Connecticut western news., 1897-05-06
STARVING MILLIONS.
AN ELOQUENT PLEA IN BEHALF OF | FAMINE STRICKEN INDIA.

AN ELOQUENT PLEA IN BEHALF OF FAMINE STRICKEN INDIA. Rev. Dr. Talmage Is Helping to Fill the
 Ships That Are to Carry Food For tho
 Starving People of India-A Thrilling
 Sermon.
 CHICAGO, May 2.-Dr. Talmage is on 8 mission of bread for the famine suf ferers of India. He Is speaking every day to vast audiences in Iowa and Illinois, helping to fill the ships provided by the United States government for carry ing corn to India. Text. Esther i, 1, This is Ahasuerus which reigned from India even unto Ethiopia.
 Among the 773, 698 words which make up the Bible only once occurs the word India" In this part of the Scrip lures, which the rabbis call '' Megillah Esther" or the volume of Esther, a book sometimes complained against be- cause 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 Xerxes, or Ahasuerus, who invaded Greece with 2,000,0 900 men, but returned in poor fishers boat, had a 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 un- til, with more and more enthusiasm, all around the world Bishop Heber's hymn about ''India's coral strand' is being sung. Never will I forget the thrill of anticipation that went through my body and mind and soul when aft CT two weeks tossing on the seas around Ceylon and India = for the winds did not, according to the old hymn, "blow soft OCT Ceylon's isle"- our ship sailed up one of the mouths of the Ganges, past James and Mary is- land, SO named because a royal ship of that name was wrecked there, and l stepped ashore at Calcutta, amid the shrines and temples and sculptures of that City of Palaces, the strange phys iognomies of the living and the cre- nations of the dead. had never ex- pected to be there, because the sea and
 
 the facilities of travel are so increasing that you or your children will probably visit that land of boundless fascination.
 A Wonderful Country.
 ! Its confguration is such as no one but God could have architected, and 1t seems as if man who had no religion, going there, would be obliged to ac- bx,oxuIaJ ca o Go1 oo 1;d tho coxu bo, ;y, Colorado. His companion, an atheist, had about persuaded the cowboy that there was no God; but, coming amid some of that tremendous scenery of high rocks and awful chasms and depths dug under depths and mountains piled on mountains, the cowboy said to his athe- istio companion, "Jack, if there Is no God now, guess, from the looks of things around here, there must have been God some time." No one but the Omniscient could have planned India, and no one but the Omnipotent could have built it. It is great triangle, it's base the Himalayas-a word meaning "the dwelling place of snows'-those mountains pouring out of their crystal cup the Indus, the Brahmaputra and the Ganges to slake the thirst of the vast populations of India. That country is the home of 24O, ,OO0, 900 souls. What ever be one's taste, going there his taste is gratified. Some go as hunters of great game, and there is no end to their entertainment. Mighty fauna-bison, buffalo, rhinoceros, elephant, panther, lion, tiger-this last to be the perpetual game for Americans and Europeans be- cause he comes up from the malarial swamps where no human being dare en- ter; the deer and antelope his accustom- ed food, but once having obtained the taste of human blood he wants nothing else, and is called 'the man eater. F." You cannot see the tigers natural fe- rocity after he has been humiliated by 8 voyage across the sea. You need to hear his growl as he presses his iron paw against the cage in Calcutta. Thir- teen towns have been abandoned as resi- dence because of the work of this cruel invader. In India in the year 1877, 819 people were slain by the tiger and 10,- 900 cattle destroyed. From the back of the elephant or from galleries built among the trees 1,500 tigers went down, and $18,000 of government re- ward were paid the sportsmen. advise all those who in America and other lands find amusement in shooting sing ing birds, coming home at night with empty powder flask and whole choir of heaven slung over their shoulder, to absent themselves for awhile and attack the justifiable game of India Or if you go as botanists, oh, what opulence of floral With no distinct flora of its own it is the chorus of all the flora of Persia and Siberia and China and Arabia and Egypt.
 A Passion For Souls.
 The Baptist missionary, Carey, who did infinite good to India, had two great passions-frst a passion fo1 souls and next passion for flowers and he adorned his Asiatic home and the American homes of his friends and museums on either side of the sea with the results of his floral expeditions in India. To prepare himself for morning prayers he was accustomed to walk amid the flowers and trees. It is the heaven of the magnolia and abelmosl
 
 there will find endless entertainment in the study of the races now living there and the races of whose blood they are commingling. The historian go ing there will find his theory of War ren Hastings government in India th' reverse from that which Edmund Burke gave him in the most famous address ever made in courtroom, its two char aoteristics matchless eloquence and ont sidedness of statement. The aroh@olo gist will be thrown into Q frenzy of de light as he visits Delhi of India ant digs down and finds seven dead oitie underneath the now living city. Al success to the hunters and the botanist and the ethnologists and the historian and the arch@ologists who visit India, each one on his or her errand. But WI today visit India as Christian womer