The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-04-26
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BIZ. .RUDYARD K1PL1NG.
They tell. The tale even now among
the cal groves Of the Berbulda hill and
ffor: corrob oboration point to the roofess
and wind dowless mission house. The
great god sDungara, the god Of things as
they are, most terrible, one eyed, bear:
ing the red elephant 5tnsk, did it all,
and he who refuses TO-. believe in Dun
CARA Will assured be smitten BY the
madness Of Y a - the madness that fell
upon the sons and the daughters Of the
:Buria Kol when they turned aside from
Dungara and put on. clothes So says
Afhon Daze, who is high priest of the
shrine and warden Of. the red elephant
/ ttusk Bet Jifs syon ask the assistant COLI
lector and agents in charge OF the Buria
7Kol, he will laugh not because he
bears any malice against missions, but
because he himself saw the vengeance
:of; Dangara executed pom the spiritual.
OF &heS J Rev. ] Justns Arenk, pas
Tor OF the ia nbing mission. and upon
Lotttta, his sirtuous: wife.
+sss Yef if ever man merited good treat
men4 thu gods it was the reverend
s!JJnstns, one time Of Heide delberg, who, on
The faith Of q call, went into the Will
idersn1ess and took the blond, blue eyed
tia with him. g e viii these hea-
1stth,ennow BY dolatrous practices so dark.
;ened better make, said Justus in the
early days ef his career. Yes. /" he add
iIed, with conviction, they shall be good
and shall with their hands to work
learn. " For all good Christians must
work. And upon q stipend more mod
est even than that Of an English lay
reader; J1sSuss sKrenk kept house beyond
IKamala and the gorge Of Malair, be-
yond sthe Berbulda river close to the
foot cics the blue hill OF Panth on whose
.aumEit stands; the temple of Dungara
lin the heart Of the country OF the
EBuria Kol--the naked, good tempered.
IEttimid, ,G shameless, lazy Buria sKoL
Dosyou know what life at a mission
outpost means:a Try to imagine al lone
Illness exceeding that OF the smallest
station to which government has ever
sent; Ycu-isolat ation that weighs upon
|the waking; eyelids and drives you per-
force headlong into the slabors Of the
day There Is no post. there IS no one
ofeyolr own5c colorE to speak to, there are
!nlo, roads There, Is indeed food to keep
you alive, but it is not pleasant to eat,
and whatever of good or beauty or in
'terest there is in your life must come
from yourself and the grace that may
.be planted in you.
In the morning, with patter Of soft
feet, The converts, the doubtful and the
open scofers troop up to the veranda.
iY on must be infinitely kind and pa
dent, and, above all. clear sighted, for
you deal with the simplicity Of child
hood, the experience Of man and the
lsubtlety Of the savage. Your congrega.
1tion has a hundred material wants to
be considered. and it is for you. as you
believe nsyour personal responsibility
to your Maker. to pick out of the clam
5oring crowd any grain OF spirituality
that may lie therein. If to the cure OF
souls you add that of bodies, your task
viii be all the more difficult, for the
sick and the manned will profess any
and every creed for the sake Of healing
and will laugh at you because you are
simple enough to believe them.
AS the day wears and the impetus OF
the morning dies away there will come
hpop you an overwhelming sense OF the
luselessness Of your toll This must be
stxivan against, and the only spur IN
your side will be the belief that you
are playing against the devil for the
living soul Itis great and joyous De-
lief, but he who can hold it unwaverlng
for four and twenty consecutive hours
must be blessed with an abundantly
strong physique and equable nerve.
Ask the gray heads Of the Bannock-
burn medical crusade what manner CT
life their preachers lead Speak to the
Racine Gospel agency, those lean Amer
deans whose boast is that they go where
no Engliahman dare follow. Get pas
tor Of the Tubingen mission to talk OF
his experiences, if you can You will be
referred to the printed reports, but
these contain no mention Of the men
who have lost youth and health, all
that man may lose except faith in the
wilds, Of English maidens who have
gone forth and died in the fever strlck-
en- jungle Of the Panth hills. knowing
from the first that death was almost a
certainty. Few pastors will tell yo9 Of
these things any more than they will
speak Of that young David of St. Bees,
who, set apart for the Lords work,
broke down in the utter desolation and
returned half distraught to the head
mission crying, "There is no God. but
I have walked with the devill''
The reports are silent here, because
heroism, failure, doubt, despair and
self abnegation on the part Of a mere
cultured white man are things Of no
weight as compared to the saving of
one half human soul from fantastic
faith in wood spirits, goblins Of the
syISs andIiver fiends s.iss5s::sss
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