Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-05-03
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| good, to heaven, and IL they nave been
doing evil, to hell. .
| but do you not believe in the trans
migration of souls, and that after death
we go into birds or animals of some
sort?'
eyes The last creature a man is
| thinking of while dying is the one into
which he will go. If he is thinking of
| beast, he will go into beast.
81 thought you said that at death
| the soul goes to heaven or help
HE goes there by gradual process.
It may take him years and years.
.sCan any one become Hindoo?
| Could become Hindoo?"
eyes; you could
'sHow could become a Hindoo?''
by doing as the Hindoos do.
From the walls of one of their mu-
seums at Jaipur I had translated for
me these beautiful sentiments:
The wise make failure equal to success
Like threads of silver seen through crystal
beads, let love through good deeds show.
Do not to others that which if done to thee
would cause thee pain. And this is the sum of
duty
A man obtains a proper rule of action by
looking on his neighbors as himself.
From that continent of interesting
folk, from that continent that gave the
Christ, from that continent which has
been endeared by SO many missionary
heroics, there comes groan of 80, 0O0,-
900 people in hunger. More people are
in danger of starving to death in India
today than the entire population of the
United States. In the famine in India
in the year 1877, about 6, 900, 900 people
starved to death. That is more than
all the people of Washing ton, of New
York, of Philadelphia, of Chicago, put
together. But that famine was not
tenth part as awful as the one there
now raging. Twenty thousand are dy
ing there of famine every day. Whole
villages and towns have died-every
man, woman and child; none left to
bury the dead. The vultures and the
jackals are the only pallbearers. Though
some help has been sent, before full re-
lief can reach them I suppose there will
be at least 10, 900, 900 dead. Starvation,
even for one person, is an awful process
No food. the vitals gnaw upon them
selves, and faintness and languor and
pangs from head to foot, and horror and
despair and insanity take full possession.
One handful of wheat or corn or rice
per day would keep life going, but they
cannot get handful. The crops failed,
and the millions are dying. Oh, it is
hard to be hungry in world where
there are enough grain and fruit and
meat to fill all the hungry mouths on
the planet; but, alas, that the sufferer
and the supply cannot be brought to-
gether. There stands India today Look
at her! Her face dusky from the hot
suns of many centuries; under her tur-
ban such achings of brow as only 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 dyingl Give me breadl
That is what want! Breadl Give it to
me quick. Give it to me now-bread!
bread! breadp' 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, in bill signed
by our sympathetic president, have au-
thorlzed the secretary of the navy to
charter 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
he,
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 in time of trouble"
Noble Mission.
Oh, what a relief ship that will be!
1t shall not turn a screw nor hoist sail
until we have had something to do with
its cargo. Just y 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 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
chip, constructed to battle England, go
Ing forth over the waters to carry relief