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TALMAGE ON HIS TRIP.
OBSERVATIONS IN RUSSIA AND
GREAT BRITAIN.

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Places Famous the World Over
Entered on the Wings of the Morn
inR-The ohastly Facts of the situa.
ton Among the People Of Russie.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 16-Unusuai interest
attached 20 the sermon preached by Rev,
DR., Talmage this forenoon, 1t having bean
announced that he would devote the entire
discourse TO a review OF his summers
journey. The great tabernacle building
was crowded early by an expsctant audi
enoe. Prof Brown, the organist, during
the service rendered the Russian national
air. the English national air and our own
national air. Among other hymns sung
was;
My country, It's OF thee;
Sweet Land OF liberty,
The subject was, observations IN Russia
and Great Britain, the text selected bang;
Psalm oxxxix, 8: "If take the wings OF
the morning and dwell in the uttsrnoss
parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand
lead me-"
What an absurd book the Bible must be
10 q man who has no poetry in his soul,
"Wings OF the morning." What kind OF =
bird is it, aud how long are It's wings and Of
what colorl Ah, some OF us have seen and
felt It's wings. They are golden. They are
buoyAnt. They are swift. They are wide
spread. The l5sh Of last June took "the
wings OF tho morning. and started for
Europe. June Goth, on ''Lhe wings Of the
morning" started from Liverpool; July
18th, on "tbe wingso Of the morning." l gu
tered Germany, the land Of Martin Luther
and and ssaS @Sny on OF "ba that v0aa' t' living Ing
morning." l entered st. Petersburg, Russ
sia. On ''the wings OF the norEiugn / en-
tered Moscow. On "the wings OF the morn
ingn entered the palaces Of Russia, greeted
by the emperor aud empress, surrounded by
lovely brood OF princes AID prineesses.
Ga "the wings Of the morning" I entered
Inverness, the capital of the Scottish High-
lands, country Of Robert Burns and Thomas
Chalmers, the one for poetry, the other for
religion. September 2lst, on ''the wings OF
the morning" entered the finest haven Of
all the earth-New York harbor-end
looked off toward the moss interesting place
| had seen in three months-1 South Ok
ford street, Brooklyn. o. | like ''the wings
OF the morning" | am, by nature aud
by grace, son of the morning.
think must have been born In the morn
ing. would like to dio Ia the morning. /
have a notion that heaven is only an ever
lasting morning. In the summer OF 1899
NY koAb Nh3 AhAAlAA9A W AAAb akhAA uuu AEhAls
''If take the wings OF the morning aud
dwell In the uttermogt parts Of the see, even
there shall thy hand lead me.n Yes, he led
me as he always has led me since took my
first walk from the cradle 30 my mothers
lap at Bound Brook until this pulpit where
| now stand, and he viii lead me until
stop for all time abouk three miles out yon-
der, where the most Of you will be my fel-
low slumberers.
You all know why went 10 Russia this
summer. There are many thousands OF
people who have a right 60 say 70 me, as we
said in the Bible parable: "Give account
OF thy Stewardship" Through the
Christian Herald, which have the honor
10 edit we had for months. in publishers,
in reportorial and editorial column, put be-
fore the people the ghastly facts concerning
twenty million Russians who were starving
to death, and subscriptions TO the relief
fund had come by letters that seemed NOS
so much written with ink as with tears,
some OF the letters practically saying: 1--WE
find 1t hard to get bread for our own fami-
lies, but we cannot stand this cry Of hun
ger from beyond the seas, and 30 please to
receive the inclosed.n And others had sent
jewels from their hands and necks,
saying: "Sell these and turn them into
bread" And another letter said: "In-
closed is an old gold piece. IL wes my
mothers. She gave it TO me and told me
never to part with It, except for bread, aud
now inclose itn We had gathered $35, 600
in money, which we turned into 5000, 600
pounds Of -four. When / went down to the
board OF trade at Chicago and left 5000 OF
the amount raised with prominent -four
merchant, taking no receipt, and leaving
all to him TO do the best thing, and returned.
it being suggested that / had not done
things In business way. How could we
know what sort Of flour would be sentf
There are styles Of flour more fit for the
trough OF the swine than the mouths OF hum
cry men and women. Well, as is customary,
when the flour came to New York, it was
tested, and we found indeed they had
cheated us. They gave US better -four than
we had bought l bought in Chicago fine
-four, but they sent us super1ne. God bless
the merchants Of ChicagoI
Now. we know nothing about famine In
America. The grasshoppers may kill the
crops In Kansas, the freshess may destroy
the crops along the Ohio, the potato worm
may destroy the vines OF Long Island, the
rust may get into the wheat of Michigan,
yet when there has been dreadful scarcity
In some parts OF tho land there has been
plenty in other parts. But In districts Of
Russia, vast enough to drop several nations
into them, drought for six consecutive years
has devasted, and those districts were
previously the most productive OF all the
empire. 1t was like what we would have in
America IL the hunger fend somehow goh
out OF hell end alighted in our land, and
swept his wing over Minnesota and said:
"Let nothing grow here, aud over Missouri
and said: "Let nothing grow here,n and
over New York state, and said: "Let
nothing grow here" and over Ohio and
Georgia and Massachusetts and Pennsyl-
vania and Nebraska and Dakota and the
Carolinas, and said: "Let nothing grow
here" and the hunger flend had swept the
same whitening and blasting wing over the
best parts Of America in the years 1887,
1888, 1899, 1890, 1891 aud 1892, and finally
all our families were put on small allows
ance, and we all had risen from the table
hungry, and after awhile the children had
only quarter enough, aud after awhile only
one meal day, and after awhile no good
food at all, but a mixture OF wheat and
chat and bark of trees, and then three OF the
children down with hunger typhus, and
then all the family unable to walk, and
then crawling on hands and knees, and then
one dead in eaou room, and neighbors. not
quite 30 exhausted, coming in TO bury them,
and afterward the house becoming the
tomb with none to carry the dead TO more
appropriate sepulcher - whole families
blotted out. That was what occurred in
Russia in homes more than were ever
counted, in homes that were once as com.
Portable and happy aud bountiful as yours
or mine, In homes as virtuous as yours or
mine, in homes where God is worshiped as
much as In yours or mine. It was to do "A