Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-09-07
FAIR NEW ZEALAND.
VISITED BY DR.. TALMAGE IN HIS TRIP
AROUND THE WORLD.

Some Of the Many Pleasing Surprises-suc-
cess of Woman sufrage-A Bishops Ex-
PLANTATION OF Famous "Blunder'-Grand
Reception to the Brooklyn Divine.
copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1Soil
DUNEDIN, New Zealand, July 90
The angels Of night were descending
from the evening skies and ascending
from the waves Of the Pacific and rid
ing down in black chariot Of shadow
from the mountains Of New Zealand as
we approached the harbor Of Auckland,
and the lighthouse on the rocks held up
its great torch to keep Us off the reefs
and to show us the way to safe wharf
age, seeming to say; "Yonder is a path
Of wavesi Ride into peace! Accept the
welcome Of this islandw
1t was half past o'clock when the
great screw Of our steamer ceased to
swirl the waters, and the gangplank
was lowered, and we descended to the
firm land, our name called as we heard
it spoken by a multitude who were
there to greet US. Strange sensation was
it 10000 miles from home to hear our
name pronounced by those whose faEs
we had never seen before, and whose
faces could be only dimly seen now by
the lanterns on the docks and the lights
Of our ship, just halted after a long
voyage. What made the night mcre
memorable was that was suddenly in
formed at o'clock l was to lecture in
their hall, and 30 minutes was short
time to allow a poor sailor like myself
TO get physical and mental equipoise aft
er 21 days pitching. But at s o'clock !
was ready and confronted a throng OF
people cordial and genial as any one
ever saluted from platform or pulpit.
1 told how for many days had been
looking off on a great ocean Of ipecac,
but that l had not wanted, as many say
under such circumstances, to be thrown
overheard, and that did not think any
one ever did want to be thrown over
board, and reminded them Of the seasick
voyager who said he wished to be
thrown into the sea, and the captain had
a sailor dash on him pailful OF cold
ocean water, and when the soaked and
shivering man protested and asked the
captain what he meant by such an In
suit the captain replied, You wanted
to be thrown overheard and l thought
1 would let you try how you liked a
bucket of the water before you took the
whole ocean. "
Never so glad were we to stand on
firm land as the night Of our arrival al
Auckland. Wondrous New Zealand
Few people realize how it was discover
ed. They tell US of Captain Cook and Of
Dutch navigators, but all the islands OF
the South sea as well as this immense
New Zealand were discovered as a result
Of the effort to watch the transit OF
Venus over the suns disk from the
South seas The Royal society sent out
ships for this purpose, and Captain Cook
and the astronomers and botanists who
accompanied him on his voyage were
only the agents Of science. How the in
terests of this world are linked with the
behavior of other worlds, and how the
fact mentioned suggests that most Of the
valuable things known in this world
have been found out while looking fol
something else, and what sublimity al
this gives to the work Of the explorer
the transit of Venus an island of light
resulting in the transit Of many islands
from the unknown into the we'll known
But the prowess Of such men can never
be fully appreciated. The sea captain
who puts out in this day Of charts anC
navigating apparatus with a ship Of 10,
900 tons for another hemisphere, daring
typhoons and cyclones, strange current!
and hidden rocks, must be brave man.
but who can measure the courage o.
Cabot or Marco Polo or Captain Cool
sailing out into unknown seas, across
wildernesses Of water that have nevel
been mapped, in ships of 200 tons, dis
covering rocks only by running upor
them and met on shore by savages ready
70 scalp OF TOdsJ th0nI
These challengers Of tempest and can
nibalism and oceanic horror must have
had nerve and valor beyond that OF any
other heroes. Such men SCI New Zea
land as a gem into the crown Of The
worlds geography. To me and to mos
people who come here New Zealand is {
splendid surprise. We have all read Sc
much about the superstitions and out
rageous cruelty of this land in othel
times that we are startled on arriving
here to find more churches in New Zea
land than in America in proportion to the
number of the population. In one villag'
that l visited since coming here fnC
eight churches to a population Of 3, ,OOC
people. There are too many churches IL
many places in New Zealand, and they
iostle each other and contend for righ
of possession, hindering each other ant
half starving many of their ministers
as Is sure to be the case when there ar'
too many churches, and consequently
not enough support for every one o.
them.
Another surprise to me is that female
suffrage is in full blast. found elegant
ladies telling of their experience at the
ballot box, and hereby report to the
American ladies now moving for th'
right Of female suffrage that New Zea
land is clear ahead Of them, and thai
the experiment has been made here sue
cessfully. Instead of the ballot box de
grading woman, woman is here elevat
ing the ballot box, and why in New Zea
] land or America or anywhere else should