St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-06-05
THE INDIA FAMINE.
Rev. DR.. Talmage's Appeal in Be-
half Of the Sufferers.

half of the Sufferers.
4 Graphic Description Of the Beauties ~
Wonders or the Indus-The Work
or the Christian Missions
rics Portrayed.
The following discourse by Rev. I,
Dewitt Talmage was delivered in the
course Of his mission in behalf of the
famine-stricken people Of India 1t il
based on the text:
This is Ahasuerus. which reigned from Indis
even into Ethiopia-Essher l., H.
Among the rs, 693 words which make
up the Bible only once occurs the word
India" In this part of the Scriptures
which the rabbis cali '.Mcgillah Es-
ther," or the volume Of Esther, book
sometimes complained against because
the word Cod is not even once mem
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 witt. 2,OOO, 900 men. but
returned IN a poor fishers boat, had Z
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 forget the
thrill emancipation that went through
my body and mind and soul when, af-
ter two weeks tossing on the seas
around Ceylon and Indi:-for the winds
did not, according to the old hymn.
elbow soft DER CeJlon's isle-our ship
sailed up one Of the mouths of the
Gangcs, past James and Mary island,
SO named because . royal ship of that
name was wrecked there, and 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 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 increasing
that you or your children will pro5a-
bly, visit that land of boundleSs fascina-
ton. Its configuration is such rs no
one but God could have architected, and
it seems rs If q man who had no reli-
gion, going there, would be obliged to
acknowledge God, IS did the cowboy
in Colorado. His companion, an athe-
ist, had about persuaded the cowboy
that there was no God; but coming
amidst some of that tremendous scene
~ 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 now, guess from
the looks of things around here there
must have been 4 God some time"
No one but the omniscicnt could have
planned India, and no one but the ON
n:potent could have built it. It is .
great triangle, its base the Himala-
yas, . 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
: 20, OOO, 200 souls Whatever be ones
taste, going there, his taste is gratified-
Some 60 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
Americans Ind 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,
F1nd,:is called. ,.the sahafsiatern You
can not see the tigers natural
ferotity after he PIN humili-
atef.S BY ! vdsA5 Across thc
sea You need to heir his growl
rs he presses his iron; the
cage in Catcutta. ThtHk{{ towns have
been abandoned as fe4idence because
Of the work Of AhiA invader. In
India in the year 1877, SO people were
slain by the tiger and II, 900 cattle de-
stroyed. From the back Of the ele-
plant or frDm. built among
IS s e3,gsl ss? esr assn; r .ss
psl tt9 spsstY1a :ayise al those ss
amusement in shooting singing birds,
coming home It night with empty
powder flask and whole choir of
Heaven slung over their shoulder, to
absent themselves for awhile and at
tack the justifiable game Of India Or
If you go As botanists, oh. what opu-
lence of floral With no distinct fora
Of its own, it is the chorus of all the
fora of Persia, and Siberia, and China,
and Arabia, and Egypt The Baptist
missionary. Carey, who did infinite
good to India, had two great passions
first, : passion for souls, and
next : passion for flowers,
and he. adorned his Asiatic
home and the American homes Of
his friends, and museums on either side
the sen, with the results Of his foral
expeditions in India To prepare him
self for morning prayers, he was nc
customed to walk smid the flowers and
trees 1t is the heaven Of the magnolia
and abelmosk and palm tree. The eth
nologist going their will find endless
entertainment in the study Of the races
now living there and the races of
whose blood they are : commingling.
The historian going there will find his
theory of Warren Hastings govern
ment in India the reverse from that
which Edmund Burke gave him in the
most famous address ever made in .
courtroom. its two characteristics
matchless cloquence and one-sidedness
OF statement The archeOlogist will
~ thrown into = frenzy az delight ~