The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-22


who had come down to offer their serv-
ices free OF all charge for the removal
OF the breadstuffs from the ship to the
imperial freight train that took the
-four to the interior free of charge. While
we stood there, the long freight train
rumbled down the docks, the locomo-
tive and each car decorated with flag
the American flag and the Russian
flag alternating. Though flag to
ought to see how the American flag
looks 5000 miles from home. 1t looked
that day like a section of heaven let
down to cheer mortal vision. Addresses
of welcome and responses were made,
and then the work began, the only con-
test being who should lift the hardest
and be most expeditions. From ship to
rail train. From rail train to kneading
board. From kneading board to oven.
From oven to the white and quivering
lips of the dying. Upon all who,
whether by contribution small or large,
helped make that scene possible, may
there come the benediction of Him who
declared: 81 was hungry and We fed
Me-" III
But Unjust also give word OF report
concerning my other errand-the
preaching of the gospel in Great Britain
last summer. 1t was tour | had for
many years anticipated. With the
themes of the gospel confronted more
people than ever before in the same
length of time-multitude after multi
tudes and beyond anything | can de-
scribe. The throngs in all the cities
were SO great that they could be con-
trolled only by platoons OF police,
SO that none should be hurt by
the pressure, each service indoors
followed by service for the
waiting throngs outdoors, and both
by handshakings to the last point of
physical endurance. From the day in
which arrived at noon in Liverpool,
and that night addressing two vast
assemblages, until I got through my
evangelistic journey, it was a scene of
blessing to my own soul and hope to
Others / missed but three engage
msnts of all the summer, and those
from being too tired to stand up. At
all the assemblages large collections
were taken, the money being given to
local charities, feeble churches, orphan
asylums oryoung mems Christian asso-
Citations, my services being entirely
gratuitous But what a summerl
There must have been much praying
here and elsewhere for my welfare,
or no mortal could have gone through
all went through. In every city and
town had messages poured into my
ears for families in America. 0, sons
of Scotchmen, Englishmen, Welshmen
and Irishmen, there are hearts on the
other side of the sea beating in affec-
ton for you and praying for your pres
ent and eternal welfare. They wanted
me to give you their love, and here it is
by the wholesale, for l cannot give it
by retail Disappoint not the old folks
on the other side the Atlantic You
will probably never see them again in
this world. Their hair is whitening
and their step is not as firm as when
you saw them last. So live that you
may meet them in Heaven. Write home
often, and while you know they are
praying for you, do not forget to re-
member in your prayers those who
were your first friends, and friends
than whom you will never have better
II mean your old father and mother.
By the memories of the old Scotch kirk,
where you were baptized, and of the
English freside, by which you played,
and of the Welsh hills and valleys,
among which you roamed and the old
homes on the banks of the Tweed and
the Shannon and the Clyde, charge
you, be honorable and true and
Christian. You have good ances-
trail blood in yonr veins. Prove
yourself worthy, 1t seems to me that
the gospel is making mighty strides
over there. Only one thing / saw in
the chapels and churches did not like.
That is a lack of appreciation of each
other, as between the National church
and the Dissenters. Now, each is doing
a great work that the other cannot do.
God speed them all, they of the Episco-
pacy and they of the Dissenters Some
and others the spontaneity of the Wes-
leyan In the kingdom of God there is
room for all to work and each in his
own way Some people are born
Episcopalians and others Methodists
and others Baptists and others
Presbyterians, and do not let US force
our notions on others. As for myself, l
was born SO near the line that 1 feel as
much at home in one denomination as
another, and when in the Episcopal
church, the liturgy stirs my soul so that
I cannot keep back the tears, and it
overwhelms me with its solemnity and
its power When in an old-fashioned
Methodist church, the responses of
..Amenp' and sHallelujah!" lift me I'M
til, like Paul. am in blessed bewilder
ment as to whether in the body or out
of the body, God knoweth." And as
for the Baptists, though I have never
been anything but sprinkled, I
have immersed hundreds and ex-
pect to immense hundreds more in the
baptistry under this pulpit where I
now stand. What is the use of con-
troversy about anything, except how
we shall keep close to the Cross and do
the most for helping people for this |