The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-03-21

Not six feet from them lay the
motionless form of a robust look
ingyoung woman, face downward:
clothes half torn off, and appar-
emily frieudless. Sacred cows
shifted at the dead body, and calm.
ly trod upon it. No one seemed
to know or care; and though 1T
was too heart Sickeuing to look
at, we could NOT take our eyes
away from that poor dead girl;
better to watch her anyway, than
the shameless procession of nak-
ed priests, who were coming by
in the procession by hundreds
just then. Presently some one
turned the body over and covered
her mercifuliy wilma yellow cloth,
and we could see from where we
were standing, that she was a
handsome, healthy looking young
woman of perhaps % years. She
had evidently gotten separated
from her friends and was tram
Piled down, her life stamped out
while her dear ones were carried
along with the crowd irresislably
and could not turn to help her.
Going tu seek salvation in the
dirty waters of the Ganges, and
crushed no one to help; no one to
point the way to the Saviour, or
she might not have been there
lost And why? Because there
was no one to show her the Way.
One of India s millions yet un-
reached by the good news of sal,
vation; one of the thousands from
one of the thousands of villages
not yet reached by missionary;
perhaps from one of the districts
where there Is me missionary
million people; only girl with
her life crushed out at Hindu
mela, but the picture of many
more like her. God forgive those
in Chris tian lands who are salts
fed to keep Jesus Christ and His
love to them mselves and their own,
when multltudes are hungering
and thlrsting for they know not
what. What a reckoning there
will be some day
This is only one Of the h nrrors
of heathenism seen yesterday. |
could write pages more, for ii
fairly dances before ones eyes in
It's hideous grandeur, even after
one goes away; one place dull
full of dead babies and children
were carried out and so on. We
, were not allowed to 90 down
among The people to distribute
the good news IN tracts and gos-
pels as we wished to do, as it was
, unsafe for men, much less women.
Maybe you will wonder why this
loss of life, and such shameless
proceedings are allowed. The
English Government is very care
, full not to interfere with the re-
ligion of their subjects IN India,
, so that so long as law and order
are maintained, no objection is
, made. Law andordinances could
= never suppress heathenlsm any
way; only one thing in all the
. world, and that is the religion OF
Jesus Christ, carried by those
who live that religion. | feel more
and more the very great import
ance of work among the children
, and young people. 1t IS from
q among these that we naturally ex
a pect most of our converts tC
, Christianity; the little ones who
are being taught in our day, and
Sunday schools. Although read
a ing, writing and arithmetic are
, taught, the Bible is the princlpa,
q su bject always; so that if the chll
dren never again have an oppor
q tunity of receiving Christian
D teaching, they will have had not
{ only enough to know the way OF
I salvation themselves, but be able
' to tell others. The children are
{ so quick to learn, and in one httle
0 school of 80 they are putting into
n practice what they learn, in sucl
I Il way as to have begun a reform
a alton in the hves Of their parents
!. or rather, ! should say, have beer
q the means of it, They have nc
!. only learned to trust God and t,