The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-02-26

aahd dollars TO relieve the famine In
Ireland, and that great gifE on the i,att
pf sur country was met by tho ten mill
lion pounds, or fifty million dollars,
voted by the English Parliament for
tho relief Of the famine in Ireland.
Beneficence in New York respond.
Ing to the ten thousand dollars
given by Queen Victoria out of her
own private purse, thai the hunger
of Ireland might be fed. Persia, China,
Egypt, India joining Christian nations
ia charitable Crusade, yet hundreds of
thousands or people perishing, many of
them as heroic as the Irish woman who
said 10 her husband: "Come here let us
all die together rather than touch that
which belongs to another" A famine
SO terrible that the remembrance Of 1t in
hundred and fifty-nine thousand of Irish
famine of 1880. fknew it would come.
saw the delnge In England, Ireland,
nnd Scotland last summer. Isaw the
l'sf7ests thathad been partially gather.
ed float away on the floods. heard
prominent citiaens in the streets Of Bel
fast, and Dublin, and Londonderry any:
I'VE shall have farfine; IL is ineyiia-
ble." And IL has come, but with this
alienation, that whereas In 1847 It took
the news two weeks 10 come by steamer,
nud then The reply two weeks to travel
back, now, thanks to the heroes of ocean
telegraphy, the cry comes in fash, 30
that In the morning Ireland cries "bun-
sry!" and the before nightfall America
reSronds, "the bread is on the way +
Dbl my country, laden with three years
Of magnificent harvests, on your railway
trains hasten down the breadstuffs for
dying Ireland. Oh merchants of New
York, standing in this new morning OF
national prosperity, keep the telegraphs
going while with your prompt benef-
cence you command the foreign grain
markets to como to the rescue. And
ye Peoplo of smaller meana, before to.
day you gather at your tables for noon.
day repast, plan some way for the relief
Of the starving people who come to Ia
bles in Ireland where there is no food.
/ implead you In the name Of Him who
said, ~ was n.hungered, and ye gave
me meat" Through o merciful God,
the most of us have been kept from
hearing in our household tho unavail-
ing cry for bread. No parents heart
is stout enough calmly TO hear cry like
that. u / do not wonder that some of
these people in famine get desperate. If
Isaw my family starving, and could
gel neither food nor work, whiis ali
around there was plenty; If / saw my
children dying by inches, and there was
q superhuity all about, and could nei.
ther purchase nor implore help for
them - Rather than finish the sentence
l will say, "God keep me from the temp.
tasion!" Oh hunger Ia an awful thing
when it comes down OH household.
The work stops, laughter ceases, con-
varsation ceases, and there is pinch
edness of the features, and there Is q
suppressed ferocity, and there Ia q look
ling out of the window for that which
comes not. and there is insupportable
despair. The voracity Of such was we'll
illustrated when tho ships Of relief
came to Leyden, and the bread was
thrown from the ships deck 10 the
wharf, and history says so great was the
voracity Of those poor, atarving creatures
that they picked up the bread and
choked themselves to death. All it is
an awful thing to starve, but that pro.
cess is going on now, and will continue
TO go on unless the combined charity OF
the Christian world speaks out. Do you
know that the famine in Ireland is
especially distressing because as q nation
the Irish are particularly affectionnte,
and 1t 10 q little harder for that patton
than almost any other nation to soc their
families suffering and dying? Who
doubts this who has noticed that the
Irish serving mnids Of this country, at the
greatest sacrifice, have for. the last
twenty or thirty years tsen sending hack
nll the money they could spare to Ire.
land, to buy food and pay rent, and
finally to transport their loved ones ia
| shis land Many OF them giving every
penny not absolutely Eecceasary for their
existence, q story Of filinl, and fraternal
and aisterly Affection unsurpassed save
BY she matcbless love of God. Now, ]
say, 1t is among that class:of people go
peculiarly strong in their Injections, that
famine has come; and now, whiis
speak, great populations are surging up
and down tho Irish cities carrying the
black flag; and the way 10 put down
those riots Is by giving them bread, not
buslets-bTead, not o policeman's club
bread, not armed soldiery.
/ have TO tell you, my friends, that
thie famine ID Ireland il especially dis
tressing becaiise it is surrounded BY such
brilliant scenery. Destitntion never SO
ghastly as when crouching at the foot oii
such lille, and looking into the mirror
OF such lakes, and begging at the gate OF
iIsueh castles. / do not believe God has
crowded into 30 nnial space so much
beautiful Landscape in all the earth ns
there is TO be found i'll that one small
islend-an island abont two hundred and
thirty .sssess long by. one hundred and
ten miiea wide rhonboid in shape, its
rocks showing more of the skill Of the
divine architect than any rocks on
eArth. Witness The qcthgonal, and hex
agon nsl and the pentagonal of her gran
iite, anh. the forty thousand columns of
iiuz7 siant'e Cayiseway, some of them set
up u 20 tho dollars of the king of musical
Instruments. t 40 that they are called tho
6fgan and, as 1 stood looking onthena,
n thqpght IL would be, fit to play upon
that organ the grand march of the last
Judgment, Gods thuEsdeFs trampling the
pedala. An island indonted with niiety.
two iinybors, among them heantiful Gal
way, aud Dobsgai. ahd Kingston, md
her coasts illuminated by night with
stxty-fW0 light houses, More than two.
hundred fairy islands spsinkling the
edges of Ireland with magical brightness,
Lougha Erne, Gossib, and Mask, and
tnHF strip OF iauuEcIpe lung OUT or
heayenss the Kiliarnoys. What sill.
very glee of rivers Shannon, and Boyne.
anu Euyiu, tna 6audon, anu IsiacKwarer.
and otherEivers rich with salmon and
pike and trout. What fora, strewiue
maryeloas ferns among the Kesries, and