The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-14
DIR. TALMAGE'SSCHEME
Will Preach Around the World,
Beginning in June of This Year.
Has Long Wished TO Be Globe Trot-
ter, and Now the Opportunity Awaits
with Glowing Possibilities.
New York Advertiser

New York Advertiser.
People have been going around the world
for one reason or another from the time OF
Magellan to the time of George Francis
Train, but the projected circumnavigatory
expedition OF DR.. Talmage, which is to be-
gin about the 1st of June next, will, in
one respect at least, beat the record. Ma
gellan went around just to prove that he
could do il, George Francis Train kept
going around because he couldn't stop, but
Dr. Talmage will. fguratively speaking at
least, follow the oceanic footprints OF his
predecessors for the very simple yet unique
reason that he has been invited. For up
ward Of twenty years the world-famous
doctor, who breaches each week from his
pulpit and the newspapers to congrega-
ton numbering millions Of people, has been
getting letters covered with all manner OF
foreign postage stamps begging and urg-
ing him to come and preach the gospel In
the Fiji islands, in New Zealand. on midas
coral strand, in Japan, in South Africa and
in all the big foreign cities. The Doctor
is a hard worker, and has answered many
Of these invitations in persons, but the
furtheSt east he has ever yet got was 10
the ancient city of Damascus, where, even
as he did on the banks of the River jordan,
he lifted up his voice in exhortation TO the
multitude
but now" said the Doctor himself yes
terday, as he leaned back in MS cnalr,
smiled and swung one slippered foot across
his other knee, Il am going. L have had
this trip in mind for years. but somehow
could never get started. 1t will not take
preach in all the principal cities or the
Sandwich Islands, New Zealand, Ceylon,
India-possibly also on the Fiji Islands and
ChinaAand the sites of ancient Tyre
and Sidon, besides in certain localities IN
the holy land which / have not yet visited;
things, won't IL, to respond to invitations
ten, fifteen, twenty years after they have
been extended, but then 1 have an idea
that my friends In other countries Know
that / couldn't come before. They GER
tainly have an Astounding patience If they
are still expecting me.
BORN ALONG THE COAST"
"This around-the-world trip which have
mapped out" said he, ''is in the nature Of
an anniversary vacation to me-a celebra-
ton Of the ending Of my twenty-fifth year
in the pulpit of the Tabernacle"
What is the date of the anniversary"
THAT question reminds me OF the man
who was born on q fishing smack during
storm because his mother always went
with her husband on his trips. When the
boy grew up and was asked where he was
born he always answered, was born all
along the coast That's the way with my
preached my trial sermon in March, ac-
cepted the call in April and was consecrat-
ed in May 1 tried for years to decide
anniversary. finally compromised by choos-
ing all three, and nowadays, when asked
| always say that my Tabernacle ministry
like the baby on the fishing smack. was
born all along the coast. i believe in the
principle of prolonging all the joyous an
niverSaries we have just as long as we can.
We have few enough of them and too many
sad days.
But the trip" said he eve sail, Of
course. from San Francisco. and our first
CT lie no a nvviR Lei Am i IN o
to meet Liliuokalani? / really ont know.
She is not one of those from whom / have
received invitations: You see / haven't
business. There has been too much of ii,
and, besides. | am not a Senator. have
always been interested in that group of
islands, its people and its destiny, though
and even If / do not meet Llik-whats her
name?L1 expect to spend all the time
have there to good advantage. / am so
constituted that l can see great deal and
understand what 1 do see with less ap-
parent effort and expenditure Of mental
and physical energy than some men, and
that faculty has very often been OF great
help to me In former trips TO other coun-
tries.
steamer that will give me a chance to go to
the Fill Islands on my way across the Pa
cific. If | can I shall visit them. as is my
great wish and in response to urgent letters
of years ago. If l cannot take passage on
such a steamer however without losing too
much time must abandon that part OF my
PLAN
NEW ZEALANDERS CALL
1.-THE great and wonderful islands Of New
Zealand I shall visit with an interest and a
pleasure that has been accommodating for
twenty-three years, for SO long ago as that
/ got my first invitation to some time come
there and preach the gospel Of our Lord.
Why, there is hardly a Sunday OF the year
that 1 do not meet New Zealanders We
are right on their route to England, you
see, coming over the Pacific and Icross the
e con ms h ana almost every Sunday after
OF the islands come and introduce them
selves to me and urge me to visit their
country. / shall preach In Auckland and in
the other principal cities, and shall stay in
the Islands long enough to study all the
conditions that interest an American-and
tnat includes about evervthtl".
"One thing In which l shall be especially
interested in New Zealand is the question OF
woman suffrage and its success or failure.
The suffrage has very recently been grant
ed to the women OF the islands, and q large
number of them voted at the last elections,
held a few weeks ago. What L want to find
out from personal investigation, observation
and questioning is the effect exerted on the
morals of the communities and the political
situation of the country by the use of the
ballot IN the hands of women. The New
Zealand test is the best and most conpre-
hensive one SO far In the history Of the
movement, and It's results there will do
mucn to either aid or hinder the movement
in this and other countries. | am acquainted
with Susan Anthony and many of the advo-
Gates of woman suffrage in the United
States, and believe they are doing a noble
work, especially in securing for women
greater and broader personal and property
rights.
80 far as the question of woman suffra ge
is concerned, however. my personal belief
is that the decision of the question should
largely be left TO the desires OF the women
themselves in their respective States or
communities, and judging from my personal
observation here in Brooklyn, New York
and other large cities of this country the
women do not, at present, want the ballot
placed in their hands.
But the trip. Leaving the ladies of New
Zealand to work out their own high des-
tiny, our party will proceed to CeyICn,
where l will also preach in Colombo and
the various other principal cities ard towns.
Thence on to India, where l now expect 10
spend a considerable time. India IS won
derful country-a most wonderful country
and while / in 1T 1 shall try TO go right
10 the bottom Of those mysteries about
which we hear and read so much / shall
visit all the cities and preach in thec1-Cal-
c1tta, Bombay, Cawnpore. Lucknow Be-
mares, Simla and others. And / shall make
II a point to become acquainted with lead
ing Hindus, BrahminS and Mohammedans
and to talk with them concerning those so
called occult miracles that, whether real
or unreal, have cast glamour OF mystery
over India for centuries.
Wherever 1t Is possible I shall go
ton and 1 shall try to learn enough to
convince myself, at least, concerning the
truth or falsity OF the strange stories of
tl,n