The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1892-10-28

travelled in many lands, but tell you
plainly, as l told Emperor Alexander
III. in the palace at Peterhoff, that
had never been so impressed with the
fidelity to their religion of any people
as by what l had seen in Russia, and
especially among her public iiien.
said respectfully to Russian when
saw him bless himself: i'What do you
do that for?'' ''Oh," he said, s'when 1
do that I always say: s'God have
mercy on me-" hold in my hand
something very Suggestive, What
does that black and uncomely thing
look like? That is what is called hum
ger-bread from Russia; that is
what millions of people lived on for
months before help came from En-
gland, Scotland, Ireland and America;
that is mixture which seems to have
in it not one gain of sustenance. It is
a mixture of pig=Weed and chaff and
the sweepings Of sta bles. That Is
something which. IL dropped in the
street, your dog or cat might sniff at
but would not eat That was the only
food Id which millions of fiien and
women lived. You must look at that
hunger-bread of Russia before you can
get proper appreciation of what an at
tractive and beautiful thing good loaf
of bread is 1t is so common to use we
can not realize its meaning Stop and
look at it in bakery window, or see It
on your family tablet mean hons
est loaf of bread, white as a ball OF
packed snow, with crust brown as the
autumnal woods, and for keen appe-
tite more aromatic than flowers loaf
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hood, when the knife in the hand of
your father or mother cut clean
through, from crust to crust, and put
before You, not quarter of slice or
half slice, but full, round slice and
another and another just suited to a
boy always ready to eat and for the
most time hungry, even in well-sup-
piled house. l remember and you re-
member, if You had healthy child
hood, just how it tasted. . Myi My!
Plum pudding does not taste as good
now as that plain bread then. It was
then bread at the table and bread be-
tween meals, and bread before break
fast and bread before going to bed.
Why does not some poet ring a canto
on a loaf of bread, or some modern
Raphael paint it, or some historian tell
its history Not like many articles of
food, pretentious, and iced all over like
wedding cake. or dotted with fantastic
ingredients, but that grandest product
of the earth, that richest yield of the
flour mill, that best benediction of
hot oven-a God-given loaf of bread.
But the rhythm of it, the luxury of it,
the meaning of it, the benediction of
it, the Divine mercy of it, only those
nh ha- NJ.
wonder Christ put this food into the
sacrament and said of broken loaf of
| bread: This is My BODY Thank
God that / ever saw that
transcendent and compact kindness
of the Infinite God "a loaf
of broad. And it was our joy this sum-
mer to hand over a shipload of material
for gladdening many thousands of Rus
slams with such a beatitude. But, I
have been asked by good people in
Great Britain and America again and
| again. why did not the prosperous peo-
| pie of Russia stop that suffering them
selves, making it useless for other peo-
| pie to help? And l am always glad
when hear the question asked because
it gives me an opportunity of explain
/ ing. Have you any idea what it re-
| quires to feed twenty million people?
| There is only one Being in the universe
! who can do it, and that is the Being
| who, this morning, brealkfasted one
billion six hundred million of the
| human race. The nobility of Rus
| STA have not only contributed most Law
ishly. but many of them went down
and staid for months amid the ghastli-
ness and horror of typhus fever and the
smallpox, that they might administer
| to the suffering. l sat at the dining
table in the house of one of our Amer
lean representatives beside baroness,
who had not only impoverished her es-
tates by her contributions to the su fer
ing, but who left her own home and
| went down into the worst of the mis-
cry, and until FRUSTRATED with the
fever; then reviving, and toiling on I'M
til Frustrated by the smallpox. She
had come home to get little strength,
and in a few days she was going down
again to the suffering districts, and
she commissioned me to execute in
America literary enterprise by which
she expects with her pen more money,
all of which is to go for bread to those
who lack it.
Then there are the Bobrinskoys.
They are of the nobility, not only the
nobility of earth, but the nobility OF
Heaven. You know we have in Amer
lea certain names which are synonyms
for observation-disclosures Peabody
James Lenox, William i. Dodge, Mr.
Slater, and so on. What their names
mean in America, Bobrinskoy means
in Russia. The emperor has made
larger contributions toward this RELIEF
fund than any monarch made for any
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superb kindness written all over the
faces of emperor and empress and
crown prince is demonstrated in what
they have already done and are doing
for the sufferers in their owI
country. When a few days age
read in the papers nthat
the emperor and empress, hearing
an explosion, stopped the royal rail
train to find out what accident had oc
CURED, and the empress knelt down by
: the side of wounded laborer and hele
his head until pillows and blanket,
could be brought, and the two wound
. ed men were put upon the royal traiI
to be carried to place where they
could be better cared for, said to my
wife: Just like her. When I saw
few days ago in the papers that the
emperor and empress had walked
through the wards of the most virulen
cholera, talking with the patients
shaking hands with them and cheering
them up, it was no surprise to me; fol
said to myself: THAT is just lil,
them" Anyone who has ever seer
the royal family will believe anything
in the way of kindness ascribed t.
them, and will join me in tn,
excavation of that too prevalen
opinion that tyrant is on tn
throne of Russia. If God spares m,
life, will yet show by facts beyonC
| dispute that the most slandered ant
Systematically lied about nation OF
earth is Russia, and that no ruler eve
lived more for the elevation of his PEG
pie in education and morals and re
ligion than Alexander III. So put al
the three prayers together: God saw
: the president of the United States
God save the queen of England Go
save the emperor and empress of Rus
STA! / will, whether in sermons o
lectures have not yet decided, SHOW
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