Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-10-28
REV. OR. TAlMAGE.
THE BROOkLYN DIVINR's sun
DAY SERMON.
SUBJECT: q" OBSERVATIONS IN RUSSIA
AND GREAT BRITAIN

Salm cKXXlx., y.
What an absurd book the Bib'e must be T.
man who has no poetry In his soul
Wings Of the morning" What kind of a
bird is it. and hoS long ara its wings and o;
what color! Ah, some o: u have seen aud
felt It's wings. They are golden. They ara
buoyant. They are swift They are wide
spread. The 18Th Of last June I took "the
wings OF the morning" and startsd for Fu-
rope. June %, on ''the wings OF the morn
ing" Istsrt"i from Liverpool. July l2, Oh
the wings OF the morning" | enterci
Germany, the land Of Martin Luther al !
many OF that ilk, living aud dead.
On 'tbe wings OF the morning. entered
st. Petersburg. Russia. On the wings of
the morning entered Moscow. On "the
wings OF the morning" entered the palaces
Of Russia greeted by the emperor aud EN-.
press, surrounded 10y a lovely brood OF
princes and Drinc ssses. On ''tha wings OF
the morning | entered Inverness, the cap.
ital Of the Scottish hizhlan Is, country OF
Robert Burns AMI Thomas Chalmers the
one for poetry the other for religion. Sep
,tember 2lst al "the wings OF the morniu :"
| entered the finest haven OF all the earth -
New EorG h4rboT-and looked Off toward
the most interesting place had seen in thres
months South Oxford street, Brooklyn,
You all know why | went Russia this sum.
mer. There are many thousands Of people
who have right TO say to me, as was said
in the B BILE parable, Give an account Of
thy stewardship Through The Christian
Herald. which have the honor 10 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 SO much written
with ink 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 50 please to receive the en-.
closed And Others had sent jewels from
their hands and necks saving, "Sell these
and turn them into bread" And another
letter said. "lnclose1 is an old gold piec,.
1t was my mothers. She gave it to me and
told me never to part with 1t except for
bread, and now inclose It," We had gath
erei thirty -ave thousand dollars in money,
which we turned into three million pounds
Of -four.
When went down to the board of trade
at Chicago and left five thousand dollars OF
the amount raise 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 bs
sent. There are styles Of -four more
III for the trough OF the swine
than the mouths OF hungry men and women.
Well as is customary when the -four cam,
TO New York it was tested. ami We found
indeed they hal cheated us They gave Us
better -four than we hai bought. | bought
in Chicago fine -four, but they sent US super
fine. tod bless the merchants of Chicigol
Now we know nothing about famine in
Amer,c The grasshoppers may kill the
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,
vat 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 empire.
IL was like what Wa would have in
America il the hunger heni somehow got
out OF hell and alighte in our land, aud
swept his wing over Minnesota, and said.
let nothing grow here, and over Missouri
and said, Let nothing grow here, and over
New York State an said, LET nothing
grow here" and over Ohio and Georgia and
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania ami Ne
brsska and Dakota and the Csrolinas and
said, Let nothing grow here, and the hum
ger tiend bad swept the same withering and
blasting wing over the best parts OF America
in the years 1857, 1888, 1889, 1899 1891 and
1872, aud finally all our families were 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 day. and after
awhile no good food at all, but a mixture
OF wheat and chafr 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 neigh
bors, not quite so exhausted coming in to
bury them, and afterward the house becom-
ing the tomb, with none to carry the dead TO
more appropriate sepulcher-whole families
blottei 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 as yours or mine, in
homes as virtuous as yours or mine, in homes
where God Is worshiped as much as in yours
or niue. 1t was to do little something
toward beating back that archangel OF
wretchedness and horror that We went,
and we have now to report that &C
eordng to the estimate OF the Russian fam.
inc relief COMMITTEES, we saved the liv ss of
125, 0O0 people. As at the hunger relief sta
tons the bread was handed out-for it wa:
made into loaves and distribute1-many
people would halt before taking 1t and reli.
giously cross themselves and utter prayer
for the donors.
Some OF them would come stagg arine
back and saw. Please tell Us who sent this
bread to us And when told it came from
America they would say: what part o
Am-rica2 Please give us the names oi
thoss who sent IT. All, Col only knows
the names OF those who sent it, but He cer-
tanly does know, and many a prayer is
going up, warrant you, day by day. for
those who sent -four by the snip Lso. Per.
haps some OF uS at our tables rattle Off a
prayer that may mean nothing. althoug
we call it Saying grace" but [ warrant
when those people who received th9 brea1
which savei their lives "Slid grace il
meant something.
| said respectfully to Russian when
saw him cross himself. What do you d.
that fo.." Oh," he said, "when do that
always say, Col have mercy on me-"
hold in my han something very suggestive
What does that BLACK ald uuconely thin
look likey That is what is called hungry
bread from Russia; that is what million:
OF people livel on for months bc
loro helJ came from Elglani, Scotland,
ireland an America; that Is mixtlr5
which SEEMS to have IN it not oIe grail OF
sustelance. IL Is mixture OF pig wee an
cha6 AMI the sweepiugs OF stables. That Is
something which, il drop2sl in the street
your dos or cat might sniff at, but would
not eat. That was the only food on which
millions OF men aud women lived.
You must look at that hunger bread o
Russia before you can get proper apprecia
ton OF what an attractive and beautiful
thing a good loaf OF bread Is. 1t Is 80 com
mon TO us we cannot realiz3 its meaning.
Why does not some poet ring a canto on
loaf of bread, or some modern Raphael p lin
It, or some historian tell it, history But
have been asked by good people In Grea
Britain and America, again and again VIII!
did not the prosperous people of Russia stol
that suffering themselves making it useles
for other nations to help And am Away
glad when hear the question asked, be
cause 1t gives me an opportunity OF ex
planning. Have you any idea wha
il REQUIRES to feed twenty milllo