ILI mins REY. DR. TALMAGE. Fhe Eminent Washinzioe Divine's Sunday Sermon. An Eloquent Plea for Famine Sufferers in & Distant Sasa, TrxT: “This is Ahasuerns which refgred from India even unto Ethiopia." — Esther i, 3. Among the 173,603 words which make up the Bible only once ocours the word “India.” In this part of the Reriptures, which the rabbis call “Megiliah Esther.” or the volume of Esther, a book sometimes complained against because the word “God” is not even once mentioned In it, although one rightly disposed can see God dn it from the first chapter to the last, we have it set forth that Xerxes, or Ahasuerus, who invaded Greece with 2,000,000 men, but returned ina poor flsher's 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 more and more enthusiasm, all around the world Bishop Heber's hymn about “India’s coral strand” is being sung. Never will I forget the thrill of antici: that went throuch mv i { after two wenk Ceylon and Indi according to th Ceaylon’s isl the mout! Mary island, ship of tha I stepped ghrines an that City « nomies of tl dead, 11! because ous falli are so in dren will lesa fas ; Christ during outside of Asia, pighteen work, instead Europe I think heart of Asia says nothing of Cl age until thirty, indie and tra sent a strange, v and super about that much of the time His thirtieth ve be, Christ wa Asin, died in As all that make tively tow ery of distress Besides th most splendid act of that Asiatic India. How the } Christian beat mention of t } Having read the life 0 Brainerd, who gave his life t our American savages, Her forward to his life fo India, dying from exhau thirty-one vears of writing of hin Here Martyn | bloom The Christian her Religion, sorrow Points to the gi Immortal tr Nor init VOArs ard age, staine phans trophies name Through sha Onward he j Where dang But buildis houses demp ney 8 thing in the the idea of bred mechanies eonvert the until he had nity, no more than t to arrest. 313,000 Bibl his printing presses sublime humility = epitaph he bymn: A wretches ¢ On thy kind arms I fall Kead 1 tell you of Alphonse Lacroix. the Bwiss missionary in India. or of W itliam Batler, the glorious Amerie Moth missionary in India, or of the of the Scudders of the Reforn America, my dear mother « I give a kiss of love Alexander whose visit to remember forever? old Broadway tabernacle pleaded for India until depth of religious emotion and no loftier height of Christain eloquence for him to seals, and closed in a whirlwind of halleluiahs, I could believe that which was said of him that while pleading eause of India in one of chur Beotland fell in carried there the the rhies of he got =o the pulpi into the overwrought iat hn in a swoon and was vestry to be resusci. tated, and when restored to his senses apd preparation was being made to carry him out to some dwelling where he could be put to bed he compelled his friends to take him back to the pulpit to complete his plea for the salvation of In- dia, no sooner getting on his feet than he began where he loft off, but with more gi- gantic power than belors he fainted. But Just as noble as any I have mentioned are the men and women who are there now for Christ's sake and the 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 ma- Iaria, and jungles howling on them with wild beasts or hissing with cobras. the names of those missionaries of all denom- inations to be written so high on the roll of martyrs that no names of the last 1800 years shall be written above them. You need to sce them at their work in schools hd churches and lazaretios to appreciate All honor upon them and their iseholds while I smite the dying lips of their slanderers, Most interesting are the people of India, At Calcutta I said to one of their leaders, who spoke English well: “Have these idols which I see any power themselves to help or destroy?” He said: “Nu; they only: represent God, re is but one God.” Sage people die, where do they go to?” “That depends upon what they have sen doing. If they have been doing good, 6 hetven, and if they have been doing evil, ern, “But do you not believe in the transmi. of souls, and that after death we go ito birds or animals of some sort?” “Yes. The last creature s man is think. Bg of while dying is the one into which he Hil go. If he i= thinking of a beast, he will into a beast.” “1 thought you said that at death the : to heaven or ha 0 : ratio on; could,” Sad] become i Tine?” ; 3 as os do.” dearédd by so many missionary there comes a groan of 80,000,000 people in hunger. Mora people are in of danger entire population of the United States. the famine Ja India in the year 1877. about 6.000.000 Goeople starved to death, ‘That is mors than all the people of W whington, of Now York, of Philadelphia. of Clhileago, put together, But that famine part as awful as the one thers now raging Twenty thousand are dying there of famine every day, Whole villages died-—every man, woman and left to bury the dead, The the jackals are the oniy Though some help has been was not a tenth child; none vultures and pallbearars, sent, bef will be at least 10,000,000 dead. Stary nation, even for one person, is an awful proooess No food, the vitals cnaw upon themsolves, and faintness and languor and pangs from bead to foot, and horror and despair and insanity take full possession. One handful of wheat or corn or ries por iny would keep life going, but they cannot get a handful. The crops failed, and the nillions are dying. Oh, it ix hard to be hungry in a world where there are anough zrain and fruit and meat to fll all the hun gry mouths on the nlanet; but, alas. that ‘he sufferer and the supply cannot be srought together, There stands India to jay! Look at her! Her face dusky from the hot sung of many centuries: under her turban h achings ‘ng nation feels: her eves hollow wi tte wmnken ol su only a dy th un- rable w the te rolling down bh with hands And whole villages to walk, would erawl knees to get the first grain ronld reach and put it to May I ery out for yor Wait yr set § out sh they lips to those sufferers bear up a little me India; oh, starving women babes! Relief ix on the way. ar will soon ming. We se name of the Asiatic Christ, was hungry, and ye fed me ve have done it oh be ov unto one these my brethren ye have me, Christian people of America, 1 eall vonr attention to the fact that we may now, as never before, by magnificent stroke open the widest door for the evangelization of Asia. A stupendous obstacle in the way Christianizing Asia has been the difference of language, but all those peopls stand the gospel of bread. Another obsta- ele has been the law of caste, but in what better way ean we teach them the brotherhood of man? Another huge dif fieulty in the way of Christianizing Axia nas been that those people thought the religion we would have them take was no better than their Hindooism or Moham medanism, but they will now see hy this crusade for the relief of people 14.000 miles away that the Christian religion is of a higher, better and grander type than any other religion, for when did the followers of Brahma or Vishnu or Buddba or Con- fucins or Mohammed ever demonstrate like Interest in people on opposite sides of the world? Having taken the bread of this life from our hands, they will be more apt te take from us the bread of eternal life. The missionaries of different denominations in India at forty-six stations are already dis tributing relief sent through the Christian Herald, Is it not plain that those mission. aries, after, feeding the hunger of the body will be at better advantage to feed the hunger of the soul? When Christ, before reaching to the 5000 in the wilderness: roke for them the miraculous loaves, He indieated that the best way to prepare the world for spiritul and eternal considera. one under. este, Oh, church of God in America and Europe! This is your opportunity. We have og occasions of Christian patriotism cried “America for God!” New let us add the battles shout, “Asia for God!” In this move. ment to give food to starving India I heas the ling of the wing of the Apocalyptic angel, y to fly through the m of heaven procisiming to the kingdoms unsearchable is and tongues the Christ and riches of Jesus .. And gow I bethiok myself of something } I had noticed time ago, but it did not oceur to me until now that the gospel seems It started in village: Jordan, an an Asiatic mountain, rospel moved on to Eur He, hinpels and nnd universiti of crossed to Amarion preached and sung its continent It has ero tuking the Bandwich wy and now in all the great kitios the coast of China people are inging “Rock of Ages” and here sn Then Witness cathedrals and that continent, It has prayed Way across sod to Asin, Islands in {ty this the churches Christian and on been translated into those Asiatic tongues, but also the evangelical hymns, My mis them into Chinese, and Mr. Gladstone gave My Soul,” which he had himself translated The Christ who it seems spent sixteen or eighteen years of His life in In- by hundreds of thou- sands, and the Gospel will move right on Asia until the story of the Rav. anew be made known in and the story of a Saviour's told anew on and around and the story of u Saviour's sion be told anew on the shoulder of int Olivet, And then do you not see r will be complete? 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