Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-11-21
WORD OF THE LORD
on THE RUSSIAN PRlyATIoSS
4 D<fsn,s Of Russia Which Set All New
yorh and Brookiyn Talking Before
Night-RusssA Our Friend


Night-Russl4 Our Friend
BRoouys, Nov. so.-Rsv. DIR. Tai
mage today fuIfned has promise that be
would sezta speak Of his visis To Rus
sia and correct many wrong impres-
siuns coucrn4ng that empire and its
ruler Altar an exposition Of Scripture
and conzrsgxfiooAl singing hs took for
his sexs II Psser Il. 10, 'spresunpfnous
are thsy. self wlIlsd: they are not xfraid
70 psuk svsi d diguftiss.s
Audd Almost rsprshsnzibls crew Peter
hare paints by oos stroke the portrait OF
thoss Who delight 70 slash at people In
sufhHity. Now ~ all have right 10
cxff1cne evil bahnvscr. whsther In high
places CT Low. has the fact that one is
hixh Up Is no proof that no Ought to be
brought down II 10 . bad streak Of bu-
man nAfnxe now, - it was In the time
Of the text . bad streak OF human IA
ture, dat success Of any kind excites the
fsalo0 sAkir.<hy IT those who cannot
climb ne same steep. There never was
= David On the throne that there was
not some Absalom who wanted To get IL.
There never wa< Christ but the world
had saw and hammer ready 10 fashion
out a cross on which to asSaasfnate him.
Out II this evil spirit grow not only In
diyLduzl but national and international
defamation. To no country has more in
Justice been done than - our own Ia
days that are past.
Long before Martin Chuzzlewit" was
printed the literature Of the world
scoff-d at everything American Victor
Hugo, as honest as no was unequaled in
literary power, was SO misinformed con-
corning America that no wrote: ''The
most singular thing is the need Of whit
Ting, with which all Americans are pos
sesxed- IL Is such that On Sunday they
give the sailors httle bits Of wood, be-
cause II they did not they would white
the ship. Ia court. at the most critical
moment, the judge. whiting, says,
'Prisoner, are Jon guilty? and the &C
sused TRANQUILITY responds, whiting, i
am not gully.
Lord John Russell called us ga bub-
BILE bursting nationality" But our coun-
try has at last recovered from such carl
cature. and there Is not street in any
city Of Europe or Asia where the word
america" viii not win Difference. But
there is sister nation on the other side
of the sea now going through the process
Of international defamation
There u no country on earth 20 mis-
understood a. Russia, and no monarch
more mixspresented than its emperor.
VIII il not be IN the cause Of justice IL /
try to set night the minds Of those who
compose this august assemblage and the
minds Of those TO whom, on both sides
Of the ocean, these words shall come? II
tho Islander Of one person Is wicked. then
the siandsr Of ono hundred and twelve
million people Is one hundred and twelve
million times more wicked. In the
name Of righteousness and In behalf oil
civihssxion. and for the encouragement
Of ell those good people who have been
disheartencd BY tho standardization oil
Russia, I now speak. But Russia IL 50
vast . sub5eoe that TO treat it In one dis
course u like attempting to run Niagara
falls over ono MIL wheel
courtesies extended mo last summer by
The emperor and empress and crown
prince Of Russia havo connplimented me
into the advocacy OF that empire. for
shall present you authenticated facts
that viii reverse your opinions. If they
have been antagonists. 90 mine were
reversed. I went last summer 10 Russia
with as many baleful prejudices as
would make an avalanche from the
mountain CT fabrication which has for
years been heaped Up against that en-
pire.
You ask how is it possible that such
appalling misrepresentation Of Russia
could stands l account for 10 by the
fact that ths Russian language Is 70
most an impossible wall Malign the
United States, or malign Great Britain
or Germany or France, and by the next
cablegram the falsehood Is exposed, For
We all understand English, and many o:
cur people are familiar with German
and French. But the Russian language
bsauslful and easy to those born to speak
n. is 20 most vocal organs an unVro-
nouneeable tongue. and IL a. St. Peters
burg or Moscow any anti Russian cal
many were denied the most Of the world
outside of Russia would never see or hear
Of the dental.
What are the motives for misrepre
sentation2 Commercial interests and in
ternatioaxl jealousy Russia Is rs large
~ all tke rest Of Europe put together.
Rernsnber that q nation Is only . mar
or n woman on 5ig scale. Go into any
ne,ghburhood OF America and ask the
physician who has . small practice what
be thinks Of the physician who has a
large practice. Ask . lawyer who has
no briefs what De thinks Of the lawyer
who has thrse rooms filed with clerk:
trying n vain ts,trsnsast the supersban
tanf business that comes 70 him. Ash
the minister who has very limited
audience what he thinks II the minister
who has OVERLOOKING audiences
Why does not Europe ike Russia
Becanse she has enough acreage 4
swallow sill Europe ANA feel she hAd
sn'y half a meal. Russia Is a. lOa1s a,
North and South America Put together