The Globe-republican., 1892-11-04
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
HE GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF HIS
OBSERVATIONS ABROAD.
Some Rather Novel Views OF the Czar Of
Russia and Affairs Generally In That
Empire-The Dreadful Famine Bless
ingS on America.
The Tabernacle Pulpit,

The Tabernacle Pulpit
The subject Of this sermon was, 'Ob-
servations in Russia and Great Britain. u
The text selected being Psalm cxxxix, 9,
ST take she wings OF the morning and
1well In the uttermOst parts OF the sea,
sven there shall thy hand lead me-"
What IN absurd book the Bible must
be to . man who has no poetry In bis
soul! 'Wings of the morning." What
Kind of bird is 1t, and how long are its
wings and of what color? All, some OF
as have seen and felt its wings They
are golden. They are buoyant. They
are swift. They are widespread. The
18th Of last June l took 1.-THE wings OF
The morning" and started for Europe.
June 20. on s'the wings Of the morning, 4"
I started from Liverpool. July IL, on
'the wings of the morning." l entered
Germany, the land of Martin Luther and
many of that ilk, living and dead.
On ''tbe wings OF the morning" en-
tered St Petersburg, Russia On 1.-The
wings of the morning" 1 entered the
palaces OF Russia. greeted by the En-
peror and Empress, surrounded by a
lovely brood Of princes and princesses.
On ''the wings of the morning" entered
Inverness, the capital o; the Scottish
highlands, country Of Robert Burns and
Thomas Chalmers-the one for poetry,
the other tor religion. Sept 21, on 'the
wings of the morning." l entered the
finest heaven of all the earth-New
York harbOr-and looked off toward the
most interesting place had seen in three
months South Oxford street, Brooklyn.
Oh, like 1.-The wings of the morning."
am, by nature and by grace, son of
the morning. think must have been
born in the morning. l would like to
die in the morning. have notion that
Heaven is only an everlasting morning.
In the summer OF 1892 my text was full
filled to me again and again. "1f take
the wings of the morning and dwell in
the uttermost parts of the sea, even there
shall thy hand lead me-" Yes, He led
me as He always has led me since took
my first walk from the cradle to my
mothers lap at Bound Brook until this
pulpit where l now stand, and He will
lead me until l stop for all time about
three miles out yonder, where the most
OF you will be nv fellow umberers.
You all know why l went to Russia
this summer. There are many thousands
Of people who have q right to say to me,
as was said in tie Bible parable, 'Give
an account OF thy stewardship"
The Christian Herald, which 1
have the honor to edit. we had for
months. in publishers, in reportorial and
column, put before the people
the CHASTITY facts concerning 90. OO0, 900
who we're starving to death. and
to the relief fund had come
by letters that seemed not SO much writ
Ten with ink as with tears. some of the
letters practically saying, "We find it hard
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 inclosed." And others had sent
jewels from their hands and necks say
ing, ''Sell these and turn them into
bread" And another letter said: 'In-
closed is an old gold piece. 1t was my
She gave it to me and told me
never to part with it except for bread.
Ind now inclose it." We had gathered
s35, 600 in money, which we turned into
}, 600. 900 pounds of flour.
When l went down to the Board Of
Trade at Chicago and left S., 900 of the
amount raised with a prominent flour
taking no receipt and leaving
sil to him to do the best thing, and re-
turned, it was suggested that l had not
tOne things in business way. How
Gould we know what sort Of flour would
be sent? There are styles of flour more
it for the trough of the swine than the
mouths OF hungry men and women.
Well, as is customary, when the flour
came to New York it was tested, and we
.Sun6 indeed they had cheated us. They
rave US better -four than We had bought.
bought in Chicago fine flour, but they
lent us Superfine. God bless the mer-
chants of Chicago!
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-
kstO worm may kill the vines of Long
Island, the rust may get into the wheat
Df Michigan, yet when there has been
dreadful scarcity in some parts of the
lsnd 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 nave in
America if the hunger fiend somehow
got out of he'll and alighted in our land.
and swept his wing over Minnesota and
said. Let nothing grow here" and over
and said, Let nothing grow
here" and over New York State and
said, LET nothing grow here and over
Ohio and Georgia and Massachusetts and
and Nebraska and Dakot ia
and the Carolinas and said. LET moth
ing grow here" and the hunger fiend
had swept the same whitening and blast
ing wing over the best parts of America
in the years 1887. 1ssS, 1889, 1890. 1891
and 1892, and finally all our families
were put on small allowance. and we all
had risen from the table hungry. and
after aw while the children had only quar-
ter enough. and after awhile only one
meal day, and after awhile no good
food at all, but mixture of wheat and
chsff 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, COM
ing in to bury them, and afterward the
house becoming the tomb. with none to