The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-10-28
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Brooklyn Preacher Talks Of His
Summer Journey.
The Famine I'm Russia and American Con-
triDutions-1Iany Lives Saved There
by-Specimen FaIsehoods
About Russia.

recent visit TO Russia in the BROOKLYN
tabernacle, taking for his text:
IL take the wings OF the morning and dwell
N the uttermost parts OF the sea. even there
snan Thy hand lead me.-Psalm cxxxix.
What an absurd book the Bible must
be TO man who has no poetry In his
soul wings of the morningT' What
kind OF bird Is IL, and how long are
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 are widespread.
The 18th of last June took "the
wings of the morning and started for
Europe. june 20 on the wings Of the
morning" / started from LIVERPOOL;
July -, on ''the wings of the morn
ing" ! entered Germany, the land of
Martin Luther and many of that Fix,
living and dead. On 1.-THE wings of the
morning" entered St Petersburg,
Russia On 1.-The wings of the morn
ing" entered Moscow. On ''the wings
of the morning" I entered the palaces
of Russia, greeted by the emperor and
empress, surrounded by lovely brood
of princes and princesses. On ''the
wings of the morning. entered Inver-
ness, the capital of the Scottish high
lands, country of Robert Burns, and
Thomas Chalmers, the one for
poetry, the other for religion.
September 81, on ''the wings of the
morning" entered the finest haven of
all the earth-New York harbor-and
looked off toward the most interesting
place I 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 I must have been
born in the morning. 1 would like to
die in the morning. / have a notion
that Heaven is only an everlasting
morning. In the summer of 1892, my
text was fulfilled to me again and
ogain. IF ] take the wings Of the
morning and dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea, even There shall Thy
hand lead me-" Yes, He lead me as
He always has led me since took my
first walk from the cradle 10 my
mothers lap at Bound Brook until this
pulpit where now stand, and He will
lead me until stop for all time about
three miles out yonder, where the most
Of you will be my fellow-slumberers.
You all know why I went to Russia
this summer. There are many thou
sands of people who have a right TO say
TO me, as was said in the Bible parable:
''Give account of thy Stewardship"
Through the Christian Herald, which
have the honor to edit, we had FOR
months, in publishers, in repertorial
and editorial columns, 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 as with tears, some of the letters
practically saying: ave find it hard to
get bread for our own families, but we
can not stand this cry of hunger from
beyond seas. and so please receive the
inclosed." And others had sent jewels
from their hands and neclzs, saying:
''Sell these and turn them into bread
And another letter said: Enclosed
is an old gold piece. It was my
mothers. She gave il to me and told
me never to part with it, except for
bread, and now I inclose it, We had
gathered $35, 900 in money, which we
turned INTO 3, 200, 900 pounds of -four.
When went down to the board of
trade at Chicago and left IS, 900 of the
amount raised with a prominent -four
merchant, taking no receipt, and leav-
ing all to him to do the best thing, and
returned, it was suggested that / had
not done things in a 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 it
was tested, and we found indeed they
had cheated us They gave us betters
-four than we had bought. I bought
in Chicago fine flour, but they sent us
superfne. God bless the merchants 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 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, vast
enough to drop several nations into
them, drought for six consecutive years
has devastated. and these districts
were previously the most productive of
all the empire. IL was like what we
would have in America if the hungry
fiend somehow got out of hell and
alighted in our land, and swept his
wing over Minnesota, and said: Let
nothing grow here" and over Mis-
souri,. 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 Penn
sylvania and Nebraska and Dakota and
the Carolinas, and said: LET nothing
grow here" and the hunger fiend had
swept the same whitening and blasting
wing over the best parts of America in
the years 1887. 1883. 1859, 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
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 chaff
and bark of trees, and then three of
the children down with hunger typhus,
ard then all the family unable to walk,
and then crawling on hands and knees.
and then one dead in each room, and
asighbors, not quite so exhausted,
coming in to bury them, and after
wards the house becoming the tomb,
with none to carry the dead to more
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