Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-05-07

One handful q wheat or corn or nee per
dav would keep life going. hut they cannot
get a handful. The crops failed, aud the
millions ar diving. Oh. Il i hard 10 BE-
hungry in a world where there are enough
| grain and fruit and meat 10 fill all the hun
/ cry mouths on the planet: hut, alas. that
| the sufferar and the supply cannot be-
brought together. There stands India to-
davl Look al her. Her face dusky from
the hot suns 90 many centuries: under her
turban such arhines Of brow a. only dy-
! ing nation feels: her eyes hollow with un-
utterahle woe: the tears rolling down her
| sunken cheek: her back bent with more
agonies than she knows how 90 carry; her
I ovens containing nothing hut ashes. Gnunt,
CHASTITY wasted. the dew Of death upon
her forehead and pallor such rs the last
hour brings she stretches forth her tren-
bling hand toward rs, aud with hoarse
I whisper she saws. ~ am dYinCl Give me
bread! That Is what / want! Bread Give
| IL to me quick. Give Il to me now-hread
| bread bread,' America has heard the
cry. Many thousands OF dollars have al
/ ready been contributed. One snip laden
with hread=tuifs has sailed from San
Francisco for India. Our senate and
! house Of representatives, In hill signed by
/ our sympathetic president, have author
/ lied the secretary Of the nnvyto charter
vessel TO carry food TO the famine sufferers.
and YOU NAV help M that ship. We want
I That will save the lives Of az least l. 900 600
people. Many will respond in contrihu-
! tions of money. and the barns and corn
/ cribs OF the entire United Sta.eS VIII pour
! forth their treasures of food. When that
| ship is laden till it can carry no more we
will ask him who holds the winds in his fist
and plants his triumphant foot on stormy
| waves to let nothing but good happen to
| the ship till il anchors in Bengal or
| Arabian waters. They who help by con
! tributions Of money or breadstuifs toward
filling that relief ship will flavor their own
food for their lifetime with appetizing
qualities and insure their own welfare
| through the promise Of him who said,
| Blessed is he that considcreth the poor
the Lord will deliver him In time Of
| trouble"
Oh what relief ship that will be! II
! shall not turn a screw nor hoist a sail until
We have had something to do with its car
| 20. Just seventeen years ago from these
Easter times a ship on similar errand went
| out from New York harhor-thc Old war
! rlgate Constellation. 1t had O-nc carried
! guns OF deaths. but there was famine in
Ireland. and the Constellation was loaded
with 500 tons Of food. That ship, once
covered with smoke Of battle, then covered
/ with Easter hoSannas; that shin. con-
structed to battle England, going forth
over the waters to carry relief to some Of
her starving subjects. Better than sword
into plowshare, better than spear into
pruning hook twas that old war friga:e,
turned into white winged angel OF rcsur-
rection, to roll away the stone from the
mouth of Irelands sepulchre. On like er-
| rand five years ago the ship Leo put out
with many tons Of food for famine struck
| Russia. One Saturday afternoon on the
deck OF that steamer, as she lay at Brook
vn wharf a wondrous scene took place.
\ committee OF the Kings Daughters had
decorated the ship with streamers and
bunting, American and Russian flags inter
twining, Thousands OF people on the
wharves and on the decks join US in invok-
Ing God blessing on the cargo. and the
long meter DOXoloGy in "Old Hundred"
sounded gcandly up amid the masts and
ratlines. Having had the Joy OF seeing that
ship thus cOnsecratcd, we had the addi-
tional JOY Of standing on the docks Of ST.
Petersburg when the planks OF the reip.
snip were thrown out and the representa-
tiyes of the municipality and Of royalty
went aboard her the long freight train at
the same time rolling down to take the food
to the starving and on alternate cars of
that train American and Russian flags float
ing. But now the Hunger in India is
michtier than any that Ireland or Russia
ever suffered. Quicker ought to be the re-
sPonse and on SO vast a scale that the one
| ship wOuld become a whole tlOtilla-NeW
York sending one Boston another, phila-
delphia another, Charleston another. New
Orleans another. Then let them all meet in
some harbor Of India What IA peroratIon
| If mercy for the nineteenth century, |
would like to stand ON the wharf at Cal
cutta or Bombay and see such fleet come
in. With what joy it would be Welcomed
The emaciated would lit their heads on
shriyeled hands and elbows, and with thin
hands ask, Is it coming something to
caty'
And whole villages and towns, too weak
to walk, would crawl out on hands and
knees to get the first grain of corn they
could reach and put Il TO their famished
lips. May | cry out for you and for others
TO those sufferers: wait little longer
bear up a little more, oh, dying men Of
India; oh, starving women; oh. emaciated
babes! Relief is on the way, and more relief
VIII soon be coming. We send it in the
name of the Asiatic Christ, who said; L
was hungry, and ye fed me. Inasmuch as
We have done it unto one of the least Of
these my brethren ye have done it unto
| mo. ''
Christian people Of America, l call your
: attention to the fact that we may now, as
| never before, by one magnificent stroke
: open the widest door for the evangelization
Of Asia. A stupendous obstacle in the way
Outstanding Asia has been the difference
r of language but all those people under
= stand the gospel Of bread. Another obsta-
Gle has been the law of caste, but in what
l better way can we teach them the
3 brotherhood OF man? Another huge diff
hcuty in the way of Outstanding
= Asia has been that those people thought
5 the religion we would have them take was
no better than their HindOoism or Moham-
5 mechanism, but they will now see by this
e crusade for the relief of people IA 900 miles
T. away that the Christian religion is of a
: higher, better and grander type than any
, other religion for when did the followers
= of Brahma or Vishnu or Buddha or Con-
e fucius or M0hammed ever demonstrate like
= interest in people on opposite sides of the
t world? Having taken the bread Of this life
e from our hands they will be more apt to
r take from US the bread of eternal life The
t missionaries of different denominations in
, India at forty-six stations are already dis
e tributinC relief sent through the Christian
= Herald. Is it not plain that those mission.
h aries, after, feeding the hunger of the body
e will be at better advantage to feed the
: hunger of the soul2 When Christ, before
! preaching to the 5000 in the wilderness
D broke for them the miraculous loaves, He
IL Indicated that the best way to prepare the
$ world for spiritul and eternal considera.
G tons is first to look after temporal inter.
r ests Oh, church of God in America and
Il Europe!
This is your opportunity. We have or
l. occasions of Christian patriotism cried
}, america for Cod" Now let US add the
battle shout, "Asia for God!' In this move
+ ment to give food to starving India heal
the rustling of the wing Of the ApocalyptiC
l. angel, ready to fly through the midst OF
heaven proclaiming to all the Kingdoms
and people and tongues the unsearchablc
e riches of Jesus Christ.
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