The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-17

bread co US And when told 10 came from
America, they would say: What part OF
America3 Please give Us she names OF
those who sent itn All, God only knows
the names of those who sent it, hut he GER
tainly does know. and many prayer is
going up, warrant you, day by day for
those who sent flour by the ship Leo. Per-
haps some OF US at our tables rattle
off a PRAYER that may mean moth
ing, although We call it Saying grace
but l warrant when those people wQo re-
ceived the bread which saved their lives
said grace, It meant something. Our re-
liRjon may not demand that we "cross our
selves but have learned that while cross
ing ones self in some cases may mean moth
ing but mere form, believe in most cases
it means: 80, thou of the suffering Cross
Of Calvary, have mercy on me and accept
my gratitude" Prefer your own form Of
religion by all means, but do not depreciate
che religious forms Of others. From all
can learn, there were several good people be-
fore we were born, and ! rather expect
there will be several left after we are dead.
have Travelled in many lands, but tell
you plainly, aE l told Emperor Alexander
III. in the palace at Peterhoff that had
never been so impressed with the
fidelity 10 their religion Of any people
as by what l had seen in Russia, and
especially among her public men. / said
respectfully to Russian, when saw him
cross himself ''What do you do that forgn
90" he said, "when do that always say:
Sod have mercy on meP" l hold in my
hand something very suggestive. What
does that black and uncomely thing look
hke9 That is what is called hunger-bread
from Russia; that is what millions of people
lived on for months before help came from
England, Scotland Ireland and America;
that is a mixture which seems 20 have in it
not one grain Of sustenance. 1t is a mixture
of pig-weed and chaR and the sweepings of
stables. That is something which, II
L.. a 49,
sniff at, but would not eat. That was the
only food on which millions of men and
women lived You must look at that
hunger-bread of Russia before you can get
proper appreciation Of what an attractive
and beautiful thing good loaf of bread is.
It is 80 common 20 US we cannot realize
its meaning. Stop and look at it IN a bakery
window or see it on your family table,
mean an honest loaf Of bread, white as a
ball OF packed snow, with a crust as brown
as the sutumnal woods, and for a keen ap-
petite more aromatic than howers-s loaf
OF bread as you remember il In childhood,
when the knife In the hand OF your father
or mother cut clean through. from crust 10
crust, and put before you, not quarter Of
q slice or a half a slice, bus a full, round
alice and another and another just suited to
boy always ready 70 eat and for the most
time hungry, even in a well supplied house.
remember and you remember, II you had
healthy childhood, just how IL tasted
Myl My Plum pudding does not taste
good now as that plain bread than. IL ives
Shen bread at the table and bread between
meals, and bread before breakfast, and
bread before going TO bed
Why does not some poet sing a canto on q
loaf of bread, or some modern Raphael
paint ID, or some historian tell its historyG
Not like many articles OF food. pretentlOus
and iced all over like wedding cake, or
dotted with fantastic Ingredients but that
QFan69aE nFO1uNf n nat
yield Of the flour mill, that best benediction
of a hot oven, a God-given loaf of bread
But the rhythm OF it, the luxury of il, the
meaning OF it, the benediotion of IL, the dir
vine mercy OF 1t, only those know who have
seen famine No wonder Christ put this
food into the sacrament and said Of bro-
ken loaf Of bread: This is my BODY
Thank God that ever saw that transcend
ent and compact kindness of the infinite God
"A loaf Of bread. And 1t was our joy this
summer TO hand over a shiploAd OF material
for Rladdening many thousands of Russians
with suoh beatitude. But, l have been
asked by good people in Great
Britain and America again and
again, why did not the prosperous people
Of Russia stop that suffering themselves
making it useless for other nations to hslpi
And l am always glad when hear the ques-
tion asked, because is gives me an oppor-
tHnity OF explaining. Have you any idea
what 1t requires 90 feed twenty million
peoplel There is only one being in the uni
verse who can do IL, and that is the being
who this morning breakfasted sixteen
hundred million Of the human race. The
nobility Of Russia have noe only contrib
uted most lavishly, but many Of them went
down and staid for months amid the ghast-
illness and the horror and the typhus fever
and the smallpox. that they might ad-
minister TO the suffering. / sat at the
dining table in the house of one Of our
American representatives beside a bar
oness who had not only impoverished
her estates by her contributions 10 the
suffering, but who left her own home and
went down into the worst Of the misery, and
until Frustrated With fever; then reviVing,
and toiling on until Frustrated by the small
pox. She had come home 10 get little
atrenRth, and in a few days she was going
down again TO the suffering districts and
abe commissioned me to execute In America
q literary enterprise by which she expects
with her pen more money. all of which Is to
20 for bread to those who lack it, Then
there are the Bobrinskois. They are of the
nobility, not only nobility Of earth but she
nobility of heaven You know we have In
America certain names which are
synonyms for benevolence - George
Peabody, James Lenox, William T.
Dodge, Mr.. Slater and 30 on. What
their names mean IN America, Bobrinski
means In Russia. The emperor has made
larger contributions toward this relief fund
than any monarch ever made for any cause
since the world stood, and the superb kind
ness written all over the faces of emperor
and empress and crown prince is demon
strated in what they have already done and
are doing for the sufferers in their own
country. When q few days ago read in
the papers that the emperor and empress,
hearing an explosion, stopped the royal
rail train to find out what accident had
occurred, and the empress knelt down
by the side OF a wounded laborer and
held his head until pillows aud blankets
could be brought, and the two wounded
men were put upon the royal train 30 be
carried TO place where they could be
better cared for. said to my wife: "Just
like her," When l saw few days ago In
the papers, that the emperor and empress
had walked through the wards Of the most
virulent cholera, talking with the patients.
shaking hands with them and cheering them
up, it was no surprise to me; for | said to
myself: THAT is just like them" Any one
who has ever seen the royal family will be.
heve anything In the way of kindness
ascrlbed TO them, and will join me In the
execration of that too prevalent opinion
that tyrant is on the throne of Russia. II
God spares my life, will yet show by facts
beyond dispute that the most slandered and