Connecticut western news., 1892-10-20
THE GOSPEL ABROAD.
CHEERING ACCOUNT OF CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY IN FOREIGN LANDS.

CHEERING ACCOUNT OF CHRISTIAN 4 ACTIVITY IN FOREIGN LANDS. Dr. Talma age Presents a Thrilling Account
 of AnAirs in Russia-Nobility of the Czar
 and Cxarina-A Badly siandered Peo-
 ple-Christian Unity in Great Britain.
 BROOKLYN, Oct. 18.-Unusual interest attached to the sermon preached by Rev. Dr. Talmage this forenoon, it hay ing been announced that he would de- vote the entire discourse to review of his summers journey. The great Tab ernacle building was crowded early by an expectant audience. Professor Brown, the organist, during the service rendered the Russian national air, the English national air and our own na- tional air. Among other hymns sung was
 My country, 'tis of thee.
 Sweet land of liberty.
 The subject was "Observations in Russia and Great Britain" the text be- ing Psalm cxxxix, 9, ''If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me-"
 What an absurd book the Bible must be to man who has no poetry in his soull "Wings of the morning." What kind of bird is it, and how long are it's wings and of what color? An, some of us have seen and felt its wings. They are golden. They are buoyant. They
 
 18th of last June took "the wings of tho morning" and started for Europe. June 20, on '.the wings of the morning." started from Liverpool. July 12, on ''the wings of the morning." entered Germany, the land of Martin Luther and many of that ilk, living and dead, On .'the wings of the morning" I en! tered St. Petersburg, Russia. On "the wings of the morning" entered Mos COW. On "the wings of the morning" entered the palaces of Russia, greeted by the emperor and empress, surrounded by 8 lovely brood of princes and prin- ceeses. On "the wings of the morning" entered Inverness, the capital 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." I en- tered the finest haven of all the earth New York harbor:-and looked off to- ward the most interesting place had seen in three months-1 South Oxford street, Brooklyn. Oh, I like ''the wings of the morning." I am, by nature and by grace, 8 son of the morning. think must have been born in the morning Iwould like to die in the morning. I have notion that heaven is only an everlasting morning. In the summer of 1899 my text was fulfilled to me again and again. "If take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even tEere shall thy hand lead me-" Yes, he led me as he always has led me since took my first walk from the cradle to my mothers lap at Bound Brook until this pulpit where I now stand, and he will lead me until stop for all time about three miles out yonder, where the most of you will be my fellow slumberers
 AN ACCOUNT OF STEWARDSHIP.
 You all know why went to Russia this summer. There are many thou sands of people who have right to say to me, as was said in the Bible parable, "Give account of thy stewardship" Through The Christian Herald, which I have the honor to edit, we had for months in publishers, in reportorial and editorial column put before the people the ghastly facts concerning twenty million Russians who were starving to death, and subscriptions to the relief fund had come by letters that seemed not so much written with ink as with tears, some of the letters practically saying, We find it hard to get bread for our own families, but we cannot stand this cry of hunger from beyond the seas, and so please to receive the in closed" And others had sent jewels from their hands and necks, saying, s.Sel these and turn them into bread" 1" And another letter said: "Inclosed is an old gold piece. It was my mothers. She gave it to me and told me never to part with it, except for bread, and now inclose it." We had gathered thirty five thousand dollars in money, which z we turned into three million pounds of four. When I went down to the board of trade at Chicago and left five thou sand dollars of the amount raised with prominent flour merchant, taking no receipt and leaving all to him to do the best thing, and returned, it was sug- geeted that had not done things in a business way. How could we know what sort of flour would be sent? There , are styles of flour more fit for the trough of the swine than the mouths of hungry men and women. We'll, as is custom ary, when the flour came to New York it was tested, and we found indeed . they had cheated us. They gave us better four than we had bought. I bought in Chicago fine flour, but they sent us superfne. God bless the mer- chants of Chicagoi
 GODS OWN LAND.
 Now we know nothing about famine in America. The grasshoppers may kill the crops in Kansas, the freshets may destroy the crops along the Ohio, the po- tato worm may kill the vines of Long Island, the rust may get into the wheat of Michigan, yet when there has been dreadful scarcity in some parts of the land therehas been plenty in other parts. But in districts of Russia, vast enough todrop several nations into them, drought for six consecutive years has devastated, and those districts were previously the most productive of all the empire. It was like what we would have in Amer ica if the hunger fiend somehow got out of hell and aighted in our land and swept his wing over Minnesota and said, "Let nothing grow here," and over Mis- souri and said, ''Let nothing grow here, J and over New York state and said, "Let nothing grow here," and over Ohio and , Georgia and Massachusetts and Penn sylvania and Nebraska and Dakota and the Carolinas and said, "Let nothing grow here," and the hunger fend had