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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
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ard
age,
staine
phans
trophies
name
Through
sha
Onward he j
Where dang
But
buildis
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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? The gloris
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sacrifice be
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Anothor of the unisances to whieh
the President of the United States
must submit is tho gift- maker, Fortu-
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and to this unwelcome offerings are
consigned. It the duty of the
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is
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the president in the vain hope of secur-
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them crayons in gilt frames, which
many sacrifices. These are always
acknowledged, the latter being signed
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