The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-17

ship, or sent TO write up the
sanitary condition Of this country,
should send kodac picture of all the warts
and carbuncles he could find as a specimen
OF American health. believe can reverse
the opinion OF any man antagonistio 70
Russia who will give me an honest hearing,
as my own opinions have been reversed by
what l recently saw and heard.
Before passing to the other field Of my
summer observation, l give you one little
specimen Of the falsehoods about Russia. l
stood IN Tendon with my tickets 20 st.
Petersburg, Russia, In my pocket. 1t was
two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three
O'Clock l was TO take the train. An Amer
lean physician came Ia and said: "YOu
certainly are not going to Russia" 1 said:
| "Why notp Then a morning paper was
| shown me, saying that in st. Petersburg
there we're two thousand cases Of vlrulent
cholera; the city had been divided into hos
piial districts, and the doctors we're at their
wits end what TO do with the number OF
| patients; the population was flying IN
terror. Il was almost as bad in Moscow.
| While rejecting on these accounts,
two messages arrived from other
| friends protesting against the
f0olhardiness of my rushing into the pres
ence of two thousond cases OF cholera IN
one city. OF course, / halted. halted Tor
four days. Meanwhile telegram from st.
| Petersburg encouraged me 70 60. 1 went.
| There was not a single case OF cholera either
in st. Petersburg or Moscow, and
there was not single case
| in either city until four weeks
after left those cities. But the continental
falsehood had done its commercial errand.
| Tens of thousands Of Americans ana En-
| glishmen who proposed to summer in Russia
turned in other directions AZ the large
1 hotel in st. Petersburg, at which stopped,
though capable Of holding five hundred
guests, and months before every room and
| every hallway and every mattress and
every pillow had been engaged by telegraph
bv siRht-seers, all the orders were
Cancelled, and, instead Of five hun
dred guests, / should think about thirty
| was in all the hotels in Northern Russia,
and the subtraction Of that amount Of
commercial profit from those cities you
| may imagine But that whole subject OF
systematic fabrication I adjourn to some
other hour. Yet, l must tell you of pict-
ure of pathos and moral power impressed
upon my mind 30 that neither time nor
eternity can effaoe it. The ship Leo
swung to the docks a few miles below ST.
| Petersburg, loaded with -four from
America. The sailors on board huzzaed
as they came to the wharf. From a 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 by poor
| lahorers who had come down 70 offer
their services free of all charge for the
removal Of the breedstuffs from the ship to
| the imperial freight train that took the
| -four to the interior free of charge. While
we stood there, the long freight train
rumbled down TO the docks, the locomotive
| and each oar decorated with q hag-ths
A. i A. D.. q Ia
mating Though flag to some eyes is only
floating rag, you ought to see how the
| American flag looks 5, 900 miles from home.
| It looked that day like a section of heaven
let down to cheer mortal vision. Addresses
| OF welcome and responses were made, and
| then the work began, the only contest be-
| ing who should lift the hardest and be most
| expeditions. From shipto Tail-train. From
ratl-train to kneading board. From knead
ing board to oven. From oven to the white
and quivsring lips Of the dying. Upon all
who, whether by contribution small or
large, helped make that scene possible, may
there come the benediotion of him who de-
clared: II was hungry and ye fed me-"
But must also give word of report con-
l corning my other errand-the preaching of
| the gospel in Great Britain last summer 1t
was a tour had for many years antici-
pated. With the themes Of the gospel l oon-
fronted more people than ever before in the
| same length OF time-multitudes after null
Ntudes. and beyond anything | can
| describe. The throngs in all the cities were
so great that they could be controlled only
| by platoons Of police, so that none should
be hurt by the pressure, each service in
| doors followed by a service for the waiting
throngs outdoors, and both by hand-shak-
ings to the last point Of physical endurance.
From the day In which arrived at noon in
Liverpool, and that night addressing two
vast assemblages, until / got through my
svanRelistic journey, it was a scene of
| blessing TO my own soul and l hope to
others l missed but three engage
| ments Of all the summer, and those from
| being too tired TO stand up. At all the
assemblages large collections were taken.
the money being given TO local charities.
| feeble churches, orphan asvlums, or Young
| Mems Christian Associations, my services
being entirely gratuitous. But, what a sum
merl There must have been much praying
here and elsewhere for my welfare, or nc
mortal could have gone through what
| went through. In every city and town
had messages poured into my ears for fami-
lies in America. o, sons OF Scotchmen,
Englishmen, Welshmen and frishmen. there
are hearts on the other side Of the sea, beat
ing in affection for you and praying for
your present and eternal welfare. They
wanted me to give you their love, and
hoIS ~ ~ ny tue WHOLESALE, IOT CdnnOS
give it by retail. Disappoint not the old
folks on the other side the Atlantic. You
will probably never see them again In this
world. Their hair is whitening and their
step Is not as firm as when YOU saw them
I last. So live that you may meet them in
heaven. Write home often, and while Won
know they are praying for you do not for
get to remember In your prayers those who
we're your first friends, and friends than
whom you will never have better-I mean
your old father and mother. BY the memo-
rtes of the old Scotch kirk, where you were
baptized, and Of the English Preside. by
which you played, and of the'Welsh hills
and valleys, among which you roamed,
and the old homes on the banks of the
Tweed and the Shannon and the Clyde.
l charge you to be honorable and true and
Christian. You have good ancestral blood
in your veins. Prove yourself worthy. II
seems to me that the gospel is making
mighty strides over there. Only one thing
l saw In the chapels and churches did not
like. That is a lack of appreciation OF each
other as between national church and dis
senters. Now, each is doing a great work
that the other cannot do. God speed them
all, they Of the episcopacy and they of the
dissentersl Some need the ritual of the
national church and others the spontaneity
of the Wesleyan. In the kingdom Of God
| there is room for all 20 work, and each In
his own way. Some people are born
| Episcopalians and others Methodists and
| Othera BaDkiHts and others Prashyteria ps