Show HEATHEN christendom the other day the dispatches told of a great scheme being inaugurated by so o called christians to regenerate heathen chins china in carrying out the proposed plan it if opportunity Is afforded to work moan the chinese no doubt a large number of self sacrifice tog ing individuals individual will earnestly engage in the labor and will bear hardship harda bip and privation in the most moat heroic manner io in order to carry what they believe to be the gospel of salvation to those that sit flit in darkness but atthe at the game time that these theae professed fed christian workers worker whose sincerity and honesty in many cases cannot be doubted are endeavoring to Christ christaan lan I 1 ice heathendom it Is a painful fact that to in the very nations from which these missionaries are bezug selected elected for chins china the work of to is going on apace care ful investigation readily demonstrates demonstrate that bat a larre proportion of people jim in the be professed christian nations nation are becoming more grossly heathen than hao those in the pagan countries now are notwithstanding the advanced civilization the former enjoy although the dwellers in pagan lands bow down tol to idols dols betin yet in that hat worship thereisa the there reiss ii a recognition of a superior aa power which la Is not noticed in the irreligious tendencies the deeper heathenism of multitudes in christian countries who engage in IB no form of worship who acknowledge no superior power to that of man and io in whom the religious sentiment appears to be s almost entirely obliterated some suggestions upon this subject come from archbishop manning who from his bis intimate knowledge of con editions in the worlds world Is metropolis should be a competent authority here is what he be said aid in a recent discourse london is a desolation beyond that of any an city in the christian world pour four of human beings being of whom two millions have never set their foot in any place of christian worship and among these two millions god only knows how few have been baptized how few have been born again or of and the holy ghost london is a wilder wilderness neep it is like rome of old olda pool into which all the nat nations iono of the world streamed to gother get herand and all the sins nine of all the nations ot of the world were continually flowing such is london at this day half the she inhabitants of tb the 0 great city who are not worshipers in ID any form millions who are so irreligious that they hey make no acknowledgment of Deit yand sad that too in a land which has beli been professedly christian for oen cen surely to Is no not ao an inspiring pic tare for folt christian progress upon the lines operated rated in today it is doubtful it if even ch china ina regarded from the stand point of religious instruction given can present a some scene of comparatively deeper degradation greater re legious hopelessness or more pro heathenism than this and wot dr manning saya say of london is recognized to a marked extent in ID other great cities both lin in europe ano and amerlois Amer Avae loi floo and in the smaller cities and to towns as is we well 1 1 it t has bas been said that christendom has given up the be poor of its great cities to tha taft dolvil devil this may be true to some extent I 1 the poor the hungry and the ill clad insy have been neglected by religious teachers and ana missionary workers of various denominations but bu i t they have not been altogether deserted for very very many earnest laborers for good as an sincere anu and energetic as those who toll toil as chris in heathen have not held back in their efforts among the poor of crowded cities to keep them from crime and lead them to the better life and the spectacle presented in worshiping congregations congregation of different sects is in evidence ev dence that the poor are fairly well represented among the worshipers the ranis of the non worshipers are found to contain the rich the educated and the prosperous in fully as great proportion to their numbers number as they do of the poor work ing i og classer ol asseF or ever the borgars buu bou gars all ranks of life furnish their quota of the irreligious element which includes a specially ally large proportion of the younger generation just merging into adult life dark as is ia the picture painted by A rob blab up manning haq ul ng tb the e I 1 future u tu to promises to make it darker a great change shall be wrought As ae matters matten are proceeding of 0 late yea rethe heathen nations which are feeling the of efforts to christianize them will not have long to wait before they can consistently send bend missionaries to convert heathen christendom to tj the christian atal principle the acknowledgment ot of the creator |