The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1892-10-19
TAIMAGE's TOUR.
a p!poourse Giving His OBSERVE
uohB ih Russia and Great Britain.
Suffering In the Czar's Domain-Tho Coun-
try swept by tho whitening Blast OF
Homine-Falsehoods About Rus
sia Notwithstanding the
Gospel In Great Britain.


Great Britain" the text selected being
Psalm cxxxix., o. 'If take the wings
OF the morning and dwell in the utter
most parts of the sea, even there shall
Thy hand lead me-" Following is the
sermon;
What an absurd book the Bible must
be TO man who has no poetry In his
soul "Wings of the morningp What
kind Of bird is 1t, and how long are its
wings, and of what color? Ahl 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 90, on ''the wings of the morning"
/ started from Liverpool July 19, on
"the wings of the morning" 1 entered
Germany, the land of Martin Luther
and many of that ills, living and dead.
On ''the wings of tle morning" 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, sur
rounded by lovely brood Of princes
and princesses. On "the wings Of the
morning entered Inverness, the capi-
tai of the Scottish Highlands, country
of Robert Burns and Thomas Chal-
mers, the one for poetry, the other for
religion. September 81, ''on the wings
of the morning l entered the finest
haven of all the earth-New York har-
bor-and looked off to the most inter
esting place had seen in three months
Il South Oxford street, Brooklyn. o,
l like "the wings of the morning."
am, by nature and by grace son Of
the morning. think must have been
born in the morning. l would like to
die in the morning Ihave a notion that
Heaven is only an everlasting morn
ing. In the summer of 1892, 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 there 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 l now
stand, and He will lead me until stop
for all time about three miles out yon-
dor, wh,rc the most Of you will be my
fellow slumberers
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
have the honor to edit, we had for
months, in publishers, in reportorial,
and editorial column, put before tho
people the ghastly facts concerning
twenty millions Of Russians who were
starving to death, and subscriptions for
the relief fund had come by letters that
seemed not so much written with ink
as with tears, some Of the letters prac-
tcally saying: I'VE find II hard TO got
bread for our own families, but we can
not stand this cry Of hunger from be-
yond the seas, and SO please TO receive
the enclosed" And others had sent
Jewels from their hands and necks, say
ing: "Sell these and turn them into
bread" And another letter said: In
closed is an old gold piece. II was my
mothers. She gave II TO me and
told me never to part with II ex-
cept for bread, and now enclose IL "
We had gathered thirty-fve thousand
dollars in money, which we turned into
three million pounds Of flour. When |
went down 10 the board of trade NJ
Chicago and left five thousand dollars
of the amount raised with prominent
flour merchant, taking no receipt and
leaving ali to him to do the best thing,
and returned, II was suggested that
had not done things in a business way.
How could we know what sort OF flour
would be sent2 There are styles OF
-four more fit for the trough Of the
swine than the mouths Of hungry men
and women. Well, as is customary,
when the flour came to New York II
was tested, and we found indeed they
had cheated us. They gave us better
-four than we had bought l bought In
Chicago fine flour, but they sent us
superfine. God bless the merchants OF
Chicago.
Now, we know nothing about famine
in America. The grasshoppars may kill
the crops in Kansas, the freshets may
destroy the crops along the Ohio, the
potato. worm may kill the vines Of Long
Island, and rust may get into the wheat
of Michigan, yet when there has been
dreadful scarcity in some parts Of the
land there has been plenty in Other
parta But In districts Of Russia, vast
enough TO drop sc veral nations intC
them, drought for six consecutive year
has devastated, and those districtl
were previously the most productive o.
all the empire. II was like what W,
would have In America II the hunger
fend somehow got out OF hell ant
alighted IN our land, and swept hi
wing over Minnesota, and said: lie
nothing grow here" and over Missouri
and said: "Let nothing grow here" ant
over New York state. and said: lie
nothing grow here" and over Ohio an'
Georgia and Massachusetts, and Penn
sylvania and Nebraska and Dakota ant
the Carolinas, and said: Let nothing
grow here,p and tho hunger hend hat
swept the same withering and blasting
wing over the best parts Of America Il
the years 1887, 1888. 1889, 1890, 1891, AM
1902, and finally all our families wer
put on small allowance, and we had al
risen from the table hungry, and nfte