The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-11-02

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Psalm cxxxix., 9: IF take the wings
of the morning and dwell in the utter
most parts of the sea, even there shall
Thy hand lead me-" Following is the
sermon:
What an absurd book the Bible must
be to a man who has no poetry in his
soul wings of the morning. What
kind of bird is it, and how long are its
wings, and of what color? All! some OF
us have seen and felt its wings They
arc golden. They are buoyant They
are swift. They are widespread. The
18th of last June took 'the wings OF
the morning" AM started for Europe.
June 20, on ''the wings of the morning
| started from Liverpool. July IL, on
"the wings of the morning" l entered
Germany, the land of Martin Luther
and many of that ill, living and dead.
On "the wings of tie morning" en-
t red ST. Petersburg, Russia. On 1.-THE
wings of the morning" / entered Mos
COW. On ''the wings of the morning"
| entered the palaces of Russia, greeted
by the emperor and empress, sur
rounded by lovely brood Of princes
and princesses. On 1.-THE wings OF the
morning entered Inverness, the CAPT
tai of the Scottish Highlands, country
of Robert Burns and Thomas Chal-
mers, the one for poetry, the other for
religion. Septem Der 81, ION the wings
Of the morning" l entered the finest
haven of all the earth-New York har-
bor-and looked off to the most inter-
esting place | had seen in three months
Il South Oxford street, Brooklyn. o,
like "the wings of the morning" l
am, by nature and by grace, son OF
the morning. think must have been
born in the morning. I would like to
die in the morning. have notion that
Heaven is only an everlasting morn
ing. In the summer 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
Brook until this pulpit where l now
stand, and He will lead me until stop
for all time about three miles out yon-
dor, where the most of you will be my
fellow slumberers.
You all know why went to Russia
this summer. There are many thou
sands of people who have 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 reportorial,
and editorial column, put before the
people the CHASTITY facts concerning
twenty millions of Russians who were
3 starving to death, and subscriptions for
the relief fund had come by letters that
seemed not so much written with ink
0 as with tears, some of the letters prac-
! tically saying: 1--WE find it hard to get
. bread for our own families, but we can
\ not stand this cry of hunger from be-
, yond the seas, and SO please to receive
. the enclosed" And others had sent
! Jewels from their hands and necks, say
J ing: "Sell these and turn them into
!. bread" And another letter said: In
q. closed is an old gold piece. 1t was my
a mothers. She gave it to me and
told me never to part with it ex
y cept for bread, and now l enclose it.
q We had gathered thirty-five Thousand
h dollars in money, which we turned int
three million pounds of flour. When
- went down to the board of trade a
A Chicago and left five thousand dollars
4 of the amount raised with prominen
-four merchant, taking no receipt, ant
leaving all to him to do the best thing
a and returned, it was suggested that
= had not done things in business way
How could we know what sort of fou
would be sent? There are styles O
:. -four more fit for the trough of tn,
|. swine than the mouths of hungry mel
and women. Well, as is customary
> was tested and we found indeed the,
= had cheated us. They gave us bette
- -four than we had bought l bought il
Chicago fine flour, but they sent u
superfine God bless the merchants O
:, Chicago
Il Now, we know nothing about famin
N America. The grasshoppers may xii
u .he crops in Kansas, the freshets ma,
destroy the crops along the Ohio, tn
potato worm may kill the vines of Lon
Island, and rust may get into the whea
l. of Michigan, yet when there has bee
l. dreadful scarcity in some parts of tn
q land there has been plenty in othe
parts. But in districts of Russia, vas
IS enough to drop several nations int
y ,hem, drought for six consecutive year
Ie has devastated, and those district
were previously the most productive c
lie all the empire. 1t was like what W
n would have in America if the hunge
10 fiend somehow got out of hell an
n alighted in our land, and swept hi
wing over Minnesota, and said: lie
Is nothing grow here" and over Missouri
IS and said: LET nothing grow here" an
rs over New York state, and said: "Le
n nothing grow here" and over Ohio an
Georgia and Massachusetts and Penn
n sylvania and Nebraska and Dakota an
ic | Tue SdTOlllsts, anu Sdiu' Leu notulli
10 grow here" and the hunger fiend ha
" swept the same whitening and blastin
wing over the best parts of America i
is the years 1887, 1888. 1889, 1890, 1891, an
E. 1892, and finally all our families wer
rs put on small allowance, and we had a
lie risen from the table hungry, and afte
h awhile the children had only quartz
enough, and after awhile one meal
in day, and after awhile no good food &
st all, but mixture of whea. and cha