Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-10-20
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. Tai MACE GIVES AN ACCOUNT
OF HIS OBSERVATIONS ABROAD.

Some Rather Novel Views OF the Car of
Russia and Affairs Generally In That
EmpIre-The Dreadful Famine-BIess-
ings America.
BROOKLYN, Oct. l6.-Unusual interest
attached to the sermon preached by Rev.
DR.. Talmage this forenoon, it having been
announced that he would devote the entire
discourse to a review of his summers jour.
ney. The great Tabernacle building was
crowded early by an expectant audience
Professor Brown, the organist, during the
service rendered the Russian national air
the English national air and our own ma
tional air. Among other hymns sung was
My country. It's of thee.
Sweet land of liberty.
The subject was, observations in Rus
STA and Great Britain" the text selected
being Psalm cxxxix, 9, "If / take the
wings Of the morning and dwell in the
uttermost parts Of the sea, even there shall
thy hand lead me-"
What an absurd book the Bible must be
to man who has no poetry in his soul!
wings Of the morning." What kind OF
a bird is it, and how long are its wings
and of what colorf 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 1.-THE
wings of the morning." | started from
Liverpool. July H. on ''the wings OF the
morning." entered Germany, the land of
Martin Luther and many of that ilk living
and dead.
On the wings of the morning" l entered
st. Petersburg, Russia On the wings of
the morning" entered Moscow. On "the
wings Of the morning" entered the pal
aces OF Russia, greeted by the emperor and
empress, surrounded by a lovely brood OF
princes and princesses. On 1.-THE wings OF
the morning. entered Inverness, the cap
ital Of the Scottish highlands, country Of
Robert Burns and Thomas Chalmers-the
one for poetry, the other for religion. Sept
81, on ''the wings of the morning." | en-
tered the finest haven Of all the earth
New York harbor-and looked Off toward
the most interesting place | had seen ia
three months = South Oxford street.
Brooklyn.
! Oh, like "the wings of the morning"
| am, by nature and by grace, a son of the
morning. think must have been born
in the morning. | would like to die in the
only an everlasting morning. In the sum
! mer of 1892 my text was fulfilled to me
again and again "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 led me as he always |
has led me since took my first walk from |
the cradle to my mothers lap at Bound |
Brock 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 slum-
berers.
THE CRY FOR RELIEF.
You all know why went TO Russia this
summer. There are many thousands of
people who have a right to say to me, as
was said in the Bible parable. Give an ac.
count Of thy Stewardship" Through The
Christian Herald which / have the honor
to edit, we had for months, in publishers,
in reportorial and editorial column, put
before the people the CHASTITY facts con.
corning 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, I'VE find it
hard TO get bread for our own families. but
we cannot stand this cry of hunger from be-
yond the seas, and so please TO receive the
inclosed." And others had sent Jewels
from their hands and necks saying, Sell
these and turn them into bread" And
another letter said; Enclosed is an old
gold piece. 1t was my mothers. She gave
it to me and told me never TO part with it
except for bread, and now inclose it,
We had gathered thirty-five thousand dol
f.... a.. : 1 1
million pounds Of -four
When ] went down to the board of trade
at Chicago and left five thousand dol
Of the amount raised with prominent
-four merchant taking no receipt and
leaving all 10 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 -four
would be sents There are styles of -four
more fit for the trough OF the swine :
than the mouths OF hungry men and {
women Wei. rs is customary, when the
flour came TO New York it was tested.
and we found indeed they had cheated us.
They gave us better -four than we had
bought bought in chicago fine flour,
but they sent US snperiine. God bless the 7,
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 y:sass Of Long Island, the rust =
may get into the wheat of Michigan, vet
when there has been dreadful scarcity in :
some parts OF the land there has been :
plenty in othtr parts. But in districts Of 7
Russia, vast enough 10 drop several I
nations into them, drought for six con
secutive years has devastated, and those {
districts were previously the most pro
iuctive of all the empire
twas ike what we would have in Amer
lea if the hunger 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 Missouri and E
aid, Let nothing grow here and over y
New York state and said, let nothing II
grow here" and over Ohio and Georgia and a
and Pennsvlvani-i and Ne e