa, sail to fellow student, "If die in
Africa, come and write my epitaph." ''What
shall | write for your epitaph?' sail the
student. "Write," said he, "these words ;
"I.et thousand fall before Africa be given
| up"
There is another point of the compass that
my text includes. "They shall come IRON
tho West" That means America redeemed.
Everything between Atlantic AMI Pacific
Oceans TO be brought within the circle OF
holiness and rapture. Will 1t be done by
| worldly reform or evangelism? VIII 1t be
law or gospel? 1 an glad that wave OF
reform has swept across this land, and all
the cities are feeling the advantage of the
mighty movement. Let the good work go
on until the last municipal evil is ex-
tirpated. About fifteen years ago the dis
linguished editor Of New York daily
newspaper said to me in his editorial
room "You ministers talk about evils oil
|
90 with the officers OF the law an1 explore
for yourself, 80 that when you preach against
sin YOU can speak from what you have seen
with your own eyesY' l said, ~ will, and
In company with commissioner Of polica
and captain ofpolce and two elders OF my
church 1 explore the deIs and hiding places
Of all styles OF crime in New York and
preached a series OF sermons warning young
men and setting forth the work that must bs
done lest the judgments Of God whelm this
city with more awful submergement than the
volcanic deluge that buried Herculaneum
and Pompeil. 1 received, rs nearly as I can
remember, several hundred columns OF news
| paper abuse for undertaking that eXplora-
tlon. Editorials of denunciation, double
| loaded, and with captions in great primo.
type, entitled "The Fall Of Talmqge,' or
''Talmage Makes the Mistake of His Life, "
or "Down With Talmage," but 1 still live
aad am in full sympathy with all movements
for municipal publication.
But a movement which ends With crime
exposed and law executed stops half way.
Nay. it stops loag before it gets half way.
The law never yet saved anybody, never yet
changed anybody. Break up all the houses
OF iniquity III this city, and you only send
the occupants to other cities. Break down
all the policemen in New York, and while it
changes their worldly fortunes it does not
change their heart or life. The greatest
want in New York to-day is the transform
ing power Of the gospel OF jesus Christ 10
change the heart and the lite and upliit the
tone Of moral sentiment and make men dc
right not because they are afraid OF Ludlow
Street Jail or Sing Sing, but because they
Iowa God and hate unrighteousness. have
never heard, nor have you heard, OF any
thing except the gospel that proposes to re-
generate the heart, and by the influence oil
that regenerared heart rectify the life. Elk
ecute the law most certainly. but preach the
gospel by all means In churches, in theatres,
in homes, in prisons, On the land and on the
sea. The gospel Is the only power that car
revolutionize society and save the world. AL
else is half and half work and will not last
In New York it has allowed men who got by
police bribery their thousands and ters o
thousands and perhaps hundreds OF thou
sands OF dollars to 60 scot free, While sons
who we're merely the cats paw and agents o
bribery are struck with the llghtnings Of III;
law. It reminds me Of q scene in Phiadel
phia when was living there. A poor wo
man had been arrested and tried and i'm
prisoned for selling molasses candy on Sun
day. Other lgwbreakers had been allowed
to 90 undisturbed, and the grogshops wert
open on the Lords Day, and the law, will
its hands behind its back, walked up anC
down the streets declining 10 modest manl
of the offenders, but we all rose up in ou
righteous indignation, aud calling upon al
mowers, visible and Invisible, to help US, W.
declared that though the heavens fell no wo
man should be allowed to sell molasse
candy on Sunday.
A few weeks ago, after had preached II
one OF the churches in this city, maj
staggered up on the pulpit stairs. maudliI
drunk. saying, 81 am one OF the reformer
~ ,1oro oIaofod RI hiyh Off Of fhn lac
election" got rid Of that "great reformer'
as soon as / could, but did not get rid o
the impression that man like that would
cure the denominations OF New York about a
soon as smallpox would cure typhoid feve
or buzzsaw render Haydn's "Creation.
Politics in all our cities has become so cor
rupt that the only difference between thu
Republican and Democratic parties is tina
each is worse than the other. But wha
nothing else In the universe can Cn the gos
3 pei can and will accomplish. "phey snail
come from the West" and for that purpose
. the evangelistic batteries are planted al
I along the Pacific coast, as they are p!ante'
6 all along the Atlantic coast. All the pral
b. ries, all the mountains. all the valleys, al
1 the cities are under more or less gospel in
) fuence, and when we get enough faith ant
{ consecretion for the work this whole Ameri
! eau continent will cry out for God. "The,
+ shall come from the West"
The work is not so difficulty as many sup
, pose. You say "There are the foreign pop
}, ulations" Yes, but many of them are Ho'
{ landers, and they were brought up to low
and worship God, ald it will take but littl
( TO persuade the HoIlanders to adopt the re
!, lioion OF their forefathers. Then there ar
{ among these foreigners so many OF III
q Scotch. They or their ancestors hear