The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-05-12
AN APPEAL FOR INDIA.
REV. DR.. TALMAG5 IN BEHALF OF
FAMINE STRICKEN PEOPLE.

IN, l,.I III Deliver Kim IL Time OF
Troub,e"-a Thriu,o. sto.y OF d Pros
trste People.
DR.. Talmare is on . mission Of tbread FOR
the famine sufferers OF India He Is SPEAK
ing every day to vast audiences N Iowa ana
Illinois, hell ping to i'll the ships provided ~
the United States government Tor carrying
corn to India The following sermon was
preached on last Sunday. IeXt. Esther !. i
ssThis is Ahasuerus which reigled from In
dia unto Ethiopia.
Among the .73. SOB words which make up
the Bible once occurs the wort "Ina'a. IN
this part of the Scriptures, whlca the raools
call ..Megillah Esther, or the volume OF Is
ther. q book sometimes complained against
because the word Good" IS rot even once
mentioned in it, although one rightly dis
posed can see God in It from the first chapter
to the last, we have It set forth that Aerxes,
or AhaSueras, who invaded Greece With y
100000 men, but returned in = poor fisher 5
boat, had a vast dominion, among other re
gions, India In my text India takes Its
place in Bible geography, and the interest IN
in that land has continued until with more
Bishop Heber's hymn about India 5 coral
strand is being sung. Never will forget
the thrill of anticipation that wen; through
my body and mind and soul when after Two
weeks tossing on the seas around Gey ,on
and India-for the winds did not, according
TO the old hymn. :'blow soft Ser Ce5lon ;
isle''-our ship sailed UP one OF the mouths
of fhe Ganges. past James and Mary island,
so named because q 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
physiognomies of the living and the crema-
tons of the dead.
I had never expected TO be there, because
the sea and long ago had a serious talhng
out, but the facilities oftrayei are so lncreas-
ing that YOU or your children Will probably
visit that land Of ooundiess fascination. It's
confcuration is such as no one but Go0
could have architected, and it seems as II a
man who had no religion going there would
be obliged to acknowledge God, as did the
cowboy in Colorado. His companion, an
atheist, had about persuaded the cowboy
that there was no God, bu. comiug amid
some of that tremendous scenery OF h;gh
rocks and awful chasms, and depths dug Un-
der depths, and mountains piled on noun
tains, the cowboy said to his athe!stlc COM
panion, slack, if there is no God, guess
from the looks OF things around here there
must have been God some time. No one
but the Omniscient could have planned In
dia, and no enc but the omnipoteot could
have built it. Its great triangle, Its base
the Himilayas, a word meaning ''the dwell
s:.l,.o ,,S ~ n
out Of their crystal cup the Indus, tue brah-
maputrs and the Ganges TO sake the thirst
OF the vast population Of India. That c0un-
try is the home of 240 100000 souls. What
ever be ones taste, going there his taste IS
grati6ed. Some 90 as hunters ofgreat game,
and there is no end TO their entertainment.
Mighty f&una-bison, buffalo, rhinoceros,
elephant, panther, lion, tiger, this last to be
the perpetual game for Americans and Euro
peans because he comes up from the matarlal
sWanps where no human being dare enter,
the deer and antelope his accustomed food,
but once having obtained the taste fhuman
blood he wants nothing else and IS called
ssthe man eater" You cannot see the Tiger
natural :erccity after he has been humillated
by 8 voyage across the sea. You need 70
hear his growl as he presses his iron paw
against the cage in Calcutta. Thirteen
towns have been abandoned as residence De-
cause of the work of this cruel invader.
In India, in the year 1877, Sl9 people
were slain by the tiger and 10000 cattle de-
stroyed. From the back of the elephant or
from galleries built among the trees 1900 IL
gers went down and $4,000 Of government
reward was paid the sportsmen. advise
all those who in America and other lands
find amusement in shooting singing birds,
coming home st night with empty powder
flask and whole choir Of heaven slunsoveI
their shoulder, TO absent themselves awhile
and attack the justi6able game Of India. W
if you 90 as botanists, oh, what opulence OF
fora! With no distinct fora ofits own, it s the
chorus Of all the fora of Persia and Siberia
and China and Arabia and Egypt.
The Baptist missionary Carey, who did
infinite good to India. had TWO great pas
sions-frst, passion for souls, and, next,
passion for fowers-and he adorned his
Asiatic home and the American homes Of his
friends and museums on either side the sea
with the results Of his floral expeditions in
Indis. To prepare himself for morning
PRAYERS he was accustomed to walk amid the
flowers and trees. 1t is the heaven Of the
magnolia apd abelmosk and palm tree. The
ethnologist going there viii find endless en-
tertainment in the study OF the races now
living there and the races Of whose blood
they are a commingling.
The historian going there will find his the
ory of Warren Hastings government in India
the reverse from that which Edmund Burke
gave him in the most famous address ever
made in g courtroom, its two characteristics
matchless eloquence and onesidedness OF
statement. The archGologist will be thrown
into frenzy Of delight as he visits Delhi OF
India and digs down and finds seven dead
cities underneath the now living city. All
success to the hunters, and the botanists, and
the ethnologists who visit India, each one on
his or errand But We today visit India as
Christian women and men to hear the full
meaning of groan of hunger that has trav-
eled l4,O00 miles, yet gets louder and more
agonizing as the days 60 BY. But why have
any interest in people so far away that tits
evening there when 1t is morning here, their
complexion darker, their language TO US s
jargon, their attire unlike that found in any
American wardrobe, their memory and their
ambition unlike anything that we recall or
nope for.
With more emphasis than you put into
the interrogatory Why l answer, first,
because our Christ was an Asiatic. Egypt
gave to US its monuments, Rome gave 10
US It's law, Germany gave to US It's philos-
ophy, but Asia gave to US its Christ. His
mother an Asiatic; the mountains that
looked down upon him. Asiatic; the lakes
on whose pebbly banks he rested ana on
whose chopped waves he walked, Asiatic
the apostles whom he first commissioned,
Asiatic; the audiences he whelmed with his
illustrations drawn from blooming lilies and
salt crystals and great rainfalls and below
ing tempests and hypOcrites long faces and
croaking' g'ravens-alfhose audiences Asiatic
Christ during his earthly stay was never out
side of Asia. When he had is or IS years to
spare from his active work, instead Of spend
ing that time in Europe, think he goes far