Milford chronicle., 1892-10-21

lynne out OF hundred cases they arc
Is fabrication. And in the one case as soon
y as it is reported the official is discharged.
They WHO have been sent ito write up''
a Rassia and Siberia have done as that man
II would do who, sent to write NM New
lt York, should writeup the slums as n speci.
y men Of what New York is. or, sent to write
II up the American congress, should writeun
some depraved politicians as a specimen Of
: American craftsmanship, or, sent to write
: up the sanitary condition Of this country.
should send kodak picture of all the
!. warts and carbuncles he could fnd as a
specimen Of American health. I believe I
can reverse the opinion Of any man antag-
Onistic to Russia who will give me an
honest hearing, as my own opinions have
=; been reversed by what | recently saw aud
heard
Before passing to the other field of nv
summer observation / give you one little
J specimen Of the falsehOods about Russia
| stood in London with my tickets for St.
Petersburg, Russia, in my pocket. It was
two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three
I O'Clock l was to take the train. AnAmer-
lean physician came in and said, 'Ynu GER
tainly are not going to Russia" / said.
ny noty" Then "a morning paper was
shown me, saying that in ST. Petersburg
there were two Thousand cases of virulent
cholera; the city had been divided into
hospital districts. and the doctors were at
their wits end what to do with the number
OF patients. The population was flying in
terror. 1t was almost as bad in Moscow.
hile rejecting on these accounts two
messagesarriyed frop other friends protest
ing against the fuolhardiness Of my rushing
into the presence of two thousand cases Of
cholera in one city. OF course halted.
! hnffa.1 FOR
gram from St. Petersburg encouraged me
to CO. / went. There was not a single
case Of cholera in St. Petersburg or Mos
COW, and there was not a single case in
either city until four weeks after / left
those cities. But the continental false
! hood had done its commercial errand.
! Tens Of thousands Of Americans and
1 Englishmen who proposed to summer in
Russia turned in other directions.
At the large hotel in ST. Petersburg mt /
which stopped, though capable of hold |
ing five hundred guests, and months before /
every room and every hallway and every I
mattress and every pillow had been en- |
I gagged by telegraph by sightseers, all the /
| orders were cancelled, ard instead of five |
| hundred guests ; should think about
| thirty, and that including our party. And |
| so it was in all the hotels in northern Rus
sia, and the subtraction Of that amount of
| commercial profit from those cities you
| may imagine But that whole subject Of
systematic fabrication / adjourn TO some
other hour Yet must tell you OF a pic
ture Of pathos and moral power impressed
upon my mind, so that neither time nor
eternity may etiace it,
The ship Leo swung to the docks "A few
miles below St. Petersburg loaded with
-four from America. The sailors on bo.ird
huzzaed as they came to the wharf From
yacht ON which we had descended 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 bv !
poor laborers, who had come down to offer
their services free of all charge for the re-
moval of the breadstuffs from the ship 70
the imperial freight train that took the
-four to the interior free of charge While |
We stood there the long freight train rum
bled down to the docks, the locomotive and / I
each car decorated with a iiag-the Ameri- /
can flag and the Russian flag alternating. /
Though a flag TO some eyes is only a ! I
floating rag, you ought to see how the ,
American flag looks five thousand miles
from home. It locked that day like a sec
tion 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 ard be most expeditions From 9
ship to rail train. From rail train to knead /
ing board. From kneading board to oven !.
From oven to the white and quivering lips
of the dying. Upon all who, whether by I
contribution small OF large, helped nuke a
that scene possible may there come the !
benediction of him who declared, Il was 7
hungry and ye fed me-"
GREAT MEETINGS IN GREAT BRITAIN Y
But / must also give a word of report z
concerning my other crrandr-the preach u
ing Of the Gospel in Great Britain last 81
summer. It was tour / had for many
years anticipated. With the themes of the .
Gospel confronted more people than ever Il
before in the same length Of time-multi- Y
tudes after multitudes, and beyond any y
thing ] can describe. The throngs in all I
the cities were so great that they could be y
controlled only by platoons Of police, so !
that none should be hurt by the pressure, N
each service indoors followed by a service
for the waiting throngs outdoors, and both q
by handshakings to the last point Of phys q
cal endurance. y
From the day in which arrived at noon v
in Liverpool, and that night addressing =
Two vast assemblages, until / got through 3,
my eyangelistie journey, it was a scene of ei
blessing to my own soul and / hope to
1thers. ! missed but three engagements u
Df all the summer, and those from being "
90 tired to stand up. At all the assem- =
llages large collections were taken-the ~
money being given to local charities, feeble !"
ihurches, orphan asylums or Young Mems "
christian associations-my services being Pi
ntirely gratuitous. But what a summer ~
There must have been much praying here ~
1 Il
al could have gone through an went
through. 10
In every city and town had messages u
,oured into my ears for families n Ameri es
a. Oh, sons Of Scotchmen, Englishmen n'
Yelshmen and Irishmen, there are hearts
n the other side of the sea beating in affec ~ ~
ion for you and praying for your present ~ ~
nd eternal welfare They wanted me to =
i've You their love, and here it is by the ~ ~
for cannot give 1t by retail. Dis K, n
ppoint not the old folks on the other side y
he Atlantic You viii probably never see y
hem again in this world Their hair is y y
and their stepis not as firm rs ~ ~
Then you saw them last So live that You -
nay meet them in heaven. Write home ~
ften, and while you know they are pray r.
ng for you, do not forget to remember in u
our prayers those who were your first = =
riends, and friends than whom you will y.
ever have e8ett ssETI mean your old father ~ 4,
80 = IA e,.o.ol, .l.;,i- NJ
~ sue - 3,5 - ~ F,,e., th
sh fresid M ~ played, and Of -
be Welsh 81 ( 4leys among which ~
on roamedS c.N ~ old homes on the
anks Of tile TwTsd and, me Shannon and ~ ~
be Clyde, ] charge you be honorable and ~ ~
rue and Christian You have good an ~ ~
sstral blood in your veins. Proveyourself -. ~
Torthy. It seems to me that the Gospel is - =
laking mighty strides over there. u,
Only one thing I saw in the chapels and -
hurches did not like. That is a lack Of ~ -
ppreciation Of each other as between the y. p.
ational church and the dissenters. Now ~ ~
lch is doing a great work that the other "'