The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-05-15
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
An Appeal for the Famine Suffer
ers In Far India
Wonders and Beauties of the Stricken
Land Portrayed - What Christian
Missionaries Have Done
Present Conditions

of his mission in behalf of the famin,
sufferers of India, delivered the follow
ing discourse, basing il on the text:
This is Ahasuerus, which reigned from Indi'
even into Ethiopia-Esther l., Il.
Among the 773, 1913 words which max,
mp the Bible only once occurs the WORD
India" In this part of the Scriptures
which the rabbis call "Megillah Es
Their" 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 II from the first
chapter to the last, we have il 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, I'M
I'll. with more and more enthusiasm,
all around the world Bishop Ieber's
hymn about "India's coral strand is
being sung. Never will forget the
thrill of anticipation that went through
my body and mind and soul when, af-
ter 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-ou ship
sailed up one OF the mouths of the
Gauges, past James and Mary island,
SO named because royal ship OF that
name was wrecked there. and stepped
n, -, Oh
and temples and sculptures of that
City of Palaces" the strange physiog-
Monies of the living and the cremations
Of the dead. l had never expected to
be there, because the sea and long
ago had q serious falling out; but the
facilities OF travel are 50 increasing
that you or your children will proba-
bly, visit that land of bound!ess fascina-
tion. Its configuration is such as no
one but God could have architected, and
1t seems as il a man who had no reli-
g:on. going there, would be obliged to
acknowledge . God. as did the cowboy
in Colorado. His companion, an athe-
ist, had about persuaded the cowboy
that there was no God; but coming
amidst some OF that tremendous scene
~ oi high rocks and awful chasms, and
depths dug under depths, and noun
tains piled on mountains, the cowboy
said 10 his atheiStic companion: Jack,
If there is no God now, 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 ON
nipotent could have built it. 1t is
great triangle, its base the Himala-
yas a word meaning the dwelling
place of SHOWS" those mountains pour
ing out of their crystal cup the Indus,
the Brahmaputra and the Gauges. to
Stake the thirst of the vast populations
OF India. That country IS the home of
$40, 900, 900 souls. Whatever be ones
taste, going there, his taste is gratifed
Some go as hunters of great game. and
there is no end to their entertainment.
Mighty fauna: Bison, buffalo, rhinoc-
eros. 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 the man-catcr" You
can not see the tigers natural
ferocity after he has been humili-
ated by 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 1877, sl9 people were
slain by the tiger and 10, 900 cattle de-
stroyed. From the back of the ele-
plant or from galleries built among
the trees 1900 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 flask and whole choir of
Heaven slung over their shoulder, to
absent themselves for awhile and at
tack the justihable game of India. Or
II you go as bOtanists, oh. what opu-
lence of floral. With no distinct fora
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, who did infinite
good to India, had two great passions
first, a passion for souls, and
next, a passion for flowers,
and he adorned his Asiatic
home and the American homes of
his friends, aud museums on either side
the sea, with the results of his floral
expeditions in India. To prepare him
self for morning prayers, he was ac-
customed to walk amid the flowers and
trees. 1t is the heaven of the magnolia
and abclmosl< and palm tree. The eth
nologist going their will find endless
entertainment 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
theory of Warren Hastings govern
ment in India the reverse from that
which Edmund Burke gave him in the
most famous address ever made in
its two characteristics
eloquence and one-sidedness
Of statement. The archeologist will
be thrown into frenzy of delight rs