The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-10-28
OBSERVATIONS ABROAD.
DR.. Talmage Tells of Russia and
Great Britain.
Distributing Wheat to Russia's Starving
Peasantry-Interesting Discourse
on His Tour of Great Britain
What He Saw.

Britain" the text being: Psalm cxxxix.
0: eff take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the
sea, even there shall Thy hand lead
me-" DIR. Talmage said:
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 it's
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 l took 1.-The wings of
the morning" and started for Europe.
June 20, on 1.-THE wings of the morning.
l started from Liverpool; July
10, on ''the wings of the morn
ing' l entered Germany, the land of
Martin Luther and many of that ill,
living and dead. On ''the wings of the
morning entered Moscow. On 'the
wings of the morning | entered the
palaces of Russia, greeted by the en-
peror and empress, surrounded by n
lovely brood of princes and princesses.
On ''the wings of the morning" | en-
tered Inverness, the capital of the Scot
fish Highlands, country of Robert
Burns and Thomas Chalmers, the one
for poetry, the other for religion. Sep
TENDER Il, on ''the wings of the morn
ing" l entered the finest haven of all
the earth, New York harbor, and looked
off toward the most interesting place
l had seen in three months South
Oxford street, Brooklyn o, like the
wings of the morning" lam, by nature
and by grace, a son of the morning.
think ] must have been born in the
morning. I would like to die in the
morning. have notion that Heaven
is only an everlasting morning. In the
summer of 1892, my text was fulfilled
to nre again and again. 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 l 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 par
able: Give account of thy steward
ship" The Christian Herald for
months had put before the people the
CHASTITY facts concerning 10000. 900 Rus
slams who were starving to death, and
subscriptions to the relief fund had
come by letters that seemed not so
much written with ink as with tears,
some of the letters practically saying:
eve find it hard to get bread for our
own families, but we cannot withstand
this cry of hunger from beyond the
seas, and so please to receive the in
closed" We had gathered $50, 900 in
money, which we turned into 5000, 900
pounds of flour.
Now, we know nothing about famine
in America. The grasshoppers may
kill the crops in Kadsas, 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 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
the empire. 1t was like what we would
have in America 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 and said: LET nothing grow
here" and over Ohio and Georgia and
Massachusetts and PENNSYLVANIA 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
1857, 1883. 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892
and finally ali our families were put
on small allowances and we all had
risen from the table hungry, and after
awhile the children had only half
enough and after awhile only one meal
a day and after awhile no good food at
all, but mixture of wheat and chaff
and bark of trees, and then three of the
children down with hunger typhus and
then all the family unable to walk and
then crawling on hands and knees and
then one dead in each room and neigh
bors, not quite so exhausted. coming in
to bury them, and afterward the house
becoming the tomb, with none to carry
the dead to more appropriate sepulchre |
whole families blotted out. That was
what occurred in Russia in homes more |
than were ever counted, in homes that |
were once as comfortable and beautiful |
and bountiful as yours or mine, in |
homes as virtuous as yours or mine, in |
homes where God is worshiped as much |
rs in yours or mine 1t was to do a |
little something toward beating back |
that Archangel of wretchedress and |
horror that we went, and we have now |
10 report that, according to the esti- |
mate of the Russian famine relief COM |
nittee, we saved the lives of 125, 900 |
people. AS at the hunger relief sta
ions, the bread was handed out-for it |
was made into loaves and distributed |
people would halt before tax
ug it and religiously cross themselves
Ind inter a prayer for the donors |
Some of them would come staggering |
pack, and say: Please tell US who sent
his bread to u.s." And when told it
anne from America, tho would say:
What part of America Please give
Is the names of those who sent it. :"
All, God only knows the names of those
Who sent it, but he certainly does know,
Ind many a prayer is going up war
ant you, day by day for those who sent
lour by the ship Leo. Perhaps some
If US at our tables rattle off a prayer
hat may mean nothing, although we
all it Saying Grace" but warrant
when thee people who received the
,read which saved their lives "said
-race II meant soroethinp Or1r pa |