The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-03

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Asia, namely. India. The Bible says notn-
ing of Christ from y years of age until
80 but there are records in India and
traditions in India which represent a
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 thirtieth year but however that may
be, Christ was born in Asia, suffered in
ASA, died in Asia, and assembled from
Asia, and all that makes me turn my ear
more attentively toward that continent
as / hear its cry of distress.
Beside 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 admira-
ton at the mere mention of the name of
Henry Martyr. Having read the life of
our American David Brainerd, who gave
his life to envangelizing our American
savages. Henry Martyr goes forward to
give his life for the salvation of India,
dying from exhaustion of service. at 81
years of age. Lord Macaulay, writing of
him, says
Here Martyr lies! In manhood's early
bloom,
The Christian hero found a Pagan tomb!
Religion. sorrowing Ger her favorite son.
Points to the glorious trophies which he
won,
immortal trophies! Not with slaughter
red.
Nor stained with tears by friendless or
phans 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.
Is there in all history secular or relig-
ious, a more Wondrous character than
William Carey, the converted shoemaker
of England, daring all things for God in
India, translating the Bible into many di-
alects, building chapels, and opening mis-
sion houses, and laying foundations for
the redemption of the country, and al
though Sidney Smith, who sometimes
laughed at things he ought not to have
satirized, had in the learned Edinburgh
Review scoffed at the idea of what he
called "low-born, low-bred mechanics
like Carey attempting to convert the Brah-
Minis, Carey stopped not until he had
started influences that eternity no more
than time, shall have power to arrest, two
hundred and thirteen thousand Bibles go
ing forth from his printing presses at Sc
rampore. His sublime humility showing
itself in the epitaph he ordered from the
old Gospel Hymn:
A wretched poor, and helpless worm.
on thy kind arms l fall.
Need 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 fam
lily of the Scudders, of the Reformed
church to whom / give kiss of love in
passing; or of DR.. Alexander Duff, the
Scotch missionary whose visit to this
country some of us will remember for
ever? When he stood in the old Broad
way Tabernacle New York. and pleaded
for India until there was no other depth
Of religious emotion for him to stir and
no loftier hight of Christian eloquence for
him to scale. and closed in a whirlwind
of hallelujahs, / could easily believe that
which was said of him, that while plead
ing the cause of India in one of the
churches of Scotland he got so over
wrought that he fell in the pulpit in a
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 compelled his
friends to take him back to the pulpit to
complete his plea for the salvation of In
dia, no sooner getting on his feet than he
began where he left Off, but with more
gigantic power than before he tainted But
lust as noble as any l have mentioned
are the men and women who are there
now for Christs 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 breath
ing on them malaria, and jungles bowling
on them with wild beasts or kissing with
a., of hnG iGE D a r ec
of all denominations to be written so high
on the roll of martyrs that no names Of
the last eighteen hundred years shall be
written above them. You need to see
them at their work in schools and
churches and lazarettos to appreciate
them. All honor upon them and their
households. while l smte the lying lips Of
their slanderersl
Most interesting are the people of India
Al Calcutta l said to one of their leaders,
who spoke English well:
Have these idols which l 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 so
to-"
THAT depends upon what they have
been doing; II they have been doing good,
10 heaven, and II they have been doing
evil. 20 hell"
But do you not DeueNe IN the trans
migration of souls, and that after death
we 90 into birds or animals of some sort2''
Yes: the last creature man is think
ing of while dying is the one into which
he will go. II he is thinking of a bird, he
will go into bird; If he is thinking Of "a
beast, he will go into a beast"
Il thought you said that at death the
soul goes to heaven or hell2"
"He goes there by a gradual process.
Ii may take him years and years"
can any one become a Hindoo? CoulN
become a Hindoo?"
Yes. you could"
How could I become Hindoo?"
"By doing as the Hindoos do"
From the walls of one Of their museums
AT Jeypore / had translated for me these
beautiful sentiments:
The wise make failure equal to success.
Like threads Of silver seen through crys-
tai beads, let love through good deeds
show
DO not to other that which " done TO
thee would cause thee pain, And this is
the sum OF duty.
man obtains a proper rule Of action
by looking on his neighbors as himself
From that continent OF interesting folk.
from that continent that gave the Christ,