Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-05-06

on whose pebbly banks he rested and on
whose chopped waves he walked, Asiatio;
the apostles whom he first commissioned,
Asiatic; the audiences he whelmed with
his illustrations drawn from blooming
lilies and salt crystals and great rainfalls
and following tempests and hypocrites'
long faces ard eroRking ravens-all those
audiences Asiatic. Christ during his Garth
ly stay was never outside Of Asia When
be had 16 or IS years to spare from his ac-
tive work, instead of spending that time in
Europe, l think he goes farther toward the
heart of Asia--namely, India. The Bible
says nothing OF Christ from 12 years Of age
until 80, but there are records in India and
traditions In India which represent a
strange, wonderful, most excellent and su-
pernatural being as staying in India about
that time. I think Christ was there much
of the time between his twelfth and his
thirtieth year, but however that may be,
Christ was born in Asia, suffered in Asia,
died in Asia and assembled from Asia, and
all that makes me turn my ear more at
tentively toward that continent as hear
its cry Of diesSess.
Noble Missionaries.
Besides that. 1 remember that some OF
the most splendid achievements for the
cause of that Asiatic Christ have been
made in India. How the heart of every
intelligent Christian beats with admiration
at the mere mention Of the name of Henry
Martynl Having read the life of our
American David Brainerd, who gave his
life to evangelizing our American savages,
Henry Martyr goes forward to give his life
for the salvation of India, dying from ex-
haustion of service at 81 years of age.
Lord Macaulay, writing of him, says:
Here Martyr lies. In manhood's early bloom
The Christian hero found pagan tomb.
Religion, sorrowing o'er her favorite son,
Points to the glorious trophies which he won.
Immortal trophiesl Not with slaughter red,
Nor stained with tears by friendless orphans
shed,
But trophies Of the cross In that dear name
Through every scene of danger, toll and shame
Onward he journeyed to that happy shore,
Where danger, toll and shame are known nc
more.
Is there in all history, secular or religi
| Gus, moro wondrous character than Viii
liam Carey, the converted shoemaker oi
England, daring an things for God in In
| dia, translating the Bible into many dia
lects, building chapels and opening mission
houses and laying foundations for the re
! demption of the country, and although
| Sydney Smith, who sometimes laughed a
| things he ought not to have satirized, hat
in the learned Edinburgh Review scoffet
at the idea of what he called "lowborn
lowbred mechanics" like Carey attempting
to convert the Brahmans, Carey stopped
not until he had started influences tina
| eternity, no more than time, shall hav,
power to arrest, 213, 900 Bibles going fortl
from his printing presses at Serampore
His sublime humility showing itself in tn
epitaph he ordered from tho old gospe
hymn:
A wretched, poor and helpless worm,
On thy kind arms fall.
Need l tell you of Alphonse Lacroix, tn
Swiss missionary in India, OF of William
Butler, the glorious American Methods
missionary in India, or Of the royal famil
of the Scudders, Of the Reformed Churcl
of America, my dear mother church t
whom give kiss Of love in passing, o
of DR.. Alexander Duff, the Scotch mission
airy whose visit to this country some Q
us will remember forever? When he stoo
in the old Broadway tabernacle, Ney
York, and pleaded for India until ther
was no other depth of religious emotio
for him to stir and no loftier height c
Christian eloquence for him to scale, an
closed in whirlwind of halleluiahs,
could easily believe that which was sal
of him, that while pleading the cause {
India in one Of the churches Of Scotlan
he got so overwrought that he fell in th
pulpit in swoon and was carried into th
vestry to be resuscitated, and when n
stored to his senses and preparation wa
being made to carry him out to som
dwelling where he could be put to bed, b
compelled his friends to take him back t
the pulpit to complete his plea for the sa
vation of India, no sooner getting on hi
feet than he began where he left off, BIT
with more gigantic power than before
tainted.
But just as noble as any have mel
toned are the men and women who al
there now for Christ's sake and the r
demption of that people. Far away frol
their native land, famine on one side an
black plague on the other side, swami
breathing on them malaria, and jungl'
bowling on them with wild beasts or hi
sing with cobras; the names Of those mi
sionaries of all denominations to be wri
ten SO high on the roll of martyrs that I
names of the last 1890 years shall be wri
ten above them. You need to see them
their work in schools and churches ar
lazarettos to appreciate them. All hon'
upon them and their households, while
smite the lying lips of their slanderers!
Their Religion.
Most interesting are the people of Indi
At Calcutta, said to one of their leader
, who spoke English well:
"Have these idols which see any poy
er Of themselves to help or destroyp"
He said: "No; they only represent Co
, There is but one God"
"When people die, where they do they 6
tor"
"That depends upon what they ha'
been doing; If they have been doing goo
to heaven, and If they have been doir
!, evil, to hell" +"
"But do you not believe in the transnl
grafton of souls, and that after death v
go into birds or animals of some sortS"
Eyes; the last creature man Is thin
ing of while dying is the one into whit
, he will go. If he is thinking of bird,
will go into bird; If he is thinking Of
beast, he will go into beast"
II thought you said that at death Il
. soul goes to heaven or hellP"
"He goes thereby gradual process.
may take him years and years"
, "Can any one become Hindoop Cou
j I become HindooP"
"Yes, you could"
, "How could I become HindooP'
!, "By doing as the Hindoos do"
From the walls of one of their museum
, at Jaipur I had translated for me the
beautiful sentiments:
. The wise make failure equal to success.
Like threads of silver seen through cryst
beads, let love through good deeds show.
Do not to others that which if done to tn
would cause thee pain. And this is the sum
duty.
!, A man obtains q proper rule Of action
! looking on his neighbors as himself