Saints and Savages, Brazil's Indian Problem (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Saints and Savages, Brazil's Indian Problem Some see in heathen lands the smiles, The sunshine bright, the colours gay, The harmless wizard's childish wiles, A simple life lived happily. 'Tis but the World's surface show: A mask to hide disease and death, And dark despair that reign below: Inheritance of sin and wrath. In superstition's cruel chain, In fetish black, or devil creed, The heathen lives a life of pain, Of terror, woe, and unmet need. He gazes fearful into night, Where shadows brood, and hopeless death, And spirits dark with evil spite, Spread ruin, curse with blighting breath. Christ's love and power alone can turn His night of darkness into day - But where the heralds of that morn That gained o'er death the victory? Oh help us hasten to proclaim The Cross - peace, liberty and light - A Saviour's love: lost souls reclaim, And give blind eyes eternal sight? Alex. Rattray Hay About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.