News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-05-05


he had Is or IS years to spare from his ac-
tive work, instead of spending that time in
Europe, think he goes farther toward the
heart of Asia-namely, India. The Bible
says nothing Of Christ from , years of age
until 30, but there are records in India and
traditions in India which represent
strange wonderful, most excellent and SUI
pernatural 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 Asia,
died in Asia and assembled from Asia, and
all that makes me turn my ear more at
tentively toward that continent as hear
its Cry of distress
Noble Missionaries.
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 ou1
American David Brainerd, who gave his
| life to evangelizing our American savages
Henry Martyr goes forward to give his life
for the salvation of India, dying from ex.
haustion of service at 81 years of age
Lord Macaulay, writing of him, says:
Here Martyr lies. In manhood early bloom
The Christian hero found pagan tomb.
| Religion sorrowing DER her favorite son,
| Points to the glorious trophies which he Won
| Immortal trophiesl Not with slaughter red,
| Nor stained with tears by friendless orphans
shed,
| But trophies of the cross. 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 religi.
| Gus, more wOndrOus character than Viii
| liam Carey the converted shoemaker OF
England, daring all things for God in In.
dia, translating the Bible 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 more than time, shall have
power to arrest, 213,O 900 Bibles going forth
| from his printing presses at Serampore.
His sublime humility showing itself in the
epitaph be ordered from the old gospel
! hymn:
wretched, poor and helpless worm,
| On thy kind arms | fall
Need | tell You Of Alphonsc Lacroix, the
| Swiss missionary in India, or of William
| Butler, the glorious American Methodist
| missionary in India, or of the royal family
of the Scuddcrs, of the Reformed Church
of America, my dear mother church to
whom l give Il kiss of love in passing, or
of Dr. Alexander Duff, the Scotch mission
airy whose visit to this country some of
US will remember fOreverE 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 eloquonce for him to scale, and
! closed in a whirlwind of halleluiahs, |
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 oyerwrought that he fell in the
pulpit in a 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 Christs sake and the re.
demption 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 jungles
bowling on them with wild beasts or his
sing with cobras; the names of those mis-
sionaries Of all denominations to be writ
ten so high on the roll of martyrs that nc
names of the last 800 years shall be writ
ten 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
smite the lying lips of their slanderers
Their Religion.
Most interesting are the people of India.
At Calcutta, | said to one of their leaders,
who spoke English well:
Have these idols which see any pow
er of themselves to help or destroys"
He said mo; they only represent God.
There is but one God"
when people die, where they do they GO
to-"
"That depends upon 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 transmit
grafton Of souls, and that after death we
go into birds or animals of some sort?'
Yes; the last creature man is think.
ing of while dying is the one into which
he will go. If he is thin king of n bird, he
will go into a 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 help
'He goes there by gradual process. II
may take him years and years. "
"Can any one become HindooY Could
l become IL Hindoo?'
eyes, you could.
GLOW could become Hindoo?"
"By doing us the Hindoos do"
From the walls of one of their museums
at Jaipur | had translated for me these
beautiful sentiments;
The wise make failure equal to success.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal
beads, let love through 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 action by
looking ON his neghbors as himself.