The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-29

ment that h6V. Or. 1aluhSo mOuiu w.
day deliver discourse upon the famine
in Ireland, attracted an immense audi
ence. The opening hymn
"'Mid scenes Of confusion and creature com
plants
How sweet to my soul is communion Of saints"
Was sung to the tune of Home, Sweet
Home" The following is verbatim re-
port Of the sermon, which was listened
to with the closest attention by the inn
mense and sympathetic audience;
SUBJECT-"HUNaER IN IRELAND"
Text - Matthew XIV. 35: II was
a.hungered and ye gave me meat"
Owning California and Australia and
Golconda, all the deer Of the forest, all
the wild duck of the marshes, all the
plover and robbin redbreasts OF the air
all the buffalo on the plain, all the fruits
of the tropics, all the fish of the five
oceans, all the wheat Of two hemis.
pheres, all this planet and it's sister
planets and the sun around which they
move, all the domains deserted by Her
scbel's telescope and the wider stellar
ranges beyond, all immensity for space
and all eternity for duration, yet hun
cry Why did Christ submit to that
faintness and gnawing and physical tor
ture? That He might fully sympathize
with any who are hungry.
Every industrious man and woman
has right to enough to eat. l lay that
down as a proposition whatever social
or political theory it may crowd. If in
any part of the earth an industrious man
or woman has not enough, it is because
some one else has his share. God
. spreads a table across the earth three
times day. Plenty of it for fourteen
hundred millions of people But some
seize the plates and the pitchers, and af.
ter satisfying their hunger, put 30 much
in their pockets that others have no
chance, and millions get mp unsupplied.
The question for America, as we'll as for
England, Ireland and Scotland, is to be
how much man may accumulate and
roll down from generation to generation.
great estates swallowing up the small
estates, until in the far.reaches of time
one man would own each continent and
then it would be contest between the
continents, and one man would finally
own the whole earth, if he desired, SELL
ing the waters at 30 much gallon and
putting tax on air and sunshine. There
are portentous estates rolling up in
America that set every political econo.
mist about asking questions about the
future. The only reason things are not
30 ominous here as abroad, is because
we have not had time enough to make
them as ominous-the transaCtion in
Wall street by which, few weeks ago,
$2,000000 worth of stock was transferred
by one man is an illustration. Without,
this morning, attempting to grapple
with the political phase of the subject, /
will state what you all must admit, that
while the Sultan of Turkey has $60O0,-
900 salary year., and the Emperor of
Russia $3.50 900, and the Pope an in.
come of SS,0OO,0OO, and $4,000 people in
Great Britain own, all the soil where
there are 100000 Inhabitants, and the
Duke Of Norfolk has 100000 acres in the
Hebrides, and the Duke of Sutherland
owns in Scotland from sea to sea, and the
Duke of Richmond has 100000 acres at
Gordon Castle, there is something wrong
in the condition that allows industrious
and moral people to go hungry. The
question is 80 vast that God can settle
it, and settle it He will, for all His sym
pathies are with the distressed, and a |
voice comes thrilling to day through ev.
cry American cabin, and every Irish |
peat-hoVel, and every English home of
destitution, saying: 81 was s.hungered."
This rage Of afronted appetite is most
terrific in its demonstration. It has
been seen again and again on shipboard
after all food was exhausted and lots
were cast as TO who should die. II was
seen among the Arabs when children
were roasted for food for their own par.
ents. Famine In Jerusalem Famine
In ancient Utica Famine In Canaan,
famine which depopulated cities and
left the country unoccupied save by the
jackals that came for their prey Famine
at Leyden, Holland, where month after
month the Spaniards had besieged the
city, and rather than surrender to tyr
ants the burgomaster stood forth in the
face Of the famine e-struck saying, my
life is at your disposal. Here Is my
sword. Plunge it into my breast and d.
vide my flesh among you. Take my
body to appesSe your hunger, but expect
no surrender so long as remain alive"
Famine is the monster that has set its
paw on nearly all the nations and with
Its hot tongue Tapped up the remaining
blood Of the starved. 1t is bowling for
more prey, and It's terrible voice sounds
clear across the Atlantic now. Last
Tuesday / received telegram from the
Lord Mayor Of Dublin, saying to me -
Famine is inevitable; aid is needed
l received telegram this week from
Lord James Butler, Of Dublin, saying -
"Fuel and food wanted in the west of
Ireland; much harm done by agitation"
/ received this week telegram from the
Earl Of Kintore, great Scottish philan-
thropist, saying that "Irish famine re.
quiEes help" 1t is not political Job, as
some have professed to belieye-not
merely war between tenant and land
lord. 1t is an unmistakable, agonizing,
terrific, stunning and overwhelming