Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-04-26

~ Hail the Power
nKG OF Jesus Name"
sseab. yxsS and Throw Out
Ss~ the Life Line. the
- large aud lie e
Us As$ joining in the re-
frain. Rev. w.
q ms, Grafton, of Mem
p.sf <SMk=zr oriai Christian
church, read from
Rer' q lie v" 1aE the scriptures,
"'"gs' aud Rev. c. E.
Taylor, of the First Baptist church,
offered prayer; DR.. j. W. Stewart
officiated as chairman, and spoke
of the honor it was 10 the COM
munity to have visit from
Brooklyn's noted divine, who
was then introduced. Rev. Tai
mage was given AN ovation as lie
stepped to the front of the platform.
"One great wave of sympathy is roll
ing over al c5ristendom," he began.
1--WE could not live without sym-
pathy." He said all have felt it:
what a grand thing is sympathy ?
what grand thing il is to have d
brawny-handed man come to YOU liz
an hour of encouragement and de-
spondercy, and slap You on the
shoulder and say, I'm stick to your
Lat the young man who returns
home, faint of heart, and who meets
mis- wife standing over an empty
flower barrel, and with a smile saw,
"God will provide for u.s." tell what
sympathy is. The father quarrels
with his ungrateful son, sends him
out into the world and tells him to
never darken the door of the parents
home again; asks him to change HE
name; disowrs him. The mother
follows that boy wherever he NAV go
follows him to the Jail, and there
through the iron bars pours into him
consoling words; follows him to the
penitentiavy, and lastly, she is found
on her knees before the governor
pleading for the release Of Ter son.
That is woman's sympathy.
sympathy VIII save the World.
Sympathy will save the world, said
Dr.. Talmaga. The gospel is only
sympathy. Then the speaker told OF
q Georgia governor, who, when on
his death bed, asked his secretary to
bring him an old yellow envelope,
which contained letter pleading for
a pardon, from an old woman who
had been in the penitentiary 10 years.
The secretary told him that if he
wanted to do any pardoning it would
be better for him to give considera-
ton to some Of the petitions which
had been sent in in behalf of other
criminals. The governor replied
that they had plenty Of frieods,
but that the old woman had none.
He took the old yellow envelo pc.
asked his secretary to bolster him
up, took his pen and wrote pardon
across the envelope, signed his name,
and he was dead. That's sympathy.
Now it crosses the ocean. Hear the
groan of India; that agonizine
groan of hunger and suffering ths,
comes across the sea from 80, OOO, COG
humans. There are more people in
peril of starvation there than the en-.
tire population of the United States.
1t is the worst famine that ever
struck the earth. Every man,
woman and child dying. the vul-
lures and jsckals being the only
pallbearers. Thank God we don't
have to stand it here, continued Rev.
Talmage. A few grains of corn
would save life, but this cannot be
had. India, the home Of the mag
nolia and palm tree. look at her face
with the dust of ages on it; her eyes,
hollow with grief; her back, bending
with q burden she cannot carry !;
gaunt, pale, nothing in her organs
but acid; and with hands out
stretched, she cries out to all chris
tendon. II am dying, give me
bread!"
Rev. Talmage said that he
and his colleagues, Miss Mar
garet Leitch, a missionary from
linda. and DR.. L. Klopsch, proprie-
tor of the Christian Herald, were
putting in three weeks going about
the country gathering up money and
food with which to relieve the So ffer-
ers across the sea, 25O. 900 bushels Of
corn having already been subscribed.
lie expected much more.
"What are we living for but to
help one another?' concluded Tai
mage. "When can no longer be Of
any use to my fellow men I don't
want to live"
Miss LeitcA's Plea.
Miss Leitch followed with an
earnest plea for the sufferers OF In.
dia. where she has been for IL years
doing missionary work. She said
the American people complain of
being hard up. yet they squandered
100000 on chewing gum last
rear, and had spent but $1,000. goo
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