The  following  testimony  by  Charles  Darwin,  the  greatest  scientist  of  the
century,  ought  to  be  committed  to  memory  by  all  our  speakers  and  reprinted  in
all  our  papers:  "  The  lesson  of  the  missionary  is  the  enchanter's  wand.
Human  sacrifices,  the  power  of  an  idolatrous  priesthood,  infanticide,  profli-
gacy, bloody  wars,  where  neither  women  nor  children  were  spared  —  all  these
have  been  abolished  by  Christianity.  Where  now  is  the  car  of  Juggernaut?  It
is  only  a  relic  exhibited  to  the  gaze  of  the  curious.  What  of  suttee,  of  infanti-
cide, of  the  cruel  and  devilish  festivals  of  Hinduism  ?  They  are  all  gone  before
.the  power  of  Christ."  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  direct  and  indirect  results  of
missionary  work  all  over  the  world  have  been  enormous.
ARMENIA.
The  Sultan  ordered  the  word  '  'Armenia  "  to  be  cut  out  of  every  geography
and  blotted  from  every  map  used  by  the  missionaries,  but  he  has  engraved  that
word  on  human  hearts  the  world  around.  Such  words  as  "liberty,"  "prog-
ress" and  "brotherhood"  were  erased  from  every  text-book  by  his  order,  but
perhaps  it  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  an  angel  could  hardly  have  done  more  to
emblazon  those  words  with  light  and  charm  than  by  contrast  the  Sultan  of
Turkey  has  done  within  the  last  three  years.
