Milford chronicle., 1892-10-21

, Empire-The Dreadful Famine-Blcs
) ings on America.
!, BROOKLYN, Oct. 16.-Urusual interc
!. attached to the sermon preached by Re
: DR.. Talmage this forenoon, it having be,
: announced that he would devote the cuti
discourse TO a review Of his summers jOu
ney. The great Tabernacle building ".
: crowded early by an expectant audient
h Professor Brown, the organist, during
i service rendered the Russian national ID.
S the English national air and our own IA
tional air. Among other hymns sung wiz,
My country, tis of thee,
Sweet land OF liberty.
The subject was, observations in Eu
sia and Great Britain" the text selecte,
being Psalm cxxxix, Q, "If l take til,
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 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 aolors 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 "thc
: wings of the morning." l started from
Liverpool. July r. 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. entered
st. Petersburg, Russia. On "the wings Of
the morning" / entered Moscow On ''the
} wings of the morning" l entered the pal
aces Of Russia, greeted by the emperor and
empress, surrounded by lovely brood of
princes and princesses. On ''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
2l, 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 l had seen in
three months II South Oxford street.
Brooklyn
! Oh, / like ''the wings of the morning."
am, by nature and by grace, son of the
| morning. think must have been born
ia the morning. | would like to die in the
morning. / have a notion that heaven is
only an everlasting morning. In the sum
mer of 1892 my text was fulfilled to me
again and again. "If l take the wings of
the morning and dwell in the utterinosi
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 | 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 l went to Russia this |
summer. There are many thousands Of |
people who have 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, pat
before the people the CHASTITY facts con-
cerning twenty million Russians who were
starving to death, and subscriptions to
the relief fund had come by letters
chat seemed not so much written
with ink as with tears, some of the
efters 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, AID so please to receive the
inclosed." And others had sent jewels
from their hands and necks saying, "Sell
AANoI anu buAAA lAEhA AllO DItdNs ana
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-fve thousand dol
lars 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 dol
of the amount raised with a prominent
flour merchant, taking no receipt and /
leaving 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 -four
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, rs is customary, when the
-four came to New York it was tested,
and we found indeed they had cheated u.s. ,
They gave us better -four than we had
bought. bought in Chicago fine flour,
but they sent us superfine. God bless the
merchants of Chicagol
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 r
plenty in other parts. But in districts Of 7
Russia, vast enough to drop several =
nations into them, drought for six con- :,
iecutive years has devastated, and those
districts were previously the most pro .
iuctive Of all the empire.
1t was like what we would have in Amer Il
ca if the hunger fend somehow got out !.
If hell and alighted in our land, and swept y
lis wing over Minnesota and said, Let :,
nothing grow here, and over Missouri and =
aid, LET nothing grow here" and over =,
New York state and said, Let nothing =
,row here" :" and over Ohio and Georgia and
and Pennsylvania and Ne :. -
,raska and Dakota and the Carolinas and .,
aid, Let nothing grow here, and the hun u
.er tiend had swept the same withering and l.,
Blasting wing over the best parts Of Amer r.
ca in the years 1887, 1888, 1852, 1890, 1891 and ~
S92, and finally all our families were put Z
N small allowance, and we all had risen s
rom the table hungry, and after awhile
he children had only quarter enough, and Al
fter awhile only one meal day, and after
while no good food at all, but a mixture .
t wheat and chaff and bark Of trees, and c
hen three OF the children down with hun b
er typhus, and then all the family unable v
0 walk, and then crawling on hands and .
nees, and then one dead in each room, b
nd neighbors, not quite so exhausted, a
oming in TO bury them, and afterward q
he house becoming the tomb, with none p
0 carry the dead TO more appropriate u
families blotted out. n
NE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE THOU d
SAND SAVED. te
That was what occurred in Russia in r
ONES more than were ever counted, in fc
ONES that were once as comfortable and al
Apply and bOuntiful as yours or mine, in Il
ZONES as virtuous as yours or mine, II tc
ZONES where God is worshiped as much q
s in yours or mine. It was to do a little E
omething toward beating back that arch pl
ngel Of wretchedness and horror that we
vent, and we have now to report that, ac- hi
ording to the estimate Of the Russian tv