Connecticut western news., 1897-05-06

 Europe I think he goes farther toward the heart of Asia-namely, India. The Bible says nothing of Christ from 12 years of age until 30, but there are rec ords ill India and traditions in India which represent d strange, wonderful, most excellent and supernatural 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 ascended from Asia, and all | that makes me turn my ear more atten- | lively toward that continent as I hear | its cry of distress.
 ! Missionary Achievements. Besides that 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 ad- | miration at the mere mention of the | name of Henry Martyn! Having read | the life of our American David Brain l erd, who gave his life to evangelizing our American savages, Henry Martyr | goes forward to give his life for the sal l vation of India, dying from exhaustion | of service at 81 years of age. Lord Ma l caulay, writing of him says: \ Here Martyr lies. In manhoods s early bloom | The Christian hero found pagan tomb. Religion, sorrowing OCT her favorite son, Points to the glorious trophies which he won. | Immortal trophiesi Not with slaughter red, | Nor stained with tears by friendless orphans l 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 known | more.
 | Is there in all history, secular or re- l ligious, more wondrous character than William Carey, the converted shoemak- CT of England daring all things for God in India, translating the Bible into many dialects, building chapels and | opening mission houses and laying l foundations for the redemption of the l country, and although Sidney Smith, I who sometimes laughed at things he | ought not to have satirized, had in the learned Edinburgh Review scoffed at l the idea of what he called Flow born, | low bred mechanics" like Carey at | tempting to convert the Brahmins, | Carey stopped not until he had started | influences that eternity, no more than time, shall have power to arrest, 218,- | 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 I 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 I give kiss of love in passing, or of Dr. Alexander Duff, the Scotch missionary whose wis l 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, could easily believe that which was said of him-that while pleading the cause of India in one of the church | that he fell in the pulpit in swoon and was carried into the vestry to be resuscitated, and when restored to his senses and preparation was being made to carry him out to some dwelling where he could be put to bed he com l pelled 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 on one side and black plague on the
 other side, swamps breathing on them
 malaria, and jungles bowling on them with wild beasts or hissing with cobras,
 the names Of those missionaries of all denominations to be written so high on
 the roll of martyrs that no names of
 the last 1,800 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 smite the lying lips of their
 slanderers.
 | The Hindoo Faith.
 Most interesting are the people of h.
 dia. At Calcutta I said to one of their
 leaders, who spoke English well:
 Have these idols which I see any
 power of themselves to help or destroy?" He said: "No; they only represent
 God. There is but one God"
 "When people die, where do they go
 to?''
 "That depends upon what they have
 been doing. If they have been doing
 good, to heaven, and if they have been
 doing evil to hell.''
 But do you not believe in the trans
 migration of souls, and that after death
 we go into birds or animals of some
 sort?'
 thinking of while dying is the one into
 which he will go. If he is thinking of a
 beast, he will go into beast"
 1T thought you said that at death
 the soul goes to heaven or hell?'
 He goes there by gradual process.
 It may take him years and years.
 "Can any one become a Hindoo!
 Could become Hindoo?' "Yes; you could"
 "How could I become Hindoo?" By doing as the Hindoos do."
 From the walls of one of their mu- } seums at Jaipur I had translated for me these beautiful sentiments:
 The wise make failure equal to success | If thror nh cta1 beads, let love through good deeds show.
 Do not to others that which if done to thee
 would cause thee pain. And this is the sum oi duty.
 man obtains proper rule of aation by
 looking on his neighbors as himself.
 From that continent of interesting
 folk, from that continent that gave the