The Newtown bee., 1901-09-06

to give you some idea of home mission ary work, as carried on by the Ameri- can Missionary association. But there are those that think such labor cannot issue in effective and permanent re- suits. "You may as we'll try to beat back the tides of the Atlantic" they say, ''as to resist moral depravity among the degraded races; 1t is simply no use trying" We reply, in the words of Him who came to redeem the whole human family: with men, this is inn possible; but
 WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE"
 Let history also reply for us. In the Fiji Islands, half century ago, naked savages ate human flesh and same islands, civilized men sit about the Communion table and eat the bread and drink the cup of the Lord. They attend church ten times as faith fully as in New York or Boston or even as in Bedding. Who would have thought this possible three score years ago? President John Henry Barrow says: 'When the Queen of Great Britain gave the order of Africa, Wesleyan convert, the first pure negro on whom such an honor was ever conferred, some men wonder ed and millions rejoiced. But during l this century, the order of SainthOOd has been put by the hand of the worlds rightful Ruler, the imperial Christ, on many swarthy brow.''
 Reflect also upon the following con- fessiOn of Darwin: 'Mr Darwin," says Admiral Sir James Sullivan, "had oft it was utterly worthless to send mis- siOnarieS to such set of savageS as the FuegianS, probably the very lowest of the human race. had always replied that l did not believe any human be- ings existed too low to comprehend the simple message of the gospel of Christ. After many years he wrote to me that the recent account of the mis- sion showed that he had been wrong, forward to the society an enclosed check for five pounds as testimony of his interest in their good work"
 Just a year ago this summer, in a single province of China, 14,00O of those who were once derisively called "heathen Chinese" suffered a most awful martyrdOm, rather than re- nounce their allegiance to Jesus Christ. Who would have thought this possible few years ago? The pages of missionary history are luminous 1 WlUu UAlc dCCOuuUS Ol ucTOlC dCUlOuS enacted by converts from heathenism: and they that performed them shall shine as jewels of the Holy City, when the recording angel opens the Book of Life on the last great Judgement day. The verdict of history is "With God all things are possible"
 Now if such wonders are possible among the people of China, the Fiji Islands and Terra del Fuego, shall we despair of the negro in Alabama or of the Highlander in Tennessee? Is not the grace of God and is not the spirit of Jesus sufficient for them also? Aye
 "Greater works than these" can be done; and if they should not be, the j fearful responsibility would rest in
 large measure upon the Christian church of America and the world.
 Then would the martyrs of China,
 the converted cannibals of the Pacific
 Isles, the humble negro Bible readers
 of West Africa, rise up in judgement : against the church and condemn It. Let us here in Bedding labor and give , and pray that no such condemnation may rest upon the church but rather that it may be true to it's glorious op
 portunity, true to its divine Founder true to the sublime faith that say! and believes "With God all things art possible"