And where is the man who comes up from the throng,
Who does the new deed and sings the new song,
Who makes the old world as a world that is new?
And who is the man? It is you! It is you!
And our praise is exultant and proud.
We are waiting for you there—for you are the man!
Come up from the jostle as soon as you can;
Come up from the crowd there, for you are the man—
The man who comes up from the crowd. (Text.)
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CROWN, THE CHRISTIAN'S
A true Christian gladly works for the souls of the people without hope of any earthly fee or reward, but such an elevated policy naturally appears aimless to the selfish or unenlightened worldling.
Gipsy Smith says: "My father was once
preaching in the open air at Leytonstone.
A coster in his donkey-cart shouted out,
'Go it, old party, you will get 'arf a crown
for that job.' My father stopt his address
for a moment, and said quietly, 'No, young
man, you are wrong; my Master never gives
half-crowns. He gives whole crowns.'"
(Text.)
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CROWNING CHRIST
"Why did you put your five-dollar gold-*piece
in the missionary collection, instead of
some silver?" Davie was asked. "Because,"
he replied, "as the congregation sang, Bring
forth the royal diadem, and crown him Lord
of all,' I imagined that I could hear his steps
coming down the aisle to receive his crown,
and I did not want Him to wear a copper
crown, or a silver crown, but a gold crown."
A part of the missionary work is giving gold
for Christ's coronation.
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Crucified—See Martyr Spirit.
CRUEL GREED
A missionary from a north China city wrote to the Missionary Review of the World:
Recently some professional procurers
going the rounds of the cities of northern
China buying girls for the brothels of
Shanghai stopt here in their diabolical quest.
They negotiated a sale with a mother living
near us for her seventeen-year-old daughter.
As this daughter's feet were not small
enough to command the sum desired, the
mother arose at midnight while the children
were sleeping and proceeded to beat the
feet of the daughter in question to a pulp.
The agonizing pain, the heartrending
screams were of no avail. The feet were
bound into a smaller compass by this process
and a more advantageous sale expedited.
(638)
Dr. William H. Leslie, for many years a missionary in the Kongo, recently confirmed many of the stories of the atrocities that have marked the rule of the Belgians in that country. This is what he says:
With my own eyes I have witnessed many
of the most horrible examples of cruelty
practised upon the poor natives in that country.
I have seen natives with one hand cut
off and I have seen them with both cut off,
and in many cases the poor victims were
children.
Dr. Leslie also said that much of the cruelty had been practised in order to impress upon the blacks the necessity of their bringing to market the rubber wanted by their persecutors, and to emphasize the dire results that would follow their failure to do so.
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CRUELTY, CHINESE
There is a cruel custom which prevails in
some districts in South China in time of
drought. A large collection of brass locks is
made, and each is marked with a Chinese
character. One iron lock is added to the
pile, and duplicate slips are distributed among
all the male population of the villages. The
unfortunate man whose slip holds the same
writing on it as the iron lock must have a
slit made in the front of his throat and
through this, the bar of the iron lock passed.
He is considered to be in some way the
cause of the drought and must wear this lock
until rain comes. Blood-poisoning often
carries the victim off before the drought is
broken.
As fast as Christian mission work
prevails in China, these cruelties disappear.
(640)
Cruelty from the Past—See Mutual Suffering.
