The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 12, December, 1878Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 12, December, 1878
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
nations are rising up in indignation against this purpose of God. It
belongs to Christian people to stand up and denounce God’s curse on
whoever shall deny His will. Accursed be he who dares to keep out
any nation or tribe under the heavens! Accursed any political party
that goes through the country trying to raise a quarrel between men!
Yea, accursed will be the nation itself that dares to make enactments
to separate or make distinctions between races of men! It belongs
to Christian people to stand up, and, in the teeth of antagonism,
in defiance of States, governments, legislatures, and Protestant
Congresses in the United States--to declare, “What God hath joined
together, let not man put asunder.”
There are many insects from which we shrink with loathing. But here
comes the naturalist who takes his lens and pours in upon the insect
the solar ray, and we stand back in amazement at the beauty and
perfection of the work of God. It is the duty of us all to act the
part of the naturalist towards these despised races--these degraded
classes. Let us put them under the lens of that wonderful utterance:
“Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these ye did it unto
me.” Pour into that lens the light of the last day, and we shall see
them endued with the majesty of the Most High God.
I believe this the pressing duty of the hour. If we shall take counsel
of our fears--if we are afraid to let Christianity grapple with
infidel Romanism, even with heathenism, God will remand us back to
forty years in the wilderness, but will bring in our children to drive
out these Anakim of our faithless terror.
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ADDRESS ON CHINESE MISSIONS IN AMERICA.
REV. E. S. ATWOOD.
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