Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18

ditions. Men prize the truth for which
they must suffer. Throughout all the
ages the principles has held true even
as it did in Jerusalem that the fidelity of
| prosecuted Christians meant the sub
stantial development Of the church.
Opposition attracts attention. it |
makes Christianity living issue. |
When men have to fight for their faith |
they, and the world around them, be-
gin to realize it's significance. I'm
believers are won to religion which |
is worth suffering for The eternal
appeal to the heroic has it's effect. A
young Philadelphia churchman has
gone to India to be friar, or Christ |
ian sadhu, or holy man." His method |
is to seek out the worst possible |
places-plague villages, pest camps,
| leper settlements, and such like-and |
there give himself to the service of the |
lowest-to the men utterly beyond |
caste. He was spat upon, reviled, de-
| spised by the natives. In short time, |
however, they discovered that perse
cution could not shake him, and that
the more they reviled him the lsindlier |
he became. This spirit broke their op-
position. The village that treated
him worst soon was beseeching him to
remain with them permanently as
| their "holy man." Already he has
had conspicuous successes in the way
of converts won to Christ.
Winning by Witnessing.
Up in village near Sendai, Japan,
the town drunkard became Christian.
His wife followed suit. Straightway
such transformation in his character
ensued that the whole community took
notice., The result was that the entire
community turned to Christianity,
either with respect and Difference, or
in open conviction and conversion.
The apostolic method of increasing the
Christian church was by the witness
of the disciples. Every Christian testi-
| fed to his faith. This he made his
chief business in life.
| The same principle holds true in
Korea. There it Is a common thing
| for a man to move his home and bust
ness from a Christian village, off to a
non Christian cillage, in order that he
may there be witness and teacher
of the Jesus way.
| One of the missionary bishops of
China was surprised to have request
from theological student that he be
permitted to go to certain part of
|
pleted. He explained his unusual re-
quest by saying that during the Boxer
days Of 1900 his family had lived in
that town. His Christian father was
called out by the Boxers and given his
! he remained faithful he was cut down.
Then his mother was brought out into
the road and shown the disembered
! Of hnr h11S nd
burn incense before an idol and to
repudiate the Jesus religion. She told
them that they could cut out her
tongue, but that they could not make
her deny her Lord. Thereupon she,
too, was slain. A young sister was
put through the same ordeal and re-
manned faithful unto death. "Now,"
said the young student, 81 want to go
back to that village to represent Jesus
Christ; I want my old neighbors to
know that there is not shred of bit
terness in my heart. and that my SUI
preme ambition is there to live for
the Master for whom my family died"
1t was glowing instances of this
sort that made even the hordes of
ignorant Chinese aware, after the
futile persecution Of 1900, that Christi
anity is ineradicable in China What
the Sanhedrin could not do in the way
of plotting out Christianity; what
Rome could not do, and what all the
leagued powers Of earth and darkness
through the centuries since have been
unable to do, is attested by the world
wide prevalence Of Christianity, with
men and women by the myriads of
Ilegons who are willing to go to death
| for the sake of the Name.