The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1892-10-28
TALMAGE's SERMON.
The Brooklyn Preacher Talks Of His
Summer Journey.
The Famine in Russia and American Con.
tributiOns-Many Lives Saved There
by-Specimen FaIsehoOds
About Russia.


Rev. T. Dewitt 'Taltnage delivered the
following discourse in relation to his
recent visit to Russia in the brooklyn
tabernacle, taking for his text:
If take the wings of the morning and dwell
IN the uttermost parts OF the sea. even there
shall Thy hand lead me.-Psalm cxxxix.. Q.
What an absurd book the Bible must
be to man who has no poetry in his
soul wings of the morning!'' What
kind of a 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 and started for
Europe. June 90 on the ''vvings of the
morning" / started from liverpool;
July IL, on 1.-THE wings of the tdorn-
ing" entered Germany, the land of
Martin Luther and many of that ilk,
living and dead. On ''the wings Of the
morning" 1 entered St Petersburg,
Russia On "the wings of the morn
ing" entered Moscow. On ''the wings
OF the morning" I entered the palaces
of Russia, greeted by the emperor and
empress, surrounded by lovely brood
of princes and princesses. On "the
wings of the morning entered 1nver-
ness, the capital of the Scottish high
lands, country of Robert Burns, and
Thomas Chalmers, the one for
poetry. the other for religion.
September 81, on ''the wings of the
morning" entered the finest haven of
all the earth-New York harbor-arid
looked off ora1 1,o -
place l had seen in three months
South Oxford street, Brooklyn. Oh, 1
like 1.-The wings of the morning" lam
by nature and by grace, a son of the
morning. / think / must have been
die in the morning I have a notion
that Heaven is only an everlasting
morning. In the summer of 1892, my
text was fulfilled to me again and
ogain. ''If l take the wings of the
morning and dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea, even there shall Thy
hand lead me-" Yes, He lead 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 yonder, where the most
of you will be my fellow-slumberers.
You all know why I 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 repertorial
and editorial columns, 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: 1--WE find it hard to
get bread for our own families, but we
can not stand this cry of hunger from
beyond seas, and so please receive the
inclosed." And others had sent jewels
from their hands and necks, saying:
''Sell these and turn them into bread.
And another letter said: Enclosed
is an old gold piece. It was my
mothers. She gave it to me and told
me never to part with it, except foI
bread, and now / inclose it" We had
gathered $50, 900 in money, which we
turned INTO 8, 200, 600 pounds of q our.
eWhen Event DOWN. to the board of
trade at Chicago and left 5000 of the
amount raised with a prominent f1ouI
merchants, taking receipt, and leav-
ing 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 flour
would be sent? There are styles of
flour more fit for the trough of the
swine than the mouths of hungry mer
and women. Well, as is Gus tomary
when the flour came to New York il
was tested, and we found indeed they
had cheated u.s. They gave us better
-four than we had bought. / bought
in Chicago fine -four, but they sent us
superfiue. God bless the merchants o.
Chicago!
Now, we know nothing about famine
in America. The grasshoppers MAY
kill the crops in Kansas, the freshet
may destroy the crops along the Ohio
the potato worm may kill the vines O
Long Island, the rust may get into tn,
wheat of Michigan, yet when there ha,
been dreadful scarcity in some parts o
the land there has been plenty in othe
parts. But in districts OF Russia, vas
enough to drop several nations int,
them, drought for six consecutive year
has devastated. and these district
were previously the most productive o
all the empire. 1t was like what W,
would have in America if the hungr.
fieEd somehow got out of hell an,
alighted in our land, and swept hi
wing over Minnesota, and said: lie
nothing grow here" and over Mis-
souri,, and said: LET nothing grow
here" and over New York state
and said: LET nothing grow
here" and over Ohio an,
Georgia and Massachusetts, and Penn
sylvania and Nebraska and Dakota an
the Carolinas, and said: Let nothinl
| grow here" and the hunger fiend ha
swept the same whitening and blasting
| wing over the best parts of America il
the years 1887, 1888. 1859, 1890, 1891 an
1892, and finally all our families wer
| put on snail allowance and we all ha
risen from the table hungry, and ate
| awhile the children had only quartz
| enough, and after awhile only one mea
a day, aud after awhile no good food a
| all, but mixture of wheat and chat
and bark of trees, and then three @
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, an
| neighbors, not quite so exhausted
coming in to bury them, and after
wards the house becoming the tomt
with none to carry the dead to NOR
appropriate sepulchre familie
blotted out.
That was what occurred in Russia i
homes more than were ever counted, i
| homes that were once as comfortabl
and happy and bountiful as yours O
| mine, in homes as virtuous as yours O
in homes where God is worshiped a
| in yours or mine. 1t was to do littl
something toward beating back tina
archangel of wretchedness and horro
that we went, and we have now to ri
| port that, according to the estimate c
| the Russian famin relief committee, w
saved the lives of one hundred an
twenty-five thousand people. As at tn
| hunger relief stations, the bread wa
handed out--for it was made into loave
and distributed-many people woul
halt before taking it and reIigiousl
cross themselves and utter prayer fo
| ~,R AI,oryn VSTor11d corn