St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-10

/ the world, even so have I also sent
them into the world" nor to hear His
command to us, 'As the Father hath
sent me, even SO I send you"
With your churches and schools, with
| your Bibles and homes, what can you
think Of the great lands, brinful Of
fmmortals bowed down under a load
Of sins and superStitions, worshiping
stones and sticks that give no COM
fort-strangers to pardon and purity
and peace? Do not the words, "As We
| would" ring the alarm bell in the
camp OF your fears? Does not the di-
| vine Co strike down upon your con-
science like a trip-hammer?
| Under the weight of such a work
it is no marvel that DR.. Fuller, about
a century ago, when repulsed in his
! begging from door to door for the
money with which to send Carey to
| the heather, should retire to weep and
pray; as he says, 81 frequently retired
from the more public streets to the
back lanes, that l might not be seen
to weep over my disappointments."
| The only marvel is that so few of
Christ's followers have the same ZEAL
The actual question. 1t ceases to be
question whether any Of the heather
| will be saved, or whether any of them
will be lost 1t now stands as a caIcu-
lation of chances as to what means
shall be used for saving the greatest
number. A man might cross the At
lantic in a skif. Doubtless a few did
in past ages thus drift to these shores.
But it is UNNECESSARILY better to take
passage on a Cunard steamer. For our
own children we choose moral and re-
! Hgious surroundings. We keep about
! them religious atmosphere. We re-
duce the evil influences as much as pos
sfble. Thus we increase the probabili-
ties OF their maturing into Christian
men and women. This law holds over
! all the sons and daughters of Adam.
The proportion Of the saved will keep
| quite even step with the amount of
light shed forth. In the presence of this
! great law read Paups description in the
| first chapter of Romans, and see how
the odds are multiplied against these
that sit in darkness: Being filled with
| all unrighteousness fornication, wick
! edness, covetousness, righteousness;
! full Of envy, murder, debate, deceit,
malignity; whisperers, backbiters, ha-
! tiers of God, despiteful, proud, boosters,
| inventors of evil things, disobedient to
parents, without understanding, cove
nant breakers, without natural affec-
ticn, implacable, unmerciful: who,
! knowing the judgment of God, that they
which commit such things are worthy
OF death, not only do the same, but have
pleasure in them that do them" It is
! hard to conceive how the odds could be
/
throw your prattling baby boy into
such a gang of hungry wolves. and say,
He is as safe there as he would be in
my arms, or kneeling at my family al
! tar
No thoughtful man argues that it is
better not to give the heather the
Gospel because it would increase their
responsibility, for that argument is
equally against any gospel for any
| body. Nor does he say, with DIR. Ry-
land, in the meeting of Baptist min
lister in Northampton, Eng, in
1888, when the missionary spirit of
modern times burst forth in the soul
down. When God pleases to convert
the heather he will do it without your
aid or mine," for such statement
would apply equally to his saving our
children and our neighbors. No, the
per cent Of the saved keeps quite even
step with the amount Of light shed
| forth.
No wonder our crucified, risen, and
ascending Lord cries out: go preach,
| teach every creature and I will be with
you, with all power, even unto the end
Of the world
The state of the heather shows their
need Of the Gospel. Their languages
are rich in words and terms of crime
Some languages contain as many as
| twelve words expressing the way in
which one may kill his father while
there is no word for mercy. They are
living in ''the habitations of cruelty"
Dr. Cunningham gives the following
| Incidents:
"a few years ago the British consul
in Ashantee wrote: The kings mother
| is dead, and three thousand victims
were sacrificed at her burial. Two
| thousand of these were natives. They
We're sacrificed with most revolving
rites The King of Dahomey 'slaugh-
tered six thousand captives, in order
to ornament the wall around his palace
with their heads A missionary re-
lates the following as an example of
caprice common in certain districts in
| Africa: AT a feast, a little son of the
king asked that a certain fleshy man,
whom he pointed out, should be cut
into hundred pieces. The man was
seized, by order Of the king, and his
body cut up to amuse the child
Again: The son of a king died in
drunken debauch; at his funeral thirty
young women, forty men, and twenty
slaves were buried alive, that their
spirits might attend him in another
world"
Is 1t any wonder that Jesus com
mands us to go? Is it strange that
Paul ran over every known continent,
and was willing to be scourged through
every known metropolis, saying, II
am made all things to all men, that I
might by all means save some?"
The salvation of this world now
awaits our action. What plans God
might have chosen is neither possible
nor important for us to know. It is
enough for us that He has completed
His part of the work. On the cross
He cried, "It is Finished" on the
Mount of Ascension He gave the SUI
| preme command, and on Pentecost He
gave the induement of power
The disciples did not stay in Jerusa-
lem till every inhabitant had been con-
verted and Joined the church before
they went elsewhere. Paul did not
stay in Asia till all her millions had
been saved before he went into Europe.
He preached in the chief cities TILL in
very general way, it could be said
that all Asia had heard the truth; then
God called him into Europe to help the
heather there.
Some men are today misled by the
| idea Of saving everybody at home be-
ness They think they must save the
heather around them. They forget
that there are no heather in this coun-
try, nor in Christian lands, except the
| few who are imported from heather
lands. 1t is not a. question Of piety,
or of virtue, or of faith. 1t is only a.
question of knowledge, a question Of
light. These unsaved ones about us
are bad enough. They are going to
death, but they know better. They go
to death because they will. They grow
They constantly see our churches.
They suspend their labor one day in
seven in honor Of our Christian Sab
| bath They are not heathen Thew