The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-10-22
TALMAGE'S TOUR.
4 Discourse Giving His Observations
in Russia and Great Britain.
Suffering in the Cars Domafn-The Coun-
try swept by the Whitening Blast of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. About Rus
STA Notwithstanding the
Gospel in Great Britain.

The subject of Rev. DIR. Talmage's
recent sermon at the Brooklyn taber-
pacle was 'sObservations in Russia and
Great Britain" the text selected being
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 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
are golden. They are buoyant. They
are swift. They are widespread. The
18th of last June took ''the wings of
the morning ana started for Europe.
June 20, on ''the wings of the morning
started from Liverpool July u, 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 tae morning" l en-
tered st. Petersburg, Russia. On "the
wings of the morning. entered Mos
COW. On 'sthe wings of the morning
entered the palaces of Russia, greeted
by the emperor and empress, sur
rounded by a lovely brood of princes
and pripcesses. On 1.-The wings of the
morning l 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. September 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. 0,
I like ''the wings of the morning" |
am, by nature and by grace, a SON OF
the morning / think must have been
born in the morning. 1 would like to
die in the morning. have a notion that
Heaven is only an everlasting morn
ing. In the summer of 1892, my text
was fulfilled to me again and again.
eff 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 | 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
starving to death, and subscriptions for
the relief fund had come by letters that
seemed not so much written with ink
as with tears, some of the letters prac-
tically saying: I'VE 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
ing: "Sell these and turn them into
bread" And another letter said: In
closed is an old gold piece. 1t was my
mothers She gave it to me and
told me never to part with it ex-
cept for bread, and now enclose it. -
We had gathered thirty-five thousand
dollars in money, which we turned into
three million pounds of flour. When l
went down to the board of trade at
Chicago and left five thousand dollars
of the amount raised with prominent
flour merchant, taking no receipt, and
leaving all to him to do the best thinr,
and returned, it was suggested that
had not done things in a business way.
How could we know what sort of flour
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, as is customary,
when the -four came to New York it
was tested, and we found indeed they
had cheated us. They gave us better
flour than we had bought. bought in
Chicago fine flour, but they sent us
superfine God bless the merchants of
Chicago.
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, and rust may get into the wheat
of Michigan, yeI when there has been
dreadful scarcity in some parts OF the
land there has been 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
were previously the most productive of
all the empire. 1t was like what we
would have in America if the hunger
iend 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 fend had