The Newtown bee., 1898-08-05

ubGSu LiO1C HUI pCA BO4ldA Gud1ASbGG Ludu for personal power, so that on the ban ner of humanity will be written not the word success but rather the greater term righteousness, not happiness but rather goodness, not temporal honors but eternal glory.
 It is very common thing to hear ob- ecti0ns raised to Christian Missionary work in foreign lands, on the ground that heather nations ought not to be molested in their internal affairs. It is said, they have religions of their own. They are sincere in their worship. They are living up to the light which they possess. Let them alone, do not disturb them in their adopted course. St Paul and the other first Apostles had done that, the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ would never have spread outside of Jcrus.lem and would therefore have died all early death. These first cham piOns of the Gospel carried their message of truth and purity right into the very citadels of impurity and error. They were unwelcome, they were opposed, they were attacked, but it mattered not 1 to them they believed that there was none other name under heaven giving to men through whom they could be saved but only the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. No consideration of expediency could dlssuade them from their course, and their preaching of a Gospel of divine 1 " revealed truth and heaven-like purity virtually
 TURNED THAT HEATHEN WORLD UPSIDE DOWN.
 1 The fallacious reasoning referred to i jEst now in regard to Christian work in foreign lands is also carried into the similar efforts made for the cause of the same Christ in our own land.
 The]Gocial order continues day by day in the game uDdisturbed routine. Men go about their daily tasks, business ia carried on, enterprises are started, com. merce is active, on all sides there are abundant signs of human energy. There are no public upheavals, no riots, nc mob violence, and peoples lives and prop. erty are for the most part secure.
 It would be the judgement of the materialist, or utilitarian, to leave things alone, not to disturb them, But such 6 view must come only from a very super. ficial survey of the real social conditions.
 To know what society really is we must look beneath the surface. Where there are no outward evidences of pun. ishable crimes, there may be underneath the constant working of sins which are endsngering the very vitals of the socia life. The human body may, to all ap pearances, be strong and healthy, but some secret, subtle disease may be under. mining the health and endangering the very life. We know how it was in the days of the first Apostles, how under heath the outward, visible order, there was the canker of innumerable sinG which were fast causing the overthrow of the social order.
 There are some points of resemblance to those conditions among us in these modern days. We are so accustomed tc the sight of certain abuses in official life and certain sins in business and socia life, that we have grown to accept then as some of the necessary evils of oul complex civilization, and we settle dowr 50 quiet acquiescence in our apparent peace and safety and wink at the sins which we ought to deplore.
 Again, it seems to me, we want some modern prophet of rare and necuIiar Sjfts to come among us, as did St Paul of old and turn the world upside down.
 THE SOCIAL WORLD.
 It has it's characteristic sins, it's low standards concerning purity of heart and life, It's vain desires, it's feeting, transi tory pleasures.
 The political world, in the nation, the state, the town. It has it's official cor. r0ption, use of public office for private gain, brazen-faced defiance of public opinion, notorious and corrupt dealing in the use of public moneys, open neglect of prescribed duties, perversien of jus tice, combining of crime and eYading of responsibility. If you leave these doings alone, and say nothing about them, and shut your eyes. and ears, and lips, things will move along quietly and we shall de- ceive ourselves into thinking that we are well governed, sthat we are enjoying 8 glorious liberty, when in reality, like the man that went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, we have fallen among thieves.