THE UNHAPPY INDIA. Eighty Milliona of People Starving to Death. Are The Christian World Now Has us Glorious Opportunity to Show lis Love for Suffering Humanity Immedi- ate Rellef Is Needed. Dr. Talmage, who is daily speaking to vast audiences in lowa and lllinois on behalf of the famine sufferers of India, devoted his last Sunday's ser- mon to that cause. His text Esther 1: 1: “This is Ahasuerus which reigned from India even unto Ethiopia.” Among the 775,608 words which make up the Bible only once occurs the word “India.” In this part of the Seriptures, which the Rabbis call *“Megiliah Esther,” or the volume of Esther, a book sometimes complained against be- cause the word "God" is not even once mentioned in it, although one rightly disposed can se¢ God in it from the first chapter to the last, we have it set forth that Xerxes, or Ahasuerus, who invaded Greece with two million men, but returned in a poor fisher's boat, 1"e- Was. had a vast dominion, among other gions, India. In my text its place in Bible geography, and India takes i the interest in that land has increase 1 i thusiasm, Heber's andl the museums ot the resal India. 1 prayers, amid the It is the heaven of the magnolia and abelmosk and palm tree, going there, will find endless entertainment in the study of the races now living there and the races of blood they area commingling. The historian, going there, will find his theory of Warren Hastings’ government in India the reverse from that which Pdmund Burke gave him in the most famous ade dress every made in a court room, its two characteristics matehless elo quence and one-sidedness of statement. The archeologist will be thrown into a frenzy of delight as he visits Delhi of India and digs down and finds seven dead cities underneath the now living city. All success to the hunters and the botanists and the ethnologists and the Mstorians and the archmologists who visid India, each one on his or her errand, But we to-day visit India as ! an women and men to hear'the 11 meaning of a groan of hunger that ‘has traveled 14,000 miles, yot gota loyd~ » prepare himsel he was accustom flowers and treeg Lhe ethnologist, whose | India - | represent | excel er and more agonizing as the days go by. But why have any interest in peo- ple so far away that it is evening there when it is morning here, their com- plexion darker, their language to us a jargon, their attire unlike that found in any American wardrobe, their mem ory and their ambition I thing that we recall or hope for? With more emphasis than you put into the interrogatory Why," I answer: First, Because Christ was an Egypt gave to us its monuments, Rome unlike any our Asiatic gave to us its law, Germany gave to us its philosophy, but Asia gave to us its Christ. His mother an Asiatic; mountains that looked down upon Him, Asiatic; the lakes banks He rested and on whose chopped waves He walked, Asiatic; the apostles whom He first commissioned, Asiatic; the audiences He whelmed with illustrations drawn from blooming lilies and salt crystals, and great rain. falls, and bellowing hypocrites’ long ravens those on whose pebbly tempests; and faces, and croaking all audiences Asiatic, outside of Asia. years to spare from his active work, in stead of spending that time in Europe I think he farther toward heart of Asin, namely, India. The goes the | says notl age un and ent, sL8Y think Chr $ a dying with un. ling down nation feels: her eves hollow utterabie woe; the tears ro her sunken cheek; her back bent with more agonies than she knows how to carry; her ovens containing nothing but Gaunt, ghastly, wasted, the dew of death upon her forehead and a palior such as the last hour brings, she stretches forth her treme bling band toward us, and with hoarse whisper she says: “L am dying! Give me bread! That is what I want! Bread! Give it to mo quick; give it to me now «bread! bread! bread!” America has heard the cry, Many thousands of dol lars have been contributed. One ship laden with breadstuffs has sailed from San Francisco for India. Our senate and house of representatives in a bill signed by our sympathetic presk dent, have authorized the | secre tary of the navy, to charter a ves sel to earry food to the famine suffer ers, and you may help fill that ship. ashes, ‘We want to send at least 000,000 bushe ele of corn. That will save the lives of | stormy waves to let | happen to the ship till it anchors in | Bengal or Arabian waters, | help | breadstuffs toward | ship will flavor their own fi | their the | His | | Tope, . “ . { have on occasions of Christduring Hisearthly stay was never When He had 16 or 18 | ’ Bible | | ready to urban | CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BE LLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1847. AFIREWATER SPRING at least 600,000 people, Many will re- spond in contributions of money, and the barns and eorn-cribs of the entire United States will pour fourth their treasures of food. When that ship is laden till it can earry no more, we will asl Him who holds the winds in His | fist and plants His triumphant foot on nothing but good Those who contributions of or filling money that rellef food for appetizing quali their own welfare by lifetime witl ties, and insure | through the promise of Him who said: | “Blessed is | poor; the Lord will deliver him in time he that considereth the | of trouble.” Oh, what a relief that ship will be! It shall not turn a screw nor hoist a sail until we have had something to do with its cargo. O Church of God in America and Eu this is your opportunity! Ye f Christian patriot ism cried: “America for God!’ Now let us add the battle shout: sin for In this to starving India I hear the the wing of t God!" movement te he Apocalyy Heaven pr aoms and people searchable And now ihen t , if the laying ind the nent east and together was ceasion, what will it t tie of the track of gosps « reaching clear around the | be laid amid the anthem 8? The spikes will tv silver spikes, fashioned on! of the Christian generosity of the hem The last hammer stroke thal completes the work will be heard by all the universe, and the mountains of (earth will shout to the thrones of Heaven, "Hallelujah! For the Lord | God Omnipotent reigneth, Hallelujah {| For the kingdoms of this world have i | Ispheres | Christ.” . i sbi Mp A Monument to Horses, Japunese officers who fought in the | ; | din this flower is planted upon graves late war against China have petitianed | their government to erect & monument to the memory of the horses that fel lin battle, ssiin——— — Injecting Courage. ! A French doctor declares that he ha | fiscavarud a means of injecting courage into men by means of g ayringe. The material ho uses is a mixture of ses water and phenio seid que SANGUINARY PLANS OF WILD INDIANS CLEVERLY FRUSTRATED, ow a Smuggler on a Government Reser. Laid Out a Band of Red Devils With Forty Rod Whisky and Saved the vation Lives of Bix Prisoners, A Star man bappened to meet 1 man Pi who had served a term or two or three in various penitentiaries, hadn’t served several he should have served and is likely to serve more before he is through with himself, Of course that kind of a man was interesting, and after a time, when he got to talking under the lowing influence of things made for the purpose, he was more interesting. mel “When I was 15 years younger than I am now,’ he said, I was out in mountaing of the west on a government reservation, where I could make money T 1 by selling whisky under post prices was always on the make, and so I smug- gled in a dozen or more gallons and had them hid in of reach, Tho cave was a kind of out KO a cave ten miles or ) ntw y 1 told the the Indians while I took f the little girl, which I did by taking her outside of the cave, where shoe could breathe the free air of heaven once mors You eee, I kind of thought they might like to attend to things themselves, '' ho ed t ically and stopped. "And did they?" er as the narrator had reached the inquired the report. to think be end of his story “I suppose they did,” ho replied. “At least, when I went back to the cave, about a month later, when the war had sormed simmered down sorae, I found the bodies | of them Indians almost ae well preserved | na if they had been put up in alcohol, | { ful, you know. i : | | that dern whisky of mine was so power. I was always kind of sorry I hadn't sent the prisoners to take eare of the little girl while I took care of them Indians. By eripes, I nover gos a cent for the liguor they drank!’ —- | | Washington Star | become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus | The Poppy. The poppy throughout the cast is an emblem of death. In many parts of Ins and in cometeries. Whether or not the fdea was suggosted by the poisonons character of the juico is uncertain, It fs believed that the poppy was known as a funeral plact to the ancient Egyp- tians, for upon the tombs opened by Bel. woni there appeared representations of plants which were evidently intended for poppies, tho | ss STOP, WOMEN! } : . You Are Asked to Consider an All-Important Fact. You Can Talk Freely to Mrs Pinkham, But It Is Revolting to Tell Your Troubles to Any Man. Post Yourself About >Bicycles Likbdiii pea ———————————————————— aneiantmsel Ante roi acer 3 Handsomest catalogue ever i ia and Hartford bicycles. Whether y rtford or any other bi yCie, it will hat every cyclist should ad the new Columbia Catalogue. Is fully of Columl lumbia, the H il from us for ny Columbia dealer: by ma STANDARD OF THE WORLD Bicycles 100 AUKE. Hartfords, ~~ °60,°50, *4 POPE MFG. CO. Hartford, Conn. atest Bicycle | ry ery city and town. If Col n your vicinity, let us know, A... Crider's Excha ize Buildi . 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