The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-05-08
THE PROGRESS.

Ola, translating the I,lple into many dia.
lects, building chapels and opening mission
houses and laying foundations for the re
demption of the country, and although
/ Sydney 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 "lowborn,
lowbred mechanics" like Carey attempting
to convert the Brahmans, Carey stopped
not until he had started influences that
eternity, no moro than time, shall have
power to arrest, 213, 900 Bibles going forth
from his printing presses mt Serampore.
His sublime humility showing itself In tho
epitaph lie ordered from the old gospel
hymn:
A wretched, poor and helpless worm.
On thy kind arms fall
Need tell you of Alphonse Lacroix, tho
Swiss missionary in India, or of William
Butler, the glorious American Methodist
missionary in India, or of tho royal family
OF the Scudders, of the Reformed Church
OF America, my dear mother church to
whom give a kiss of lovc-in passing, or
OF DR.. Alexander Duff, the Scotch mission
airy 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 eloquence for him to scale, and
closed in a whirlwind of halleluiabs, /
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 30 overwroueht that he fell in the
pulpit 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 be put to bed, he
compelled his friends to take him back to
the pulpit to complete his plea for the sal
walton 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 men
toned are the men and women who are
there now for Christ's sake and the re-
denaption of that people. Far away from
their native land, famine on one side and
black plague on the other side. swamps
breathing on them malaria, and junRles
bowling on them with wild beasts or his
sing with cobras; tho names of those mis-
sionar1es of all denominations to be writ
ten SO high on the roll of martyrs that no
names of the last I 500 years shall be writ
ten above them. You need to see then, Mt
lazarettos to appreciate them. All honor
upon them and their households, while
smite the lying lips Of their slanderersl
Their Religion.
Most interesting arc the people of India.
At Calcutta, said to one of their leaders,
who spoke English we'll:
Have these idols which SEQ any pow
or OF themselves to help or dcstroyp'
He said: "No; they only represents God
There is but one Cod
toY''
"That depends upon what they have
been doing; IL they have been doing good, |
70 heaven, and II they have been doing |
evil, to hell"
But do you not believe in the transmit |
grafton OF souls, and that after death we |
go into birds or animals Of some sort?"
Eyes; the last creature a man is think |
ing OF while dying is tho one into which |