Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-03-15

the land that built the most wonder
| fEl of all cities and the richest of all
palaces and the most beautiful of all
tombs; Asia. the land where Abraham
received the covenant, and Moses the
law; where the first Adam sinned and
| the second Adam suffered; Asia, that
cradles three-fourths of mankind. and
where commerce is the magnet of ev-
cry metropolis. and whose markets are
the inspiration of ali the world; great
Asia has opened all her gates for the
coming of the King. Here lies China
with its population five times as great
as that of our own country. The Chin
csc were an ancient people, with city
and town organizations. with COM
merce or trade, with arts and sciences,
with histories and heroes, 5000 years
before an Anglo-SaXon was born. They
used the compass in their sea voyages
long before Columbus picked up the
pieces of strange wood on the shores
of Italy, and they knew the power OF
sunpowder long before the last great
Mohammed shot down the gates and
walls of Constantinople. They dug
salt wells 5000 feet deep centuries be-
fore Solomon was born. and they had
civil service examinations for Office
ages before Abraham received the bles-
sing from Melchisedec. Great China.
the worlds problem of the Goth cen
tury-lieS here. And here lies ancient
India, and Japan, and Korea, all need
ing and asking for the gospel of Christ.
The question that confronts the Chris
tian world is, shall hundreds of mil
lions of people now living, who need
Christ and who are capable of receiv
ing him, pass away without having
even the opportunity to know him? We
are responsible for the present genera
tion-for those who are living at the
same time with ourselves. The Chris
lions of the past generation could not
reach them and the Christians of sue
ceeding generations cannot Each gen.
GRAFTON of Christians must evangeiize
its own generation of non-Christians if
the world is ever saved.
Work Abroad.
Wendell Phillips once said: 81 love
inexpressibly these streets of Boston
over which my mother led my baby
feet. and if God will give me time
the footsteps of slave" And God did
give him time and the fruition of his
great hope Shall we make the streets |
of all cities in all lands pure enough |
for the King? Many of them are filled |
with hideous idols now, and temples |
where benighted souls PROSTATE them |
selves before gods which their own |
hands have made Shall they be purg- |
ed of all this and made safe and clean |
for the footsteps of pure women and in
1ocent children? The Christian WON
IN of America are helping to solve this
question. Touched by the spirit of /
God with a sympathy broad enough to
all races and conditions of
they are going into all lands,
schools and hospitals and or
ohanages, and carrying to all degrad-
I'd and idolatrous people the gospel of
he blessed Lord. And no organiza-
ion of consecrated women for the
of the world is more eff
icient than the society whose ami
5ersary we celebrate tonight.
Laborers i'm India.
A hundred years ago that "consecrat-
I'd cobbler" of England, William Carey,
vas laughed at for going on a fools
GRAND to India to convert the heath
IN. But when the good man died the
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