The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-21


tne southern cross. which i'm stars trans
hsures The midnight heaven as you look
lp az u all the way from the Sandwich
Islands 70 Australia. They shall come
from the south"
But I must not forget that my text
takes in another cardinal point of tho
compass -Ir takes in the east. I have To-
report THAT in a journey around the
world there is nothing So much inprcsscs
one as The fact that the missionaries di-
Vinely blessed are taking the world for
God The horrible war between Japan
ana China VIII leave the last wall of op-
position fiat in the dust. War is barbar-
ism always and everywhere. We hold
up our hands TN amazement at the massa-
ere al Port Arthur as though Christian
nations could never go into such diabolsm
We forget Fort Pillow, We forget the
fact that during Our war both north and
south rejoiced when there We're 10000
more wounded and slain on the opposite
So. Wax. whether in China or the
United States. is hell let loose. But one
good result viii come from the Japanese
Chinese conflict Those regions viii Poe
more open to civilization and Christianity
than ever before. When Missionary Carey
put before am assembly of ministers at
Northampton, England, his project for
the eyangelization of India, they laughed
him out of the house. From Calcutta on
there is not neighborhood but directly
or indirectly feels the Gospel power The
Juggernaut, which did it's awful work for
centuries, few weeks ago was brought
out from the place where 1t has for years
been kept under shed as a curiosity, and
there was no one reyerentialiy TO greet
il. About three million Of Christian souls
i'm India are the advance guard that will
lead on the two hundred and fifty mill
lion.
The Christians of Annoy, and Pekin, and
Canton are Che advance guard that VIII
lead the three hundred and forty million
Of China 'They shall come from the
east" The last mosque of Mohammedan-
ism will be turned into a Christian church.
The last Buddhist temple win become
fortress of light The last idol of Hndoo-
ism will be pitched into the fire. The
Christ who came from the east viii Yet
bring all the east with him. OF course,
there are high obstacles to be overcome,
and great ordaals must be passed through
before the contamination; as witness the
Armenians under the butchery Of the
Turk May that throne on the banks OF
the Bosphorus soon Crumble! 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
requisite that arms be sent there to
mans, 1T is requisite that by cable
under the seas and by protest
that shall thrill the wires from
w ashfngton.-au London, and Ber-
lin to Constautuople, the nations ana
themattze the diabolism for which the
Sultan of Turkey is responsible Moham-
mechanism is a curse whether in Turkey
or New York. "They shall come from the
east9 And they VIII come at the call of
the lovliest and Grandest, and best men
and women of all time. / mean the mis-
etonaries DissOlute Americans and Eng
ushmen who have gone TO Calcutta, and
Bombay, and Canton to make their for
tunes defame the missionaries because 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 stationed go on eloriously with their
work; people just as good and selt-denyng
as was Missionary Moffat- VINO, when
asked to write in an album, wrote these
words:
NV album IS in savage breasts
Where passion reigns ana 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
Win the COLSttt liDAl VI l-A'- - N~'-.i
who embarlling for the missionary work
in Africa, said to a fellow student: IF 1
die in Africa, come and write my cpl
taph" "What shall I write for your cpl
taph?" said the student write said he,
these words: Let a thousand fan before
Africa be given up
There is another point of the compass
that my text includes. 'Ihey shall come
from the west" That means America
redeemed Everything between Atlantic
and Pacific oceans to be brought within
the circle of holiness and rapture. VIII it
he done by worldly reform, or evangelism?
VIII It be law. or Gospel? L am glad that
n wave of reform has swept across this
land, and all the cities are feeling the adj
vantage of the mighty movement Let the
good work 90 on until the last municipal
evil is extirpated About fifteen years ago
this distinguished editor of a New York
daily newspaper said to me in his edi-
+oriaI room you ministers talk about
evils of which you know nothing. Why
don't YOU go with the officers of the law,
and explore for yourself, so that when
you preach against sin you can speak
from what you have seen with your own
eves?" I said, 81 will" and in company
with a commissioner Of police, and a cap
tain Of police, and two elders of my church
1 explored the dens 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 be done lest the judgments of
Goa whelm this city with more awful SUBJ
mergment than the volcanic deluge that
hurled Herculaneum and Pompei.
] received, as nearly as 1 can remember
several hundred columns Of newspaper
abuse for undertaking that exploration.
Editorials Of denunciation, double-leaded,
and with captions i'm great primer type
entitled "The FAN of Talmase,' or "TaI-
mage makes the mistake Of his life or
"Down with Ta1mage, but ] still live
and am in fun sympathy with all move
ments for municipal publication. But a
movement which ends with crime exposed
and law executed stops half way. Nay
it stops long before it gets half way
The law never yet saved anybody; never
vet changed anybody. Break up all the
houses of iniquity in 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 transforming power
Of the gospel Of Jesus Christ to change the
heart and the life and uplift the tone Of
moral sentiment, and make men do right