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THE NOTED DIVINK’S SUNDAY DISJ-
COUHbE.
Helping to Fill the Ship* That Are to
Carry Food for the Starving People of
Indin—An Eloquent Plea for Millions
of Famine Sufferers in it Distant I.nnd.
Text: “This is Ahasuerus which reigned
from India even unto Ethiopia.”--Esther
i.,1.
Among the 773,093 words which make up
the Bitdo only once occurs the word
'•India.” I 11 this part of the Scriptures,
which the rabbis call “Megillah Esther.” or
the volume of Esther, a book sometimes
complained against because the word
“God” is not even once mentioned in it.
in although one rightly disposed can see God
ft from the first chapter to the last, wo
have it set forth that Xerxes, or Ahasuerus,
who invaded Greece with 2,000.000 men.
but returned in a poor Usher's boat, liud
a vast dominion, among other regions,
India. In my text India takes its place in
Bible geography, and the interest in Unit
land has continued to Increase until, with
more and more enthusiasm, all around the
world Bishop Heber’s hymn about “India's
coral strand” is being sung. Never will f
forget the thrill of anticipation tiint went
through my body and mind and soul when
after two weeks’ tossing on the sens around
Ceylon and India—for the the winds did not.
according to old ship hymn, “blow soft o’er
Ceylon’s mouths isle”—our the Ganges, sailed up one of
the of 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 the temples and sculptures of
that City of Palaces, the strange physiog¬
nomies of the living and cremations of the
dead. I had never expected to bo there,
because the sea and I long ago had a seri¬
ous falling out, but, the facilities of travel
arc so increasing that you and your chil¬
dren will probably visit, that land of bound¬
less fascination.
Christ during Ilis earthly stay was never
outside of Asia. When Ho had sixteen or
eighteen years to spare from His active
work, instead of spending that time in
Europe I think he goes farther toward the
heart of Asia -namely, India. The Bible
says nothing of Christ from twelve years of
age until thirty, but there are records in
India and traditions in India which repre¬
sent a strange, wonderful, most excellent
and supernatural being as staying in India
about that time. I think Christ was there
much of the time between His twelfth and
His thirtieth year; but, however that may
be, Christ was born in Asia, suffered in
Asia, died in Asia, ascended from Asia, and
all that makes me turn my ear more atten¬
tively toward that continent as 1 hoar its
cry of distress.
Besides that I remember that some of the
most splendid achievements for the cause
of that Asiatic Christ have been made in
India. How the heart of every intelligent
Christian beats with admiration at the mere
mention of the, name of Henry Martyn!
Having read the life of our American David
Brainerd, who gave his life to evangelizing
ouy American savages, Henry Martyn goes
forward to give his life for the salvation of
India, dying from exhaustion of service at
thirty-one years of age. Lord Macaulay,
writing of him says:
Here Martyn lies. In manhood’ s early
bloom
The Christian hero found a pagan tomb.
Religion, sorrowing o’er her favorite son,
Points to the glorious tropics which he won.
Immortal trophiosi Not with slaughter red,
Nor stained with tears by friendless or¬
phans shod,
But trophies of the cross. In that dear
name,
Through every scene of danger, toil and
shame,
Onward I 10 journeyed to that happy shore,
Where danger, toil and shame are known
no more.
Is there in all history, secular or religi¬
ous, a most wondrous character than Will¬
iam Carey,the converted shoemaker of Eng¬
land, daring all things for God in India,
translating the Bible into many dialects,
building chapels and opening mission
houses and laying foundations for the re¬
demption of the country, and although Kid¬
ney Kmitli, who sometimes laughed at
things ho ought not to have satirized, had
in the learned Edinburgh Review scoffed at
the idea of what lie called “low horn, low
bred mechanics” like Carey attempting to
convert the Brahmins, Cardy stopped not
until he had started influences that eter¬
nity, no more than time, shall have power
to arrest, 313,000 Iliblcs going forth from
his printing presses at Serampore. His
sublime humility showed itself In the
epitaph he ordered from the old gospel
hymn:
A wretched, poor and helpless worm,
On thy kind arms I fall.
Need I tell you of Alphonse Lacroix, the
Swiss missionary in India, or of William
Butler, the glorious American Methodist
missionary the Scudders in India, the or of the royal Church family
of of Reformed of
America, my dear mother church, to whom
I given kiss of love in passing, or of Dr.
Alexander Duff, the Scotch missionary
whose visit to this country some of us will
remember forever? When I 10 stood in the
old Broadway tabernacle, New York, and
pleaded for India until there was no other
depth and of religious height emotion for him to stir
no loftier of Christam eloquence
for him to scale, and closed In a whirlwind
of halleluiahs, I could believe that which
was said of him—that while pleading the
cause of India in one of the churches of
Scotland he got so overwrought that he
fell in the pulpit in a swoon and was
carried into the vestry to be resusci¬
tated, and when restored to his senses
and preparation was being made
to carry him out to some dwelling compelled where
he eorfld be put to bed he his
friends to take him hack to the pulpit to
complete his plea for the salvation of In¬
dia, no sooner getting on his feet than ho
began where he left off, but with more gi¬
gantic power than before he fainted. But
just as noble as any I have mentioned there are for
tiie men and women who are now
Christ’s sake and tjie redemption of that
people. Far away from their native land,
famine on one side and black plague on the
other side, swamps breathing on them with ma¬
laria, and jungles howling on them
wild beasts or hissing with cobras, the
names of those missionaries of ail denom¬
inations to he written so high on the roil of
martyrs that no names of the last 1800
years shall be written above them. You
need to see them at their work In schools
and churches and lazarettos to appreciate
them. All honor upon them and their
households while I smite the dying lips of
their slanderers.
Most interesting are the peop do of India.
At Calcutta I said to one of their leaders,
who spoke English well:
“Have these idols which I see any power
of themselves to help or destroy?”
He said: “No; they only represent God.
There is hut one God.”
“When people die, where do they go to?”
“That depends upon what they have
been doing. If they nave been doing good,
to heaven, and if they have been doing evil,
to hell.”
••But , do ........, you not bolievo In ... the traneml-
gi iuion of souls, ami that afti i death w. g..
lntohlvilsorauinialsofsomesort,'
Vi s. I ho last ireatun a man Is thhik-
ing of whilo i yingin tli 0 ono ‘
®°or ^ ifto'a k«V»hl,A„ beast • R ’
soul goes to In a\ m ,Sh)ir anl ot , hell. llt ,
Hegoistheiebj agiadual prooess. Tt It
mai lako him years and >ears
-Can any one become a Hindoo? Could
1 become u titnuoo.^
l es, you could.
• ow could I become a Tit.. Hindoo?
• liy doing as the Hindoos do
, r,.m that continent of 1 it. i< sting foil.,
that continent that gau the l hi is,
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Hunger. More people are in danger of
marving to death in >'lia to-.l iy than the
entire population of the United States
li.000,090 - ene'nia people " i starved ^ ,n to , y ' death . t hat V . ,
morn than all the people of wnsningtoti. of
New York, of Philadelphia, of Chicago put
together. part as awful L;:. as that the famine one there was now not a raging. tent 1
Twent v thousand are dying there of famine
eye,-y day. \\ hole villages and towns l ine
died every man. woman and . hildt n . 11 .
left to bury the deal. I he vuit res and
l ie jackals are the only pallbearers
Tlieiig , son,, Hein has been sent. I*
full relief can reaeli them I suppose there
Will be at least 10.000.n09 dead. Starvation,
evon for onn person, is an awful process.
No food, the vitals gnaw upon themselves,
and faintness and languor and pangs from
head to foot, and horror and despair and
insanity take full possession.
One handful of wheat or corn or rice per
dav would keep life going, but they cannot
gel a handful. The crops failed, and the
millions are dying. Oh, it is hard to he
hungry in a world where there are enough
grain and fruit and meat to Gil all the hun¬
gry months on the nlanot; hut, alas, that
the sufferer and the supply cannot he
brought together. There stands India to¬
day! Look at, her! Her face dusky from
the hot suns of many centuries; under her
turban such nchings of brow as only a dy¬
ing nation feels: her eyes hollow with un¬
utterable woe; the tears rolling- down her
sunken cheek; her hack bent with more
agonies than she knows how to carrv; tier
ovens containing nothing hut ashes. Gaunt,,
ghastly, wasted, the dew of death upon
her forehead and n pallor such as the last
hour brings, she stretches forth her trem¬
bling hand toward us,' and with hoarse
whisper she says: “I am dying! Give me
bread! That is what I want! Bread! Give
it to me quick. Give it to me now --bread!
bread! bread!” America lias hoard the
cry. Many thousands of dollars have al¬
ready been contributed. One ship laden
with' breadstuff's lias sailed from Han
Francisco for India. Our senate and
house of representatives, in a bill signed by
our sympathetic president, have author¬
ized the secretary of the navy to charter a
vosscl to carry foOd to the famine sufferers,
and you may help Mil that ship. We want
to send at least 600,000 bushels of corn.
That will save the lives of at least 1,000.000
people. Many will respond in and contribu¬
tions of money, and the barns corn-
crihs of the entire United Hiatus will pour
forth their treasures of food. When that
shin is laden till It, can carry no more, wo
WiU ask him who holds the winds in his list,
and plants his triumphant foot on stormy
waves to lot nothing but good happen to
the ship till it anchors in Bengal or
Arabian waters. They who help by con¬
tributions of money or breadstuff's toward
lilling that relief ship will flavor their own
food for their lifetime with appetizing
qualities and insure their own welfare
through the promise of him who said,
“Blessed is he that eonsidereth the poor,
the Lord will deliver liim in time of
trouble.”
Oh, what a relief ship that will hoi ft
shall not turn a screw nor hoist a sail until
wo have had something to do with its car¬
go. Just seventeen years ago from these
Easter times a ship on similar errand went
out from New York harbor—the old war
frigate Constellation. It had once carried
guns of deaths, but there was famine in
Ireland, and the Constellation was loaded
with 500 tons of food. That ship, once
covered with smoko of battle, then covered
with Easter hosannas; that ship, con¬
structed to battle England, going forth
over the waters to carry relief to some of
her starving subjects. Better than sword
into plowshare, better than spear Into
pruning hook was that old war frigate,
turned into a white winged angel of resur¬
rection, to roil away the stone from the
mouth of Ireland’s sepulchre, On lik«3 or-
rand live years ago the ship Leo put out
with many tons of food for famine struck
Russia. One Saturday afternoon on the
deck of that steamer, as she lay at Brook¬
lyn wharf, a wondrous scene took place.
A committee of the King’s Daughters had
decorated the ship with streamers and
hunting, American and Russian Hags inter¬
twining. Thousands of people on the
wharves and on the decks join us In invok¬
ing God’s blessing on the cargo, and the
long sounded meter grandly Doxology in “Old Hundred”
up amid the masts and
ratlines. Having had the joy of seeing that
ship thus consecrated, we had the addi¬
tional joy of standing on the docks of Ht.
Petersburg when the planks of the relief
ship were thrown out and the representa¬
tives of the municipality and of royalty
went aboard her, the long freight train at
the same time rolling down to take the food
to the sturving, and on alternate cars of
that train American and Russian flags float¬
ing. But now the Hunger in India is
mightier than any that Ireland or Russia
ever suffered. Quicker ought to he the re¬
sponse, and on ho vast a scale that the one
snip sending would become a whole flotilla. New
York one, Boston another, Phila¬
delphia another, Charleston another, New
Orleans another. Then let them all meet in
some harbor of India. What a peroration
of merey for the nineteenth century! I
would like to stand on the wharf at Cal¬
cutta With or Bombay and see such a fleet come
l n. what joy it would bo welcomed!
The emaciated would lift their heads on
shriveled hands.and elbows, and witli thin
hands ask, “Is it coining—something to
eat?”
And whole villages and towns, too weak
to walk, would cratvl out oh hands and
knees to get the ilrst grain of corn they
could reach and put it to their famished
lips. May I cry out for you and for others
to those sufferers: “Wait a little longer,
bear up a little more, oh, dying men of
India; oh, starving women; oh, emaciated
babes! Relief is on the way, and more relief
will soon he coming. Wo send It In the
name of the Asiatic Christ, wiio said: ‘I
was hungry, and ye fed me. Inasmuch as
yo have done it unto one of the least of
these my brethren ye have done it unto
me. ’ ”
Christian people of America, I call your
attention to the fact that we may now, as
never the before, by one magnificent stroke
open widest door for the evangelization
of Asia. A stupendous obstacle in the way
Christianizing Asia has been the difference
of language, but all those people under¬
stand the gospel of bread. Another obst a-
clo has been the law of caste, hut in what
better way can we teach them the
brotherhood of man? Another huge dif¬
ficulty in the way of Christianizing
VOL. V. NO. 39.
Asia has been that those people thought
l|u> rt>li} . lon w , W0llld have take was
letter than their Hlmlooism or Moham-
me.lanism, but they ;, will now see by this
d for Ull , lvll f o( p00p i 0 14,000 miles
away that the Christian religion ^ is of a
higher, better “ Utl « rand " r than ««*
other religion, for when did the followers
of Brahma or Vishnu or Buddha or Con-
fuclus or Mohammed ever demonstrate like
lnterest j n pe opI« on opposite sides of the
world? Having » taken the bread of this life
{rom our hatul thoy wiU be more apt to
take from us the broad of eternal life. The
missionaries of different denominations in
lm i la at forty-six stations are already dis-
ritmting relief sent through the Christian
Is |f llot ,, lnin that those misslon-
j(> ft foiling the hunger of the body,
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prepare the
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tions is first to look after temporal inter-
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your y opportunity. ^ We have on
^ oI cll tillll patriotism cried,
\ , . noil'” Now lot us mid tho
-Asia for God!” In this move-
s foo d to starving India I hen,
, £ „ th ” oul?h the Apocalyptic l midst, of
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| , rt laimi! K to all the kingdoms
, tongues the unsearchable
He!,, rKlus s of 01 Josl,s Jesus Christ
And now I bethink myself of something 1
never thought of before. I had noticed
that tiio circle is God’s favorite figure, and
upon that subject I addressed you somn
time ago, hut it. did not occur to me until
now that ttie gospel seems to lie moving In
a circle. II started in Asia, Bethlehem, an
Asiatic village; Jordan, tin Asiatic river;
Calvary, an Asiatic mountain. Then this
gospel moved on to Europe. Witness the
chapels and churches and cathedrals and
Christian universities of that continent
Then it crossed to America, ft lias prayed
and preached and suiig its way across
our continent. II Inis crossed to Asia,
taking the Sandwich Islands in its
way, and now in all the great
cities on the coast of China people are
singing “Rock of Ages” and “There Is u
Fountain Filled With Blood,” for you must,
know translated that not only have the Scriptures
been into those Asiatic tongues,
hut also the evangelical liyinus. My mis¬
sionary brother, John, truuslated some of
them into Chinese, and Mr. Gladstone gave
me a copy of the hymn, “Jesus, Lover of
My Soul,” which he hail himself translated
into Greek. The Christ who it, seems spent,
sixteen or eighteen years of Ilis life in In¬
dia is there now in spirit,, converting and
saving the people by hundreds of thou¬
sands, and the Gospel will move right on
through Asia until the story of the Sav¬
iours birth will anew tie made known in
Bethlehem, and the story of a Saviour's
sacrifice lie told HJH5W on and around
Mount Calvary, and the story of a Saviour's
ascension he told anew on the shoulder of
Mount Olivet. Ami then do you not seethe
circle will he complete'? The glorious cir¬
cle, the circle of the earth!
May 10, laid was a memorable day, for
then was the last tie that connected
the two rail tracks which united the At¬
lantic. ami raclflc oceans. The Central
Pacific railroad was built froih California
eastward. The Union l’uclllc railroad was
built westward. They were within .arm’s of
reach of meeting, only One more piece
the rail track to put down. A great audi¬
ence assembled mldcontincnt to see the
last tie laid. The locomotives of the cas¬
ern and western trains stood panting on the
t. acks close by. Oration solemnized explained the
occasion, and prayer It, and
music enchanted it. The tie was made of
polished laurel wood, bound with silver
hands, and throe spikes wore used -a gold
spike, spike, presented by California; a silver
presented presented by Nevada, and an
iron all spike heads uncovered by all Arizona. hearts
When, and
thrilling will) emotion, the hammer struck
the last spike into its place, the can¬
non boomed it amid telegraphic the resounding
mountain echoes and the instru¬
ments clicked to all nations that the deed
was done. My friend, if the laying of the
last tie that bound the oast and the west of
one continent together was such 11 resound¬ last
ing occasion, what will ii. he when the
tie of the track of gospel Influence, reaching
cloftr around the world, sliiill lie laid umhi
the anthems of all nations? The spikes will
he the golden and silver spikes fashioned
out of tiie Christian generosity of the hem¬
ispheres. The last hammer stroke that
completes the work will be heard by all th«
raptured and piled up galleries of the uni¬
verse, and the mountlans of earth will
shout to the throne of heaven: '‘Hallelu¬
iah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!
Halleluiah, for the kingdoms of tills world
have become the kingdoms of our Lord
Jesus Christ!” - .__
A Peculiar Trade.
A Chicago man has just traded a
collection of cancelled postage stamps
for a modern hotel at Hurley, Wis.
valued at $35,000. B. S. Ross is the
name of the philatelist (his friends
called him a cranH), who twenty years
ago, began the collection of local and
foreign stamps.
He accumulated them by the million.
Then came the opportunity to dispose
of a portion of them for a small fortune
in the person of the young son of John
E. Burton, a wealthy mine owner of
Hurley. Mr. Burton owned the hotel,
which has eighty rooms and is one of
the best known in the state.
His son had for several years been
an ardent stamp collector, and was de¬
sirous of going into the business for a
livelihood. Ross was wllliifg to take
the hotel in exchange for a sufficient
stock of stamps to set the young man
up in business with.
It took about 3,000,000 stamps to buy
the hotel, and Mr. Burton and his son
were engaged for nearly a week in
counting out the $35,000 worth. The
stamps were piled high in an express
wagon. There were in the lot stamps
ranging in value from 10 cents per
1,000 to one for $1,500.
TURKS TAKE Z1RK0S.
The Town Whh an Important Base
Of Operations By Greeks.
It is announced from Constantino¬
ple that the first division of the Turk¬
ish army at Elassona lias entered
Greek territory from the vicinity of Da-
masi and has captured the town of
Zarkos, an important Greek base
of operations, about eighteen miles
west of Larissa and about half way be¬
tween that place and Trikhala. Large
quantities of ammunition fell into the
hands of the Turks.