Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-10-22


Some OF them would come staggering
back, and say: 'Please tell us who sent
this bread to us" And when told 1t
came from America, they would say:
"What part of America? Please give
us the names of those who sent it"
All, God only knows the names of those
who sent it, but he certainly does know,
and many prayer is going up, war
rant you, day by day for those who sent
-four by the ship Leo.
hold in my hand something very
suggestive. What does that black and
uncomely thing look like? That Is
what is called hunger bread from Rus
STA; that is what millions of people
lived on for months before help came
from England, Scotland, Ireland and
America; that is o mixture which seems
to have in it not one grain of susten-
ance. 1t is mixture of pig weed and
chaff and the sweepings OF stables.
That is something which, If dropped in
the street, your dog or cat might sniff
Mt, but would not eat That was the
only food on which millions of men
and women lived. You must look at
that hunger bread of Russia before you
can get proper appreciation of what an
attractive and beautiful thing a good
loaf of bread is. It is so common
to us we cannot realize its meaning.
Why does not some poet sing canto
on loaf of bread, or some modern
Raphael paint it, or some historian tell
its history? Not like many articles of
food, pretentious, and iced all over like
wedding cake, or dotted with fantastic
ingredients, but that grandest product
of the earth, that richest yield of the
-four mill, that best benediction OF
hot oven, n God-given loaf OF bread
But the rhythm of it, the luxury of it,
the meaning of it, the benediction of it,
the divine mercy of it only those know
who have seen famine. No wonder
Christ put this food into the sacrament
and said of broken loaf of bread:
''This is my body" Thank God that /
ever saw that transcendent and COM
pact Kindness of the infinite Coda
loaf OF bread. And it was our joy this
summer to hand over ship load of ma
terial for gladdening many thousands
of Russians with such bcatitude.
But have been asked by good peo-
pie in Great Britain and America again
and again, why did not the prosperous
people of Russia stop that suffering
themselves, making it useless for other
nations to help? And l am always glad
when / hear the question asked, be-
cause it gives me an opportunity to ex-
plain. Have you any idea what it re-
quires to feed 100000 people? There
is only one Being in. the universe that
can do it, and that is the Being who,
this morning, breakfasted 1900. 600, 600
of the human race. The nobility OF
Russia have not only contributed most
lavishly, but many of them went down
and staid for months amid the ghastli-
ness and the horror and the typhus
fever and the smallpox, that they
might administer to the suffering.
sat ut the dining table in the house OF
one of our American representatives he
side baroness, who had not only inn
poverished her estates by her contribu-
tions to the suffering, but who left her
own home and went down into the
worst of the misery, and until pros
trated with fever, then reviving, and
toiling on until FRUSTRATED with the
smallpox. She had come home to get
little strength, and in few. days she
was going down again to the suffering
districts, and she commissioned me to
execute in America 4 literary enterprise
by which she expects with her pen
more money, all of which is to go for
bread TO those who lack it.
Then there are the Bobrinskoys
They are of the nobility, not only the
nobility of earth but the nobility of
Heaven. You know we have in Ameri-
ca certain names which are synonyms
for benevolence - George Peabody,
James Lenox, William Z. Dodge, Mr.
Slater and so on. What their names
mean in America Bobrinski means in
Russia The emperor has made larger
contributions toward this relief fund
than any monarch ever made for any
cause blucG Inc WOIlu hlOOo uuu IuO ou-
perb kindness written all over the
faces of emperor and empress and
crown prince is demonstrated in what
they have already done and are doing
for the sufferers in their own country.
When few days ago read in the pa
pers that the emperor and empress,
hearing an explosion, stopped the royal
rail train to find out what accident had
occurred and the empress knelt down
by the side of 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 saw few days
ago in the papers that the emperor and
empress had walked through the wards
of the most virulent cholera, talking
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