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

the corner and they will fight They have
stood inside their forts in some Of their wars
until the men starved so thin that their armor
dropped of. They have had bad experience.
Four centuries ago Corea was the world OF
greatest culture and the most advanced in
art OF any peoples Of Asia or of that great
class OF heather; but Japan conquered Corea,
and when she settled up she did this little
thins-not much of thing. and yet see what
followed-she carried out of Corea every art
fst, every man OF skill, and took him home to
Japan Now what? AS I wandered about
Corea could find not single thing of art
that was attractive except some old cracked
Jars, that had come in the go-downs from
back in that olden time. The best they can
produce today is something about like our
common earthenware. But Japan came up
out of her barbariSm and out of the crude
ness of her art and under the skill of her
borrowed and stolen or captive teachers she
has gone to the front until Japan is the teach
er OF art of all Asia. Corea. trodden. trem-
bling, helpless. Why she used to have a strip
of land around her coast. fifteen or twenty
miles wide. from which she
CUT DOWN EVERY TREE
and off from which she kept every settler,
made a desert of it. for she said that when
sells they would see nothing to attract them
whatever. 1t was called mo Mans Land
she made great strip between her possess
sions and China, but in the course of events
the aggressive forces of China went over that
No Mans Land. and she had had much to DO
with the destiny of China in the later years
saw one of her Bible readers in Corea and
they told me this about him. He had been
converted but a little while when he thought
nc must read the Bible to his fellow country
men, and went into the interior. Crossing
river his little boat was upset and he was
nearly drowned. He was fshed out of the
river by heather man, who was riding on
water buffalo. A water buffalo Is some
thing like of our big oxen only the head
stretches straight out in front and the horns
lie back along the neck. They ride on these
animals, they stand on them and they sleep
on them. This man was crossing the river
on water buffalo and pulled this man out
of the water and saved his life. AS he
pulled him up he scrambled up on the OK
and said 10 the stranger: THANK YOU sir
but | want to tell you that just the way you
pulled me out of the water and saved me-
the Lord Jesus Christ came into the world
TO pull us all up and to save from our
idols" They are at 1t all the time, believing
in 1t, taking their chances. They told me of
another man who had been converted and
became a Bible reader who went out into
the interior. He went to one of their great
towns, went to the market place, where
there was great idol, to which the people
would come and offer little worship on
market day, and he went up to the front OF
the idol and pasted across it's breast in large
characters, You are an idol and no god and
am not afraid Of you" Well that opened
the way for two things: First. to preach
the gospel; and, second, to run for his life.
tLaughter) But they have the courage af-
ter ALL and touched by the gospel they are
coming up. and that land is opened
DO you ask me II they get converted?
viii tell you. Perhaps you wouldn't like to
stand the same test yourself. l gave a man
an appointment down in the Foo Chow con-
ference, who, few years ago. under the
preaching of Rev. DR.. Baldwin, local secre-
tary OF the missionary society in New York
was brought to a knowledge of the truth, as
they preach in a heather country. No Sab
path, no churches, no chances. You get a
room that opens on the street. The streets
Wild ctr
is an avenue, and there are very few of
them There is a great street through the
city OF Peking and there is a great street
through Siene, the capital of Corea There
are some streets about fifteen feet wide in
Han-kow, in China, and with these excep-
tions you will hardly find a street more than
SIX feet wide in all heathenism. You get a
little opening, kind of a store with the front
end out of it, ten or fifteen feet deep, ten or
twelve feet wide at the front and you put
in an organ. If you get anybody to play,
and sing, and the people gather round the
entrance. Then you talk to them the gospel
give them tracts. They pass on they stop
they come again, they get interested they
come and ask you questions. The day is
spent in that operation. Some are touched
and some come and they find out where the
missionary lives; they come to ask him
questions. After few weeks they begin TO
study their Testament; in a little while they
will
GIVE UP THEIR IDOLS.
was converted, and when he was converted he
Thought he ought to preach. His name was
Ling-Ching-Ting one OF the-most Cody men
| ever saw. He went up into the public square
that is little wide space in the street: got
up on box and began TO teach them the Cos
pei. They heard HIM a few minutes, a mob
gathered, Knocked him off beat him with
bamboo rods until he was unconscious dragged
him through the streets like a dead dog cast
him over out Of The city, just as one other
apostle was cast out Tor dead once He got up
AT rel a 10 yUha ha foIf 10
to see II he was badly broken, found his
clothes torn and himself covered with blood
went down to the little stream washed off the
blood and the mud, fastened his clothes to-
gether as best he could, got up on the shore
and said, Lord Jesus what wilt thou have
me do?' and then he felt that he ought to go
back and preach, and straight back he went
Got up on that same box, began at that same
gospel, and the crowd came pretty quick and
beat him down and pounded him and left him
unconscious and pitched him out of the city.
Again he washed himself up and again he
said, Lord Jesus, what wilt thou have me to
do? Bruised, sore, ragged, blood-stained, yet
he walked straight back into the heart of the
city, got up on that same box and began again
TO tell them about the Son OF God that could
forgive their sins. The mob gathered the third
time, they pulled him off from the box and
they beat him, and they were going to kill
him. but the magistrate didn't dare let them
XIII him. He didn't care especially about his
his Christianity, but if they had killed him
somebody would have to answer and he sent
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their hands and put him into the jail. That
Jail happened to front on little open space.
y mob gathered outside. He looked out
through the window, crowded his bruised and
bloody face up against the bars, stuck out his
bleeding hand, and motioned to them to be
quiet and when they saw him they gradually
Quoted, and then he said, None of these
things move me- Neither count ! my life
dear unto myself so l may accomplish the
work given unto me- Brothers, do you think
we could do any better?
VIII ask m
verted? L can show you men by the hundred
by the thousand, by the ten thousand who are
ready to endure all tortures. to be outcast, to
be boycotted, to go as wanderers for the love
of Jesus. Convertedi l think sometimes IL
would intensity and improve our conversion If
the headsmen were behind us when we prayed.
Magnificent material touched by the grace of
God! can't talk to you longer about it. The
great field is opened.
But must turn with one word toward that
marvellous land of India ancient India India
of the ancient empires The greatest empires
that have have been known among men were
the old Mongal empires, the finest and most
handsome buildings on earth are in India, the
Taj-Mahal. Magnificent land-a land of mon
uments and tombs and dead empires It is a.
land of the first Asia, great Asia. This is the
land We are to take; and today they are turn
ing toward US sixty thousand in a single year;
whole villages sending up petitions saying
For the sake of our souls, send US a man to
teach US the gospel" Great India. wide open. We
have Asia at our feet-and do not forget that
that is the land where the first Adam sinned
and the second Adam suffered where Moses
received the law and Abraham the covenant;
where ST. Paul found the light and the Apos-
ties received the Holy Ghost. Great Asia wide
OPEN AT OUR FEET
and the Master saying to u.s. "As the Father
hath sent me, so send 1 you,'' and eff any
man have not the spirit of Christ, he Is none
of his"
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