Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-28


on must look at that hunger bread of
Russia before you can get proper aporecla-
ton OF what an attractive AMI beautiful.
thing good loaf Of brea Is 1t Is 50 cotn-
mon 70 Us We cannot realize Its meaning.
Why does not some poet ring canto on
loaf OF bread or some modern z lphaei paint
il, or soma historian tell Its history but
have been asked by good people IN Great
Britain and America. again an again, why
did not the prosperous people OF Russia stop
that suffering themselves, making IL useless
for other nations to help? And am always
glad when I hear the question asked, be-
cause it gives me an opportunity OF ex-
RlAin ranar HAZE {oa ANY tysDtT aeA m Mia5
peoples There il only one Being in tae
universe who can do it. AMI that is the
Being who this morning breaktaste 1 sixte.n
hundred million Of the human race. The
nobility OF Russia have not only contributed
most lavisniy, but many OF them went down
and staid for mooths amid the ghastlinesS,
and the horror AMI the typnuS foyer, AMI
the smallpox that they might administer to
the suffering.
The Emperor has ma 1e larger contribu-
tons tOwart this relief fund than any
monarch ever made for any cause since th9
world stood, and the superb kindness
written all over the faces OF Emperor and
Empress and Grown Prince is demonstrated
in what they have already done and are
doing for the sufferers in their own country.
When | saw few days ago in the papers
that the Emperor and Empress hal walked
through the wards of the most viru'ent
cholera, talking with the patients, shaking
hands with them and Cheering them up, it
was no surprise TO me- for l said to myself,
That is ju st like them" So put all the
three prayers togeth sr-God save tina Presi.
dent OF the Unitel States! God save the
Queen OF England God save the Em oeror
and Empress OF Russia!
I will, whether IN sermons or lectures 1
have not yet decided, snow that nineteen
twentieths OF all things written aud pub
lished ag ainst Russia are furnished by men
who have been hired by other countries to
write up or rather write down Russia,
as to divert commerce from that empire or
because Of international jealousies. Russia
being larger than all the rest OF Europe put
together, you can see how natural would be
the jeaOusieS.
Before passing to the other field of my
summer observation [ give you QUE little
specimen of the falsehoods about Russia.
stood in Lonrion with my tickets for st.
Petersburg, Russia. in my pocket. 1t was
O'Clock in the afternoon, and at O'Clock
| was to take the train. An American
physician came in aud said, You cer-
tainly are not going to Russia" said,
why not:" Then a morning paper was
shown me, saying that in st. Petersburg
there were two thousand cases of virulent
cholera; the city had been divided into hos
pital districts, aud thu doctors were at their
wits end what to do with the number OF
patients. Tho population was flying in ter
ror. 1t was almost as bad in Moscow.
While rejecting on these accounts two
messages arrived from other friends protest
ing against the fOolhardiness OF my rushing
into the presence of two thousand cases OF
cholera in one city. OF course l halted.
halted for four days. Meanwhile a telegram
from st. Petersburg encouraged me to go. J
went. There was not q single case Of cholera
in st. Petersburg CT Moscow, and there was
not single case in either city until four
weeks after left those cities.
[ must tell you Of a picture of pathos and
moral power impressed upon my mind, so
that neither time nor eternity may eface
1t. The ship Lao swung to the docks a few
miles below st. Petersburg loaded with
-four from America. The sailors on board
huzzaed as they came to the wharf From
yacht on wnicn we had descended the
river to the sea the prominent citizens of
st. Petersburg disembarked. The bank was
crowded by prosperous citizens who stood
on the wharf, and back of them by poor
labOrerS, who had come down to offer their
services free of all charge for the removal
OF the breadstuffs from the ship to
the imperial freight train that took the -four
to the interior free of charge. While we
stood there the long freight train rumble1
down to the docks the locomotive and each
car decorated with fag-the American
flag and the Russian flag alternating.
Though flag to some eyes is only a
floating rag, you ought to how the
home. 1t looked tnat day like a section OF
heaven let down to cheer mortal vision.
Addresses OF welcome and responses were
made, AMI then the work began, the only
contest being who should lift the
hardest and be most expeditions. From
ship to rail train. From rail train to kneed-
ing board. From kneediug board to oven.
From oven to the white and quiveriug lips
OF the dying. q pom all VINO, whether by
contribution small large, helped make
that scene possible may there come the bene-
diction of Him who declared, - 1 was hungry
and ye fed Me-"
But must also give word OF report con-
corning my other errand-the preaching of
the Gospel in Great Britain last summer. It
was tour L had for many years antici-
pated. With the themes Of the Gospel I
confronted more people than ever before
in the same length of time - multi
tudes after nultitudeS, and beyond any
thing / can descr1oa--Tho thrnnps in all
the cities were So great toat they cou71 De
controlled only by platoons OF police, SO
that none should be hurt by the pressure,
each service indoors followed by a service
for the waiting throngs outdoors. and both
by handshakings to the last point Of physi-
cal endurance.
In every city and town l had messages
pour ed into my ears for families in America.
On, sons OF Scotchmen, Engishmen. Welsh
other side Of the sea beating in affection for
you and praying for your present and
of the old Scotch Kirk, where you
were baptiz 3D. and Of the Eng
lish fireside, by which you play ed, and of
the Welsh hills and valleys among which
you roamed, and the old homes on the banks