Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-06
TALMAGEs SERMON.
THE HUNGER IN INDIA. LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
From the Following Text: "Thi Is Alias
uerus Which Reisned from India,
Even URto Ethiopia"-Esther Ia. a
Land Plundcred by Greed.

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>-M up the bible only
= \ M@ once occurs the
IN word India" In
~ % N this part of the
w T. scriptures. which
EN..E@ the Rabbits call
- "Megillah Esther"
W or the volume of
Esther, a book
sometimes COM
planned 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 Ner-
xes, or Ahasuerus, who invaded Greece
with two million men, but returned IN
a poor fishers boat, had a vast domln-
ion, 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 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, 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 a royal ship of that name was
wrecked there, and / stepped ashore at
Calcutta, amid the shrines and tempies
and sculptures of that City OF Pal-
aces" the strange physiognomies OF
the living and the cremations OF the
dead. l had never expected TO De
there, because the sea and | long ago
had a serious falling out; but the facil-
tiles of trayc! are so increasing that
you or your children will probably visit
that land of boundless fascination. Its
CONFORMATION is such that no one but
God could have architected, ant it
seems as if a man who had no religion
going there, would be obliged to ac-
knowledge a God as did the cowboy in
Colorado. His companion, an atheist
had about persuaded the cowboy that
there was no God, but coming amidst
some of that tremendous scenery Of
high rocks and awful chasms, and
depths dug under depths, and noun
tains piled on mountains. the cow boy
said to his atheistic companion, Jack
= if there is no God now, l guess from
the looks of things around here there
+ must have been a God some time" NJ
one but the Omniscient could have
planned India. and no one but the ON,
! nipotent could have built 1t. 1t is
great triangle, its base the Himalayas
r a word meaning the dwelling place o
SHOWS" those mountains pouring GU
of their crystal cup the Indus. thu
Paanmaputra and the Ganges to slak'
. the thirst of the vest populations o
e India. That country is the homo 0
two hundred and forty million souls
: Whatever be ones taste. going there
his taste is gratified. Some go a
hunters Of great game. and there is n
$ end to their entertainment. Might
fauna: bison. buffalo, rhinoceros, Gle
plant, panther. lion, tiger-this las
+ to be the perpetual game for Ameri
n cans and Europeans, because he come
up from the malarial swamps, where n
human being dare enter; the deer an,
a antelope his accustomed food, but ono
having obtained the taste of hulna
blood, he wants nothing else, and /
: called "the man-eater." You can no
see the tigers natural f%erocity after h
has been humiliated by a voyage acros
the sea. You need to hear his grow
as he presses his iron paw against th
cage in Calcutta. Thirteen towns hay
, been abandoned as residence becaus
of the work of this cruel invader. Il
India in the year 1877 eight hundre
4. and nineteen people were slain by tn
tiger, and ten thousand cattle de
!. stroyed. From the back of the elephan
or from galleries built among the tree
fifteen hundred tigers went down an
y eighteen thousand dollars of govern
~, y. ment reward were paid the sportsmer
The Baptist missionary, Carey. VIII
did infinite good to India, had two grea
pnssions-frst, a passion for souls. an
,,e next. a passion for flowers. and Ii
lie adorned his Asiatic home and the Am
erican homes of his friends, and mu
IL seums on either side the sea, with tn
results Ol Ills uoldl eApeultlOQS In In
CT dia. To prepare himself for mornin
prayers, he was accustomed to wal
id amid the flowers and trees. 1t is th
heaven Of the magnolia and abelmosl
st and palm tree. The ethnologist. goin
r there, will find endless entertainers
al in the study OF the races now liyin
he there and the races Of whose blood the
r are a commingling. The historian, go
st ing there, will find his theory of War
lg rem Hastings government in India tn
i'd reverse from that which Edmun
t. Burke gave him in the most famou
address ever made in a court room
he Its two characteristics m%atchless elc
la luence and one %sidedness of statement
#. The archaeologist will be thrown int
O. 4 frenzy Of delight as he visits DELI
Of India and digs down and finds seve
lead cities underneath the now livin
in ,ity. All success to the hunters an
The b~otanists and the ethnologists an
" The historians and the archaeologist
who visit India. each one on his or he
Grand! But we today visit India 6
u Christian women and men to hear tn
ne full meaning of a groan Of hunger thu
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