Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-28
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvGNE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: observations in Russia and
Great Britain"

Psalm c11xix., q.
What an absurd book the Bible must be to
a man who has 40 poetry i'll his soul!
Wings Of the morning" What kind of a
bird is it, and no long ara 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 wide
spread. The 18th of last June [ took the
wings OF the morning. and star5si foe Ed
rope. June 90, on the wings % rhs morn
ing, 1started from Liverpool. July II. on
''ths wings Of tina morning" L entered
Germany, the land of Martin Luther AMI
many OF that ilk. living an / dead.
On 1.-The wings Ut the morning | entered
ST. Petersburg, Ru ssia. On the wings OF
the morning" | entered Moscow. On ''the
wings Of the morning" [ enceret the palaces
of Russia. greeted by the emp9ror aud en-
press, surrounded By a lovely broot OF
the morning" l enterei Inverness, the cap
ital of the Scottish hiZhlan Is country OF
Robert Burns and Thomas Chalmers-the
one for poetry, the other for reii yiOn. Sep
TENDER 2lst on "the wings OF the morning"
I entered the finest haven Of all the earth
New York harbor-and loo&ed of toward
the most interesting piac9 had seen in three
months-1 South Oxford street, Brooklyn.
You all know why went Russia this sum-
mer. There are many thousands OF people
who have right to say % me- as was said
in the Bible parable, I've an 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 the people
the CHASTITY facts concerning twenty million
Russians who were starving to death and
subscriptions to the relief fund had come by
letters that seemed not 50 much written
with ink with tears, some OF the
letters practically saying, We find it hari
to get bread for our own families, but we
cannot stand this cry Of hunger from beyond
the seas, and so please to receive the en-
closed. !" And others had sent jewels from
their hands and necks, saying Sell these
and turn them into bread" Ard another
letter said: ''lnclose1 is an old gold pieca.
1t was my mothers. She gave it TO me and
told me never to part with 1t except for
bread, and now inciOse it." We had gath
cred thirty-fve thousand dollars in money.
which we turned into three million pounds
of -four.
When I went down to the board of trade
at Chicago and left five thousand dollars Of
the amount raised with prominent -four
merchant, taking no receipt an leaving all
to him to do the best thing, and returned, it
was suggested that [ had not done things in
business way. How could we know
what sort of flour would be
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 customary when the -four came
to New York 1t was tested, and we found
indeed they had cheated us. They gave US
better -four than we had bought. I bought
in Chicago fine -four, but they sent us super
fine. God bless the merchants of Chic agol
Now we know nothing about famine in
America. The grasshoppers may kill the
crops in Kansas, the frashetS 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 mas 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 pre-
Viousiy the most productive of all the EN- pire.
1t was like what We would have in
America if the hunger 6eud somehow got
out OF hell and alightei in our land, and
swept his wing over Minnesota, and said,
LET nothing grow here, and over Missouri
and said, Let notlliu grow here" and over
New York State AMI said, Let nothing
grow here" and over Ohio and Georgia AMI
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania and Ne
braska and Dakota and the Caroliuas aud
said, Let nothing grow here and the hun
ger tiend had swept the same whitening and
blasting wing over the best parts OF America
in the years 1887, 1888, 1899, 1899. 1891 aud
1892, and finally all our families Wer9 put on
small allowance and 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 chaR and bark OF trees, and
then three OF the childre en- down with hunger
typhus and then all toe family unable to
walk, and then crawling on hands and knees,
and then one deal in each room. and Neigh
,bors, not quite so exhausted, coming in to
bury them, and atterward the house becom-
ing the tomb, with none to carry the dead to
more appropriate sepucher-who!e families
tblotted out.
! That was what occurred In Russia in
homes more than were ever counted, in
homes that were once as comfortable and
happy and bOuntiful yours or nine, in
homes virtuous as yours Or mine. in homes
where God is wOrshiped as muca as in yours
or mine. 1t was 70 do little som eChlug
toward beating back that archaagel of
wretchedness and horror that we went,
and we have now to report that, ac.
cording to the estimate OK the Russian fam.
inc relief committee, we saved the liv Is OF
12J 900 people. AS at the hunger relief sta,
tionS the bread was handed out-for it was
maGe into loaves and observation-disclosures
people would halt before taking it and reli.
giously cross themselves and utter prayer
for the donors.
Some OF them would come stagg arino
back and saw: please tell US who sent this
bread to u.s." And when told it came from
America they would say: "What part OF
America? Please give US the names OF
those who sent It," All, Col only knows
the names of those who sent if. but He Ger.
tainly does Know and many a prayer Is
going up, warrant you, day bv day. for
those who sent -four by the ship Lao. Per.
haps some OF us at our Ia NleS rattle off a
prayer that may mean nothing although
we call 1T saying grace" but I warrant
when those people who received the bread
which saved their lives said grace il
meant something
i [ said respectfully to a Russian when I