The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-05-08

themselves for awhile md attack the 1us-
tidable game Of India. Or IL you go as
| botanists, oh. what opulence of dora
With no distinct fora Of it's own, 1T is the
chorus Of all the flora of Persia and ST.
IBERIA and China and Arabia and Egypt.
! Two Great Passions.
| The Baptist missionary Carey, who did
| Infinite good to India. had two great pas
sions-frst, passion for souls, and, next,
| q passion for dowers-and he adorned his
Asiatic home and the American homes Of
his friends and museums on either side the
] sea with the results of his floral expedi-
lions in India. To prepare himself for
morning prayers he was accustomed to
| heaven of the mag nolia and abelmosk and
palm tree The ethnologist going there
Will find endless entertainment in the
study of the races now living thereand the
races of whose blood they are commin-
Cling.
The historian going there will and his
theory of Warren Hastings government
In India the reverse from that which r.
mund Burke gave him In the most famous
address ever made In a courtroom, its two
characteristics 1natchless eloQuence and
onesidedness Of statement. The arehaeolo-
gist will be thrown into frenzy of delight
as he visits Delhiof India and digs down
0o0 Au0O OSVSu Uc&aO Clb4e8 U0O010o0C0 tho
now living City. All success to the hunt
ers, and the botanists. and the ethnolgists,
and the historians, and the archseologists
who visit India, each one ON his or her
GRAND. But we today visit India as Chris
tian women and men to hear the full
meaning OF groa1 Of hunger that has
Travelled IA 900 miles, yet gets louder and
more aeonizins as the days go by. But
why have any interest in people SO far
away that 1t IL evening there when 1t IL
morning here, their complexion darker,
their language to US a jargon, their attire
unlike that found In any American ward
robe, their memory and their ambition un-
like anything that we recall or hope fort
! With moro emphasis than you put into
the interrogatory "Whys" answer, first,
because our Christ was an Asiatic Egypt
gave to us its monuments, Rome gave to
ns it's law, Germany gave to US it's philos-
ophy, but Asia gave to US its Christ. His
mother an Asiatio; the mountains that
looked down upon him, Asiatic; the lakes
on whose pebbly banks he rested and ON
whose chopped waves he walked Asiatic:
the apostles whom he Arst commissioned,
Asiotfc; the audiences he .hclnci with
his illustrations drawy I: III blooming
lilies and salt crystal. n.Ml s;v.t rainfalls
and following temp. ~. nyInrrites
long faces md croakiHg ravens-su those
audiences Asiatio Christ during his earth
" stay was never outside Of Asia. When
he had 16 or ID years to spare from his 40
tive work, instead of spending that time in
Europe, I think he goes farther toward the
heart of Asin-namely, India. The Bible
says nothing Of Christ from IL years Of ago
until 80, but there are records In India and
traditions In India which represents a
strange, wonderful, most excellent and SUI
pernatural being MS staying in India about |
that time think Christ was there much
of the timo between his twelfth and his
thirtieth year, but however that may be, |
Christ was born in Asia, suffered in Ash. |
died In Asia and ascended from Asia, and |
all that makes me turn my car moro at !
tentively toward that continent az hear |
Its cry OF distress.
Noble Mlssl0narfcs.
RasSSloo that