Pacific Christian messenger., February 06, 1880, Page 2, Image 2

PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, FEB. 6, 1880
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dialects have been made, institutions i ward and eastward to Burmah, with protectorate of England, and is al­
Mosaic.
of learning established, all the begin­ - noble Baptist missions and its tens of ready beginning to be opened by rail­
_■—Thia is how the destruction of
nings of Christian effort and influence i thousands of Christians Karens ; and road and telegraph lines, and by inev­
the
great Alexandrian Library came
thoroughly initiated. Meanwhile, des­ we can but explaim, " What, even in itable reforms.
about:
Said Omar: "Either these
Re turning to our own continent,
It is sometimes well fer those who pite the evil influences of the opium i our generation, hath God wrought!”
books
are
in conformity with the
During the past thirty years mar- with which we began; we find that
fear that the world w on the retro­ trade, and the many vices of foreigners i
Koran
or
they
are not. If they are
grade—that we are constantly'sliding disgracing the Christian name, Chris­ - velous transformations have occurred Mexico has within the period named,
they
are
useless,
and if not they are
down from some golden age of the tianity has won respect; and within i in Madagascar. Within the memory burst away the shackles of supersti­
evil
:
in
either
event,
therefore, let
past toward sure destruction—to the last year some of the noblest tes­ - of those still in middle life, Madagas- tion and sacerdotal tyranny that had
them
be
destroyed.
”
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Such
was the
mark off a given period within their timonies have been given by" Chinese » cas presented scenes scarcely parallel- boufid her hand and foot for more
remembrance, and set stakes from officials to the maganimous and [ «d by the savage persecutions of Ne- than two centuries, has resisted the logic -that led to the destruction of
which to measure the actual progress heaven-born chai ity which has been i ro and Domitian. Now the country efforts made to place her under an 700,000 manuscript volumes.
—A bunoh of hair from the head
displayed by missionaries and their * is ruled by a Christian Queen. The Ultramontane empire, and now stands
that has been made.
of
each president is preserved in the
I
scene
of
its
former
martyrdoms
is
oc­
forth a free republic,fostering religious
The year 1880 will mark a new disciples toward the famished and
patent
office at Washington City.
cupied
by
a
memorial
church.
Mis
­
liberty, welcoming the Bible, and al­
stadium. It leaves but twenty years perishing,
The
custom
began in the days of
ere we shall need to change the dates
Within this generation a noble vic­ sionaries are sent forth with public ready presenting missionary success
Washington.
ef our era; and those twenty years— tory has been gained for the Gospel exhortations by the Prime Minister ; scarcely unequaled elsewhere.
—The income of the czar of Russia
We have seen the revival of all en­
if we may follow Paul’s race-course and for humanity in the islands of the and except in the remote districts'
is
$25,000 a day, the sultan of Tur­
illustration, will constitute the home Pacific. For years it has seemed a Madagascar may be said to be one of terprise, all moral and social as well
key
$18,000, the emperor of Austria
stretch of the nineteenth century. If, question whether all the toils and the most thoroughly Christian coun­ as material advancement in Brazil,
$10,000,
the emperor of Germany
as is alleged, the|e ijs a kind of geom­ privations and even martyrdoms ef tries in the world.
under her present enlightened Em­
$8,200,
the
king of Italy $6,400. The
Within the same period great ad­ peror. Brazilian slavery is abolished
etrical progressibft in-~the movement missionaries were sufficient to coun­
of human events and influences, this teract the combined and determined vances have been made in South Af­ and religious freedom fully guarenteed president of the United States worries
dosing period must be more fruitful efforts of merchantmen, whalemen, rica. In spite of all the wrongs in­ while the solid foundations of mission­ along on $136 a day.
T he S abbath —What would the
'Of results than any twenty years that coolie .kidnappers, and French and flicted by ungodly Boers and Britons, ary enterprise have been laid. On the
world
be without it ? It is welcomed
and
by
which
the
early
labors
of
Pacific
coast
also
the
various
Spanish
have ever yet been numbered. Es­ American naval officers, who sought to
by
us
not
only as a day of rest, tut
Vanderkemp
and
others
had
seeming
­
Republics
have
wearied
of
the
old
pecially does this seem probable when make those islands a hunting ground
by
the
Christian
it is especially ap­
ly
been
rendered
almost
void,
the
lat
­
yoke of the Papacy; and within five |
we consider how certain great events for slaves and a paradise of lust. The
preciated
when
he
reads that "the
er
effort
of
consecrated
men
and
wo
­
years, a leading statesman, since elect- I
which are still fresh iu the memory of question is now so far settled that the
Lord
blessed
the
Sabbath
day and
men
devoted
to
mission
work,
and
ted President ef Chili, has openly ad­
living men have revolutionized the Sandwich Islands are recognized as a
hallowed
it:
”
means and facilities for reaching and Christian nation; and the English the more enlightened statesmanship of vocated the reading of the Bible in
influencing all parts of the world. If Governor of Fiji tells a London audi­ such men as Sir Bartie Frere, have schools as the most important step in . —In South Norwalk, Conn., live
we look back to the middle of the ence that he also is the ruler ef a made South Africa in the main a real national advancement.— Chris­ two brothers named Finch, who re-
semble each other so exactly that it
century, end embrace a period about Christian people. As to the Samoan Christian country. It is not only a tian Statesman.
is impossible to tell which is which.
equivalent to the average life of a coolie trade, the martyrdom of such a mission field, but a new source of
The Power of Sympathy.
One of them was fined for fast driving '
generation, wf shall see that the ad­ man as Bishop Patterson has stung missionary influence for the interior.
And West Africa ! That name at
vances made in that time have the heart of the British nation with
In the S. S. Times we find this recently, find both brothers appeared
which
all
Christian
nations
might
affected all races and changed the shame, and reformed the labor traffic
pretty illustration by Rev. Dr. C. S. before the justice saving that they
were willing to pay the tinej if it
blush
with
shame!
Its
horrors
had
whole face of the world. Thirty-three of her colonies. The several groups of
Robinson:
could
be proved which was the guilty
Once I knew a working man, a pot­
years ago 0'1? 0WI> country WM Polynesia now number 80,000 church not ceased thirty years ago. The
one.
This could not be dune, and the
pursed with slavery; slavery in the members, and in many instances their slave trade which flourished for two ter by business, who had one small
case
was
dismissed.
tnarket and on the plantation; slavery missionaries are laboring in the re­ oenturies was abolished only in name. invalid child at home. He wrought
—
Liberty,
courtesy, benevolence,
in Congreas and in the courts. It gions beyond. Jn this same period, The broad Atlantic still witnessed the at his trade with exemplary fidelity,
unselfishness,
under
all circumstances
compromised the pulpit and the press, Australia, from being little more than horrors of the middle age. Lagos, being always in the shop with the
and toward all men—these qualities
and affected ’the public sentiment of a penal colony, has become a great hidden behind her lagoons, was still opening of day! He managed, how­
the
skulking
place,
the
spider
’
s
nest
ever, to bear each evening to the bed­ are to the world what the linchpin is
the North as well as of the South. insular continent with boundless re­
of
the
hideous
traffic.
But
now
the
side of the “ wee lad,” as he called to the rolling chariot.— Buddha.
Now, although difficult problems yet sources, great commercial cities, school
—Rev. Joseph Cook says that there
church
spire
of
Lagos
is
the
landmark
him, a flower, or a bit of ribbon, or a
remain, the reproach of the nation is and colleges, Bible societies and mis­
are
six books that have made him
by
which
merchant
ships
are
guided
fragment of crimson glass, indeed, any
removed and the colored. race is free. sionary organizations, and all the
mostly
what he is. The Commercial
to
the
opening
of
that
lagoon,
and
the
thing that wonld lie out on the white
At that time there was no civilization forces of an aggressive Christianity.
Advertiser
takes the liberty of trying
port
which
now
thrives
with
a
legiti
­
counterpane, and give color in th®
in California, and very little on the Within a few months one of her bish­
to
guess,
as
follows : The Bible, Shak-
room. He was a quiet, unsentimental
Pacific Coast.
The question of ops has bequeathed SI,250,000 to the mate commerce.
spesre,
Webster
’s Dictionary, Brown­
Great things have been accomplish­ Scotchman ; but never went he home
boundaries was but recently settled in spread of the Gospel. Thirty years
ing
’
s
Poems,
the
Boston Directory,
the North-west, and Alaska was a ago the very name "New Zealand,” ed in the transformation of Egypt in at nightfal without some toy or trink­
and
Bartlett
’
s
Dictionary
of Quota­
Russian possession. Until the cour­ was a synonym for savagery; now the this same period ; in place of the sav­ et, showing he had remembered the
tions.
ageous.overland journey of missionary hoisted " Albion of the South,” has age and deficient Mahomet Ali, we wan face that lit up when he- came in.
find thè pliant young Viceroy of a I presume he never said to a living
M adagascar .—During the past
Whitman, it was scarcely known sprung into the
v»v
van
’
ef modern J-.
pro-
-
¡ressive
country,
whose
policy
is
thirty
years marvellous transforma­
soul that he loved that sick boy so
whether such journeys across the gress, and gives promise of a noble
shaped
by
European
Powers.
Egypt
tions
have
occurred in this island-
much. Still he went on patiently
mountain ranges were practicable, or Christian influence. Within the re--I
is
now
not
only
open
to
successful
Within
the
memory
of those still in
loving him. And by-and-by he mov­
whether this Republic could ever ex­ membrance of this generation Siam
missionary
effort,
but
by
great
mate
­
ed that whole shop into positively middle life, Madagascar presented
tend its power beyond the Atlantic had scarcely taken her first step in
rial
changes
it
has
become
the
gate
to
real but unconscious fellowship with I scenes scarcely paralleled by the
modern
civilization,
and
the
begin
­
Slope. Now we behold a full-fledged
India
by
the
navigable
Isthmus,
and
him. The workmen mane curious lit- i savage persecutions of Nero and Do-
Christian civilization, though scarcely nings of missionary effort on her
to
Central
Africa
by
the
protected
tie jars and teacups upon their wheels mitian. Now the country is ruled by
yet a generation old, extending from shores' seemed almost hopeless. But
Nile.
and
painted diminutive pictures down I a Christian queen. The bcene of itc
British Columbia to Mexico. The recently Siam has shown peculiar in­
In
the
same
time
Abyssinia
had
the
sides
before they stuck them in I former martyrdoms is occupied by a
Atlantic and Pacific, both flanking the terest in Christian nations. Her king
been
compelled
to
adopt
a
more
hu
­
comers
of
the kiln at burning time. memorial church. Missionaries are
Republic through equal latitudes, are has honored our American ex Presi­
mane
policy
;
and
last
of
all,
the
Sul
­
One
brought
some fruit in the bulge I sent forth with public exhortations
joined together by railroad lines and dent, has publicly expressed his wel­
tan
of
Zanzibar
has
been
led
to
abol
­
of
his
apron,
and
another some engra­ by the prime minister ; and except in
telegraphic wires, and all parts of our I come to our missionaries, and has giv-
ish
the
East
African
Biave
trade
;
and
vings in a rude scrap-book. Not one the remote districts, Madagascar may
country, from ocean to ocean, are i en prestige to their work by large
he
has
attested
his
sincerity
by
aiding
of them all whispered a word, for this : be said to be one of the most
being settled and prepared for the in­ i personal contributions. At Singapore
in
the
erection
of
a
church
on
the
site
solemn thing was not to be talked thoroughly Christian countries in the
fluence which they are to exert in the and Penang, and through the Straits
world’s future history.
of Malacca, where piracy rendered ol the old slave market in his capi­ about. They put them in the old I I world. X
tal.
man's bat, where he found them; so
—The present head of the most
Up to the time of this providential commerce unsafe, the British power
he
understood
all
about
it.
And
I
Two
decades
of
exploration
have
celebrated
Mohammedan college, the
has
established
order,
and
bids
fair
to
developemcnt of the Pacific Coast,
tell
you
seriously,
that
entire
pottery
transformed
those
interior
regions
University
ElAzhar, at Cairo, is a
Japan was the most exclusive of all tame the wildness and develop the re­
full
of
men
rotber
coarse
finer
by
na
­
once
so
vaguely
designated
on
the
Jewish
convert,
Abbasi—according to-
nations. But having been opened ifi sources of the whole Maylaÿan Penin­
ture,
grew
quiet
as
the
months
drifted
maps
as
“
Ethiopa,
”
into
noble
plat
­
Ebers, a son of a prominent Israelite
Navigation and commerce
the years 1853 and 1854 to the com­ sula.
merce and Christian influence of the through all the East are thoroughly eaus, diversified with lofty mountains becoming gentle, kind and some of —whose conversion to Islam occa­
world, Japan has shown greater ad­ established, together with postal fac­ and fertile valleys, interspersed with the ungoverned ones stopped swear­ sioned at the time considerable ex­
great lakes, drained by mammoth ing, as the weary look on their pa­ citement. He has 10,000 students
vancement in civilization in a score of ilities and even ocean cables.
rivers,
and peopled with stalwart tient fellow-worker’s face told them I and 300 professors under his control,
A generation ago India was held
years, than was made by some Eu-
ropean nation« in whole centuries of1 with precarious tenure, by a sordid races of men hitherto unknown. And beyond any mistake that the inevita­ and receives $10,000 yearly, and a
time. Indeed,.has not the world, as a and unprincipled mercantile establish­ with the interest now felt in Africa, ble shadow was drawing nearer. Ev­ palace for residence.
whole, made greater progress in the ' ment. Since then its crimes and fol­ and the beginning already made, it is ery day somebody did a piece of his
A MINCTK.
period of this one generation than | lies have been rebuked. Its encour­ to be hoped that Another generation work for him, and put it up on the A minnte, how soon it lias flown !
And yet, how important it is I
roediieval Europe could be said to I agement to heathenism, and hostility may see every part of it penetrated sanded plank to dry; thus he could
come later and go earlier. So, when God calls ev’ry moment II own.
have gained from tlje tenth century to to missions have called down judg­ with missionary influence.
1
For all our existence is His ;
The last thirty years have seen the bell tolled, and the little coffin
ment. In dark days of bloodshed and
the fifteenth ?
came out of the door of the lowly And though ye they wa.te them in folly
. A jgeneration ago China could horror, the handwriting of its doom Rome disenthralled from the tempor­
and play,
al power of the Papacy ; Lombardy house, right around the corner out of He notices each that we squander away.
scarcely be said to be open to foreign appeared. Its sceptre was taken away
and Venice relieved from the tyranny sight, there stood a hundred sralwart
MKMorukS.
intercourse. Theft; were only fouT and it gave place to the established
working-men from the pottery with
Sing a low song 1
or five parts that were accessable. empire of the British Sovereign. of Austria; Naples rescued forever
their clean olothes on, most of whom A tender cradle measure swe t and low,
Missionary work upon the mainland Since then the cause of missions has from the vice and oppression of a
gave
a half-day of time for the privi­
Bombr; a large part of European
Not sad or long,
had scarcely made a beginning. Now, been honored—even publicly honored
lege
of
taking off their hats to the But ench as we remem tier long ago
Turkey delivered from the dominion
—
by
representatives
of
the
Govern
­
in a'l the great points of influence
When Time, now o’d, w<s fljing
of the Turk; France relieved from simple procession, filing in Itehind it,
from Newchang on the north, to Can­ ment. The work of material improve­
Over
the sunny ae<M»ne. bright «nd fleet.
the grasp of a perjured usurper ; Ger­ an i following across the village green
And the r< d ro«e was lying
ton on the south, are found the mis­ ment, of education, of social reform,
many united and aggrandized ; Rua-1 to *ts grave that small burden of a Among a orowd of flowers all tco sweet.
sionaries of a score of efficient organ­ and of evangelical religion has grown
sia
purged troni the stain of serfdom ; child, which probably not oneof them
—-A drunken C'ongn saman said to
izations, American, British, Swiss, and apace. Mean while-Cey Ion is fast be­
and
Greece, after four centuries of had ever seen with his own eyes.
Horace Greely one day; " I am a
German; and not less than fifteen coming a British plantation, and the
oppression, and a half century of san­
thouBarid converts have been gathered fixed abode of British institutions, and
—A rockiDg-chair is just as ne­ self-made man.” •• Then, sir,” replied
guinary
struggles, finally established cessary to p woman's comfort as a the philosophical Horace, "the fact
the
leaven
of
the
Gospel
is
making
into well-established and partially
in constitutional self-government. mantelpiece or window-sill is to a relieves the Almighty of a great res­
self-supporting churches.
Transla- | gradual progress.
Asiatic Turkey is placed under the man’s.
From
Ceylon
we
look
away
north-
ponsibility.”
Cions of the Bible into the various
What a Generation Has Wit­
nessed.
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