News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-05-05
AN APPEAL FOR INDIA
REV. DR.. TALMAGE IN BEHALF OF
A FAMINE STRICKEN PEOPLE.


the Lord VIII Deliver Him In Time of
Trouble"-A Thrilling Story of Pros
trate People.
CHICAGO, May 2.-Dr. Talmage is on
mission of bread for the famine sufferers 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 carrying corn TO India.
Text Esther i, /, This is Ahasuerus
which reigned from India even unto ETH
Opia.
Among the 773, 693 words which make
up the Bible only once occurs the word
"India." In this part of the Scriptures,
which the rabbis cali "Megillah Esther, "
or the volume of Esther, u book some
times complained against because 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 Nerxes, or Alias
uerus, who invaded Greece with 2,000,000
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 until with
world Bishop Heber's hymn about Z" India S
coral strand is being sung. Never will
I forget the thrill of anticipation 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, elbow
soft DER Ceylon's isle''-our ship sailed up
one of the mouths of the Ganges, past
i,1o hoo 1co
a royal ship of that name was wrecked
there, and 1 stepped ashore at Calcutta,
amid the shrines and temples and sculp-
lures of that City of Palaces, the strange
physiognomies of the living and the crema-
tions of the dead
had never expected to be there because
the sea and l long ago had serious falling
out, but the facilities of travel are so in
creasing that you or your children will
probably visit that land of boundless fas-
onation. Its CONFORMATION is such as no
one but God could have architected, and it
seems as if a man who had no religion 60
ing there would be obliged to acknowledge
God, as did the cowboy in Colorado. His
companion, an atheist had about persuad-
ed the cowboy that there was no God, but
coming amid some of that tremendous
and depths dug under depths, and noun
tains piled on mountains, the cowboy said
to his atheistic companion, Jack, if there
is no God, 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
great triangle, its base the Himalayas a
- h., e
SHOWS" those mountains pouring out of
their crystal cup the Indus, the Brahma-
putra and the Gangcs to Stake the thirst
of the vast populations of India. That
country is the home of $40, 600, 900 souls.
Whatever be ones taste, going there his
taste is gratified. Some go as hunters of
great game, and there is no end to their en-
tertainment Mighty fauna-bison, buff
falo, rhinoceros, elephant, panther, lion,
tiger this last to be the perpetual game
for Americans and Europeans because he
y 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 humili
ated by voyage across the sea. You need
10 hear his growl as he presses his iron
paw against the cage in Calcutta. Thir-
teen towns have been abandoned as resi-
dence because of the work of this cruel in
vader.
IN India, in the year 1877, $40 people
were slain by the tiger and 10, 600 cattle
destroyed. From the back of the elephant
or from galleries built among the trees
1900 tigers went down and SIS, 600 Of gov
acrnment reward was paid the sportsmen.
advise all those who in America and 9th
er lands find amusement in shooting sing
ing birds, coming home at night with
empty powder flask and a whole choir of
heaven slung over their shoulder, to absent
themselves for awhile and attack the JUS
tifiable game Of India. Or if you go as
botanists, oh, what opulence of fora
With no distinct fora of it's own, it is the
chorus of all the flora of Persia and ST
IBERIA and China and Arabia and Egypt
TWO Great PASSIONS.
The Baptist missionary Carey, who did
infinite good to India, had two great pas
sions-first passion for souls, and, next,
a passion for flOWers-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 expedi-
tons in India. To prepare himself for
morning prayers he was accustomed to
walk amid the flowers and trees. 1t is the
heaven of the magnolia and abelmosk and
palm tree. The ethnolOgist going there
will find endless entertainment in the
study of the races now living there and the
races Of whose blood they area commin-
Cling.
The historian going there will find his
theory of Warren Hastings government
in India the reverse from that which Ed
mund Burke gave him in the most famous
address ever made in Il courtroom, its two
characteristics matchless eloquonce and
onesidedncss Of statement The archpolO.
gist 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 hunt.
ers, and the botanists, and the ethnolgists,
and the historians, and the archgologists
who visit india each one on his or her
Irrand. But we today visit India rs Chris.
tian women and men to hear the full
meaning of groan of hunger that has
Travelled $4,000 miles yet gets louder and
more agonizing as the days go by But
why have any interest in people so faI
away that it is evening there when it is
morning here, their complexion darker
their language to us Il jargon, their attire
unlike that found in any American ward
robe, their memory and their ambition un
like anything that we recall or hope forY