The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-05-14
THE INDIA FAMINE.
Rev. DR.. Talmage's Appeal in Be-
half of the Sufferers.
A Graphic Description of the Beauties and
Wonders of the Indus-The Work
of the Christian BIissiona-
ries Portrayed.

based on the text:
This Is Ahasuerus. which reigned from India
even into Ethiopia Esther l., Il.
Among the 773, sos words which make
up the Bible only once occurs the word
India" In this part of the Scriptures
which the rabbits call ''Megillah Es-
ther," or the volume of Esther, book
sometimes complained against because
the word ''GOd" is not even once men
toned in it, although one rightly dis
posed can see God in it from the first
chapter to the last, we have it set forth
that Xerxes, or Ahasuerus, who in
vaded Greece with 1000, 900 men, but
returned in poor fishers boat, had a
vast dominion, among other regions,
India. In my text India takes its place
in Bible geography, and the interest in
that land has continued to increase, I'M
til, with more and more enthusiasm,
all around the world Bishop Heber's
hymn about ''India's coral strand" is
being sung. Never will L forget the
thrill of anticipation that went through
my body and mind and soul when, af-
ter two weeks tossing on the seas
around Ceylon and Indie-for the winds
did not, according to the old hymn,
elbow soft DER Ceylon's isle-our ship
sailed up one of the mouths of the
Ganges, past James and Mary island,
SO named because royal ship of that
name was wrecked there, and l stepped
ashore at Calcutta, amid the shrines
and temples and sculptures of that
''City of Palaces, the strange physiog-
Monies of the living and the cremations
Of hn b,
be there, because the sea and | long
ago had serious falling out; but the
facilities of travel are so increasing
that you or your children will prOba-
bly, visit that land of boundleSs fascina-
ton. Its CONFORMATION is such as no
one but Gcd could have architected, and
it seems as if man who had no reli-
gion, going there, would be obliged to
acknowledge a God, as did the cowboy
in Colorado. His companion, an athe-
list, had about persuaded the cowboy
that there was no God; but coming
amidst some of that tremendous scene
ry of high rocks and awful chasms, and
depths dug under depths, and noun
tains piled on mountains, the cowboy
said to his atheistic companion: Jack,
the looks of things around here there
must have been a God some time"
No one but the omniscient could have
planned India, and no one but the ON
nipotent could have built it. 1t is
great triangle, its base the Himala-
vas, word meaning 1.-The dwelling
place of SHOWS" those mountains pour
ing out of their crystal cup the Indus,
the Brahmaputra and the Ganges to
Stake the thirst of the vast populations
OF India. That country is the home of
40, 600, 900 souls. Whatever be ones
taste, going there, his taste is gratified.
Some go as hunters of great game, and
there is no end to their entertainment.
Mighty fauna: Bison, buffalo, rhinoc-
eros, elephant, panther, lion, tiger
this last to be the perpetual game for
and Europeans, because he
comes up from the malarial swamps
where no human being dare enter; the
deer and antelope his accustomed food
but once having obtained the taste of
human blood, he wants nothing else,
and is called 1.-The man-eater." You
can not see the tigers natural
ferOcity after he has been humili-
ated by voyage across the
sea. You need to hear his growl
as he presses his iron paw against the |
cage in Calcutta. Thirteen towns have |
been abandoned as residence because |
Of the work of this cruel invader. In |
India in the year 1877, $40 people were |
slain by the tiger and 10000 cattle de-
stroyed. From the back of the elc-
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The trees !, 800 tigers went down, and |
SIS, 900 of government reward were |
paid the sportsmen. l advise all those |
Who in America and other lands find |
amusement in shooting singing birds, |
coming home at night wilh empty |
powder flask and a whole choir of |
Heaven slung over their shoulder, to |
absent themselves for awhile and at |
ack the justifable game of India. Or |
f you go as botanists, oh, what opu- |
ence of floral. With no distinct flora |
II its own, it is the chorus of all the !
lora of Persia, and Siberia, and China, |
md Arabia, and Egypt. The Baptist
Carey, who did infinite |
rood to India, had two great passions
first, a passion for souls, and |
lCNls l1dSS1Ou lOA 1ONClS,
md he adorned his Asiatic |
home and the American homes of |
lis friends, and museums on either side |
he sea, with the results of his floral |
expeditions in India. To prepare him
elf for morning prayers, he was ac-
ustomed to walk amid the flowers and |
rees. 1t is the heaven of the magnolia
md abelmosk and palm tree. The eth
lologist going their will find endless
N Entertainment in the study of the races
low living there and the races of
whose blood they are a cOmmingling.
The historian going there will find his
heory of Warren Hastings govern
nent in India the reverse from that
which Edmund Burke gave him in the
most famous address ever made in a
it's two characteristics
eloquence and one-sidedness
# statement. The archaologist will
,e thrown into frenzy of delight as
lie visits Delhi of India and digs down
nd finds seven dead cities underneath
he now-living city. All success to the
hunters and the botanists and the eth
iologists and the historians and the
who visit India, each one
IN his or her errand!
But we to-day visit India as Christian
women and men to hear the full mean
ng of groan of hunger that has
raveled $4,000 miles, yet gets louder
nd more agonizing as the days go by.
Sut why have any interest in people so
ar away that it is evening there when
is morning here, their complexion
arl1er, their language to us jargon,
heir attire unlike that found in any
american wardrobe, their memory and
heir ambition unlike anything thatw
ecall or hope for? With more empha-
is than YOU put into the interrogatory