The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-05-12

! tertwinIng. Thousands Of people on the
wharfS and on the decks joined Us in invoh-
! ing GJd blessing on the cargo. and the long
meter Doxology in "Old Hundred sounded
| crandly up amid the mastS and ratiueS.
Having had the JOY OF seeing that ship thus
| conSecrated, we had the additional JOY of
! standing on the docks Of St. Pc;ersburg
I when the p.anks of the relief ship were
thrown out and the represenuves OF the mu-
inequalities and Of royalty went >.hoari her,
the long freight train at the same time roll
ins down to take the food to the starving,
and on alternate cars OF that train American
and Russian flags floating. But now the
hunger il India is mightier than any that Ire
land or Russia ever suffered. Quicker
ought to be the response and on so vast 4
scale that the one ship would become 4
whole tiotilla-New York sending one. Dos
Ton another, Philadelphia another. Charles
ton another. New Orleans another. Then
let them all meet in some harbor in India.
What peroration Of mercy for the nine
teen,h century | would like to stand on
the wharf at Calcutta or Bombay and see
such feet come in. With what Joy it would
he welcomed. The emaciatei would lit
their heads on shr;veled hands and elbows
and with thin lips ask, as it coming-Some-
thing to eat: And whole villages and
towns, too weak to walk, would crawl out on
hands and knees to get the first grain Of
corn they could reach and put it 10 their
famished lips. May ! cry out for you and
for others 10 those sufferers: :WaIt q little
F.! longer. bear up a little more o dying men OF
India starving women. emaciated
babes Relief is on the way, and more re-
lief Will soon be coming. We send it in the
name of the Asiatic Christ, who said, 4 was
hungry and ye fed me; insomuch as ye have
done it unto one Of the least Of these, my
brethren, ye have done itunto me.
Christian people of America call your
attention TO the fact that We may now, rs
never before, by one magnificent stroke
open the widest door for the evangelical
ton of Asia. stupendous obstacle in
the way of Christianizing Asia as been
the difference Of language, but all those peo-
pie understand the gospel of bread. Another
obstacle has been the law Of caste, but il
what better way can We teach them the
brotherhood of man? Another huge difficult
ty ia the way Of Christianizing Asia has been
that those people thought the religion We
would have them take was no better than
their Hindooism or Mohammedanism. but
they Will now see by this crusade for the re-
lief Of people l,400 miles away that the
Christian religion is of higher, better and
granaer type than any other religion, for
when did the followers Of Brahma, or Wish
nu, or Buddha, or Confucius, or Mohammed
ever demonstrate ike interest in people on
the opposite side of the world? Having
taken the bread of this life from our hands,
they will be more apt TO take from Us the
bread of eternal life. The missionaries Of
different denominations in India at 46 sta
tons are already distributing relief sent
through the Christian Herald Is it not plain
that those missionaries, after feeding the
hunger Of the body, will be at better advan-
tage 10 feed the hunger Of the soul? When
Christ, before preaching to the 5000 in the
wilderness, broke for them the miraculous
loaves he indicated that the best way 10
prepare the world for spiritual and eternal
considerations is first 10 lookafter their tenn
poral interests. Oh, church Of God in Ame.
rica and Europe. This is your opportunity.
! We have on occasions Of Christian patriotism
cried, america for God' Now let US add
the battle shout, ''Asia for Cod In this
movement to give food to starving India
hear the rustling OF the wings Of the Apoca-
lyptic angel, ready to fly through the midst
of heaven procaiming TO all the kingdoms
and people and tongues the unsearchable
! riches of Jesus Christ.
And now bethink myself of something l
never thought Of before. had noticed that
the circle is God s favorite figure and upon
that subject l addressed you some time ago,
but it did not occur to me until now that the
gospel seems to be moving in a circle. 1t
started in Asia, Bethlehem, an Asiatic VII
lage; Jordan, an As;atic river; Calvary, an
Asiatic mountain. Then this gospel moved
on TO Europe: witness the chapels and
churches and cathedrals and Christian uni
versities of that continent. Then it crossed
TO America. 1t has prayed and preached
and sung its way across our continent. 1t
has crossed to Asia, taking the Sandwich
Islands in its way, and now il. al the great
cities on the coast of China people are sing
ing "Rock Of Ages and There Is Foun-
tain Filled With Blood" for you must know
that not only have the Scriptures been trans
lated into those Asiatic tongues, but also the
evangelical hymns
My missionary brother John translated
some of them into Chinese, and Elr. Glad
stone gave me copy Of the hymn, Jesus
Lover of My Soul" which he had himself
| translated into Greek. The Christ who it
| seems spent lG or Is years Of his life in In
iia is there now in spirit, converting and
saving the people By the hundreds Of thous-
ands, and the gospel will move right on
through Asia until the story Of the Saviour's 5
birth will anew be made known in Bethle-
| hem, and the story Of Saviour's sacrifice
be told anew on and around Mount Calvary,
and the story ola Saviours ascension be told
anew on the shoulder of Mount Olivet. And
| then do you not see the circle will he COM
; plete? The glorious circle, the circle Of the
earth. This old planet, gashed with earth
| quake and scorched with conaagration and
! torn with revolutions, will be girdled with
| churches, with schools, with universities,
! with millennial festivities. How cheering
and how inspiring the thought that We are,
whether giving temporal or spiritual relief,
working on the segment Of such o circle,anS
that the Christly mission which started in
! Asia will keep on its way until 1t goes clear
around to the place where il started. Then
! the earth will have demonstrated that for
which it was created, and as soon as world
has completed its mission it dies. Part OF
| the heavens is o cemetery Of dead worlds.
Our world, built to demonstrate to the world.
which have been loyal to God the awful re,
suits of disloyalty, 80 that none Of them may
| ever attempt it say our world, having
| finished its mission, may then go out OF ex-
istence. The central fires Of the world
which are burning out rapidly toward the
crust may have reached the surface By that
time and the Bible prophecy be fulfilled,
which declares that the earth and all things
! that are therein shall be burned up. The
ransomed human race at that time on earth
will start unhurt in those chariots of fire for
the great metropolis CT the universe, the
heaven, where the redeemed Of the Lord
shall talk over the famines, and the plaques,
and the wars which this earth suffered and
against which we struggled and prayed Us