The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-10-20
/. TALMAGE'S SUMMER TRIP.
EvrnwrNo HIS FoREIoN TOUR
rreduo ID Nation. The Car Benev-
client Monarch. Horrors OF the
Famine Portrayed.

hid devote the entire discourse to re-
In of his summer journey. The great
|@bernacle was crowded early by an expect
81 audience.
1he subicct was. observations in Russia
"a Great Britian the text selected being
- m cxxxix. %: "lf take the wings of the
Ibrninr and dwell in the uttermo~t parts oi
sea, even there shall Thy hand lead
'~Syhn an absurd book the Bible must be to
/. ran Who has no uoetrv in his soul.
~ 'inrs of the morning 90 What kind OF a
i i il. aud how long are its wings and OF
what color All. some of us have seen and
10t its wings. They are golden, lhey are
~ftie-sp-end The 10Th Of last June TOOK
e><be wings of the morning and started Tor
Miropc. June ~ on the wing, OF the morn
- started from Liverpool July II on
I'll 10 wings OF the morn ny entered Ger
nSnnv. The land of Martin Luther and many
Mtln, ilk. living aud dead. On the wings
II The morning | entered ~. Petersburg,
mssia On the wings OF the morn ng |
4ofered Moscow. on the wings OF the
frorning' / entered the palaces of Rulsia,
rfeeted bv the emperor aud empress SUR
ffainded by brood of princes and rrincess'
81 ON the wings OF the morning / en-
f>red Inverness. the capitol # the Scottish
hiphland.. country Of Robert Burns and
Chnlmers the one for poetry, the other for
religion September p. on the wings OF
the morning entered the finest haven OF
all the ca-th-New York hnrbor-nnd look
ed on towards the most interesting place |
had seen i'm three months South oxford
s<rret. brooklyn. Oh, ! like the wings OF
tho morning" ! am, by nature and by
c1ace. a son of the morning. ] think
innst have been born in the morning. 1
Won Il like to die IN the morning. have u
hall a notion that htayCn - only an cNbr-
faktinr morning In the summer Of 1892
mn text was fulfilled q me again aud again.
"lf take the wings of the morning and
dpcll IN the utcrmt II parts Of the sea,e even
fherc shall Thv hand lead me- Yes. He
led he as He always Las ted ne since /
topk my first wa X from the cradle 20 my
mother lap az Bound Brook until this pul.
rit whore I now stand, and He will lead
rue until / stop for all time about three
mi le. out won er. where the most OF you
VII be my iclow-slumberers
&Nou all know why | went 10 Russia this
eummer There are many thousands of
iepple who have a right To- say To me, as was
sad in the Bible parable: Give account of
th Stewardship Through the Christian
HERALD. which have the honor to edit we
hal tor months, in publishers, in reporter
inl and editorial columns, put beiOic the
people the CHASTITY facts concerning 2u,OOO
OD Russians who were starving TO death.
and substitution TO the relief fund had
c1nc bv letters that seemed not 80 much
win written ink rs with tears. some OF tine
letters practically saving; 1--WE find II hard to
Srvf bread for our own families but we can
moi stand this cry of hunger from beyond
tbe seas, and so please receive the enclosed v
Am others had sent Jewels from their
Mnds and nccks, saying: sell these and
f0rn them into bread" And another letter
GSid: Enclosed is an old gold piece. It is
IN mothers. She gave ii to me and told
1e never TO part with It. except for bread
IN now | enclose it," We had gathered
!, 900 in money. which we turned into g.
N 900 pounds Of flour. Went | went down
the board of trade at Chicago and left
900 of the amount raised with prom
bent flour merchant. taking no receiptand
hving all 10 him TO do the best thing. and
burned it was sS...s suggested that had not
2 het much Nc geuTp Tpud be sen sent
BE-, are styles oI. t.t ..A.J fit for the
5(pugh of the swine than for the mouths
III hungry men and women. Well, ms IS
Visionary, when the flour came TO New
Xork it was tested, and we found indeed
4hey had cheated us. They gave us better
Dur than we had bought. ! bought IN
Ibicago fine flour, but they sent US super
ma. God bless the merchants of Chicago,
|NNow, we know nothing about famine in
Aner.ca. The grnsshoppers may kill the
ofpps In Kansas. the freshcts may destroy
thc crops along the Ohio, the potato worm
may kill the vines of Long Island, the rus,
p1ny get into the wheat of Michigan. yet
when there has been dreadful scarcity in
oone parts Of the land, there has been
plenty in other parts. But in districts of
RDssia vast enough To drop several nations
into them, drouth for six consecutive years
hos devastated. and those districts were pre-
viously the most productive of all the en-
pire II was like what we would have in
Ancrica If the hunger ticnd somehow got
cpt ut he'll and alightci in our land, aud
Ncpt his wing over Minnesota, and
ooid: Let nothing grow here and over
Missouri, and said: Lot nothing grow
herc and over New York state, and said.
I'Iet nothing grow here and over Ohio
md Georgia and Massachusetts aud Penn.
zylyauia and Nebraska and Dakota and the
Mrolinas, and said "l.ct nothing grow
bere and the hunger fend had swep, the
etlne withering and blasting wing over the
best parts of America in the years lS~7, 1855,
1&J, 1880, 1891 and 1892, and finally all our
1amilcs were put on small allOwenCc, and
We all had risen from the table hungry, and
ufter awhile the children had only quarter
enough, and after awhile only
ono meal day, and after
nyhie no good food ut all, but mixture of
Wheat and chaif aud bark of trees. and then
tofee of th" children down with hunger
typhus, and then all the family unable Ia
Mlk, and then crawling on hands an I
kne s. and then one dead in each room, and
neighb bors, not quite so exhausted, coming
~ 10 bury them, and afterwards the house
hecuming the tomb, with none to carry the
4end 10 more appropriate epulcher--whole
families blot,cd out. That was what occur
rRi In Russia in homes more than were ever
cQpnted, in homes that were once AS com.
fortabe and happy and bountiiul as yourp,
~ mine in homes as virtuous rs yours or
mtne, in homes where God is worshipcd as
moch rs in yours or mine
N was To do little something toward
tepttng back that angel of wre,Chedness and
hofror that We went, and we have now to
{elort that according to the estimate of the
husslan famine relief committee we saved
Wt lives OF lbs, 600 people. As at the hunger
e'aii the bread was handed out-for il
was made into loayes and ddlstributcd-many
ItQple would halt before taking il and re-
ntiously cross themselves and utter pray
erfor the donors. Some of them would
cont staggering back and say: please tell
MNho sent this bread To us" And when
tpln II came from America, they would say:
~Nhat part Of America? Please give us the
nunes OF those who sent IT," All, God only
kenows the names OF tho,c who sent H. out
re certainly. does know, and many a prayer