The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-29
WHEELING DAILY INTEILIeENoER MoNDAY OCTOBER 2g 1900

SELF" Retreat! Never! We have
planted the banner Of the cross on
Satan's breastwprks in the interior,
and call upon the church to bring up It's
battallons until Its blood-stained folds
wave from every hillside and hamlet OF
the empire. In the gospels triumphant
advance the recent outbreak Is but IN
episode. 1t Is the logic OF events. It Is
the conflict OF races. 1t Is God march
Ing on. and, MS He goes. sounding a
bugle-note calling His people to arouse
and follow in loyal self-denial for n
worlds redemption. These startling
events are both natural and necessary.
When men were looking for an earthly
kingdom. Jesus uttered these prophetic
words. Verify. verify, say unto you,
except q grain of wheat fall into the
ground and die, 1t abideth by Itself
much fruit" He Himself died that He
might be the flrst-born among many
brethren, and the history, Of the church
Is a reproduction Of Ills life and death.
Louis Krapf began his work In Africa
by burying his young wife. He wrote
home. Tell our friends that they have
now Christian grave In East Africa,
and as the victory Of the church Is gain
ed by stepping over the graves of her
members, you IRE sure that you arc
now summoned to evangelize Africa
from Its east side" The Christian
churches of America have now many
sacred graves in China, and 1t is Gods
callto China's evangelizntion.
n out OF the shadow OF night,
- The world moves into light; "a
It Is daybreak everywhere"
The prosecutions occurring ut the
close Of this missionary century in
China are. according to the lessons of
the church's history, premonitlon of
the coming "daybreak everywhere"
The nineteenth century does not fall
behind the first In the numbers who
nave counted not their own lives dear
to them, but sought that, whether by
their life or by their death, Christ
would be glorlfed. These last chapters
OF the Acts of the Apostles will be no
less thrilling than the chapters that
have preceded them. The church in
China does not need to read book OF
the martyrs-she Is writing one. What
James and Paul and Polycarp and Ire
nacus and the noble army Of mar
tyrs" did for early Christianity, the
Chinese Christian is doing for nine
teenth century Christianity. He Is
witnessing good confession before
many witnesses. With loving SYM
pathy let us pray for the native con-
Verts, that they may be kept by Gods
power through faith unto eternal life.
But what Of the China that Is to be?
1t will be reconstructed China, and
regenerated China, Structural forces
are already at work. The construction
train. divine and human. is already or
Ganized. INSTEAD OF the thorn shall
come up the flr-tree. and instead Of the
hrinr chp1I ha In fraa
says Isaiah. Instead OF the ox-cart
shall come the locomotive. and instead
of the hand shuttle shall come the
power loom." says the man OF busi-
ness; and INSTEAD Of the idol shrine
shall rise up the house Of the living
God. and Instead OF the Buddhist
chants shall come songs Of praise to
the Holy One." says the missionary of
Jesus Christ. There is to BIO q better
China-a regenerated China. Once
emancipated from their slavish allie
glance to their literary class. having no
India caste to keep them back. we are
safe in assuming that there will be
such ingatherings into the church as
the world has never seen. A purely
materialistic China, well equipped IRON
clads and Mnuser rifles, and no ascen-
dcncy of moral force, would be Il curse
to herself and menace to mankind.
God has something better In store for
humanity. Let not the nations of Eu-
rope be blinded. The dynasty may go,
and go out like the flame of candle.
but the Chinese people are not dead,
and theirs. Is not an emnsculated man
hood
China viii yet be n tremendous factor
in the wosld's political and Industrial
future. and in the worlds religious fu-
ture. I believe that before the coming
century Is at an end. Christian will be
the dominant religion In China. II you
ask me why. plant myself on the facts
OF Jesus life. death. and resurrection,
and on the promises Of God,' and these
promises have right Of way. The. times
are ripe for whole-hearted effort in re-
newal OF work for the evangelization Of
this great empire. Divine wisdom and
inspiration are needed. Let us give
heed to the importunnte request of the
| foreign missionaries and boards. as
they plend. saying. will you not ear
nestly Join In carrying into effect this
proposal for n week of united prayer?
The mission boards need you. China
| needs you. Christ needs you. And He
bids us lay hold on His almighty arm
that He may make His power known
among the nations"
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