The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-28

" h"NS ttoth t"ft
while crossing ones self In some cases
may mean nothing but mere form, l
believe in most cases IL means: 80,
thou of the suffering cross of calvary,
have mercy on me and accept my graft
tude." Prefer your own form Of religion
by all means, but do not depreciate the
religious form of others. From all |
learn there were several good people
before we were born, and | rather X
pect there will be several left after we
are dead. I have travelled in many lands
but i tell you plainly as l told Emperor
Alexander III. in the palace at Peter
hof that l had never been so impressed
with the fidelity to their religion Of any
people rs by what | had seen in Russia,
and especially among her public men.
l said respectfully to a Russian, when
l saw him cross himself: "What do you
do that for?' TO-" he said, when l do
that I always say: God have mercy on
me!"
l hold in my hand something very
suggestive. What does that black and
uncomely thing look like? That is
what Is called hunger bread from Rus
STA; that is what millions Of people
lived on for months before help came
from England, Scotland, Ireland and
America; that is a mixture which seems
to have In it not n grain Of susten-
ance. II is u mixture Of pig weed and
chaf and the sweepings OF stables.
That Is something which, II dropped in
the street, your dog or cat might sniff
at, but would not a That was the
only food on which millions OF men
and women lived. You must look at
that hunger br I'd Of Russia before you
can get proper appreciation Of what an
attractive and beautiful thing n good
loaf of bread is. 1t Is SO common
to us we cannot realize its meaning.
Why docs not some poet sing 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. p%retentious, and iced all over like
wedding cake, or dotted with fantastic
ingredients, but that grandest product
Of the earth, that richest yield Of the
-four mill, that best b~enediction Of n
hot oven, a God-given loaf Of bread.
But the rhythm of 1t, the luxury Of 1t,
the meaning Of it, the benediction of IL,
the divine mercy Of 1t only those know
who have seer u famine. No wonder
Christ put this food into the sacrament
and said of n broken loaf of bread:
'This Is my body" Thank God that
ever saw that transcendent and com
pact Kindness of the infinite Coda
loaf of bread. And it was our JOY this
summer to hand over u ship load of ma
terial for gladdening many thousands
Of Russians with such n baatitude.
But l have been asked by good PEG
pie in Great Britain and America again
and again, why did not the prosperous
people Of Russia stop that suffering
themselves, making it useless for other
nations to help? And I am always glad
when I hear the question asked, be.
cause 1t gives me an opportunity tn ex.
plain. Have you any idea what 1t re-
quires to feed 90. 900, 900 people? There
Is only one Being in the universe that
can do It, and that Is the Being who
this morning, breakfasted 1900. 900, 00t
Of the human race. The nobility OF
Russia have not only contributed mos
lavishly, but many OF them went dowr
and staid for months amid the ghastli
ness and the horror and the typhu,
fever and the smallpox, that they
might administer to the suffering.
sat at the dining table in the house OF
one of our American representatives be
side a baroness, who had not only i'm
povcrished her estates. by her contribu'
tions to the suffering. but who left hel
own home and went down into tn,
worst of the misery, and until pros
trated with fever, then reviving, and
toiling on until FRUSTRATED with the
= smallpox. She had come home to get &
, little strength, and in a few days sh.
|: was going down again to the suffering
districts, and she commissioned me Il
|, execute in America a literary enterpris
by which she expects with her per
more money, all of which is to go fo
; bread TO those who lack IT.
. Then there are the Bobrinskoys
, They are of the nobility, not only tn
!. nobility Of earth but the nobility o
5 Heaven. You know we have in Ameri
ca certain names which are synonyms
for ~benevolence - George Peabody
| James Lenox, William L. Dodge, Mr.
Slater and so on. What their name
mean in America Bobrinski means il
Russia The emperor has, made large
contributions toward this relief fun
than any monarch ever made for an,
Q cause since the world stood and the su
| pcrb kindness written atl over Tho
| faces Of emperor and empress an
| crown prince is demonstrated in wha
: they have already done and are doinc
I for the sufferers in their own country
, When n few days ago ! read in the pa
|, pers that the emperor and empress
hearing an explosion, stopped the roya
rail train to find out what accident hat
. occurred and the empress knelt dow
by the side of q wounded laboree anG
| held his head until pillows and blanket
, could be brought and the two wounded
men were put upon the royal train I,
be carried to n place where they coult
\ be better cared for, / said to my wife
"Just like her" When / saw a few day
1 ago in the papers that the emperor ant
. empress had walked through the ward
: of the most virulent cholera, talking
,.;th tho patiapts hakipU hands until