The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-05-14

UfdNR from blooming IIleS 6nC
salt crystals, and great rainfalls
and believing tempests, and hypo
critics, long faces and croaking ravens
all those audiences Asiatic. Chris
during His earthly stay was never out
side of Asia. When He had IS or II
years to spare from His active work
instead of spending that time in Eu
rope, | think He goes farther toward
the heart of Asia-namely, India The
Bible says nothing of Christ from Is
years of age until so, but there ara
records in India and traditions in India
which represent strange, wonderful
most excellent and supernatural being
as staying in India about that time.
think Christ was there much of the
time between His twelfth and His thir
tieth year in India, but however that
may be, Christ was born in Asia, suf-
fered in Asia, died in Asia and ascend.
! cd from Asia, and all that makes me
turn my ear more attentively toward
! that continent as | hear it's cry of dis
| tress.
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
! admiration at the mere mention of the
name of Henry Martyr. Having read
| the life of our American David Brain
erd, who gave his life to evangelizing
our American savages, Henry Martyr
goes forward to give his life for the
salvation of India, dying from exhaus-
finy, IF IT IF
Macaulay, writing of him, says:
Here Martyr lies! In manhood's early bloom,
The Christian hero found a Pagan tomb.
Religion, sOrrOwing DER her fayorite son,
Points to the gIoriousEtrophies which he won.
Immortal trophiesl Not with slaughter red,
Nor stained with tears by friendless orphans
shed;
But trophies of the Crossl In that dear name,
Through every scene of danger, toll, and shame,
Onward he journeyed to that happy shore,
Where danger, toll, and shame are known no
more.
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 gave a
kiss of love in passing; or of DIR. Alex
ander Duff, the Scotch missionary,
whose visit to this country some of us
will remember 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 eloguence for him
to scale, and closed in whirlwind of
hallelujahs, l could easily believe that
which was said of him, that
while pleading the cause of India in
one of the churches of Scotland he got
so overweight that he fell in the pull
pit in swOon and was carried into the
vestry to be resuscitated, and when re-
stored to his senses and preparation
was being made to carry him out to
some dwelling where he could he put
to bed he compelled his friends to take
him back to the pulpit to complete his
plea for the salvation of India, no soon
or getting on his feet than he be-
gan 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 ma
tive land, famine on one side and black
plague on the other side, swampS
breathing on them malaria, and jungles
bowling on them with wild beasts or
kissing 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,SO0 years
shall be written above them. You
need to see them at their work in
schools and churches and iazarettos to
appreciate them. All honor upon
them and their households, while l
snlite the lying lips of their slanderers!
Most interesting are the people of
India. At Calcutta l said to one of
their leaders, who spoke English very
well:
''Have these idols which I see any
power of themselves to help or de-
stroy?"
He said: mo; they only represent
God. There is but one God"
when people die, where do they go
to?"
THAT depends on 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
of souls, and that after
death we go into birds or animals of
some sort?"
Yes; the last creature a man is
of while dying is the one into
which he will go. If he is thinking of
a bird, he will go into a bird; if he is
of a beast, he viii go into a
beast
Il thought you said that at death the
soul goes to Heaven or help"
''IIe goes there by gradual process.
1t may take him years and years."
Can anyone become Hindoo? Could
l become Hindoo?"
Yes, you could
''How could l become Hindoo?"
by doing as the Hindoos do"
From the walls of one of their muse
ums at Jeypore l had translated for me
these beautiful sentiments:
THE wise make failure equal to sue
cess"
Like threads of silver seen through
crystal beads, Let love tn. ough good
deeds show"
do not to others that which if done
to thee would cause thee pain. And
this is the sum OF duty
"A man obtains proper rule of ac-
ton by looking on his neighbor as him
self"
Oh, it is hard 10 be hungry in a world
where there is enough grain, and fruit,
and meat, to fill all the hungry mouths
on tie planet; but, alas. that the suf-
ferer and the supply can not be brought
together. There stands Iudla to-day!
Look at her! Her face dusi1y from the (
hot suns of many cen Sf1riaS: under her /