Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-17
A TRADUCED NATION.
What DR.. Talmage Saw on His Late
Mission to Feed the Russians.
SLANDERED THROUGH JEALOUSY.
The Gar Surely the Most Benevolent
Monarch That Ever Lived.
HORRORS OF THE FAMINE PORTRAYED
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. !

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE p1sPArcH.l
BROOKLYN, Oct 16-Dr Talmage's sub
ject this morning was, Observations in
Russia and Great Britain" the text Sc
lected being: Psalm 139 9: 'Tf 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
a man who has no poetry in his soul
swings of the morning. What kind OF a
bird is it, and how long are its wings and of
what colorf All, some of us have seen and
felt its wings. They are golden. They are
buoyant. They are swift. They are wide
spread.
The 18th Of last June took "the wings of
the morning. and started for Europe. June
20, ION the wings OF the morning" started
from Liverpool; July Il, ION the wings of
the morning" 1 entered Germany, the land
of Martin Luther and many of that ilk. liv-
ing and dead. On "the wings OF the morn
ing" entered St. Petersburg, Russia. On
''the wings of the morning. l entered
Moscow. On "the wings of the morn
ing" I entered the palaces of Russia. greeted
by the Emperor and Empress, surrounded
by a lovely brood of princes and princesses.
On "the wings of the morning" / entered
lands. September 81, ION the wings of the
morning. !" entered the finest haven of all
the earth-New York Harbor. Oh, 1 like
the wings of the morning" am, oynature
must have been born in the morning. l
would like to die in the morning. have n
notion that heaven is only an everlasting
morning.
Where Gaunt Famine Is Unknown.
NOW, we know nothing about famine in
.r,ac l,11
crops in Kansas, the freshets may destroy
the crops along the Ohio, the potato 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 to
drop several nations into them, drought for
six consecutive years has devastated, and
those districts were previously the most
productive of all the Empire. 1t was like
what we would have in America if the hun
ger fiend somehow got out of hell and
over Minnesota and said: "Let nothing grow
here" and over Missouri and said LET
nothing grow here" and over New
ing grow here" aud over Ohio and
Georgia and Massachusetts, and Pennsyl-
vania and Nebraska ami Dakota and the
here" and the hunger fiend had swept the
same whitening and blasting wing over the
best parts of America in the years 1857, 1885,
1889, 1890, 1891 and 1S9e, and finally all our
we all had risen from the table hungry, and |
after awhile the children had only quarter \
enough, and after awhile only one meal a |
day, and after awhile no good food at all, |
but mixture of wheat and chaff and bark |
OF trees. and then three of the children |
down with hunger typhus. and tnen all the |
family unable to walk, and then ling on |
lands and knees, and then one dead in each |
room, and neighbors, not quite so exhausted,
coming in to bury them, and afterward the /
house becoming the tomb.
Russia Knows All About It.
That was what occurred in Russia in homes |
more than were ever counted, in homes that
were once as comfortable and happy and
bountitul as yours or mine. We have now to
report that, according to the estimate of the
Russian Famine Relief Committee we saved |
the lives of l25, 600 people.
Perhaps, some OF us at our tables rattle off
prayer that may mean nothing, although
we call it Saying Grace" but l warrant
when those people who received the bread
which saved their lives ''said grace it |
meant something. have Travelled in many |
lands, but tell you plainly as told Empe-
ror Alexander Ill. in the palace at Peterhoff
that had never been so impressed with the |
hdelity to their religion of any people as by |
what had seen in Russia, and especially
among her public men.
tWhat . does thissblack and uncomely thing
look like? That is what is called hunger |
lIOU0 HuSSl., tlaC Is WHAT mllllOnS OF |
people lived on Tor months before help came |
from England, Scotland, ireland and Ameri- |
ca; that is mixture which seems to have in
IT not one grain OF sustenance. 1t is mix |
ture of pig weed and chaff and the sweep |
1ngs OF stables. That is something which. |
II dropped IN the street, your dog or cat
might sniff at, but would not eat. You must |
look at the hunger-bread of Russia before
YOU can get proper appreciation OF what an |
attractive and beautiful thing good loaf OF
bread is.
The Magnitude of the Task of Relief
Have you any idea what it requires to feed
100000 people? There is only one Being in !
the universe who can do it, and that Is the
Being who this morning breakfasted
O00O.0 0OO million of the human race. The
nobility of Russia have not only contributed
most laTishly, but many of them went down |
and stayed for months amid the ghastliness |
and the horror and the typhus fever and the
smallpox, that they might administer to the
suffering |
The Emperor has made larger contribu-
tons toward this relief und than any Mon |
arch ever made for any cause since the |
world stood, and the superb kindness writ |
ten all over the faces of Emperor and |
Empress and Crown Prince is demonstrated
IN what they have already done and are
doing Tor the sufferers in their own country. |
When Few days ago read in the papers
that the Emperor and Empress, hearing
train to find out what accident had
occurred, and the Empress knelt down by
the side of u wounded laborer and held his
head until pillows and blankets could be
brought, and the two wounded men were
put upon the royal train to be carried to
place where they could be better cared for |
/ said to my wife: "Just like her." When 1
saw a few days ago in the papers, that the
Emperor ana Empress had walked through
the wards of the most virulent cholera,
talking with the patients shaking hands
with them and cheering them up, il was no
surprise to me: for l said to myself: "That
is just like them"
Russia a Badly Abused Nation.
II God spares my life. 1 will yet show by
facts beyond dispute that the most slan-
dered and systematically lied about nation
on earth is Russia and that no ruler ever
lived more for the elevation of his people in
education and morals and religion than
Alexander the Third. So I put all the
three prayers together: God save the Presi- |
dent of the United States! God save the |
Queen OF England! God save the Emperor |
and Empress OF Russiai 1 will, whether in |
sermons or lectures, have not yet decided, |
show that nineteen twentieths of all the |
things written and published against Rus
sia are furnished by men who have been
rather write down Russia, SO as to divert
commerce from that Empire, or because or
jealousies. Russia being |
larger than oil the rest OF Europe put to-
gether, you can see how natural would be
the jealousies.
know of two prominent European news
papers that kept men on salaries to catch |
up everything unfavorable to Russia. and
magnify the incident. And the stereotyped
stories of Siberian cruelty in one case out of |
a hundred are true, but in ninety-nine out Of
q hundred cases they are fabrication. And
in the one case as soon as it is reported the
official is discharged. They who have been
sent 'sto write up" Russia and Siberia have
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