The Globe-republican., 1892-11-04
themselves and utter a prayer for the

themselves and utter q prayer for the
| donors.
Why does not some poet ring . cante
on loaf of bread, or some modern Raph'
ael paint it, or some historian tell It's ms
| tory? Noticed all over like wedding cake,
or dotted like many articles OF food, pre-
| tentious and with fantastic Ingredients,
but that grandest product OF the earth;
that richest yield of the flour mill; that
best benediction Of hot oven-a God
given loaf of bread. But the rhythm OF
| it. the luxury of 1t, the meaning OF it.
the benediction of it, the divine mercy OF
1t, only those know who have seen lam
inc. No wonder Christ put this food into
the sacrament and said Of . broken loai
of bread, ''This is my body" Thank
God that ever saw that transcendent
and compact kindness of the infinite God
"a loaf bread And it was our joy this
summer to hand over ship load Of ma
terial for Rladdening many thousands OF
Russians with such . beatftude.
But l have been asked by good people
In Great Britain and America, again and
again, Why did not the prosperous peo-
pie of Russia stop that suffering them
selves, making it useless for other nations
to help? And am always glad when l
hear the question asked, because 1t gives
me an opportunity of explaining. Have
you any idea what it requires to feed
twenty million of people? There is only
one being in the universe who can do it,
and that is the Being who this morning
breakfasted sixteen hundred million of
the human race. The nobility OF Russia
have not only contributed most lavishly,
but many of them went down and staid
for months amid the ghastliness. and the
horror. and the typhus fever, and the
smallpox that they might administer to
the suffering.
I sat at the dining table in the house Of
one of our American Representatives be-
side Baroness who had not only impov-
erished her estates by her contributions
to the suffering, but who left her own
home and went down into the worst Of
tho misery, until prostrated with fever,
then revivine and toiling on until pros
trated with the smallpox. She had come
home to get little strength. and in a
few davs she was going down again to
the suffering districts, and she commits
stoned me to execute in America lit
erary enterprise by which she expects
with her pen more money, all OF which is
to go for bread to those who lack it.
Then there are the Bobrinskies. They
are of the nobility-not only of the nobil-
ity of earth, but the nobility of heaven.
You know we have in America certain
names which are synonyms for benevo-
lence-Georee Peabody, James Lenox,
William E. Dodge, Mr.. Slater and so on.
l. t. Doh
rinSki means in Russia.
The emperor has made larger contri-
buttons toward this relief fund than any
monarch ever made for any cause since
the world stood, and the superb kind
ness written all over the faces of en-
peror and empress and crown prince is
demonstrated in what they have already
done and are doing for the sufferers in
their own country. When a few days
ago read in the papers that the en-
peror and empress hearing an explosion,
stopped the royal rail train to find out
what accident had occurred, and the
empress knelt down b. the side of q
wounded Iaborer and held his head un-
til pillows and blankets could be
brought, and the two wounded men
were put upon the royal train to
be carried to q place where they could
be cared for, l said to my wife. Just
like her."
When l saw few days ago in the pa
pers that the emperor and empress
had walked through the walls of the
most virulent cholera, talking with the
patients. shaking hands with them and
them mp, it was no surprise to
me, for said to myself, That is just
like them" Any one who has ever seen
the royal family will believe anything in
the way of kindness ascribed to them,
and will join In the eXecreatiOn Of that
too prevalent opinion that tyrant is on
the throne of Russia If God spares my
life will yet show bv facts beyond dis
pute that the most slandered and syste-
lied about nation on earth is
Russia. and that no ruler ever lived
more for the elevation of his people in
education and morals and religion than
Alexander the Third. So put all the
three prayers together God save the
president of the United States! God save
the queen Of England! God save the en-
peror and empress of Russia!
Before passing to the other field of my
summer observation give you one little
SpeClUcu vi Vic ldiSclOOuS dUOuO huSSIds
l stood in London with my tickets for
ST. Petersburg, Russia, in my pocket
1t was o'clock in the afternoon and at
3 o'clock I was to take the train. An
American physician came in and said,
"You certainly are not going to Russia"
1 said, 'Why not?" Then morning
paper was shown me, saying that in St
there were 1000 cases Of
virulent cholera; the city had been di-
vided 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.
While rejecting on these accounts two
arrived from other friends pro-
testing against the foolhardiness of my
rushing into the presence of 1000 cases
of cholera in one city. OF course
halted. halted for four days Mean
while telegram from St Petersburg
me to 60. I went There
was not q single case OF cholera in St
or Moscow. and there was
not single case in either city until four
weeks after left those cities. But the
falsehood had done its COM
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