Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-10-22
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Brooklyn Divins's Sun.
day Sermon.
Subject; "a summers Journey"

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
Mrd is it, AMI how long ara its wings and OF
rhat color2 Ah some OF Us have seen and
cit its wings. They are golden. Thsy arc
,uoyant. They are swift. They ere wide,
pread. The 18th OK last June | took ''the
wings of the morning. and started for Eu.
ope. June 20, on ''thc wings of the morn
pg." 1startsd from Liverpool July II, on
the wings Of the morning. [ entered
Germany, tho land of Martin Luther an
many of that tx, living AMI dead.
On ''the wings OF the morning. 1 entered
81. Petersburg, Russia. On 1.-THE wings of
be morning | entered Moscow. On 'tho
wings of the morning" | entered the palaces
If Russia, greeted by the emperor and en-
press, surrounded BY a lovely brood of
princes and prncesses. On ''ths wings of
he morning | entered Inverness, the cap
tai of the Scottish highlands, country OF
Robert Burns and Thomas Chalmers-tha
me for poetry, the other for religion. Sep
ember 2lst on 1.-THE wings of the morning"
entered the finest haven of all the earth
gew York harbor- and looked off toward
he most interesting placa 1 had seen in three
nonths-1 South Oxford street, Brooklyn.
You all know why / went Russia this sun.
ner. There are many thousands of people
Who have q right TO say to me, as was said
n the Bible parable, "Gve an account of
hy stewardship" Through The Christian
Herald, which have the honor to edit, we
lad for months, in publishers, in reportorial
Ind editorial column, put before the people
he CHASTITY facts concerning twenty million
Russians who were starving to death, aud
subscriptions to the relief fund had come by
etters that seemed not so much written
with ink as with tears soma of the
etters practically saying, I'VE find it hari
to get bread for our own families, but we
:annot stand this cry of hunger from beyond
he seas, and so please 20 receive the en-
llosed.n And others had sent Jewels from
heir hands and necks, saying, "Sell these
Ind turn them into bread" And another
etter said: Enclosed is an old gold piece.
II was my mothers. She gave it to me and
old me never to part with 1t except for
,read, and now 1 inclose it." We had gath
red thirty-fve thousand dollars in money,
which we turned into three million pounds
If flour.
When went down to the board OF trade
1t Chicago and left five thousand dollars Of
The amount RAISED with a prominent -four
merchant, taking no receipt an leaving all
% him to do the best thing and returned, it
vas suggested that had not done things in
business way How could we know
What sort OF Hour would be
ent. There are styles of flour more
1t for the trough of the swine
han the mouths of hungry men and women.
Well, as is customary when the flour came
% New York it was tested, and We found
indeed they had cheated us. They gave US
| better -four than we hal bought. l bought
n Chicago fine -four, but they sent us super
inc. God bless the merchants of Chicago
Now we know nothing about famine in
America. The grasshoppers may kill the
,rops in Kansas the froshets may destroy
l / -.
nay kill the vines OF Long Island tie rust
nay get into the wheat OF Michigan, yet
when there has been dreadful scarcity in
ome parts of the land there has been plenty
n other parts. But in districts of Russia.
rast enough to drop several nations into
hem, drought for six consecutive years has
devastated, and those districts were pre-
Fiously the most productive of all the empire.
IL was like what We would have in
America if the hunger fient somehow got
,ut of hell and alightel i'll our land, and
wept his wing over Minnesota, and said.
Let nothing grow here and over Missouri
md said, Let nothing grow here" and over
New York State and said, Let nothing
grow here,h and over Ohio and Georgia and
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania and Ne
1rsska and Dakota and the Carolinas and
aid, Let nothing grow here and the hum
ger tiend had swept the same whitening and
blasting wing over the best parts of America
N the years 1887, 1898, 1885, 1899, 1891 and
1892, and finally all our families were put on
small allowance and we all had risen from
.he table hungry, and after awhile the
children had only quarter enough, and after
awhile only one meal day. and after
awhile no good food at all, but mixture
IF wheat an chaH and bark of trees, and
;hen three of the children down with hunger
.yphus, and then all the family unable to
walls, and then crawling on hands and knees
and then one dead i'll each room, and neigl-
0ors, not quite so exhausted, coming in to
bury them, and attarwarl the house becom-
ing the tomb, with none TO carry the dead to
more appropriate sepulcher families
blotte out.
That was what occurred In Russia in
homes more than We're ever counted, III
homes that were once as comfortable and
happy and 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. 1t was to do little something
toward beating bacI that archangel OF
wretchedness and horror that we went
and we have now to report that, &C
cording to the estimate OF Ina Russian fam.
Inc relief committee, we saved the liyAs Of
125, 900 people, As at the hunger relief sta
lions the brea1 was handed out-for it was
made into loaves and distributel-many
people would halt before t4king it and reli-
gIousiy cross themselves and utter a PRAYER
for the donors.
Some OF them would come staggering
back and say: please tell us wac sent this
bread to u.s. And when told it came from
America they would say: "What part OF
America? Please give US the names of
those who sent IT. All, Col only knows
the names of those who sent it, but He car
talnly does know, and many prayer is
gong up warrant you, day by dav. for
those who sent -four by the ship Lao. Per-
haps some of us at our tables rattle off a
prayer that may mean nothing, although
we call it Saying erace" but [ warrant
when those people who received the bread
which saved their lives said grace" it
meant something
l said respectfully to Russian when |
saw him cross himself, What do YOU do
that for9' con- he said, when ! do that
always say, God have mercy on meu'
hold IN LAY hand something very suggestive
w hat does that hack aud uncomely thing
look like, That is what is called hungry
bread from Russia; that is what millions
OF people lived on for months be
fore help came from England, Scotland,
ireland AMI America; that is a mixture
which seems to have in it not one grain of
sustenance. 1t is mixture of pig weed and
chaf and the sweepinss of stables. That is
something which, if dropped in the street,
your dog Or cat mgdt sniff at, but would
not eat. That was the Only fool on which
mlllionS OF men and women lived.
You must look at that hunger bread Of
itlssia before you can get proper apprecia-
ton OF what an attractive and beautiful
thing good loaf Of bread IS II is so COM
mon TO US We caanot realize its meaning
why does not some poet ring a canto on
loaf OF brea1, or some modern Raphael punt
II, or some historian tell its history? But
have been asked By good people in Great
Britain and America. again an | again, Why
lid not the prosperous people of Russia stop
that suffering themselves, making it useless
Tor other nations to help? And l am always
glad when | hear the question asked, be-
cause it gives me al opportunity OF ex-
plnlnlns, have you any idea what
1t requires to feed twenty million
people; There is only one Beng in the
universe who can do it, AMI that is the
Beng who this morning breakfastel sixteen
lun irei million Of the human race. Ths
noolIlty OF Russia have not oaly contributed
mos laYlsliy, but many OF them went down
lal Stal for months amid the ghastliness.
II iha Tue norfor, AMI the typhu5 fever AMI
me smallpox taat they might administer to
the suffering
Inc Emperor has ma le larger contribu-
Aon' towari this relief fun1 than any
monarch ever made for GnY cause since tbs
world stood, and the superb kindness
written all over the faces of Emperor and
Empress and Crown Prince is demonstrated
n what they have already done and ara
long for the sufferers in their own country,
When saw few DAYS ago in the papers
hat the Emp error and Empress had waikiki
through the wards OF the most vfru ent
'holera, talking with the patients, shaking
hands VITA them and cheering them up. It
vas no surprise to me, for ! said to myself,
. That is just like them" So put ali the
,hree prayers together--Gol save the Presi-
lent OF the United Statesl God save the