Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-05-06
AN APPEAL FOR INDIA
REV. DR.. TALMAGE IN BEHALF OF
A FAMINE STRICKEN PEOPLE.

the Lord VIII Deliver Him In Time OF
Trouble"-A Thrilling Story of q Pros
trate People.
CHICAGO, May 2.-Dr. Talmage is on a
mission of bread for the famine sufferers Of
India. He is speaking every day to vast
audiences in Iowa and Illinois, helping to
ill the ships provided by the United States
for carrying corn to India.
Text, Esther /, /, "This is Ahasuerus
which reigned from India even unto Ethi-
opia."
Among the 773, ,6O3 words which make
up the Bible only once occurs the word
India" In this part Of the Scriptures,
: Itch the rabbis call "Megillah Esther"
the volume of Esther, book some-
times complained against because the
word "God" Is not even once mentioned
in it, although one rightly disposed can see
God in it from the first chapter to the last,
we have it set forth that Xerxcs, or Ahas-
uerus, who invaded Greece with 1000, 900
men, but returned in poor fishers boat,
had 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 until with
moro and more enthusiasm all around the
world Bishop Heber's hymn about "India's
coral otrand" is being sung. Never will
forget the thrill of anticipation that
went through my body and mind and soul
when after two weeks tossing on the seas
around Ceylon and India-for the winds
did not, according to the old hymn, "blow
soft DER Ceylon's isle''-our ship sailed up
one of the mouths of the Ganges, past
James and Mary island, so named because
O royal ship of that name was wrecked
there, and l stepped ashore at Calcutta,
amid the shrines and temples and sculp-
lures of that City of Palaces, the strange
physiognomies of the living and the crema-
tions of the dead.
had never expected to be there, because
the sea and long ago had serious falling
out, but the facilities of travel are SO in
creasing that you or your children will
probably visit that land of boundless fas-
cination Its confguration is such as no
one but God could have architected, and 1t
seems as if man who had no religion 60
ing there would be obliged to acknowledge
God as did the cowboy in Colorado. His
companion, an atheist, had about persuad-
coming amid some of that tremendous
scenery 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, If there
| is no God, / guess from the looks of things
around here there must have been God
some time" No one but the Omniscient
could have planned India, and no one but
the Omnipotent could have built it. 1t is
la great triangle, its base the Himalayas, q
word meaning "the dwelling place of
SHOWS" those mountains pouring out of
their crystal cup the Indus, the Brahma-
putra and the Ganges to slake the thirst
of the vast populations of India. That
country Is the home of 100000, 900 souls.
Whatever be ones taste, going there his
| taste is gratifed. Some go as hunters of
great game, and there is no end to thoir en-
tertainment. Mighty fauna-bison, buff
falo, rhinocoros, elephant, panther, lion,
tiger, this last to be the perpetual game
for Americans 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 humon blood
he wants nothing else and is called "the
man eater" You cannot 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. Tbir'
teen towns have been abandoned as resi-
denoe because Of the work of this cruel in
vader.
In India, in the year 1877, $40 people
were slain by the tiger and 10000 cattle
destroyed. From the back of the elephant
1 or from galleries built among the trees
1900 tigers went down and SIS, 900 of gov
ernment reward was paid the sportsmen
I advise all those who in America and 9th
er lands find amusement in shooting sing
ing birds, coming home at night witt
empty powder flask and whole choir o.
heaven slung over their shoulder, to absent
themselves for awhile and attack the jus
tifiable game of India. Or If you go al
botanists, oh, what opulence of flora
With no distinct flora of its own, it is thu
chorus of all the fora of Persia and 81
IBERIA and China and Arabia and Egypt.
Two Great Passions.
The Baptist missionary Carey, who die
infinite good to India, had two great pas
sions-frst, q passion for souls, and, next
passion for flowers-and he adorned hi
Asiatic home and the American homes O
his friends and museums on either side tn,
sea with the results of his floral expedi
tions in India. To prepare himself fo
morning prayers he was accustomed tt
walk amid the flowers and trees 1t is tn,
heaven of the magnolia and abelmosk ant
palm tree. The ethnologist going ther
will find endless entertainment in tn
study of the races now living there and tn
races of whose blood they are commin
Cling.
The historian going there will find hi
theory of Warren Hastings government
in India the reyerse from that which Ed
mund Burke gave him in the most famou
address ever made in courtroom, its tw'
characteristics matchless eloquence ant
onesidedness of statement. The archaolo
gist will be thrown into frenzy of deligh
as he visits Delhi of India and digs dow
and finds seven dead cities underneath tn
now living city. All success to the hunt
ers, and the botanists, and the ethnolgists
and the historians, and the arch@ologist
who visit India, each one on his or he
errand. But we today visit India as Chris
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tian women and men to hear the full
meaning Of groan of hunger that ha
Travelled $4,000 miles, yet gets louder ant
more agonizing as the days go by. Blu
why have any interest in people SO fa
away that it Is evening there when it i
morning here, their complexion darker
their language to us jargon, their attir
unlike that found in any American ward
robe, their memory and their ambition un
like anything that we recall or hope for?
With more emphasis than you put int
the interrogatory "Why?" I answer, first
because our Christ was an Asiatic. Egyp
gave to us Its monuments, Rome gave +
Us its law. Germany gave to us its philos
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