The Peril of the Republic of the United States of America - Percy T. Magan

enighted souls when an army of missionaries,
filled with an undying love for those who know
Him not, can, without fear of molestation,
proclaim, beneath the protecting ægis of the stars
and stripes, the sufferings of the Saviour and the
joys of the better world. Vividly they portray how
much more rapidly the gospel can be carried to
those who know it not, when the islands are
controlled by the government of the United States,
than it could possibly be if these isles which wait
for His law were ruled by the heathen. These are
for the most part a devoted and consecrated class of
people, who are thoroughly conscientious in the
views they express.
In these days of toil and bustle, when more is
compressed into a decade than was formerly the
portion of man’s allotted span, many of us
Christians are like Martha of Bethany, who was
“cumbered about much serving,” and “careful and
troubled about many things,” and in our anxiety to
work for the Lord we neglect to choose the “good
part,” “the one thing needful,” which her sister
Mary took, and which shall not be taken away. We
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