Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1892-10-22
THE GOSPEL ABROAD.
CHEERING ACCOUNT OF CHRISTIAN
ACTIVITY IN FOREIGN LANDS.

Of fairs In Russia Nobility Of the Gar
and Czarina-A BADLY Siandcred Peo-
ple-ChrIstIan Unity In Great britain.
BROOKLYN, Oct. lG.-Cnusual interest
attached to the sermon preached by
Rev. DIR. 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 bnilding was crowded early bv
an expectant audience. Professor
Brown. tho organist. during the service
rendered the Russian national air, the
English national air and our own ma
tional air. Among other hymns sung
was
My country. Ills OF thee.
sweet land OF liberty.
The subject was observations in
Russia and Great Britain" the text be-
ing Psalm cxxxix, o. ''If 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 i'll his
soul. Wings of the morning." VIVA;
kind Of a bird is il. and how long are its
wings and of what color: 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 1.-THE wings of
the morning" and started for Europe
June 20. on 1.-THE wings of the morning,
| started from Liverpool. July l2, on
the wings of the morning." entered
Germany. the land OF Martin Luther
and many of that ilk. living and dead
On 1.-THE wings of the morning" en-
tered St. Petersburg. Russia. On 1.-THE
wings of the morning" | entered Mos
cow. On 1.-The wings of the morning"
entered the palaces ~ Russia. greeted
by the emperor and empress. surrounded
by n lovely brood II princes and prin-
cesses. 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
81. on 1.-THE wings II the morning." en-.
tered the finest haven OF all the earth
New York harbor-and looked off to-
ward the mos: interesting place had
seen in three iHonihs-l South Oxford
street. Brooklyn. Oh. like 1.-THE w:nss
Of the morning" am. by nature ard
by grace. u son t.. the morning | think
| must have been bora in the mornin.
| would like to die in Tie morning.
have Il notion that heaven is only ar
everlasting morning. In the summer Of
1892 my text was fulfilled To mo II ;ain
aud again. IF take the wings of the
morning and dwell in the uttermosi
parts of the sea. even there shall thy
hand lead me-" Yes. lie led me as he
always has led me since took my first
walk from the cradle 10 my mother
lap at Bound Brook until this pulpit
until stop for all time about three
miles out yonder. where the most Of you
will he my fellow Slumberers.
AN ACCOUNT OF wARDsHiP.
You all know why went TO Russia
this summer. There are many thou.
sands of people who have right to say
10 me. rs was said III 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 prt before the people
the ghastly facts concerning twenty
million Russians who were starving to
Il. .,,1 60 L.. 9
fund had come by letters that seemed
not so much written with ink as with
tears. some Of the letters practically
saving. I'VE find i: hard TO get bread
for our own families. but we cannot
stand this cry Of hunger from beyond
the seas. and so please 10 receive the in
closed. And others had sent jewels
from their hands and necks. saving,
Sell these and turn them into bread. =
And another letter said: Enclosed is an
old gold piece. Ii was my mothers.
She gave il 10 me and told me never to
part with it. except for bread. and now
inclose it," We had gathered thirty
five thousand collars in money. which
we turned into three million pounds Of
flour When went down to the board
of trade at Chicago II, Il left five thou.
sand dollars of the amount raised with
Il prominent -four merchant, taking no
receipt and leaving all to him to do the
best thing, and returned. it was sug-
gested that had not done things in n
business way. How could we know
what sort of -four would he sent: There
are styles of -four more fit for the trough
of the swine than the mouths of hungry
men and women. Well. as is custom
airy. when the -four came to New York
it was tested. and we found indeed
they had cheated us. They gave us
better -four than we had bought.
bought in Chicago fine aour. but they
sent us superfine. God bless the mer-
chants of Chicago.
GODS own IANB.
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-
,ato 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 there has been plenty in other parts.
But in districts of Russia, vast enough
todropseveral nations into them. drought
for six consecutive years has devastated.
and those districts We're previously the
most productive of all the empire. II
WAS like what we would have in Amer
ica if the hunger tiend somehow got ont
of he'll and alishtel 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. .