Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-05-07
STARVING MILLIONS.
AN ELOQUENT PLEA IN BEHALF OF
FAMINE STRICKEN INDIA.

Rev. DIR. Talmage Is Helping to Fill the
ships That Are to Carry Food For the
Starving People of Ipdia-A Thrilling
Sermon.
CHICAGO, May 2.-Dr. Talmage is on
a 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, /,
"This is Ahasuerus which reigned from
India even unto Ethiopia.
Among the 779, 693 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 100000 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 uD-
til, with more and more enthusiasm,
all around the world Bishop Heber's
hymn about 'India's coral strand" Is
being sung. Never will l forget the
thrill of anticipation that went through
my body and mind and soul when aft.
er two weeks tossing on the seas
around Coylon and India - for tho
winds did not, according to the old
HYMN, elbow soft DER Ceylon's isle y
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 Gre
nations Of the dead. l had never ex-
nectod to be there, because the sea and /
long ago had a serious falling out but
the facilities Of travel are so increasing
that you or your children will probably
visit that land Of bOundless fascination.
A wonderful Country.
It's confguration is such as no one but
God could have architected, and it
seems as if a man who had no religion,
going there, would be obliged to ac-
knowledge a God as did the cowboy in
/ 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-
istic companion, Jack, if there is no
God now, l guess, from the looks OF
things around here, there must have
been "A God some time. " No one but the
Omniscient could have planned India,
and no one but the Omnipotent could
| have built it, 1t 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
pouulations Of India. That country Is
the home Of $40, 900, 600 souls. What.
ever be ones taste, going there his
taste is gratificd. Some go as hunters oi
great game, and there is no end TO then
entertainment Mighty fauna-bisol,
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 1.-THE man eater y
You cannot see the tigers natural te
rocitv after he has been humiliated by
n VOYAGE across the sea. You need t(
hear his growl as he presses his irol
paw against the cage in Calcutta. Ihlr
teen towns have been abandoned as resi-
dence because Of the work Of this crue
invader. In India in the year 1877, sl'
people were slain by the tiger and 10,
GOO cattle destroyed. From the back o
the elephant or from galleries bull
among the trees 1900 tigers wen
down, and SIS Of government re
ward were paid the sportsmen. adyis
all those who in America and othe
lands find amusement in shooting sing
ing birds coming home at night wit
empty powder flask and whole choi
of heaven slung over their shoulder, {
absent themselves for awhile and attac
the justifiable game OF India. Or II 20
90 as botanists, oh, what opulence {
a floral With no distinct fora Of its ow
il is tho chorus of all the fora OF Persl
and Siberia and China and Arabia an
Egypt
Passion For Souls.
The Baptist missionary, Carey, VIII
did infinite good to India, had tw
great passions-first passion IL
y souls and next passion for flowers
>, and he adorned his Asiatic home an
the American homes Of his friends an
> museums on either side Of the sea VIII
Y the results of his floral expeditions
India. To prepare himself for mornin
prayers he was accustomed to wal
amid the flowers and trees. 1t is II
. heaven of the magnolia and abelmo'
and palm tree. The ethnologist golr
there will find endless entertainmei
&c in the study of the races now livir
il there and the races of whose blood the
/, are a commingling The historian g
ing there will find his theory OF wa
e rem Hastings government in India Il
} reverse from that which Edmund Burr
j., gave him in the most famous adore
ever made in courtroom, its two cha
aoteristics matchless eloquence and o.
IS sidedness Of statement The aron@oi
-r eist will be thrown into frenzy oil q
light as he visits Delhi OF India al
digs down and finds seven dead clti
underneath the now living city. a
|, success to the hunters and the botanis
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