The Penn's Grove record., 1892-10-21
REV. DR.. TALNAGE.
The Brooklyn Divine's
Sund y Sermon.
Subject, ~sObservafions In Russia and
Great Britain.v

Subject, sObservaiions In Russia and
Great Britain"
TEXT. ar ftaks the srinos Of the morn
ing and dweH / the utmost parts OF the
sea, epsn there SHAH Thy hasd lead nie.r-
Psa,n cxxxx.,9
What an alb. ur1 book the Bib'e must be to
wings OF the morning. What kind ofa
bird Is II. and hos long ara It's wings and OF
what colorf All, some o. Us have seen q
felt its wings. They are golden. They are
buoyant. They are swift. They are wits
spread. The 18th Of last Juns 1 took 'sths
wings Of thu morniugp and started for Eu-
rope. June %. on 'ths wings Of the morn
ing" I started from Liverpool. July 10, on
the wings Of the morning" entered
Germany, the land Of Martin Luther and
many Of that Tx, living ami dead.
On the wings OF the morning ! entsred
ST. Petersburg, Russia. On s'ths wingl Of
the morning" en.ered MOSCOW: On .tns
OF Russia. crested by the smpsror and sm-
press, surrounded BY q lovely broot OF
princes and Or incssses. On 'sthe wings OF
the morning 1 entered Inverness, the cap
ital Of the Scottish hi rhian ia country Of
Robert Burns and Thomas Chalmsrs-the
10 for noetry. the other for religion. Sep
TENDER 2lst, on the win rs OF the morning I, =
I entered the finest haven OF all the earth-
New York h~aroor-and looked on toward
the most interesting place I had seen In three
months-1 South Oxford street. Brooxiyn-
You all know why l went Russia this suu-
mer. There are many thousands of people
who have right to say TO me. a was sail
thy stewardship.- Through The Christian
Herald. which / have the honor to edit. we
had for months Ia 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 tie relief fund had come BY
letters tnat seemed not 70 much written
letters practically saying. We fnd It hari
to get bread for our y families but We
cannot stand this cry OF hunger from beyond
the seas, and SO please to recstve the en-
closed And others had sent jewels from
their hands and necks, aging, :sell these
letter said: '.lncioss1 10 an old gold piecs.
1t was my motherA She gave IL to me and
told me never to part with ~ except for
bread, and now l incloss it, We had gath
erei thirty-hvs thousand dollars In money,
which we turned into thres million pounds
of flour.
When I went down to the board of trade
at Chicago and left Ave thousand dollars Of
the amount raised with . prominent -four
merchant, taking no receipt an leaving all
to him to do the bsst thing, and returned, IL
was suggested that / had not DOM things IN
. business way. How could We know
what sort Of -four you'd Q
ht for the trous h Of the swine
thai the mouths OF hunxry men and women.
Well. a. Is customary when the -four came
to New YORK. It va testsd, and W found
indeed they had cheated "a Thsy gave Us
better Aour than We bad bought. ! bought
in Chicago fine 6our. q they sent us super.
hlss Cod sl.ss tSs %ssse.sss s g cslcasoi
Amersca. The g~rassnoppSrs maj kill the
crops in Kansas the ffe16sts may destroy
the CROPS along the ONO tbs potato worm
may kli the vines Of Long island, the rust
may get into ths wheat OF Ascniesn, yet
when thers has been dreadful scarcity IN
in other parta. But IN disrr1cts Of Russia.
vast enough TO drop several psrtons into
them, drought for six consecutive Year, has
devastated, and tposs districte were pre-.
viously The most productive Of I'll the empire.
Il was like what We would have in
America II the hunger dsnd somehow got
out OF hell and diight61 IN our land, and
swept his wing over Minnssota, = aid.
sLet nothing grow here" and over Missouri
ana sand, Let nothink grow here" q over
New York STATE and nid, Let nothing
grow nere,S and ovsr Ohio and Georgia AMI
M~assscnusetts and Penusyavania ami Ne
brasza a Dakota and the Carolinas and
said, Let nothing grow her" m the u.
ger lend had swept the sams whitening and
blasting wing ovGr the psst parts OF Amsrica
in the years fssz, 1851 1855. 1897. 1891 ami
1892. and finally all our families were puE on
small allowance, and Ne Ill had risen from
the tabis hungry. ana after awhile ths
children had only quarter suough, q after
-s enra - al r1e rufweur.
OF wheat ami chat and bark Of erseA and
then rorse OF the cnfl1ren owu with hunger
tvphus and then ali tue family unable to
walls, and then crawling IN hands and kneest
and then one dead n each room, and usiga-
bors. not quite 20 ~sxnaustsdI couing IN %
ing the tomb, with nous 60 carry rhs dead 20
more Appropriate sspulchsr-wnois femijin
nat was what occurred IN Russia h
homes more than were ever counted, In
homes thai wsrs once ~ comfortable and
happy and bountlful a. Jour- or nina In
homes a virruuus a. yours or ml1e. IN homss
where God u worshipei as mucn = ID yours
or mine. " was TO do little somsrning
toward beating bacx that archAngd OF
~wretchedness and horror that ~ wenS
and We have now 70 report tha4 ~
eording to toe estimate OF the RUSSIA tai
lns relief committee. We the livss Of
I'D, WI @O19s rs ~ tu8 uuukN I1tioI et8r
tions tbs bfead vas and out-for 1t was
made into loaves and Distribute i-nanv
people would halt bsfors tsking u aud reii-
giously cross thsms>lvss and utter = prayer
for the donors
Some o. them would come staeg srins
lack and saw. Please peki Us wno senr this
dread to us.n And whoa told il came from
Americai Please g.vs rs the names Of
thoss who sent IT," Al, Col only knows
| the names OF taose who sent II buG he car
tainly does know. and many . prayer is
going up, l warrant you, day by day. for
| those who sent iour BY che snip Loo Per-
haps some Of Us 1t cur tables rattle Oh a
/ prayer that may mean nothing. although
we call It saying grace" bat ! warrant
when those people who received tbs brsat
which saved their lives ssaid grace IL
meant something.
/ said respectfully to . Russian when
| that forY' sOh,n be said, "when I do thar
| always say, dol have mercy on msf' ]
mold in my han1 something very su sgsit.vs.
| WHAT does that black aud uuconsly tam I
look likef That Is waat 10 called huagrg
bread from Rassia: thas is waat millions
OF people hvsi on for moatns Dc
lore he'll, came from Engiant, Scotland.
Ireland an l America, that is a mixture
which seems to nave 10 II not ooe geAia OF
susteaaace. II is a mixture OF pig Weed AMI
ensf ami the swsepings OF stables. That is
something winch, IL droppsd In the street..
your dog or cat miglt sntn at. but would
| not eat. That was the oaly food on which
millions OF men and women lived.
You must look at that hunger bread VI
Russia before you can gst proper apprecia-
ton OF what an attractive and beautiful
! thing . good loaf Of ursailS. II Il 50 conn-
moo TO Us we cannot reaiiss IL meaning.
Why does not some poet ring . canto on 9
loaf OF bread, or some modern Raphael pant
II, or some historian tai IT. hfssoryf put !
Britain and America, again and again, Why
Ala NOT the orospsrous peopls OF Russia sbop