REY. DR. TALMAGE. rue BROOKLYN DIVIN DAY SEILMON, Subject: “The Truth About Russia’ gelf- speak evil Text: “Presum) siz are thew, willed: they are not afraid lo of dignities,” 11 Peter ii., Among a most reprehensible crew Pater hero paints by one those who delight to slash at peovle in au- thority. Now we all have a right to eriti- cise evil behavior, whether in high places or low, but the fact that one is high up is no woof that he ought to be brouzht down, t is a bad streak of human nature now, as it was in the time of the text a bad streak of human nature, that success of any kind excites the jealous antipathy of thoss who cannot climb the same steep, There never was a David on the throne that there was not some Absalom wanted to get it. There never was a Christ but the world had saw and hammer ready to fashion a on which to assassinate Him, Out of this evil spirit grow not only indi- vidual but national and international def amation. Tono country has more injustios been done than toour own in days that are past. Loug before “Martin Chuzzlewitt” was printed the literature of the world scoffed at everything American, Vietor honest as he was unequaled in literary power, was so misinformed concerning Amer. ica that he wrote: *‘ I'he most singular thing fs the need of whittling, with which all Americans are possessad, [It is such that on Sunday they give the sailors little bits of wood, because if they did not they would whittle the ship. In court, at the most critical moment, the judge, whittling, says: ‘Prisoner, are you guilty? and tranquilly responds, whittlin guilty.’ Lord John Russell called us bursting nationality Bat our country has at last recovered from such caricature, and there is not a street in any city of Europ or Asia where the word “America” will n win deference. But tt is ister on the other side of now through the process of ation, There is no« understood as Russia, and nom misrepresented than 23 not be in the cause of right the minds of august assemblage whom, on both words i 10) LLN who Cross th tn and the en 1AN08 who ization i is 80 vast liseou zara Falls peror and eq 1 authe pin last summer t sain with eful prejudices as would make an the mountain of fabrication vars been heaped ug inst You ask how is appailing misrepresentati Russia could stand? [ account for it fact the Rasvian language is an impassable Malign w United States or mal Great Britain or Garmany or France, and next cablegram the falsel iis ext . for we all understan English, and ma: HIT PEOD familiar wits Gern y ATS «ian language rt as that wall the But the Ra and sasy to th t voeal or ngue, and any anti- sft an and French an | Russian ca » world outs vs he th 1% D t het rooms | transa s tha a Europe like Russia? B CAlU<e she | enough acreage to swallow all Europe and feel she had only half a mea Russia is as long as North and South America put together ‘But, ne, ‘4d you mean to charge the author and the Je turers wi itten or spoken against Russia " Wi?” By no You can fin ner able if you [saiiat 8 ) nent lady of tai ’ he | family, * y those outrage that | have tru?” She r plied: of them are true, i a pot in America ever have officers of the law cruel and out rageous in their treatment of offenders? Do you not have instances wheres the p li hava clubt ut persons! Have you no instances where people in brief ] Act art ntly [ replied, ] Then she “Why does t our gov t responsible for sptional outrages oon as an official is found to i imediately loses his place ight myself, Do the people in } nent of Washing ton responsible for the Homestead riots or for railroad insurrections, or for the toreca of the villian that consumes a block © houses, or for the rufflans who arrest a rail train, making the passengers hold up their arms until the pockets are picked? Why. then hold the emperor of Rassia, who is as Impressive and genial aman as | have ever looked at or talked with, responsible for the wrongs enacted in a nation with a popula tion twice as large in numbers as the mil tons of Americal! Bupposs one monisren in Europs ruled over England, fostland, Ire. land, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Aus tris, Norway and Sweden Would it be fair to hold the monarch re- sponsible for ali that occurred in that mighty dominion? Now you must romem- ber that Alexander the Third reigns over wider dominion than all thoss empires put together. As a nation is only a man or a Says some means nna emis mperia ty and about some { we (Govern woman on a big scale, let me ask, would | on individually prefer to be judged by your auits or your virtues? All people sxcapt ourselves have faults, The pessimist attempting to write your blography would take you in your weaker moods, and the picture of you on the fist op your biography would be as you after some meanness had been prac. tiead on you and you were tearing mad, Now, as I am an optimist, 1 give you fair warning that if 1 ever writs your biography I will take you as you looked the day your dividend came In twenty per oemnt, larger than you ever anticipated, or the morning on your way to ness alter your first child was born, or the morning after your conversion, when heaven had rolled In on your soul, The most accursed homunculi of all the earth are the mists, who, whether they jorge individual or national character, whether they wisld a pan, 1 are filled with atu 'S SUN- | stroke the portrait of | Hugo, as | an 1 America would not have called forth from all the despotisms of Europe and Axia a shout of gladness wide as earth and | deep as pecdition. But whoaver elss failed us, Russia never did, and whoever else was | doubtful, Russia never was, Russia, then an | old government, smiled on the eradleof our government while yet in its earliest infanoy, Empress Catherine of Russia in 1776 or thereabouts offered kindly interference that our thirteen colonies might not go down un« der the cruelties of war, Again, in 1513, Russia stretchal forth to- ward us a merciful hand, When our dread- ful civil war was raging and the two thun- der clonda of northern and southern valor clashed, Russia practically said to the na- tions of Europe, “Keep your hands off and let the brave men of the north and the south | gattle their own troubles.” [ rehearsed some of those scsnes to the emperor last Jaly, saying, “You were probably young to remember the position your father took at that time.” but with radiant smile he responded, “Oh, yes, I romember, I re member,” and there was an accentuation of the words which demonstrated to me that those occurrences had often been talked of in the imperial household, I stood on New York Battery during the war, as I suppose many of you did, looking off through a magnifving glass upon a fleet of Russian ships, “What are they doing there? I asked, and every ono asked, “What business have the Russian warships in our New York harbor Word came that another fleet of Russian warships was San Francisco harbor, “What does this mean? our ralers asked, but did not get im mediate answer, In theses two American harbors the Russian fleets seemed sound asleep. Their great mouths of iron spoke not a word, and the Russian flag, whether floating in the air or drooping by the flag- staff, made no answer to our inguisitive Loo 80 1088, William H, Beward, secretary state, asked the Russian minister at Washington the meaning of those Hussian ships in Amer- jean waters and got no satisfactory sponse, Admiral Farragut said to a Russian officer after dining in the home of the em!- nent politician, Tourlow Weed, that maker and unmaker of presidents, What are you loing here with Russian vessels of war Not until the war ver was fit yd out that in case of foreig nun all the ing and the last g w York and San Franci arbors were pent in fiapa foreign ship that « lare to @ with the rig Americans, north and ith, to settle their own contr But for those fleets and ti mn waters ther of 1'o- ¢h . thom was oO ro floets in Ne IVOrsy. Ameri that two of them i have wou and Abrabam Jdnsoln we should Now is it not important that that God § ol right toward ths n n friend we than ons hundred rs? Yea boo s it is a nation of ' bilities than any othe | except our own, gltivate its friendship, There is Russia as yet spied po Were lahts of m more Mal we 3 MOO of Eur be only partially people will pour down and on down beet ant . typed again : ne trenches will ynamite have been u ug around ster palace, They dare not venturs for exopt pr fed and followed and surrou: ai hy & mod elaborate military guard, My answer to this is that I never saw a Y re {ree from worriment than the em- fa The winter palace, around the hes are sald to have been dynamite, and in which the imperial family are said "0 be prisoners, has never been the residence of the imperial family one moment since the present em peror has been on the throne, Tho winter palace has been changed into 2 museum and a picturs galiery and a place f great levees He spends his summer In the palace at Peterhof, fifteen or twenty miles from St. Petersburg: his autumns at the palace at Gratechua, and his winters in a palace at 5t, Petersburg, bub in quite a different part of the city to thas occupied by the winter palace, He rides through the stroets unattended: except by the empress at his side and the driver on the bog. There is pot a person in this andience more free from fear of harm thaa he is. His subjects t admirs him but almost worship fav arora. which warged witl am only him There are cranks in not had our Charles Guitean and John Wilkes Booth! “Bat' says some ons, “did not the Russians kill the father of the pres. ent emperor” Yes, but in the time that Russia has had one assassination of em. peror America has had two presidents assas sinated, “But is not tha emperor an auto- erat?™ By which you mean, has he not power without restricticn? Yes, but it all depends upon what use a man makes of his power Are you an autocrat in your factory, or an autocrat in your store, or an autocrat in your style of business? It all depends on what use you make of your power, whether to bless or to oppress, and from the time of Peter the Great--that Ramian who was the Rusia, bat have we wonder of all time, the emperor who became | incognite a ship carpenter that he might help ship carpenters, and a mechanic that be might lp mechanics, and put on poor men's garb that he might sympathizs with poor men, and who in his last words said “Mv Lord, I am dying. On, belp my unbe- Hof I" «lsay from that time the throne of Huasda bas, for the most part, been occupied by rulers as beneflesnt and kind and sym- | pathetio as they were powerful. To go no further back than Nicholas, the grandiather of the £ emperor, Nicholas had for the dominant idea of his administration the emancipation of the | worfs, When It was found that he premedi. tatod the frasdom of the serfs he received | the following letter of threat from a depute. | tio of noblemen: “Your Imperial Majesty | weWe learn that the council and senate of | the empire have before them for delibers- | tion, with your sanction, the plan to abolish t the Russian in | tromity of their despair will put the lite of your majesty in jeopardy.” The emperor replied in words that will Inst as long as history, “Gentlemen, if I should die because of my devotion to such a cause, 1 am willing to meet my fate,” When, under an attack of pneumonia posure to savers weather in the service of his people, that emperor put down his head on the pillow of dust, Russian lost ns good a monarch as was ever crowned, Then eame Alexander the Second, father of the present | emperor, Amid the mightiest opposition ory, innumerable protests, he, with one stroke of his pen, em wucipated twenty mils lion serfs, practically saying, "Go free. Be your own masters, and this is for you and | your children forever." | { (and I will parenthetically say that 1 saw his carriage in splinters, as it looked when he stepped from it, not to save himsalf, but to look after some poor people of the street who had been hurt, and I saw the bed which he died, the mattress yet crimson with his life's blood) on the day ho was assassin | ated ho hal on his table, found afterward, a free constitution that proposed to g right of suffrage to the people of Ru it had not been for the assassination would bave rnvexd constitution, but that horrible violet | as violence snlwavs does, | What a marvelous character of kindness was Alexander the Second, the father of tl present smperor, so that the present peror, Alexander the Third, inherits his nignity. Alexander the Necond, that a nobleman had formed a ¢ against his life, had him arrested, eyes of the eri bandaged, and he was put in a and for traveled on, or stopping food, After awhile the bandage was removed, and sup posing that he must by that time have been almost found was at the door of his own home. it § pun. isbment was suffici . The same emp having poet had written a poem defamator empress, ordered the Expecting great sev ’ the palace and found the emg wross and dukes and duche “Good m , on SOON Ni Dack, “in. Fore hearing SPIracy ‘ben the ninal were age, some time he in Siberia, wet into his the read itt S| i may I any fore | was asked if 1 ba jase prviecy, Lutheran.” * is ff the yr FOur reigo and m als at Petersburg f the Church of England.” Myself, an American, of still an nomination of Christiane, and never having been inside a Greek church in my life until I went to Russie, could not have received more consideration had I been baptised in in the Greek church and all my life w shiped at her alters, [ had it demonstrated to me very plainly that a man’s religion in Russia has nothing to do with his prefer ment for either office or social position, The only questions taken into consideration are honesty, fidelity, morality and adaptation, I had not been Petersburg an hour before | received an invitation to preach the Gospel of Christ as I believed it. Besides all this, have you forgotton that the Crimean war, which shook the earth, grew out of Russia's intertarence in behalf of the prose cuted Christians of all nations in Tarkey ‘bave there “But” says some one, * been persecutions of other religions in Rus sia? No doubt, just as in other times in Now Eagland we burned witches, and a« we killed Quakers, and as the Jews in Amerioa have been outrageously treated ever sinc) | can remem ber, and the Chinese in our land have been pelted, and their stores torn down, and their way trom the steamer whar! to their destined quarters tracked with their own blood, The devil of persecution is in every land and in all ages, Some of us in the different denominations of Christians in America have felt the thrust of persecution because we thought differently or did things differently from those who would, if they had the jower, put us in a furnace eight | times heated, one more degres of oalorie than Nebuchadnezzar'a, Perssputions in all lands, but the emperor of Russia sanctions none of them, I bad a most satisfactory talk with the smperor about the religions of the world, and he thinks and feels as you and | do, that ken on is something between a man and with it. You may go right up to 8t, Peters- Burg and Moscow with your Episcopal ur, our ( tionalist’s liberalism, or your | Immercionist’s Baptistry, or any other re. IN and If you mind your own affairs and | lot # mind theirs you will not be mo | lestad, Calumny the Fourth—Russia is so very raping of territory, and she seems to want world. But what are the facts? Dur to one highest offi ther do in Ht not million population, while during that time only ones half the number of jure miles and about from ex- | On the day he was basely nasass inated | , and no one bas a right to interfere | , or your Preshytorian oatecnism, or | Russian advances of domuin by eighteen mil. Hon as compared with the English advanos of domain by two hundred and fifty mil. ’ A : | lion! The United States nnd Kn gland had | man who supervised all better koep still about extravagant and ex- | tortionate enlargement of domain. Calumny the Fifth—Siberin is a den of { horrors, and to-day people are driven like dumb eattle; no trial is affor lad to the sus pectad ones, they ars put into qui wrllver mines, where they are whinpedand starved, and some day find themselves o without any head, get so far as Siberia, Women. after being tiod to stakes in the str : and whipped to deat howling moka, end flash slew under the hot But what are the facts kinder people on h then aid to most of them of oing around Some of them do not ely, are dim i 1 Lhe presen ‘ the irons, elty I hold in my hand n card on it that red circle bility. ment's seal on a card giving me pet to visit all ths pr Pat I bad expre ia wish in that direction the mesenger handed this card to me he tol me that a carriage v he door for ISOns oF Mt could not ma IRE suc an fav eminent you vis and how distinzuis American, * vi the prison Petors 4 ( A teri St. burz isons?’ and the) sonditione wn pr them, are go there b y ern theds tiiberia awhi ’ HYeiihoo mim ywn farms and of { these people . 3 un le them ual oir i many « y wealth, and thousands of jucement would leave parts ol Siberia which are paradises for salubrity and luxuriance, Now which do you think is the best style of a prison-Siberia or many of our American prisons! When a man commits a big erime in our country, th judge looks into the trighted face of the cu urit and says, * ‘You have been found guilty; 1 sentence you to the penaitentiary for ten He goes to prison, He is shut in between four walle, No sunlight, No fresh alr. No bathroom. Bolore he has served his ten years he dies of consumption or is 0 enervated that for the rest of his life he sits with folded hands-—a whee ng invalid, In preferenca to the shut in life of the American prisoner, give me Si jesides that, when offenders come yat of prison in America, what casper have ey Ask the poorly supported raed to get these people places for work to whom the newly liberated come prisons imploring what they shall do. No ons will commend them, The pallor of incarceration is on their cheek. Who wants to employ in factory or store a man or woman who, in answer to the ques tion: “Where did you live last? should make for reply: “State's prison at Auburn or Moyamensing?™ Now in Siberia they have a better chance, They are never spoken of as criminals, but as unfortunates, and they are allowad every opportunity of re trieving toeir lost reputation asd lost for. tunes I talked with the President of the Na- tional Society of Rusia for the Education and Moralization of the Children of Siberian Convicts, The president of that society, those § ears average beria 1 BOI im ¢ i Ask me, from all the appointed by the emperor, is a lady of great | accomplishments and much sympathy, which llamines her face and makes tearful her eyes and tremulous her voice, The evening [ passed at hor house in St. Peters- burg was one of the memorable eveats of my lifetime. I will not attempt to pro | pounce the name of that noble woman ap pointed by the em as the President ol the National 8 y of Russia for the Klu. ention and Moraligation of the Children of Convicts. Please to name any such oational society in our country, su by govern. ment, for taking care of the chi of conviots, You know, if you know anything, that thers is no chance in this country for a man who has been imprisoned, or for his ohil. 1 : A assassination of the father of the present emperor, standing in the snow that awful day when the dynamite shattered to pieces the legs of Alexander the Hecond—[ say the this fled from Bt, Patersburg and quit Russia, But after awhile the man repented of his erime, and wrote to the emperor asking for forgiveness for the murder of his father, and promising to be a good citizen, and asking if he might back to Busia, The emperor pardoned the murderer of his father, and the forgiven sn is now living in Russia, unless re- y decensed, When I talked to the empress concerning sympathy felt in America for the suf. ings of the drought-struck regions of Rus- t, she evinesd an absoriving interest and a wmpassion and an emotion of manner and woh su we men hardly realize, auso it seems that Gol has reserved for woman as her great adornment the coronet, the tear jewellol coronet of tenderness and commiseration, If vou say that it was a man, a divine man that came save the world, I say yes: but it was a woman that gave the man, Witness all the Madonnas—- talian, German, English and Russian that wn in the ploture of Christen~ dom Son of Mary, have mercy on us! But how ahout the knout, the cruel Rus- that © down on the bare mize! crimioals? Why, Russia knout before it was abolished om our American navy, But how about y political prisoners hustled off to Siberia? y the testimony of the most os - brated literary enemy of Russia, only four ired and forty-three political prisoners ore sent to Biberis in twenty years, How iitical prisoners did we put in prison our four years of civil war? s at least one hundred thou- v's one hundred thousand po- versus Huassia's four hundred prisoners, Nearly and forty-three of r people des. lon of the prisoners is 11 AN oan brs 10 galleries HIVES ished the rding t ring 1 will gus Ameri Li Princ wl forty-thr us Kara min part you ars won the te mony to Mat jlependent for of prison. They all sa ent bet always are " punished political bis, and on Deaths at mortality in cevs and eroase excited so few months ago, Be- monkeys, tuber found 1a be peculiarities of the nate are shown by the fact is a very common dis- imals; but, on the liseases of the heart are very nention is made of cancer, a yrities have pointed with in domesti. animals, and but seldom if ever | ones. Rickets, curiously enough, yrded as being very common among rardens—a fact which me irregularities or Among the deaths bed a8 to the may be made of a rich indiscreetly at a large bone five in. Again, a common shel. drake apparently committed suici ie on account of the death of its mate. Soon VV ter latter melancholy incident oc. curred the bird was found dead, and ex- amination of its remains showed that it aad asphyxiated itself by blocking the upper portions of its respiratory passages with mud. Lastly, the death of a crane is worthy of notice, inasmuch as the bird had been an inhabitant of the gardens forty-two years.—Boston Tran GOercuiosis, several the a 3 Auth entnetimes met somelimes mes animals in the seems to point to » deficiencies in diet, de ne } which may be due casualties, mention tatled eagle, w nted noth ches in leng white to swallow the for script. A —— Color Perception in Savage Races. From various investigations made of the subject the opinion would appear to be justified that savage races possess the perception of color to a greater degree than do civilized racer. This is made | evident by the facts presented by Dr. | Webster Fox before the Franklin Insti. tute, Philadalphia, his statement cover | fg the results of some two hundred and | fifty examinations among lodian children, one hundred of these being boys. Re. searches of this character show that in a selection of one hundred white from various parts of the United States, at least five of the number would have proved color blind. Among all these Indian boys not a single ease of the kind was discovered, Some yoars an ex amination by Dr. Fox of 250 Indian boys resulted, be stated, in the discovery that two were color blind--a very low percon when com with the whites—~while none of the Indian girls were thus affected. — New York Tribuad “ Your Work In Lite,” A series of 13 articles by succes many pursuits is one of the ms of articles which are snnoune Compaiivom for 186 “The Bray Haw" js the topic of another series Mates Generals, The prospectus for the « your of The Companion in mor aroun than ever, Those wh » will receive the paper froe to for af your from hint Gals Addres Aris ther (8 PBTATE OF Ono, UITY OF " 7 |v oi COUNTY (SAE innie W. 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