Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-10-17

In all the hotels III northern Russia, and
the subtraction of that amount of COM
mercial profit from those cities you may
imagine. But that whole subject OF
systematic fabrication | adjourn to some
other hour. Yet must tell you of pic
ture of pathos and moral power i'm
pressed upon my mind so that neither
time nor eternity can efTace it. The ship
Leo swung to the docks a few miles be-
low St. Petersburg loaded with flour
from America. The sailors on board
huzzaed as they came to the wharf
From q yacht on which we had descend
ed the river to the sea the prominent
citizens of St Petersburg disembarked
The bank was crowded by prosperous
citizens who stood on the wharf, and
back of them by poor laborers who had
come down to offer their services free of
all charge for the removal of the bread
stuffs from the ship to the imperial
freight train that took the -four to the
interior free Of charge. While we stood
there the long freight train rumbled
down to the docks, the locomotive and
each car decorated with hag-the
American flag and the Russian flag al
ternating. Though flag to some eyes
is only a floating rag, you ought to see
how the American flag looks 5000 miles
from home. It looked that day like a
section of heaven let down to cheer
mortal vision. Addresses of welcome
and responses were made, and then the
work began, the only contest being who
should lift the hardest and be most ex-
peditious. From ship to rail train.
From rail train to kneading board.
From kneading board to oven. From
oven to the white and quivering lips of
the dying. Upon all who, whether by
contribution small or large, helped make
that scene possible, may there come the
benediction of him who declared, 81 was
hungry and We fed me"
THE GOSPEL IN GREAT BRITAIN.
But | must also give word of report
concerning my other errand-the preach
ing of the Gospel in Great Britain last
summer. 1t was tour had for many
years anticipated. With the themes of
the Gospel | confronted more people
than ever before in the same length of
ti1ne-multitudes after multitudes, and
beyond anything [ can describe. The
throngs in all the cities were so great
that they could be controlled only by
platoons of police, SO that none should
be hurt by the pressure, each service in
doors followed by service for the wait
ing throngs outdoors, and both by hand
shakings to the last point of physical en-
DURANGO From the day in which | ar
rived at noon in Liverpool, and that
night addressing two vast assemblages.
until got through my evangelistic jour
ney it was a scene of blessing to my
own soul and hope to others. missed
but three engagements of all the sum
mer and those from being too tired to
stand up. AT all the assemblages large
collections were taken, the money being
given to local charities, feeble churches,
orphan asylums or Young Mems Chris
tian associations, my services being en-
tirely gratuitous. But what a SUMMER
There must have been much praying
here and elsewhere for my welfare, or
no mortal could have gone through all
went through. In every city and town
[ had messages poured into my ears for
families in America.
Oh, sons of Scotchmen, Englishmen,
Welshmen and Irishmen, there are hearts
on the other side of the sea beating in
affection for you and praying for your
present and eternal welfare. They want |
ed me to give you their love, and here it
is by the wholesale, for | cannot give it
by retail. Disappoint not the old folks
on the other side the Atlantic. You Viii
probably never see them again in this !
world. Their hair is whitening and !
their step Is not as firm as when you Saw ,
them last. So live that you may iceet
them in heaven. Write home often, and |
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you do not forget TO remember in your
prayers those who were your FIRST
friends. and friends than whom You
will never have better-I mean your old |
father and mother. By the memories Of |
the old Scotch kirk where you were
baptized, and of the English freside by /
which you played, and of the Welsh
hills and valleys among which yo&
roamed, and the old homes on the banks |
of the Tweed and the Shannon and the |
Clyde, charge you be honorable and |
true and Christian. You have good |
ancestral blood in yoUr veins Prove !
yourself worthy. 1t seems to me that |
the Gospel is making mighty strides |
over there. Only one thing saw in the |
chapels and churches | did not like
That is u lack of appreciation of each
other as between the national church
and the dissenters. Now each is doing
a great work that the other cannot do.
God speed them all, they of the episco-
pacy and they of the dissenters! Some
need the ritual of the national church
and others the spontaneity of the Yves
leyan In the kingdom of God there is
room for all to work ard each in his
own way. Some people are born Epis-
copalians and others Methodists and
others Bapt:sts and others Presbyte-
rians. and do not let us force our notions
on others.
a CHRISTIAN UNION INDEED.
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