Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-10-21
REV. DR.. 7ALMAGH.
The Eminent Brooklyn DIvinSs SUM-
day Sermon.
Subject; "a Summers JOurney.r

TEXT: III take he wings of The morn
ing and dioeH in Ms utmost Darts Of N.
sea, euen there shall TIN hand lead me. -
Psalm cxxxix., o.
What an absurd book the Bible must be e
,, man who has no poetry in his soul
wings OF the morning" What kind of a
bird IS It, aud no - long are its wings aud OF
what colorl All, some OF US have seen and
felt its wings. They are golden. They ara
buoyant. They are swift. They are wide
spread. The 18th Of last June | took "the
wings OF the morning. and started for Eu.
rope. June %, on 1.-THE wings OF the morn
ing" started from Liverpool. July 10, on
the wings Of the morning." | entered
Germany, the land Of Martin Luther an
many OF that ilk, living an / dead.
On the wings OF the morning. entered
ST. Petersburg, Russia. On 1.-THE wings of
the morning entered Moscow. On "the
wings of the morning" entered the palaces
o. Russia, greeted by the emperor aud en-
press, surrounded by a lovely brood Of
princes and princesses. On .'tho wings of
the morning | entered Inverness the cap
ital Of the Scottish Highlands, country OF
Robert Burns and Thomas Chalmers the
one for poetry, the other for religion. Sep.
| TENDER 2lst, on "the wings OF the mornin -"
! entered this finest haven OF oil the earth
New York hqrbor-and looked off toward
the most interesting plaza had seen in three
months-l South Oxford street, Brooklyn.
You all know why went Russia this sum-
mer. There are many thousands OF people
who have right to say TO me, as was said
in the Bible parable, Give an account Of
! thy stewardship" Through The Christian
Herald, which have the honor 10 edit. we
! had for months in publishers, in repoPtorial
and editorial column, put before the people
the CHASTITY facts concerning twenty million
| Russians 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 I'VE find It hard
to get bread for our own families, but we
cannot stand this cry of hunger from beyond
the seas, and so please to receive the en-
closed" And others had sent jewels from
their hands and necSs, saying, "Sel thess
and turn them into brea1n And another
letter said "lnclosel is an old gold piece.
IL was my mothers. She gave it to me and
told me never to part with It except for
bread and now | inclose it," We had gath
cred thirty-ive thousand dollars in money.
which we turned into three million pounds
II -four.
When / went down to the board of trade
at Chicago and left five thousand dollars of
the amount raisel with a prominent -four
merchant, taking NJ receipt an leaving all
to him to do the best thing and returned. it
was suggested that had not done things in
a business way. How could we know
what sort OF -four would be
III for the trou gh 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. an we found
indeed they lSi cheated us They gave US
better -four than we had bought. | bought
in Chicago fine flour, but they sent us super
fine. 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 OliO, the potato worm
may kill the vines OF Long Island, the rust
may get into the wheat OF Michigan, vet
when there has been drea lfuI 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, drou yht FOR six consecutive years has
devastated, and those districts were pre-.
viously the most productive of all the empire.
IL was like what We wOuli have in
America il the hunger fsni SOMEHOW got
out OF hell and alighte in our land, an1
swept his wing over Minnesota, and said.
Let nothing grow here, and over Missouri
and said, Let nothing grow here, aul over
New York State AMI said, Let nothing
grow here and over Olio and Georgia ami
Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania and Ne
braska and Dakota and the Carolinas and
said, Let nothing grow here, and the hun
ger fiend had swept the same whitening and
blasting wing over the best parts Of America
in the years 1857, 1883 1889, 1872 1891 ant
1892. aud finally all our families were put on
small allowance, and we all had risen from
the table hungry, AMI after awhile the
children had only quarter enough, and after
awhile only one meal a day. and after
awhile no goOi food at all, hut n mixture
of wheat ami cLaif an bark OF trees, aud
then three of the children down with hunger
typhus and then all the family unable 10
walk. and then crawling on hands and knees
and then one dead in each room, and neigh
bors. not quite so exhausted, coming in 10
bury them, and afterwari the house becom-
ing the tomb, with none to carry the dead to
more appropriate sepucher-whole families
blotte out.
That was what occurred In Russia in
homes more than were ever counted, in
homes that were once as comfortable and
happy and bountiful as yours or mine. in
homes As vrtuOus as yours or mine, in homes
where God is worshiped as much as in yours
OF niue. IL WAS 10 10 Il lkbit SOuebuAuI
toward beating back that archangel OF
Indebtedness and horror that we went,
and we havo now to report that. &c.
c1r1lng to the estimate OF the Russian fam
inc relief committee we saved the lives OF
12i O01 people. As at the hunger relief sta
[ .ons the breal was handed Out-sor it was
made into leaves and distribute l-many
people would halt before taking it and reli-
giously cross themselves and utter prayer
for the donors.
Some OF them would come staggering
back and say: please tell US who sent this
bread 10 us And whea told it came from
America they woull say; What part o;
America? Please give us the names OF
those who sent It," All, Col only knows
the names OF those WHO sent it, but He GER
tainly does know. aud many a prayer is
going up, | warrant you, day by day. for
those who sent -four by the ship Leo. Per-
haps some Of us at our tables rattle of a
prayer that may mean nothing. although
we call it saying graca," but [ warrant
when those people who received the bread
which saved their lives said grace" il
meant something.
said respectfully to n Russian when l
saw him cross himself. What do Won do
hat for" "Oh," he said. when [ do that
always say. Col ha ve mercy on melh / /
hold in my hanf something very suggestive
What does that black aud unconsly thing /
ook like. That is wat is called hungry
bread from Russia; that is what millions |
IF people lived on for months be
ore help cana from Englan1 Scotland, |
IRELAND an Americl that is a mix5Ir5
which seems 10 have in it not oae gcain OF
,uste1ance. II is mixture OF pig weed an
,haif ami the sweepings Of stables. That is
which, il dropped in the street,
your dog or cat mig 1t sniff at, but would
lot eat That was tbs NY food on which
Millions of men and women lived
You must look at that hunger bread OF
russia before you can get proper apprecla-
ion OF what an attractive AMI beautiful
hing a good loaf Of brel Is. IL is 50 CON-
non to us we cannot reaizs its meaning
Why does not some poet ring canto on a
oaf of bread. or some modern Raphael pint
/. or some historian tell its history But
ave been asked by good people in Great
Britain and America, again an again, why
i'll not the prosperous people o. Russia stop
hat suffering themselves, making IL useless
or other nations to help? Aud am always
lad when / hear the question asked, BE-
iuse it gives me an opportunity OF ex-
laining. Have you any idea what
requires to feed twenty million
eopleg There is olly ons Bsing in the
inverse who can do it, AMI that is the
icing who this morning breaSfastei sixteen
unlred million Of the human racs Tho
obilty OF Russia have not only contributed
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