The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-05-06
REL. 1ALhlGES SUNDAY SERMON.
A GOSPEL MESSAGE.
Helping TO Fill the Ships That Are to
Carry Food for the Starving People of
1ndia-An Eloquent Flea for Millions
of Famine Sufferers In Distant Land.


TEXT: This IL Ahasuerus which reigned
rom inaia sven unto Ethiopia. Esther
L,..
AIMING ite 77s 6as wo,is rhi.h -, MI, ,,
the Rihia only onna o,onrs ~ IN. "
.sIndia ,, Tn ih;s na,, 81, ,ha CT,
which tho rabhiS cal, ..Wa",,,ab Esthor :, -.
the volume Of Esther n hont somo,;r rnos os
cor, ,nIa;ra5 i.s.. pooN spine.iuies :
"God' is not even once mentionad IN 4,
although one rightly disnosad can saa % ca n,
in IL from the first chanter 10 Tho jas, u,a
have II set forth that Nerves or Abasner,,s
who invaded Greoca with o ooo ooo 80
but returned In n moor fshar'S bo,, un hai
a vast dominion. among other regioms
India. In nv text India iaLes ;,s nlSo, ;n
Bible peovranby and tbn intaras, tn ,hn,
land has continued 70 ;ncr.,s. nnt;I ,,,i.n
more and more enthusinsm all oronna ,ha
world Bishop Ueb.rs HYMN ahou, ..Ind;a's
coral strandp Il baipy snno Na,.,r lii 7
forget the thriIl Of Sntici9a,;nn tho+ w.rt
through nv lpiy and mimi and sonI r'han
after two wee ,si tossing on the soos orn,'nd
Ceylon and India--for fbe winds All nn,
according to the old HYMN ..hjou, coz, 80,
Ceylon's isle"--nur chin soi,oJ "r n 70
the mouths OF tho Ganpes noet Jnmos ,nd
Mary island 50 named becousn n rn,ai
ship of that name was wrecknd thoro nnJ
| stepped ashore nj Cnl,utta amiJ tbo
shrines and the temnles and sculnturos 81
that City of Palaces the str,pya nhyaior,.
Monies of the living and cremntiops -, tha
dead. had never exnected to ba tbarn
because the sea and long npo had n s,r,
Gus falling out. hui. the facilities of trovsi
are so increasing that Won and your chiI,
dren will probably visit that land of bound.
less fascination.
Christ during His earthly stav was never
outside of Asia When Un bad siyt,n, w.
eighteen years to spare from His act,yn
work, instead of spending that time in
Europe think he goes farther toward the
heart of Asia-namely. India. The Bible
says nothing of Christ from twelve yaars of
age until thirty. but there nre records in
India and traditions in India which repre-
sent a strange, wonderful most eycelinut
and supernatural being as staying in India
about that time. think Christ was ther,
much of the time between His twelfth and
His thirtieth year. but, however that NAV
be, Christ was born in Asia. suffered in
Asia, died in Asia, asocndcd from Asia. and
al that makes mo turn my ear more atten-
lively toward that continent as | hear il
cry of distress.
Besides that | remember that some of Che
most splendid achievements for the cause
of that Asiatic Chrisl hnyo been made in
India. How the heart OF every intelligent
Christian beats witl, admiration mt the mor,
mention OF the namp OF Henry Marvin
having fual inc lile OF our American David
bralnerd, VINO gave MS life to evangcliaing
oar American saFdgtS. Henry Martyn GOES
ior"aru 10 give nus HE Tor the salvation Of
lhula, dying IRON exhaustion OF service a.
'hlrty-ohe years OF age. Lord Macaulny
writing of him says:
here Mariyn lies. In manhood S carry
hloom
inc christian nero found n pagan tomb.
Eeliglon, sorrowing Ger her favoritc son,
iolhts TO the glorious tropics which he won.
immortal trophies. Not with slaughter red
Ncr stained with tears by fricnd!ess or.
phans shed,
Dut trophies of tho cross. In that drar
name,
Through every scene OF danger, toll and
shame,
onward he journoyed 30 that happy siiorc.
Wherc danger, toll and shame are known
no more.
Is there in MI history, secular or religl.
Gus, most w0ndrous character than Will
lam Carey, the converted shoemaker Of Eng
land, daring all things for God In India.
Transmitting tho Bible into many dialects
building chapels and opening mission
houses and laying foundations for the re-
demption of tho country, and although sid
ney Smith, who sometimes laughed at
things he ought not TO have satirizcd had
In the learned Edinburgh Review scoGTcd nj