The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1892-10-27
AT THE TABERNACLE.
r. TALMAGE GIVES AN ACCOUNT
OF HIS OBSERVATIONS ABROAD.

Emptre-Ihe Dreadful Famine-E loss-
inGson America.
BRooKLYN, Oct. 1G.-Upusual in.
tercst attached to the sermon preached
by Rev. DR.. Talmage this forenoon, it
having been announced that he would
devote the entire discourse to q review
Of his summers journey. The great
Tabernacle building was crowded early
by an eXpectant audience. Professor
Brown, the organist, during the service
endered the Russian national air, the
English national air and our own ma.
ional air. Among other hymns sung
My country, tits of thee,
Sweet land of liberty.
The subicct was, "Obscrvations in
Russia and Great Britaln," the text
selected being Psalm cXXXiX,o, "lt l
take the wings Of the morning and dwell
in tho uttermost parts Of the sea, even
there shall thy hand lead me-"
What all absurd book the Bible must
he to man who has no poetry in his
soul! "Wings OF the morning." What
kind of bird is it, and how long arc its
wings and Of what color? All, some Of
us have seen and felt its wings. They
are golden. They ere buOyaut.
They are swift. They are widespread.
Ike 18th of last June | took "the wings
of the morning" "and started for Europe.
June 20, on "thc wings Of the morn
ing" | started from Lilerpool. July
II, on "thc wings of the morning." |
entered Germany, the land Of Martin
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dead.
On "thc wings ofthc morning" | enter
cd st. Pencrsburg, Russia. On "thc
You all know why L went to Russia
this summer. There are many thous-
ands OF people who have right ID say
TO me, is was sad in the Bible parable,
"Givc an account of thy stewardship"
Through The Christian Herald, which
| have the honor to edit, we had for
months, in publishers, in reportoral
and editorial column, put betore the peo-
pic 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 mnch written with ink as with
tears, some OF the letters practically
saying, "We find i; hard to get bread
for our own families, but we cannot
stand tins cry OF hunger from beyond
the seas, and so please to receive the
mclOsCd." And others had sent lew
els from their hands and nccks saying.
"Scll these and turn thcm into bread"
And another letter said: "lncloscd
is lid Old cold piece. 1t was my moth
cr'S. She gave it to me and told me
never to part with itcXccpt for bread
and now l inclosc it.N We had gathered
thrtY-livc. thousand dollars in money,
which we turned INTO three million
ponnds OF flour.
When l went down TO The board Of
trade at Chicago and left five thousand
dollars Of the amount raised with pro-
muent flour merchant, taking no re-.
cClpt and leaving all TO him TO do the
best thing, and returned, it was sugMcs-
tea 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 tor
the trough OF the swine than the mouths
OF hungrJ men and women. Well, as
IS customary, when the flour came to
New \ ork it was tested, and we found
indeed they had cheated us. They gave
us better flour than we had bought. |
bought i'll Chicago fine ilonr, but thew
sent us superiinc. God bless the mer-
chants Of Chicago!
. Now we know nothing about famine
I America. The grasshoppers may
i'll the crops in Kansas, the ireshct
'ay destroy the crops alcng the Ohio
We potato worm may kill the vines OF
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heat OF Michigan. yet when there has
been dreadful scarcity IN some parts o
the land there has been plenty in other
parts. But in districts OF Russia, vast
enough to drop several nations into
them, drought Tor six consecutive years
has devastated, aad those districts were
previously the most productive of all
the empire.
1t was like what we would have In
America if the hunger tiend somehow
got out OF hell and alighted in our land
and swept his wing over Minnesota and
Said, "Letnothing grow here" "and over
Missouri and said, "Let nothing grow
here" and over New York state and
said, LET nothing grow here" and over
ONO and Georgia and Massachusetts
and pennsylvania and Nebraska and
Dakota and the Carolinas and said, 81. .et
nothing grow here" and the hunger
ilend had swept the same whitening and
blasting wing over the best parts OF
America in the years 1887, 1888, 1889
1880, 1891, and 1882, and finally all ouI
1amlnes were put on small allowance
and we all had risen from the table
hungry, and after awhile the children
haq only quarter enough, and after
awhile only one meal day, and after
awhile no good food at all, but mix.
ture OF wheat and chaff and bark of
trees, and then three of the children
down with hunger typhus, and then
all the family unable to walk, and then
crawling on hands and knees, and then
one dead in each room, and neighbors
not quite so exhausted, coming in to
bury them, and atterward the house be-
coming the tomb, with none to carry
the dead to more appropriate sepulcher
whole families blOtted out.
Ihat was what occurred in Russia in
homes more than were ever counted.
In homes that Nypra opcn &c rnn,fort