The McCook tribune., 1897-05-07

Esther, book
W sometimes COM
planned against because the WORD
God is not even once mentioned in
it, although one rightly disposed can
see God in it from the first chapter TO
the last, we have it set forth that Aer-
Xes, or Ahasuerus, who invaded greece
with two million men, but returned IN
q poor fishers boat, had vast domln-
ion, among other regions, India. In
my text India takes it's place in bible
geography, and the interest IN that
land has continued to increase until,
with more and more enthusiasm. all
around the world Bishop Hebers hymn
about "Indias coral strand is being
sung. Never will 1 forget the thrill or
anticipation that went through my
body and mind and soul when, after
two weeks tossing on the seas around
Ceylon and India-for the winds dlu
not, according to the old hymn, blow
soft DER Ceylon's isle"-our ship sailed
up one of the mouths of the Ganges,
past James and Mary island, so named
because royal ship of that name was
wrecked there, and l stepped ashore at
Calcutta, amid the shrines and temples
and sculptures of that City OF Pal
aces" the strange physioSnomies OF
the living and the cremations OF the
dead. l had never expected to be
there, because the sea and l long ago
had a serious falling out; but the facil-
tiles of travel are so increasing that
you or your children will probably visit
that land of boundless fascination. Its
confguration is such that no one but
God could have architected, and it
seems as if a man who had no religion
going there, would be obliged to ac-
knowledge a God as did the cowboy in
Colorado His companion, an atheist.
had about persuaded the cowboy that
there was no God, but coming amidst
some of that tremendous scenery of
high rocks and awful chasms, and
depths dug under depths, and noun
tains piled on mountains, the cow boy
said to his atheistic companion, Jack,
if there is no God now, l guess from
the looks of things around here there
must have been God some time" No
one but the Omniscient could have
planned India. and no one but the Om-
nipotent could have built it. 1t is
great triangle, its base the Himalayas,
a word meaning "the dwelling place Of
SHOWS" those mountains pouring out
of their crystal cup the Indus, the
Brahmaputra and the Ganges to slake
the thirst of the vast populations of
India. That country is the home of
two hundred and forty million souls.
Whatever be ones taste going there,
his taste is gratified. Some 60 as
hunters of great game. and there is no
end to their entertainment. Mighty
fauna; bison, buffalo. rhinoceros, Gle
phant, panther, lion, tiger-this last
to be the perpetual game for Ameri-
cans and Europeans, because he comes
up from the malarial swamps. where no
human being dare enter; the deer and
antelope his accustomed food. but once
having obtained the taste of human,
blood, he wants nothing else, and is
called the man-eater." You can not
see the tigers natural ferocity after he
has been humiliated by voyage across
the sea. You need to hear his growl
as he presses his iron paw against the
cage in Calcutta. Thirteen towns have
been abandoned as residence because
of the work of this cruel invader. In
India in the year 1877 eight hundred
and nineteen people were slain by the
tiger, and ten thousand cattle de-
stroyed. From the back of the elephant
or from galleries built among the trees
fifteen hundred tigers went down and
eighteen thousand dollars of govern
ment reward were paid the sportsmen.
The Baptist missionary, Carey, who
did infinite good to India, had two great
passions-first, passion for souls, and
next, a passion for flowers, and he
adorned his Asiatic home and the Am
erican homes of his friends, and mu-
seums on either side the sea, with the
results of his floral expeditions in In
dia. To prepare himself for morning
prayers, he was accustomed to walk
amid the flowers and trees. It is the
heaven of the magnolia and abelmosk.
and palm tree. The ethnologist. going
entertainment
in the study of the races now living
there and the races of whose blood they
are a commingling. The historian, 60
ing there, will find his theory of War
rem Hastings government in India the
reverse from that which Edmund
Burke gave him in the most famous
address ever made in a court room,
its two characteristics matchless elo-
ouence and one sidedness of statement.
The archaeologist will be thrown into
a frenzy of delight as he visits Delhi
of India and digs down and finds seven
dead cities underneath the now living
city, All success to the hunters and
the botanists and the ethnologists and
the historians and the archaeologists
who visit India, each one OH his or her
erraud! But we today visit India IS
Christian women and men to hear the
full meaning of groan of hunger that
has travelled fourteen thousand miles,
: yet gets louder and more agonizing as
the days go by But why have any in
+, terest in people so far away that it is
evening there when it is. morning here.
their complexion darker, their language
to us a jargon, their attire unlike that