A SATURATED SOLUTION OF HEATHENISM.
IN a ten or fifteen minutes' address I must give a "saturated solution" of heathenism. And I will tell you in just a few words what the churches of America are doing, in the mind of a foreign missionary. I have stood in Benares, with its five thousand shrines; I have seen the masses going in and out of some of the principal temples in Benares, mad upon their idols, in and out of those temples, to make offerings to the gods, just as if it was some great feast-day; yet it was so every day in the year. And I have stood in Madura City, where there is the largest temple, covering the greatest area, in the whole of India, and I have thought, as I have seen the masses of people, that the force that we have in our Madura mission, and in the whole of India, is like a little child digging with its little wooden spade, as they do in so many of these seaports, a small hole on the beach, and then, with a little cup, trying to empty the water of the Atlantic into that hole. I tell you, you do not begin to realize what heathenism is, or the work which rests upon the churches of America. No church will live whose pastor does not take an interest in foreign missions. There is no other work that can do so much good, that can so build up a church, and lead you to take an interest not only in foreign missions, but in home missions and in the work of your own town.—Rev. Edward Chester, M. D., in Evangelical Messenger.