Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-05-06
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ftSid. LCuNut udu SiAlceu VI eighteen
years to spare from his active work,
instead of spending that time in Eu-
rope, / think he goes farther toward
the heart Of Asia, namely, India. The
Bible says nothing of Christ from
twelve years of age until thirty, but
there are records in India and tradi-
tions in India which represent a
strange, wonderful, most excellent, and
supernatural being as staying in India
about that time. l think Christ was
there much of the time between his
twelfth and his thirtieth year, but how
ever that may be, Christ was born in
Asia, suffered in Asia, died in Asia, as
cended from Asia, and all that makes
me turn my ear more attentiyely toward
that continent as / hear it's cry of dis
tress.
Most interesting are the people of In
dia. At Calcutta, l said to one of their
leaders, who spoke English we'll:
Have these idols which l see any
power of themselves to help or de-
stroy?"
He said: mo: they only represent
God. There is but one God"
When people die, where do they go
to-"
THAT depends upon what they have
been doing; if they have been doing
good, to heaven, and if they have 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?"
"Yes; the last creature a man is
thinking Of while dying is the one into
which he will go. If he is thinking of
a bird, he will go into a bird; if he is
thinking of a beast, he will go into a
beast"
81 thought you said that at death the
soul goes to heaven or hell?"
HE goes there by a gradual process.
1t may take him years and years."
Can any one become a Hindoo?
Could l become a Hindoo?"
Eyes, you could"
How could l become a Hindoo?"
"By doing as the Hindoos do"
From the walls of one of their MIL
seums at Jeypore I had translated for
me these beautiful sentiments:
The wise make failure equal to sue
cess.
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 neighbor 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 mis-
sionary heroics, there comes 4 groan
of eighty million people in hunger.
, More people are in danger of starving
to death in India to-day than the en-
tire population of the United States.
In the famine in India in the year 1871
about, six million. people starved tc
death. That is more than all the PEG.
pie of Washington. of New York, Of
Philadelphia, of Chicago, put together
: But that famine was not a tenth par,
Z as awful as the one there now raging
Twenty thousand are dying there Of
!, famine every day. Whole villages anG
5 towns have .died1every man, woman
O and child; none left to A.ry the dead
The yuItures and the iackals are the
only %pallbearers. Though some hell
t has been, sent, before full relief car
! reach fthem 1 suppose there will be
s at least ten million dead. Starvation
o even for one person, is an awful pro-
d cess. No food, the vitals gnaw upor
e themselves and faintness and languol
n and pangs. from head to foot, and hor
S ror and despair and insanity take full
It possession. One handful of wheat o.
e corn or rice persday would keep lif,
s going, but they cannot get a handful
The crops failed and the millions arr
e dying. oh, it is hard to be hungry il
g a world where there is enough grain
G and fruit, and meat, to fill all the hun
n cry mouths on the planet; but alas
that the sufferer and the supply canno
e be brought together. There stands In
dia to-day! Look at her! Her fac
It dusky from the suns of many centur
les; under her turban such achings o
d brow as only a dying nation feels; he
eyes hollow with unutterable woe; tn
tears rolling down her sunken cheek
o her back ben with more agonies thai
she knows how to carry; her wen.
d containing nothing but ashes. Gaunt
e CHASTITY, wasted, the dew of death upol
: her forehead and a pallor such as TIL
/ last hour brings. she stretches fortl
e her trembling hand towards us ant
: with hoarse whisper she says: Il an
g dying! Give me bread! That is wha
X l want! Bread! Give it to me quick
Give it to me now-bread! bread
bread!" America has heard the cry
6 Many thousands of dollars have al
II ready been contributed. One ship la
8 den with breadstuffs has sailed from
y San Francisco for India. Our senat
; and house of representatives in a bill
signed by our sympathetic presiden
. have authorized the secretary of tn
- navy to charter a vessel to carry foo
to the famine sufferers, and you ma.
help to fill that ship. We want to sen,
at least six hundred thousand bushel
!. of corn. That will save the lives of a
least six hundred thousand people
= Many will respond in contributions O
- money, and the barns and corn-crib
= of the entire United States will pou
\ forth their treasures of food. Whel
that ship is laden till it can carry n