Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-05-12
REV. DIR. TALMACB.
The Eminent Divine's Sunday
D;ScUnrS-,
Helping to Fill the Ships That Are E
Carry Food for the Starving People O
Indta-An Eloquent Plea for Million
of Fa,nire Sufferers in y Distant Land

BnTta-fin Eloquent Flea Million
of Fainire Sufferers in Distant Land
TEXT: ''This is Ahasuerus which reigne,
from India even unto Ethiopia. .''-Esthe
l.,
Among the 1853 words which make III
the Bible only once occurs the wort
India" In this part of the Scriptures
which the rabbis call ''Megillah Esther " o
the volume of Esther, book sometime
complained against because the wort
God" - not even once mentioned in it
although one rightly disposed can see Goo
in it from. the first chapter to the last, VIZ
have it SGT forth that Xerxes, or Ahasuerus
who invaded Greece with 1900 900 men
but returned in poor fishers boat, hat
vast dominion, among other regions
India. In my text India takes its place IL
Bible geography, and the interest in tha
land has continued to increase until, with
more and more enthusiasm all around ths
world Bishop Heber's hymn about India.
| coral strand" is being sung Never will !
forget the thrill of anticipation that wen,
through my body and mind and soul when
after two weeks tossing on the seas around
Ceylon and India-for the winds did not
according to the old hymn, elbow soft o'er
Ceyion's isle"-our ship sailed up one OF
the mouths of the Ganges, past james and
Mary island, so named because a royal
snip OF that name was wrecked there. and
1 stepped ashore at Calcutta amid the
anu tnt ttinpltS ana OF
that City OF Palaces, the strange physiog-
Monies of the living and cremations of the
dead. l had never expected to be there
because the sea and long ago had n seri
Gus falling out, but, the facilities of traye
are so increasing that you and your chill
| dren will probably visit that land Of bound
less fascination.
Christ during His earthly stay was never
outside of Asia. When He had sixteen OF
eighteen years to spare from His active
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 twelve years OF
age until thirty, but there are records in
India and traditions in India which repre-
sent strange, wonderful, most excellent
and supernatural being as staying in Indis
| about that time. l 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 il
Asia, died in Asia assembled from Asia an6
| all that makes me turn my ear more atten-
| lively toward that continent as / hear it,
cry of distress.
Besides that L 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 Martynl
| Having read the life of our American ID avid
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 exhaustion of service at
| thirty one years of age. Lord Macaulay.
writing of him says:
| Here Martyn lies. In manhood early
| bloom
The Christian hero found pagan tomb
| Religion, sorrowing DER her favorite son.
| Points to the glorious tropics which he won.
| Immortal trophies, Not with slaughter red
! Nor stained with tears by feiendless Or
| phans she'd
| 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, most wondrous character than Will
| lam Carey the converted shoemaker of Eng
| land daring all things for God in India
| translating the Bible into many dialects
| building chapeis and opening mission
| houses and laying foundations for the re-
demption of the country, and although Sid
| ncy 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 Brahmins, Carey stopped not
until he had started influences that eter-
| nlty, no more Inin Snall nave power
| to arrest. 3l3 GOD Bibles going forth from
his printing presses at Serampore. Hi.
sublime humility showed Itself in the
| epitaph he ordered from the old gospe
| hymn:
A wretchcd poor and helpless worm,
On thy kind arms / fall.
Need 1 tell you of Alphonse Lacroix, tn,
Swiss missionary in India, or of william
Butler, the glorious American Methods
missionary in India, or of the royal famil,
| OF the Scudders of the Reformed Church o
| America, my dear mother church, to whom
l give a kiss of love in passing, or of DR.
| Alexander Duff, the Scotch missionar,
whose visit to this country some of us viii
remember forever? When he stood in tn
old Broadway tabernacle, New York, an'
pleaded for India until there was no othe
depth Of religious emotion for him to sti
and no loftier height of Christian eloquenc
for him to scale, and closed in a whirlwin'
of halleluiahs / could believe that whicl
was said of him-that while pleading tn
cause of India in one OF the churches o
Scotland he got so oyerwrought that n
fell in the pulpit in u swoon and wa
carried into the vestry to be resusci
tated, and when restored to his sense
and preparation was being mad
to carry him out to some dwelling wher
he could be put to bed he compelled hi
friends to take him back to the pulpit t.
complete his plea for the salvation Of In
began where he left of, but with more gi
gantic power than before he tainted. Bu
Just rs noble as any have mentioned ar
the men and women who are there now 70
Christ s sake and the redemption of tina
people. Far away from their native land
famine on one side and black plague on tn
other side, swamps breathing on them ma
laria and jungles bowling them wit
wild beasts or kissing with cobras, tn
names of those missionaries of all demon
nations to be written so high on the roll q
martyrs that no names Of the last $50
years shall be written above them. Yo
need to see them at their work in school
and churches and lazarettos to appreciat
them. All honor upon them and thei
households while smite the dying lips {
their slanderers.
Most interesting are the people of Indi:
AT Calcutta said to one CT their leader:
who spoke English well:
Have these idols which 1 see any pows
of themselves to help or destroy2'
He said: No; they only represent Co
There is but one God
when people die, where do they go TOT
THAT depends upon what they ha,
been doing. If they have been doing goo
to heaven, and If they have been doing evi
to HE'LL
But do you not believe in the transm
grafton of souls, and that after death we
into birds or animals of some sOrt?''
Yes. The last creature man is thin
ing of while dying is the one into which
will go. If he is thinking of beast, he W
go into a beast"
Il thought you said that at death Il
eoul goes to heaven or help
He goes there by a gradual process.
may take him years and years"
Can any one become Hindoo? Cou
become a Hindoo?"
Yes; You could
"How could l become Hindoo?"
, "By doing the Hindoos do"
EroU that continent OF interesting fo
from tp?t continent that gave the Chri
from thst continent which has been t
deareu Dy so many missionary heroi
there comes a groan of &c, 900 900 people
y hunger. More people are in danger
starving to death in India to-day than
n entire population of the United States.
:. the famine in India in the year 1877 abe
5000 900 people starved to death. That
more than all the people of Washington,
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