The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-15

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their attire unlike that found in an
American wardrobe, their memory an
their ambition unlike anything that W
recall or hope for? With more empha
sis than you put into the interrogation.
Why l answer. first: Because on
Christ was an Asiatic. Egypt gave d
us its monuments, Rome gave to US it
law, Germany gave to us its philosophy
but Asia gave to us its Christ. Hi
mother an Asiatic; the mountains tina
looked down upon him. Asiatic; tn
lakes on whose pebhly banks He reste'
and on whose chopped waves He walked
Asiatic; the apostles whom He frs
commissioned, Asiatic: the audiences
He whelmed with His illustrations
drawn from blooming lilies ant
salt crystals, and great rainfalls
and believing tempests, and hypo
critics, long faces and croaking raven:
all those audiences Asiatic. Christ
during His earthly stay was never out
side of Asia. When He had 10 or Il
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 II
years of age until so, but there are
records in India and traditions in cadia
which represent a strange, wonderful.
most excellent and supernatural being
as staying in India about that time. l
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
ed from Asia, and all that makes me
turn my ear more attentively toward
that continent as hear its 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-
tion of service at 81 years of age. Lord
Macaulay, writing of him. says:
Here Martyr lies In manhoods carly bloom,
The Christian hero found Pagan tomb.
Religion. sorrowing Ter her iGvorite son,
Points TO the glorious trophies which he won
Immortal trophies. Not with slaughter red.
Nor stained with tears By fricadless orphans
shed;
But trophies Of the Cross. In that dear name
Through every scene OF danger, toll and shame
Onward he !ourneyed TO that happy shore,
Where danger, toll, and shame are known no
more. ....
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 family of the Scudders, of
the Reformed Church of America, my
dear mother church to whom | 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 eloquence for him
to scale, and closed in whirlwind OF
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 overwrougbt 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 b. put
to bed, he compelled his friends to take
him back TO the pulpit to complete his
plea for the salvation OF India 10 soon
err 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 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
breathing on them malaria, and iungles
bowling on them with wild beasts or
kissing with cobras; the names of those
of all denominations to be
written so high on the roll of martyrs
that no names of the last 1850 years
shall be written above them. You
need to see them at their work in
schools and churches and iazarettos to
them. All honor upon
them and their households, while l
smite the lying lips of their slanderers.
Oh, it is hard to be hungry in world
where there is enough grain, and fruit,
and meat, to fill all the hungry mouths
on the planet; but, alas! that the suf-
ferer and the supply can not be brought
together. There stands India to-day!
Look at her! Her face dusky from the
hot suns of many centuries; under her
turban, such achings of brow as only
a dying nation feels; her eyes hollow
with unutterablc woe; the tears roll
ing down her sunl<en cheek; her back
bent with more agonies than she
knows how to carry; her ovens con-
tanning 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
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