The Monitor-register., 1897-05-07
Potash

pertinent on the best farms in the United States-is
told in a little book which we publish and will gladly
mail free to any farmer in America who will write for it.
GERMAN KALI WORKS, g
90 Nassau ST., New York.
at her! Her face dusky from the hot
uns of many centuries; under her tur-
ban such achings of brow as only a dy-
ing nation feels; her eyes hollow with
unutterable woe; the tears rolling down
her sunken cheek; her back bent with
more agonies than she knows how to
carry; her ovens containing nothing
but ashes. Gaunt, CHASTITY, wasted, the
dew of death upon her forehead and a
pallor such as the last hour brings, she
stretches forth her trembling hand to-
ward us, and with hoarse whisper she
says: 81 am dying! Give me breadl
That is what I want! Bread! Give it to
me quick. Give it to me now-breadl
bread! bread!' America has heard the
cry. Many thousands of dollars have
already been contributed. One ship
laden with breadstuffs has sailed from
San Francisco for India. Our senate and
house of representatives, i'll a bill signed
by our sympathetic president, have au-
thorized the secretary of the navy to
charter a vessel to carry food to the
famine sufferers, and you may help fill
that ship. We want to send at least
600, 900 bushels of corn. That will save
the lives of at least 600, 900 people.
Many will respond in contributions of
money, and the barns and corncribs of
the entire United States will 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 it anchors
in Bengal or Arabian waters. They who
help by contributions of money or
breadstuffs 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 considereth the poor, the Lord
will deliver him i'll time of trouble"
A Noble Mission.
Oh, what a relief ship that will be!
1t shall not turn a screw nor hoist a sail
until we have had something 10 do with
its cargo. just II years ago from these
Easter times a ship on similar errand
went out from New York harbor-the
old war frigate Constellation. 1t had
once carried guns of death, but there was
famine i'll 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
ship, constructed to battle England, 60
ing forth over the waters to carry relief
to some of her starving subjects. Better
than sword into plowshare, better than
spear into pruning hook was that old
war frigate, turned into a white winged
angel of resurrection, to roll away the
stone from the mouth of Ireland's sep
ulchre. On like errand five years ago
the ship Leo put out with many O n of
food for famine struck Russia. One Sat
urday afternoon ON the deck Of that
steamer, as she lay at Brooklyn wharf,
u wondrous scene took place. A COM
mittee of the Kings Daughters had dec
GRATED the ship with streamers and bunt-
ing, American and Russian flags inter
twining. Thousands of people on the
wharves and on the decks joined us in
invoking Gods blessing on the cargo,
and the long meter Doxology in "Old
Hundred" sounded grandly up amid the
masts and ratlines. Having had the joy
OF seeing that ship thus consecrated, we
had the additional joy of standing on
the docks of st. Petersburg when the
planks Of the relief ship were thrown
out and the representatives of the mu-
inequalities 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
floating. But now the hunger in India
is mightier than any that Ireland or
Russia ever suffered. Quicker ought to
be the response, and on so vast a scale
that the ship would become whole
fotilla-New York sending one, Boston
another, Philadelphia another, Charles
ton another, New Orleans another. Then
let them all meet in some harbor of In
dia. What a peroration of mercy for the
nineteenth century! I would like to
stand on the wharf at Calcutta or Bonn
bay and see such a feet come in. With
what joy it would be Welcomed The
emaciated would lift their heads ON
shrlveled hands and elbows. and with
thin lips ask, "Is it ooming-something
to eat?"
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 it to
their famished lips. May l cry out for
you and for others to those sufferers:
Wait a little longer, bear up a little
more, oh, dying men of India oh, starv-
ing women; oh, emaciated babesl Relief
is ON the way, and more relief will soon
be coming. We send it in the name of
the Asiatic Christ, who said: 4 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
me-"
Christian people of America, / 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 i'll the way of C~hristianizing
Asia has been the difference of Ian
guage, but all those people understand
the gospel Of bread. Another obstacle
has been the law Of caste, but in what
better way can we teach them the
brotherhood Of man? Another huge dif
f1culty III the way of Ch~ristianizing
Asia has been that those people thought
the religion We would have them take
was no better than their Hindooism q
Mohammedanism, but they will nov,
see by this crusade for the relief of peo
pie $4,000 miles away that the Chlis
tiap religion is Of a higher, better md
| grander type than any other religicr
for when did the followers Of Brahinn
or Vishnu or Buddha or Confucius a.
Mohammed ever demonstrate like inter
est in people on opposite sides of to
world? Having taken the bread of tbs
life from our hands, they will be moro
apt to take from us the bread Of eternal
life. The missionaries of different dc.
nominations in India at 46 stations ire
already distributing relief sent through
The Christian Herald. Is II not plain
that those missionaries, after feeding
the hunger of the body, will be at bet
| ter ADVANTAGE Ia feed the hunoer ~ fha