The Red Cloud chief., 1892-10-28
OBSERVATIONS ABROAD.
DR.. Telmage Tells of Russia and
Great Britain.
Distributing Wheat tn Russia's starving
Peasantry -Interest'ng Discourse
on Ills Tour of Great britain
What lie Saw.

rev. L. eNlt lalmaTe IN q recent
discourse at Brooklyn took for his sub
ject "Observations in Russia and Great
Britain" the text being: Psalm cxxxix.
81: "1f l take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts OF the
sea, even there shall Thy hand lead
me-" DIR. Talmage said:
What an absurd book the Bible must
be to a man who has no poetry in his
soul. wings of the m~orningw What
kind Of a bird is it, and how long are its
wings and Of what color? All, some of
us have seen and felt its wings They
are golden. They are buoyant They
are swift They are widespread. The
18th of last June I took 1.-THE wings of
the morning. and started for Europe.
june 30, on "the wings Of the morning"
I started from Liverpool; July
10, on ''the wings of the morn
ing" I entered Germany, the land Of
Martin Luther and many Of that ilk,
living and dead. On ''the wings of the
morning I entered Moscow. On "the
wings Of the morning" I entered the
palaces Of Russia, greeted by the en-
peror and empress, surrounded by a
lovely brood of princes and p~rincesses.
On "the wings Of the morning" I en-
tered Inverness, the capital Of the Scot
fish Highlands, country Of Robert
Burns and Thomas Chalmers, the one
for poetry, the other for religion. Sep
tember 81, on "the wings of the morn
ing" entered the finest haven Of all
the earth, New York harbor, and looked
off toward the most interesting place
] had seen in three months-1 South
Oxford street, Brooklyn. o, I like 1.-The
wings of the morning" lam, by nature
and by grace. n son of the morning. !
think l must have been bora in the
morning. ] would like to die in the
morning. ! have n notion that Heaven
Is only IN everlasting morning. In the
summer of 1892, my text was fulfilled
to me again and again. IF l take the
wings of the morning and dwell in the
uttcrmost parts of the sea even there
shall Thy hand lead me-"
You all know why l went to Russia
this summer. There are many thou
sands of people who have u right TO
say to me, as was said in the Bible par
able: ''Give account of thy steward
ship" The Christian Herald for
months had put before the people the
CHASTITY facts concerning 20, 00o. 900 Rus
slams who were starving to death, and
subscriptions to the relief fund had
come by letters that seemed not SC
much written with ink rs with tears,
some OF the letters practically saying:
eve find it hard to get bread for our
own families, but we cannot withstand
this cry of hunger from beyond thu
seas, and so please to receive the in
closed" We had gathered $500 IL
money, which we turned into 5000, 00O
r. pounds of -four.
Now, we know nothing about famine
in America. The grasshoppers may
kill the crops in Kadsas, the freshet:
may destroy the crops along the Ohio
the potato worm may kill the vines OF
Long Island, the rust may get into the
wheat Of Michigan, yet when there ha:
been dreadful scarcity in some parts o.
the land there has been plenty in othel
parts. But in districts of Russia, vas
enough to drop several nations intc
them, drought for six consecutive years
nus uCNtStdtcu anu lilOSt lCbS WCE'
previously the most productive Of al
the empire. 1t was like what we woul,
have in America il the hunger fient
somehow got out of hell and alighted
in our land and swept his wing owe,
Minnesota and said: Let nothin.
grow here" and over Missouri and said
"Let nothing grow here, "and v New
York and said: LET nothing grow
here" and over Ohio and Georgia ant
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania ant
Nebraska and Dakota and the Carolina
and said: Let nothing grow here,
and the hunger iend had swept tn,
same whitening and blasting wing ovel
the best parts Of America in the year
1887. 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891 and $50:
and finally all our families were pu
on small allowances and we all ha'
risen from the table hungry, and afte'
awhile the children had only hal
enough and after awhile only one mea
a day and after awhile no good food a
all, but q mixture of wheat and chat
and bark of trees, and then three of tn
children down with hunger typhus AM
then all the family unable to walk AM
then crawling on hands and knees an
then one dead in each room and neigh
bors, not quite SO exhausted. coming IL
to bury them, and afterward the hous
becoming the tomb, witS none to carr,
the dead to more appropriate sepulchr
whole families blotted out. That wa
what occurred in Russia in homes NOR
than were ever counted, in homes tina
were once as comfortable and beautiful
and bountiful as yours or mine, II
homes as virtuous as yours or mine, II
homes where God Is w%orshiped as nue.
as in yours or mine. 1t was to do
little something toward beating bacl
that Archangel of wretchedness an
horror that we went, and we have nov
to report that, according to the est
mate of the Russian famine relief com
mittee, we saved the lives Of 1880
people. As ut the hunger relief sta
lions, the bread vas handed out--for !
was made into loaves and distribute
many people would halt before tax
ing it and religiously cross themselve
and utter n prayer for the donors
Some of them would come staggering
hack. md saw. s'please tell MS who sen