Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-10-21

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but would not eat. That was the only
food on which millions of men and
women lived. You must look at that
hunger bread of Russia before you can
get proper appreciation of what an at
tractive and beautiful thing good
loaf of bread is.
1t was our JOY this summer to hand
over u shipload of material for glad
dening many thousands of Russians
with such a beatitude. But, / have
been asked by good people in Great
Britain and America again and again,
why did not the prosperous people of
Russia stop that suffering themselves,
making it useless for other nations to
help? And l am always glad when
hear the question asked, because it
gives me an opportunity of explaining.
Have you any idea what it requires to
feed 20, 0OO,O people? There is only
one being in the universe who can do
it, and that is the being who this
morning, breakfasted sixteen hundred
million of the human race. The no
bility of Russia have not only contrib
uted lhost lavishly, but many of them
went down and staid for months amid
the ghastliness and the horror and the
typhus fever and the small pox, that
they might administer to the suffering
1 sat at the dining table in the
representatives beside Baroness
who had not only Impoverished
her estates by her contributions to the
suffering, but who left her own home
and went down into the worst of the
misery, and until FRUSTRATED by fever:
then reviving and toiling on until
Frustrated by the smallpox. She had
come home to get little strength, and
in few days she was going down
again to the suffering districts, and she
commissioned me to execute in Amer
lea literary enterprise by which she
expects with her pen more money, all
of which is to go for bread TO those
who lack it. Then there are the Bob
rinskoys. They are of the nobility, not
only the nobility of earth, but the no
bility of heaven. You know we
have in America certain names which
are synonyms for benevolence-George
Peabody, James Lenox, William +.
Dodge, Mr. Slater and so on. What
their names mean in America, Bob
rinslSi means in Russia. The Emperor
has made larger contributions toward
this relief fund than any monarch
ever made for any cause since the
world stood, and the superb kindness
written all over the faces of the EN-
peror and Empress and Crown Prince
is demonstrated in what they have al
ready done and are doing for the suf-
ferers in their own country. When
few days ago l read in the pa
pers that the Emperor and Empress,
hearing an explosion, stopped the
royal rail-train to find out what acci-
dent had occurred, and the Empress
knelt down by the side of a wounded
laborer and held his head until pillows
and blankets could be brought, and
the two wounded men were put upon
the royal train to be carried to a place
where they could be better cared for.
l said to my wife: Just like her."
When saw few days ago in papers,
that the Emperor and Empress had
walked through the wards of the most
virulent cholera, talking with the
patients, shaking hands with them
and cheering them up, it was no sur
prise to me; for said to myself: "That
is just like them" Any one who has
ever seen the royal family will believe
anything in the way of kindness as
cribed to them, and will join me in the
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that n tyrant is on the throne OF
Russia. If God spares my life, will
yet show by facts beyond dispute that
the most slandered and Systematically
lied about nation on earth is Russia,
and that no ruler ever lived more
for the elevation of his people in
( education and morals and religion
than Alexander, the Third. So put
| all the three prayers together: God save
the President of the United States!
God save the Queen of England God
save the Emperor and Empress of
Russial / will, whether in sermons or
lectures, have not yet decided, show
that nineteen-twentieths of all the
things written and published against
| Russia are furnished by men who have
been hired by other countries to write
up or rather write down Russia, so
as to divert commerce from that
empire, or because of international
! iealousies. Russia being larger
| than all the rest of Europe put to-
gether, you can see how natural would
| be the jealousies. know of two prom
inent European newspapers that keep
men on salaries to catch up everything
unfavorable to Russia, and magnify
| the incident. And the stereotyped
stories of Siberian cruelty in onh case
out of hundred are true, but in nine
| ty-nine out of hundred they are fab
rication. And in the one case as soon
as it is reported the official is dis
charged. They who have been sent
''to write up Russia and Siberia have
done as that man would do who,
sent to write up New York,
should write up the slums as speci-
men of what New York is, or
sent to write up the American Con-
gress should write up some depraved