Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-27
AT THE TABERNACLE.
Or. TALMAeE GIVES AN ACCOUNT
OF HIS OBSERVATIONS ABROAD.


ings on America
BROOKLYN, Oct. l6.-Unusual interest
attached to the sermon preached by Rev.
Dr.. Talmage this forenoon, it having been
that he would devote the entire
discourse to a review Of his summers jour
hey. The great Tabernacle building was
,rowded early by an expectant audience.
Professor Brown, the organist, during the
service rendered the Russian national air,
,he English national air and our own ma
sional air. Among other hymns sung was
My country, it's Of thee,
Sweet land OF liberty.
The subject was, observations in Rus
sia and Great Britain" the text selected
being Psalm cxxxix, 0, "H ! take the
wings of the morning and dwell in the
parts of the sea, even there shall
thy hand lead me-"
What an absurd book the Bible must be
to a man who has no poetry in his soull
wings Of the morning" What kind Of
a bird is it, and how long are its wings
and of what colorP 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 /
took ''the wings of the morning" and
started for Europe June 20, on ''the
wings of the morning." l started from
Liverpool. July IL, on ''the wings Of the
morning." I entered Germany, the land of
Martin Luther and many of that ilk, living
and dead.
On ''the wings of the morning" entered
st. Petersburg, Russia. On 1.-THE wings of
the morning" l entered Moscow. On ''the
wings Of the morning" entered the pal
aces Of Russia, greeted by the emperor and
empress, surrounded by lovely brood of
princes and princesses On ''the wings of
the morning" I entered Inverness, the cap
ital of the Scottish highlands, country of
Robert Burns and Thomas Chalmers-the
one for poetry, the other for religion. Sept.
21, on ''the wings of the morning." en-
tered the finest haven of all the earth
New York harbor-and looked off toward
the most interesting place l had seen in
three months-1 South Oxford street,
Brooklyn.
Oh, like "the wings of the morning" "
am, by nature and by grace, a son of the
morning. think must have been born
in the morning. would like to die IN the
morning. have notion that heaven is
only an everlasting morning. In the sum-
mer Of 1892 my text was fulfilled to me
again and again. "If l take the wings oi
the morning and dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand
lead me-" Yes, he led me as he always
has led me since took my first walk from
tho n.od1a 10 ,,,otbauJo ok
Brook until this pulpit where now stand
and he will lead me until stop for al
time about three miles out yonder, where
the most of you will be my fellow slum
berers.
THE CRY FOR RELIEF.
You all know why went to Russia thi!
summer. There are many thousands O.
people who have right to say to me, a.
was said in the Bible parable, "Give an &C
count of thy stewardship" Through Tht
Christian Herald, which I have the homo
30 edit, we had for months, In publishers
in reportorial and editorial column, pu
before the people the ghastly facts con
corning twenty million Russians who wer
starving to death, and subscriptions t,
the relief fund had come by letter
that seemed not so much writer
with ink as with tears, some of tn
letters practically saying, 1--WE find /
hard to get bread for our own families, bu
we cannot stand this cry of hunger from be
yond the seas, and so please to receive tn
inclosed." And others had sent Jewel
from their hands and necks saying, ''Sel
these and turn them into bread" An
| another letter said: Enclosed is an oil
| gold piece. 1t was my mothers. She CAV
it to me and told me never to part with
except for bread, and now inclose it.
We had gathered thirty-6ve thousand do
lars in money, which we turned into thre
million pounds Of -four.
When l went down to the board of trad
at Chicago and left five thousand do
of the amount raised with a prominer
-four merchant, taking no receipt an
leaving all to him to do the best thine
and returned, it was suggested that
had not done things In "a business wa,
How could we know what sort of fipu
would be sente There are styles of fiou
more fit for the trough of the swir
than the mouths of hungry men AN
women. Well, as is customary, when rtl
-four came to New York it was teste.
and we found indeed they had cheated u
They gave US better -four than we ha
bought. bought in Chicago fine fou
but they sent us superf1ne. God bless IL
merchants Of Chicagol
Now we. know nothing about famine
America. The grasshoppers may kill IL
crops in Kansas, the freshets may destm
the crops along the Ohio, the potato wor
may kill the vines of Long Island, the ru
may get into the wheat of Michigan, y
when there has been dreadful scarcity
some parts of the land there has bet
plenty in other parts. But in districts .
Russia, vast enough to drop sever
nations into them, drought for six CO
secutive years has devastated, and tho
districts were previously the most pr
tductive of all the empire.
Itwas like what we would have in Anne
lea If the hunger fiend somehow got o,
of hell and alighted In our land, and swe
his wing over Minnesota and said, "L
nothing grow here, and over Missouri al
said, LET nothing grow here" and ov
New York state and said, LET nothi1
grow here" and over Ohio and Georgia al
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania and n
braska and Dakota and the Carolinas al
said, "Let nothing grow here, and the hu
ger fiend had swept the same whitening a,
blasting wing over the best parts of Anne
lea in the years 1887, 1883, 1889, 1890, 1891 al
1892, and finally all our families were D
on small allowance, and we all had ris
from the table hungry, and after awh
the children had only quarter enough, a
after awhile only one meal a day, and aft
awhile no good food at all. bnt mixtu
of wheat and chaf and bark of trees, a
then three of the children down with hu
ger typhus, and then all the family unal
to walk, and then crawling on hands q
knees, and then one dead in each roo
and neighbors, not quite so exhaustt
coming in to bury them, and afterwa
the house becoming the tomb, with no
to carry the dead to more appropris
sepulcher-whole families blotted out.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE THO
SAND SAVED.
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