Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-05-12
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the lackals are the only palIbearers
Though some help has been sent before
full relief can reach them / suppose there
will be at least 10, 900 900 dead. Starvation,
even Tor one person, is an awful process.
No food the vitals gnaw upon themselves,
and faintness and languor and pangs from
head to foot, and horror and despair and
insanity take full possession.
One handful of wheat or corn or rice per
day would keep life going, but they cannot
get handful. The crops failed, and the
millions are dying. Oh, it is hard to be
hungry in a world where there are enough
grain and fruit and meat TO fill all the hun
cry mouths on the planet; but alas that
the sufferer and the supply cannot be-
brought together. There stands India to-
dayl Look at heri Her face dusky from
the hot suns of many centuries; under her
turban such achings of brow as only dy-
ing nation feels; her eyes hollow with un-
utterable woe; the tears rolling down her
sunken cheek; her back bent with more
ag0nies than she knows how to carry; her
ovens containing nothing but ashes. Gaunt.
CHASTITY, wasted, the dew of death upon
her forehead and pallor such as the last
hour brings, she stretches forth her trem-
bling hand toward us, and with hoarse
whisper she says: II am dyingi Give mo
Dread! That is what / want! Bread Give
il to me quick. Give 1t to me now-breadi
breadl breadr' America has heard tho
cry. Many thousands of dollars have al
with breadstuffs has sailed from san
Francisco for India. Our senate and
house OF representatives, in a bill signed by
our sympathetic president, have author
lied the secretary of the navy to charter q
vessel to carry food to the famine sufferers
and you may help fill tirat ship. We want
% send at least 600, 900 bushels of corn.
Christian people of America, / call your
attention to the fact that we may now. as
never before, by one magnificent stroke
a
)f Asia. A stupendous obstacle in the way
Christianizing Asia has been the difference
of language, but all those people under
stand the gospel of bread. Another obsta-
lie has been the law OF caste but In what
better way can we teach them the
brotherhood Of man? Another huge dif-
iculty in the way of ChristianiziEg
Asia has been that those people thought
The religion We would have them take vas
no better than their Hindooism or Moham-
mechanism but they will now see by this
crusade for the relief OF people IA 900 miles
away that the Christian religion Is of a
higher, better and grander type than any
other religion, for when did the followers
If Brahma or Vishnu Buddha or Con-
tucius or Mohammed ever demonstrate like
interest in people on opposite sides of the
worldi Having taken the bread of this life
from our hands, they will be more apt to
take from US the bread of eternal life. The
missionaries of different denominations In
India at fOrty-siX stations are already dis
.ributing relief sent through the Christian
Herald. Is il not plain that those mission
aries, after. feeding the hunger of the body,
will be at better advantage to feed the
hunger of the soulp When Christ, before
preaching to the 5000 in the wilderness,
broke for them the miraculous loaves, He
Indicated that the best way to prepare the
world for spiritul and eternal considera-
tions is first to look after temporal inter
ssts. Oh, church of God in America and
EurOpel
This is your opportunity. We have on
occasions of Christian patriotism cried.
America for Godp' Now let US add the
battle shout, Asia for God,' In this move
ment to give food to starving India hear
the rustling of the wing of the Apocalyptio
angel ready to fly through the midst Of
heaven proclaiming to all the ktngdoms
and people and tongues the unsearchabls
-iches of Jesus Christ.
And now l bethink myself of something
never thought of before. L had noticed
that the circle is Gods favorite figure, and
upon that subject / addressed you some
time ago, but 1t did not occur to me until
now that the gospel seems to be moving In
a circle. 1t started in Asia, Bethlehem, an
Asiatic village; Jordan, an Asiatic river;
Calvary, an Asiatic mountain. Then this
gospel moved on to Europe. Witness the
chapels and churches and cathedrals and
Christian universities of that continent.
Then it crossed to America. 1t has prayed
and preached and sung its way across
our continent. 1t has crossed to Asia,
taking the Sandwich Islands in It's
way, and now In all the great
cities on the coast of China people are
singing Rock of Ages" and There Is q
Fountain Filled With Blood" for you must
know that not only have the Scriptures
been translated into those Asiatic tongues.
but also the evangelical hymns. My mis-
sionary brother, John, translated some OF
them into Chinese, and Mr.. Gladstone gave
me copy of the hymn, Jesus, Lover OF
MY Soul" which he had himself translated
into Greek. The Christ who it seems spent
sixteen or eighteen years of His life In In
iia is there now in spirit, converting and
saving the people by hundreds OF thou
sands, and the Gospel will move right on
through Asia until the story of the saw
iOurs birth will anew be made known In
Bethlehem, and the story of Saviour 8
sacrifice be told anew on and around
Mount Calvary, and the story OF "A Saviours 3
ascension be told anew on the shoulder Of
Mount Olivet. And then do you not see the
circle will be complete? The glorious cir
Gle the circle of the earthi
May 10, was memorable day, FOR
then was laid the last tie that connected
the two rail tracks which united the At
lantic and Pacific oceans. The Central
Pacific railroad was built from California
eastward The Union Pacific railroad was
bulu westward luey were NitutH arm
reach of meeting, only one more piece of
the rail track to put down. great audi
ence assembled midcontinent to see tho
last tie laid. The locomotives of the cas-
ern and western trains stood painting on the
tracks close by. Grafton explained the
occasion, and prayer soiemnized it, and
music enchanted it. The tie was made OF
polished laurel wood, bound with silver
| bands, and three spikes were used-a gold
spike, presented by California; silver
| spike, presented by Nevada, and an
| iron s.ike presented by Arizona
When, all heads uncovered and all hearti
| thrilling with emotion, the hammer STRUCK
| the last spike into its place, the can
non doomed it amid the resoundine
mountain echoes and the teiegraphic instru.
| ments clicked to all nations that the deed
| was done. Ny friend, if the laying OF th'
| last tie that bound the east and the west o
one continent together was such resound
| ing occasion, what will 1t be when the las
| tie of the track of gospel influence, reaching
| clear around the world, shall be laid ami'
| the anthems of all nations? The spikes viii
| be the golden and silver spikes fashione'
out of the Christian generosity OF the hem
| ispheres The last hammer stroke tina
| completes the work will be heard by all tn
raptured and piled up galleries OF the uni
verse, and the mountains of earth wi
shout to the throne of heaven: "Hallelu
| iah. for the Lord God Omnipotent reignett
| Halleiuiah, for the kingdoms of this wori
have become the kingdoms OF our Lor
| Jesus Christ"
No life is worthy and noble that has
must IN it-that is not ready to bo