Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-05-08

you put into the intcTogatory "Why?"
/ answer: First, because our Christ was
an Asiatic. Egypt gave to us it's monu-
ments, Rome gave to us its law, Ger
many gavo to US its philosophy, but
Asia gave to us its Christ-his mother
al Asiatic; the mountains that looked
down upon him, Asiatic; the lakes Oh
whose pebbly banks he rested and Oh
whose chopped waves he walked, Asiat-
ic; the apostles whom he first commits
stoned, Asiatic; the audiences he wEelm-
ed with his illustrations drawn from
blooming lilies, and salt crystals, and
great rainfalIs, and believing tenn
pests, and hypocriles' long faces, and
croaking ravcns-all those audiences
Asiatic
Christ during his earthly stay was
never outside of Asia. When he had 16
or Is years to spare from his active
work, instead of spending that time in
Europe 1 think he goes farther toward
the heart of Asia-nalnely, India. The
Bible says nothing of Christ from IL
years OF age until 80, but there are rec
ords in India and traditions i'll India
which represent Il strange, wonderful,
mostexcellent and supernatural being
as staying in India about that time. l
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 atten-
lively toward that continent as | hear
its cry of distress.
Missionary achievements.
Besides that l 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 adj
miration ut the mere mention OF the
name of Henry Martynl Having read
the life of our American David Brain
erd, who gave his life to evangelizing
our American savagcs, Henry Martyr
goes forward to give his life for the sal
walton of India, dying from exhaustion
of service at 81 years of age. Lord Ma
caulay, writing Of him says:
Hero Martyr lies. In manhood's early bloom
The Christian hero found IL pagan tomb.
Religion, Borrowing DER her favorltc son,
Points to the glorious trophies which he won
Immortal trophies! Not with slaughter red,
Nor stained with tears by fricndless orphans
she'd
But trophies of the cross. In that dear NAME
Through every scene of danger, toll and shame
Onward he journcyed to that happy shore,
Where danger. toll and shame arc known no
more
Is there in all history, secular or re-
ligious, a more wondrous character than
William Carey, the converted shoemak-
er Of England, daring all things for
God in India translating the Bible into
many dialects, building chapels and
opening mission houses and laying
foundations for the redemption of the
country, and although Sidney Smith,
who sometimes laughed at things he
ought not to have satirized, had i'll the
learned Edinburgh Review scoffed at
the idea of what he called low born,
low bred mechanics" like Carey at
tempting to convert the Brahmins,
Carey stopped not until he had started
influences that eternity, no moro than
time, shall have power to arrest, 213,-
900 Bibles going forth from his printing
presses at Serampore His sublime hu-
mility showed itself in the epitaph he
ordered from the old gospel hymn:
A wretched, poor and helpless worm,
On thy kind arms fall.
Need l tell you of Alphonse Lacroix,
the Swiss missionary in India, or of
William Butler, the glorious American
Methodist missionary in India, or of
the royal family of the Scudders of the
Reformed church of America, my dear
mother church, to whom l give kiss OF
love in passing, or Of DR.. Alexander
Duff, the Scotch missionary whose Wis
it to this country some of US will re-
member forever? When he stood in the
old Broadway tabernacle. New York,
and pleaded for India until there was
no other depth of religious emotion for
him to stir and no loftier height of
Christian eloquence for him to scale,
and closed in whirlwind Of hallelu-
iahs, I could easily believe that which
was said of hiln-that while pleading
the cause of India in one of the church
es of Scotland he got so overweight
that he fell in the pulpit in a swoon
and was carried into the vestry to be
n
senses and preparation was being made
to carry him out to some dwelling
where be could be put to bed he com
PEELED his friends to take him back to
the pulpit to complete his plea for the
salvation Of India, no sooner getting on
his feet than he began where he left
off, but with more gigantic power than
before he tainted, But just as noble as
any have mentioned are the men and
women who are there now for Christ's
sake and the redemption of that people.
Far away from their native land, fam
inc Oh one side and black plague Oh the
other side, swamps breathing on them
malaria, and jungles bowling Oh them
with wild beasts OF Kissing with cobras,
the names of these missionaries Of all
denominations to be written so high on
the roll of martyrs that 10 names OF
the last 1900 years shall be written
above them. You need to see them at
their work in schools and churches and
lazarettos to appreciate them. All hon
or upon them and their households
while l sn,ite the lying lips of their
slanderers.
The Hindoo Faith.
Most interesting are the people Of III
dia. At Calcutta said to Que of their
leaders, who spoke English well:
"Hnye these idols which | see any