Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-10-17
THE GOSPEL ABROAD.
CHEERING ACCOUNT OF CHRISTIAN
ACTIVITY IN FOREIGN LANDS.

Dr. TaImaGe Presents Thrilling Account
of affairs in Russia-NobiIity of the Gear
and Czarina-A Badly SIandered Peo-
pIe-Chrfstfan Unit, i'm Great Britain.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 16.-Unusual interest
attached to the sermon preached by
Rev. Dr. Talmage this forenoon, it hav-
ing been announced that he would de-
vote the entire discourse to review of
his summers journey. The great Tab
ernacle building was crowded early by
an expectant audience. Professor
Brown, the organist, during the service
rendered the Russian national air, the
English national air and our own ma
tional 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 be-
ing Psalm cxxxix, 8. IF | take the
wings of the morning and dwell in the
uttermost parts of the sea. even there
shall thy hand lead me"
What an absurd book the Bible must
be to man who has no poetry in his
soul. wings of the morning." What
kind of a bird is it. and how long are its
wings and of what color? All, some of
us have seen and felt its wings. They
are golden. They are buoyant. They
are swift. They are widespread. The
18th of last June took 1.-The wings of
the morning" and started for Europe.
June 20, on 1.-The wings of the morning.
/ started from Liverpool. July -, ON
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Germany, the land of Martin Luther
and many of that ilk. living and dead.
On 1.-THE wings of the morning" | en-
tered st. Petersburg. Russia. On 1.-The
wings of the morning" | entered Mos
COW. On 1.-the wings Of the morning" |
entered the palaces Of Russia, greeted
by the emperor and empress, surrounded
by a lovely brood of princes and prin-
cesses. On 1.-The wings of the morning
/ entered Inverness, the capital of the
Scottish highlands, country of Robert
Burns and Thomas Chalmers-the one
for poetry, the other for religion. Sept.
81, on 1.-The wings of the morning." | en-
tered the finest haven of all the earth
New York harbor-and looked off to-
ward the most interesting place | had
seen in three months South Oxford
street, Brooklyn. Oh, like 1.-the winge
of the morning. am, by nature and
by grace. a son of the morning | think
must have been born in the morning
l would like to die in the morning |
have a notion that heaven is only an
everlasting morning La the summer of
1892 my text was fulfilled to me again
and again. IF l take the wings of the
morning and dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea, even there shall thy
hand lead me-" Yes, he led me as he
always has led me since l took my first
walk from the cradle to my mothers
lap at Bound Brook until this pulpit
where | now stand, and he will lead me
until | stop for all time about three
miles out yonder, where the most of you
will be my fellow slumberers.
AN ACCOUNT OF STEWARDSHIP.
You all know why / went to Russia
this summer. There are many thou
sands of people who have right to say
to me, as was said in the Bible parable,
Give account of thy stewardship
Through The Christian Herald, which /
have the honor to edit, we had for
months in publishers, in reportorial and
editorial column put before the people
the CHASTITY facts concerning twenty
million Russians who were starving to
death, and subscriptions to the relief
fund had come by letters that seemed
not SO much written with ink as with
tears, some of the letters practically
saying. I'VE find it hard to get bread
for our own families, but we cannot
stand this cry of hunger from beyond
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closed And others had sent Jewels
from their hands and necks, saving,
sell these and turn them into bread
And another letter said: Enclosed is an
old gold piece. It was my mothers.
She gave it to me and told me never to
part with it, except for bread, and now
L inclose it. We had gathered thirty
five thousand dollars in money, which
we turned into three million pounds of
-four. When | went down to the board
of trade at Chicago and left five thou
sand dollars Of the amount raised with
a prominent flour merchant, taking no
receipt and leaving all to him to do the
best thing, and returned, it was sug-
gested that had not done things in
business way. How could we know
what sort Of flour would be sent? There
are styles of -four more fit for the trough
of the swine than the mouths of hungry
men and women. Well, as is custom
airy, when the -four came to New York
1T was tested, and we found indeed
they had cheated US. They gave us
better flour than we had bought |
bought in Chicago fine flour, but they
sent us superfne. God bless the mer-
chants of Chicago!
GODS OWN LAND.
Now we know nothing about famine
In America. The grasshoppers may Kill
the crops in Kansas. the freshets may
destroy the crops along the Ohio, the po-
tato worm may kill the vines of Long