Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-20
TALMAGE TALKS OUT.
TEARING THE MASK FROM RUS
SIA'S SLANDERERS.
He Has Nothing but Kind Words for
the Czar OF all the Rnssias and His
ReliGion--The Intoierant Spirit OF Our
Times Gets ~ Singing Rebuke.

BROOKLYN, Oct. lG-Unusuai inter
est attached to the ceremony preached
By the Rev. DIR. Talmage this forenoon,
II having been announced that he
would devote the entire discourse to
review of his summers journey. The
great tabernacle building was crowded
early by an expectant audience. Prof.
Brown, the organist, during the serv-
ice, rendered the Russian national air,
the English national air, and our own
national air. Among other hymns
sung was,
My country It's of thee
Sweet land OF liberty.
The subject was. observations in
Russia and Great Britain" the text
selected being: Psalm 1869: IF
take the wings of the morning and
dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there shall thy hand lead me-"
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 para BILE:
Give account of thy stewardship"
Now, we know nothing about famine
in America. Tie grasshoppers may
kin 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
Is hA
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 those districts We're previously the
most productive of all the empire. 1t
was like 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 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, 1885, 1889, 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 4 day, and after awhile no good
food at all, but IA mixture of whea.
and chatf and bark of trees, and then
/ three of the children down with hun
! ger typhus. and then all the family I'M
able to walk, and then crawling on
hands and knees. and then one dead in
each room, and neighbors, not quite
SO exhaust coming in to bury
! them, and afterwards the house be-
coming the tomb, with none 10
carry the dead to more appropriate
,cpulchrc-wholc families blotted out.
/ That was what occurred in Rus STA in
! homes more than were ever counted, in
! homes that were once as comfortable
and happy and bountiful as yours OF
, mirc, in homes as virtuous as yours OF
mine in homes where God is worshipcd
as much as in yours or mine. 1t was to
| do a little something towards beating
! back chat Archangcl of Wretchedness
and Horror that we went. and VIC
| have now to report that, according
! to the estimate of the Russian
Famine Relief committee, we saved
| the lives of la, 600 people.
As at the hunger relief stations, the
! bread was handed out-for it was made
! into luaycs and distributcd-manyp eo-
! PIE would halt before taking it and re.
! igiuuSly cross themselves and utter a
/ prayer for the donors. Some of them
would come staggering back, and say,
please tell US who sent this bread to
! u.s." And when told it came from
America, they would say: what
| part of America? Please give us
the names of those who sent it,
| All, God only knows the names
/ of those who sent it, but he
certainly does know, and many prayer
i going up, | warrant you, day by day
for those who sent flour by the ship
| Leo. Perhaps, some of us at our tables
rattle off prayer that may mean moth.
ng,although e call it Saying Grace, y
but warrant when those people who
received the bread which saved their
lives said grace" it meant something
Our religion may not demand that we
cross ourselves but | have learned
that while crossing ones self in some
cases may mean nothing but mere form
| believe in most cases it means: "Oh
thou of the suffering cross of Calvary
have mercy on me and accept my graft
tude.' Prefer your own form of re
ligion by all means, but do not dc
prcciatc the religious forms of others
From all | can learn, there wer,
several good people before we wer,
born, and rather expect there vii
be several left after we are dead.
have travelled in many lands, but tel
you p'ainly as | told Emperor Alex
ander III in the palace at Peterhoif tina
| had never been so impressed will
the fidelity to their religion of an,
people as by what had seen in Russia
and especially among her public men
! | said respectfully to a Russian, whel
saw him cross himself: What d,
you do that for?' So" he said, ''whci
| do that | always say: God have mere,
on me- " ! hold in my hand some
thing very suggestive What doe
that back and uncomely thing lool
like? That is what is called hunger
bread from Russia; that j
what millions of people live
on for monehs before help came iron
England, Scotland, Ireland, an,
America; that's mixture which seem
to have not one grain of sustenance
1t is a mixture of pig weed and chat
and the sweepings of stables. That j
something which, if dropped in tn
erect, your dog or cat might sniff al
but would not eat. That was the onl
food IN which millions of men an
women lived. You must look at tina
hunGe"- bread of Russia before you CA
set proper appreciation of what an al
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