The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-06-10
THE INDIA FAMINE.
Rev. DR.. Talmage's Appeal in Be-
half Of the Sufferers.
4 Graphic Description Of the Beauties and
Wonders of the Indus The Work
of the Christian Missiona-
ries Portrayed.

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course of his mission in behalf of the
faminestricken people of India. 1t is
based on the text:
| This is Aha>ueruS. which reigned from India
| even into Ethiopia Esther i. l..
Among the 1113, 693 words which make
up the Bible only once occurs the word
India" In this part of the Scriptures
which the rabbiS call "Megillah Es-
ther," or the volume of Esther book
sometimes complained against because
the word ''God' is not even once men,
toned 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 XerXes, or Ahasuerus, who in
vaded Greece with 1000, 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 He ber's 5
hymn about 'lndia's coral strand" is
being sung. Never will | forget the
thrill ofanticipat ton that went through
my body and mind and soul when, af-
ter two weeks tossing on the seas
around Ceylon and India 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 royal ship of that
name was wrecked there. and | stepped
| nSt, o+ t'a1. .l,,
and temples and sculptures of that
city of Palaces" the strange physiog
Monies of the living and the cremations
of the dead.
No one but the OmniScient could have
planned India. and no one but the ON
nipotenf could have built it. 1t is a
great triangle, its base the IIimala-
yas, a word meaning the dwelling
place of SHOWS those mountains pour
ing 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
2+0, 10000 souls. Whatever be ones
taste. going there, his taste is gratitied.
Some go as hunters of great game, and
there is no end to their entertainment
Mighty fauna: Bison. buffalo, rhinoc-
eros, elephant, panther, hon, tiger
this last to be the perpetual game for
Americans and Europeans, because he
comes up from the malarial swamps
where no human being dare enter; the
deer and antelope his accustomed food.
but once having obtained the taste of
human blood, he wants nothing else,
and is called the nan-eater." You
can not see the tigers natural
ferocity after he has been humili-
ated by a voyage across the
sea. You need to hear his growl
as he presses his iron paw against the
cage in Calcutta. Thirteen towns have
Of the work of this cruel invader. In
India in the year 1877. $40 people were
slain by the tiger and 1000 cattle de-
stroved. From the back of the ele-
phant or from galleries built among
the trees l,500 tigers went down. and
$4,000 of government reward We're
paid the sportsmen. | advise all those
who in America and other lands find
amusement in shooting singing birds,
powder flask and whole choir of
Heaven slung over their shoulder, tO
absent themselves for awhile and at
tack the justitiable game of India. Or
if you go as botanists, oh, what opu-
lence of floral. With no distinct flora
of its own. it is the chorus of all the
flora Of Persia, and Siberia. and China
and Arab and Egypt. The Baptist
missionary. Carey, who did infinite
good to India. had two great passions
first, passion for souls. anG
next, passion for flowers
and he adorned his Asiatit
home and the American homes O.
his friends, and museums on either side
the sea, with the results of his fora
expeditions in India. To prepare him
l self for morning prayers, he was ac
customed to walk amid the flowers ant
trees. 1t is the heaven of the magnolia
, and abelmOsk and palm tree. The eth
, nologist going their will find endless
entertainment in the study of the race
: now living there and the races o
= whose blood they are a commingling
r The historian going there will find hi
theory of Warren Hastings govern
ment in India the reverse from tha
which Edmund Burke gave him in tn
most famous address ever made in
courtroom. it's two characteristic
matchless eloquence and one-sidednes
: of statement. The archaologist will
be thrown into frenzy of delight a
he visits Delhi of India and digs dow
] and finds seven dead cities underneatl
, the now-living city. All success to tn
. hunters and the botanists and the ETH
nologists and the historians and tn
archalogists who visit India, each on
on his or her errand.
But we to-day visit India as Christia
women and naen to hear the full NEAR
, ing of groan of hunger that ha
4 travelled 14,OOo miles, yet gets loude
: and more agonizing as the days go by
: But why have any interest in people s
= far away that it is evening there whe
: it is morning here, their complexio
darker, their language to rs a jargor