The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-03
FAMINE SUFFERERS TO BE FED
TALMAGE breaches AT CHICAGO
ON HIS MISSION OF MERCY.

Christ Made In India.
Chicago. H.. May DIR Talmage is on
q mission Of bread for the famine suffers
OF India. He is speaking every day to
vast audiences in Iowa and Illinois, help
ing to hll the ships provided by the United
States government for carrying corn to
India. Text. Esther IL. This is Ahasuc-
dus which reigned from India even unto
Ethiopia.
Among the 1883 words which make up
the Bible only once occurs the word In
dia." In this part of the Scriptures, which
the rabbis call "Meginah Esther" or
the volume of Esther a book sometimes
complained against because the word
God" is not even once mentioned N it,
although one rightly disposed can see God
On it from the first chapter to the last we
have it set forth that Xerxes, or Ahasuc-
rus. who invaded Greece with two million
men. but returned in poor fishers boat,
had vast dominion, among other regions,
India In my text India takes its place
in Bible geography, and the interest an
that land has continued to increase until,
with more and more enthusiasm, all
around the world Bishop Heber's hymn
about india coral strand" is being sung.
Never will ! forget the thrill of anticipa-
ton that went through my body and mind
and soul when, after two weeks tossing
on the seas around Ceylon and India
for the winds did not. according to the old
hymn, blow soft Ger Ceylon's isle'-our
ship sailed up one of the mouths of the
Ganges. past James and Mary Island, so
named because a royal ship of that name
was wrecked there, and I stepped ashore
at Calcutta amid the shrines and temples
and sculpture of that city Of Palaces,
the strange physiognomes of the living
and the crematons of the dead. had
never expected to be there because the
sea and l long ago had a serious falling
OUT but the facilities of travel are so in
oreasing that you or your children Will
probably visit that land of boundless fas-
cination. Its configurauon is such as nc
one but God could have architected, and
it seems as If a man who had no religion,
going there, would be obliged to acknow-
ledge a God as did the cowboy in Colorado.
His companion, an atheist, had about per-
suaded the cowboy that there was no
God; but, coming amidst some OF that ire
mendous scenery of high rocks and awful
chasms, and depths dug under depths and
mountains piled on mountains, the cow
boy said to his atheistic companion: Jack,
if there is no God now l 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. 1t is a great triangle its base
Him1laVqG
dwelling place of SHOWS, those mountains
pouring out of their crystal cup the Indus,
the Brahmaputra and the Ganges, to Stake
the thirst of the vast populations of In
dia That country is the home of two
hundred and forty million souls. What
ever be ones taste, going there, his taste
is gratified. Some go as hunters of great
game, and there is no end to their enter
tainment. Mighty fauna: Bison. buffalo,
rhinocerous, elephant. panther, lion, 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 1.-The
man-eater.' You cannot see the tigers
natural ferocity after he has been humil-
lated 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 been abandoned as
residence because of the work of this cruel
invader. In India, in the year 1871 eight
hundred and nineteen people were slain
by the tiger and ten thousand cattle de-
stroyed. From the back of the elephant
or from galleries built among the trees
fifteen hundred tigers went down and
$4,000 OF government reward were paid
the sportsmen. / advise all those who in
America and other lands find amusement
in shooting singing birds, coming home
at night with empty powder-hask and a
whole choir of heaven slung over their
shoulder, to absent themselves for a while
ana attack the justitiable game of India
Or If you go as botanists. oh what opu-
lence of fora! 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.
The Baptist missionary, Carey. WIN ala
infinite good TO India had two great pas.
sions-hrst. passion for souls, and mex:
passion for flowers, and he adorned his
Asiatic home and the American homes or
his friends, and museums on either side
the sea, with the result of his floral ex>
petitions in India. To prepare himself
for morning prayers, he was accustomed
10 walk amid the flowers and trees. Il
Is the heaven of the magnolia and abel
mosk and palm tree. The ethnologist 90.
ing there will find endless entertainment
IN the study OF the races now living there
and the races of whose blood they arc a
eommingling. The historian, going there
VIII ind his theory OF Warren Hastings
government IN India the reverse from thar
which Edmund Burke gave him In the
most famous address ever made i'm n
court room, its two characteristics match
less eloquence and one-sidedness of state
ment. The archaeologist will be thrown
into a frenzy of delight as he visits Delhi
OF India and digs down and finds seven
dead cities underneath the now livine
city. All success 10 the hunters and The
botanists and the ethnologists and the his
toflans and the psychologists who visit
INDIA. each one on his or her errandt sui
we to-day visit India as Christian women
aud men TO hear the full meaning of a
groan OF hunger that has Travelled four
teen thousand miles. yet gets loud.
er and more agonizlng as the DAYS 60 bv.
but why have any interest in people SO
far away that il Is evening there
when IL Is morning here, their complexion
darker their language to as a targon.
their attire unlike that found In any
American wardrobe, their memory ana
ambitions unlike anything that we recall
or nope fory With more emphasis than