The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-05-13

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planned against because the word
God" is not even once mentioned IN
it, although one rightly disposed can
see God in it from the first chapter TO
the last, we have it set forth that Aer-
xes, or Ahasuerus, who invaded greece
with two million men, but returned IN
poor fishers boat, had vast domln-
ion, among other regions, India. IN
my text India takes its place IN blDle
geography, and the interest in that
land has continued to increase until.
with more and more enthusiasm, all
around the world Bishop Heber's hymn
about "India's coral strand is being
sung. Never will I forget the thrill OF
anticipation that went through my
body and mind and soul when, after
two weeks tossing on the seas around
Ceylon and India-for the winds did
not, according to the old hymn, 'blow
soft DER Ceylon's isle"-our ship sailed
up one of the mouths of the Ganges,
past James and Mary island, so named
because royal ship of that name was
wrecked there, and stepped ashore at
Calcutta, amid the shrines and temples
and sculptures of that City of Pal
aces,' the strange physiognomies of
the living and the cremations OF the
dead. I had never expected to be
there, because the sea and long ago
had serious falling out; but the facil-
tiles of travel are so increasing that
you or your children will probably visit
that land of boundless fascination. It's
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God could have architected, and it
seems as if man who had no religion
going there, would be obliged to ac-
knowledge a God as did the cowboy in
Colorado. His companion, an atheist,
had about persuaded the cowboy that
there was no God, but coming amidst
some of that tremendous scenery of
high rocks and awful chasms, and
depths dug under depths, and noun
tains piled on mountains, the COW boy
said to his atheistic companion, Jack,
if there is no God now, guess from
the looks of things around here there
must have been God some time" No
one but the Omniscient could have
planned India, and no one but the On
nipotent could have built it.. 1t is a
great triangle, its base the Himalayas,
word meaning the dwelling place of
SHOWS" those mountains pouring out
of their crystal cup the Indus, the
Brahmaputra and the Ganges to Stake
the thirst of the vast populations of
India. That country is the home of
two hundred and forty million souls.
Whatever be ones taste going there,
his taste is gratifed. Some go as
hunters of great game. and there is no
end to their entertainment Mighty
fauna: bison, buffalo, rhinoceros, Gle
plant, panther, lion, tiger-this last
to be the perpetual game for Ameri-
cans and Europeans, because he comes
up from the malarial swamps, where no
human being dare enter; the deer and
antelope his accustomed food, but once
having obtained the taste of human
blood, he wants nothing else, and is
called the man-eater." You can not
see the tigers natural ferocity after he
has been Inundated by voyage across
the sea. You need to hear his growl
as he presses his iron paw against the
cage in Calcutta. Thirteen towns have
been abandoned AS residence because
of the work of this cruel invader. In
India in the year 1877 eight hundred
and nineteen people We're slain by the
tiger, and ten thousand cuttle de
stroyed. From the back of he.elenhant
or from galleries built among the trees
fifteen hundred tigers went down and
eighteen thousand dollars of govern
ment reward were paid the sportsmen
The Baptist missionary, Carey. who
did infinite good to India had two great
passions a passion for souls. and
next, passion for flowers, and he
adorned his Asiatic home and the Am
erican homes of his friends, and m,-
seums on either side the sea, with the
results of his floral expeditions i'm In
dia. To prepare himself for morning
prayers, he was accustomed to walk
amid the flowers and trees. 1t ig. the
heaven Of the magnolia and abelmosk
and palm tree. The ethnologist. going
there, will find endless entertainment
in the study of the races now living
there and the races of whose blood thew
are commingling The historian 20
ing there, will find his theory of War
rem Hastings government in India the
reverse from that which Edmund
Burke gave him in the most famous
address ever made in a court room
its two characteristics matchless elo-
quence and one sidedness of statement.
The archaeologist will be thrown into
frenzy of delight as he visits Delhi
of India and digs down and finds seven
dead cities underneath the now living
city. All success to the hunters and
the botanists and the ethnologdsts and
the historians and the archaeologists
who visit India, each one on his or her
errand! But we today visit India 81,
christian women and men to hear the
fufl meaning of a groan of hunger thai
has travelled fourteen thousand milesA
yet gets louder and more agonizing a
the days go by. But why have any in
terest in people SO far away that it Isl
evening there when it is morning herei
their complexion darker, their language
to us jargon, their attire unlike that
found in any American wardrobe. their