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' 5,1098, Dry GOOdS, NOtIOIZS, , Glassware, Crockery. Hardware, G 1 J I St t d F G d racemes, ewe 'lonery an 0710!] 007 '31 rya (l _ PADRICK BRO I HERS DEPAR l MEN 1 S I ORE. TIFTTON, GEORGIA. n...................._.....Or]Glnators of Low Prlces TIP TON G [LO RG1 A. REV. Dll. TALMAGK. 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, szsv rsss ......... .. «'"*» ..................... 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, ........... jssas fol T thl the miraculous loaves, He , m prepare the , , irttul uml eternal eonsidera- tions is first to look after temporal inter- • oh, » church of God in America anil . ' 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 » « • ;’. ; | , 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.