Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-11-21
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAGE STARTLES THE COUN-
TRY BY HIS REPORT ON RUSSIA.

"A Defense OF lSuSS1a w D1ch SeC All new
York and Brooklyn Talking Before
Night-Russia Our Friend i'm 1865.
Many Calumnies Refuted.
BROOKLYN, Nov. 20.-Rev. DIR. Tai
mage today fulfilled his promise that he
would again speak of his visit to Rus
STA and correct many wrong impress
sions concerning that empire and its
ruler After an exposition of Scripture
and congregational singing he took for
his text ii Peter ii, 10, ''Presumptuous
are they. self willed; they are not afraid
to speak evil of dignities."
Amid most reprehensible crew Peter
here paints by one stroke the portrait of
those who delight to slash at people in
authority. Now we all have a right to
criticise evil behavior, whether in high
places or low but the fact that one is
high up is no proof+that he ought to be
brought down 1t is d bad streak of hui
man nature now, as it was III the time
of the text a bad streak. of human Ma
ture, that success of any kind excites the
Jealous ;htipathy of those who cannot
climb the same steep. There never was
a David On the throne that there was
There never was Christ but the world
had saw and hammer ready to fashion
cut a cross on which to assassinate him
Out of this evil spirit grow not only in
.dividual but national and internal VA
defamation To no country has more la
Justice been done than to our own in
days that are past.
Long before Martin Chuzzlewit'' was
e i
scoffed at everything American. Victor
Hugo, as honest as he was unequaled i'll
literary power, was SO misinformed con-
corning America that he wrote: THE
most singular thing is the need of whit
Ting, with which all Americans are pos
sessed It is such that on Sunday they
give the sailors little bits of wood. be-
cause if they did not they would white
the ship In court, at the most critical
moment, the judge, whiting, says,
prisoner, are you guilty. and the &C
cused TRANQUILITY responds, whiting, I
am not guilty.
Lord John Russell called US "a bub-
BILE bursting nationality" But our cOun-
try has at last recovered from such Carl
cature, and there is not a street in any
city of Europe OF Asia where the word
"America" will not win Difference. But
there is a sister nation on the other side
of the sea now going through the process
of international defamation.
There is no country on earth SO mis-
understood as Russia, and no monarch
more represented than its emperor.
Will it not be in the cause of Justice if |
try to set right the minds of those who
compose this august assemblage and the
minds of those to whom, on both sides
of the ocean, these words shall come? II
the SANDER of one person}is wicked, then
the SANDER of one hundred and twelve
million people is one hundred and twelve
million times more wicked In the
name of righteousness and in behalf OF
civilization, and for the encouragement
of all those good people who have been
disheartened by the standardization OF
Russia, L now speak. But Russia Is SO
vast a subject that to treat in one dis
course is like attempting to run Niagara
falls over one mill wheel
Do not think that the very marked
,courtesies extended HE last: summer by
the emperor and empress and crown
prince of Russia have complinented me
into the advocacy OF that empire, for /
shall present you authenticated facts
that will reverse your opinions if they
have been antagOnistic, as mime We're
reversed. | went last summer to Russia
with as many baleful prejudices as
would make an avalanche from the
mountain of fabrication which has for
years been heaped Up against that EN-
pire.
You ask how is 1t possible that such
appalling Misrepresentation f Russia
could stand? l account for At by the
fact that the Russian language is to
most au impossible wall Malign the
United States. or malign Great Britain
or Germany or France, and blythe next
.cablegram the falsehoOd is exposed, for
we all understand English, and many of
,Onr people are famiIia with German
and ErencE. But the Russian language
beautiful and easy to those born to speak
it, Is to most vocal organs an unpro-
nounceable tongue, and If at St. Peters
burg or Moscow any anti-Russian cal
rumny were denied the most of .hew@rld
outside of Russia would never see or hear
of the denial.
What are the motives for misrepre-
sentation? Commercial interests and IN
;ternational jealousy. Russia is as large
as allIthe rest of Europe put together
Remember that "a nation is only man
ora woman on big scale. Go into any
neighborhood of America and ask the
physician who has a small practice what
he thinks of the physician who has a
large practice. Ask a lawyer who has
no briefs what he thinks of the lawyer
who has three rooms filled with clerks
trying in vain to transact the superabun-
do, hrr-l hot 10 Ac1-
the minister who has a very limited
audience what he thinks of the minister
who has overhowing audiences.