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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. ( ., MAY «, 1897.
STARVIXGr MILLIONS.
AN ELOQUENT PLEA IN BEHALF Or
FAMINE STRICKEN INDIA.
1U v. Dr. TaliuHco Is to Fill the
Ships That Aro to Carry Food For the
Starving 1'eoplo of India—A Thrilling
Sertaua.
Chicago, May 2. — Or. Talnjaao is on
a inis^iou of tread for tlu* fauilnc suf-
fi'rorx of India. He is shaking every day
to vast audiences iu Iowa and lilinois,
helping to fill the ships provided by
til's United Ft ate* government for carry
ing com to India. Text, Esther i, 1,
“Tina is Ahasuerus which reigned from many ?rnre
India even onto Ethiopia.’’
Among the 77d,() ( .<8 words which
make up the Bible only once occurs the
word “India. ’’ In this part of the Scrip
tures, which the rabbis call “ Megillah
Esther,’’ or the volume of Esther, a
bok sometimes complained against be
cause the word “God” is not even once
Hjention. d in it, although one rightly
disposed can see (Ted in it from the
first chapter to the last, we have it set
forth that Xerxes, or Ahasuerus. who
invaded Greece with 2 t OU<),000 men,
bat returned in a poor fisher’s beat, had
a vast d< minion, among other regions,
India. In my text India tuk<« its place
in Bible g ography, and the interest iu
that land lias continued to increase un
til, 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 anticipation that went through
my body ajid mind and soul when aft
er two weeks’ tossing on the seas
around Ceylon and India — for tho
winds Aid not, according to the old
livmu, “hlov/Ta ft o'<r Ceylon’s isle”—
cur thip sailed up one of the mouths of
tiie Ganges, pact .Tames cud Mary in
land, so named because a royal ship of
that name was wrecked there, and I
stepped ashore at Calcutta, amid tho
shrines and temples and sculptures of
that City of Palaces, the strange phys
iognomies of the living and the cre-
mstiona of the dead. Iliad never i::-
pcctid to h-' there , he cause the sea and I
long ago had a se riens falling out, but
the facilities cf travel are so increasing
that;. u or your childrt a w ill probably
visit that 1: tiel < f bound 1< ss fascination.
A V/oenli-rful Country.
Its configuration is such as nocnc but
Gcd could have architected, and it
seems as if a man who had no religion,
going there, would he obliged to uc-
knowle erjei a God as did thee cowboy in
Colorado, liis companion, an atheist,
had about persuaded tho cow bey that
there was no God; but, coming amid
gome of that trenieiubms seem ry of high
rocks and awful chasms and de pths dug j
under de pths and mountains piled on
mountains, tho cowboy said to ids at he- !
istiei companion, “Jack, if there is no !
God now, £ guess, from the- looks of !
things around here, there* must have ;
been a Geal;. me times.” No one but tho i
Omniscient ee u’ei have* planneel India,
anel no ci:o but the On uipe tent could j
haves buiit it. It is a great triangle, its i
base tho Himalaya:—a word meaning;
“the dwelling place cf snows”—these i
mountains pouring out cf their e’rystal ]
cup the Indus, the Brahmaputra and tho |
Gauge.) to slake tho thirst of tho vast
papula!ic::: of Inoia. That eountry is
tho he me < f 2*10,000,000 scuis. What
ever be cue’s t i«.s i(.*l going tiiero his
taste is gratified. Feme go as hunters < f
great game, and there is no end tei their
entertainment. Mighry fauna—bison,
buliaie*. rbinocercs, elephant, panther,
lion, tiger—this last to be the perpetual
game lor Americans and Europeans be
cause lie comes up from tho malarial
swamps where no human be ing dare en
ter; tho dee r anel antelope hi:: ue-cm-tcm-
cd loexi, but cnee having obtained tho
tastes cf human blood he wants nothing
else, anel i.; called “tho mau eater. ”
Von cannot see the tiger’s natural fe
rocity after he has been humiliated Ly
a voyage across tho sea. Yeiu need to
hear his growl as ho presses his iron
paw against tho cage* in Calcutta. Thir
teen towns have been abandonee! sis re si
dence because e f the w ork cf this cruci
invader. Jn inelia iu tho ye ar lb7 7, 81b
people) w ero slain by the* tige r and 10,-
000 catilo de stroyed. ITom the* Laek of
the elephant or from galleries built
among tho trees l,o00 tigers went
deiwn, anel $10,000 of gove rnment ro-
warel were paid tho sportsmen. I advise
all tlie;so who iu America anel oilier
lands find amusement in shooting sing
ing birds, coming homo at night v- ii
empty powder flask anel a whole choir
of heaven slung over their shoulekr, to
absent themselve s le;r awhile and attack
the justifiable game of India. Ur if you
go as botanists, oh, whut opulence of
floral With uei distinc t lie ra of its own
it is tho chorus cf all the* flora of Persia
and Siberia and China and Arabia and
Egypt.
A lY.sslon Fe>r Souls.
Tho Baptist missionary, Carey, who
did infinite good to India, had two
great passions—first a passion for
fceiuls and next a passion fe r flowers—
and ho adorned his Asiatic home and
tho American homes of his friend* and
museum* on tithe r side of the se a with
the results cf his floral expedition* in
Inelia. To prepare himself leir morning
prayer* ho was accustomcel to walk
amid tho flowe rs and trees. It is tho
heaven cf the magnolia and abelmosk
anel palm tree. The ethnologist going
there) will find endless entertainment
in tho study of the) race snow living
there and the race*s of whose* blood they
arc* a eemimiugling. The historian go
ing there will liuel his theory of War
ren Hustings’ government in India the
reve rse from that which Edmund Burke
gave) him iu the* most famous aeldre ss
eve r made in a courtroom, its two char*
ae*te ristics matchles* c-loque-uce and cue
siele*el ress cf statement. The archaxrlo-
gist will bo thrown into a frenzy eif de
light a* he visits Delhi e.f India and
digs down and find* seven dead cities
uiidcrneuvn the now living city. All
hu-ee s* to the hunters and the* botanists
uuei the ethnologists and the historians
«md tho archsooleigists who visit Inelia,
each one on his or her errand. But we
today visit India as Christian women
ard men to hear the full meaning of a
groan of hunge-r that 1 as trawled
14,000 mile*, yet get* louder and more
agonizing as tho days go by. But why
have any inte re st in people so far away
that it is eveming there when it is umru-
i:.g here, tlieir complexion elarker, their
Ixnguag* (a ns a jargon, their attiro
unlike thM> found in any American
wardrobe, tbrtr meniery rod their am-
Uiiiou uui'Ju anything that vve recall
or Lop* fiisil Vith more enipin:sis than
you puk itcS* feM iuterregatory “Why?”
I answer: First, because cur Christ was
kb AsistMk K«v)it gave to us its monu
ment*, IrBwr gava to ns its law, Gc*r-
♦*» us its philosophy, but
Asia gave to a* it* Christ—his mother
lui Afeitilk; tU* mountains tiiat locked
down ug«*n him, Asiatic; the lukeson
w kc*a pohUy banks he* r. sted and em
VrTiose chopped wave * he walked, Asiut-
ic; th« apeMlhM whe m lie first commis-
sientd. Ahiatk; (he* audit ne-es be whelm
ed with hi* illustrations drawn freim
blccming Bhes, and salt crystals, and
great rainfall*, and bellowing tem
pests, and h^po-rites’long face s, and
creaking ruimui—ail those audience*
Asiatic.
Christ daring his earthly stay was
never outiiel* of Asia. \v’h« n he liael 16
or 18 year* to spare from his active
work, Bistend of spending that time in
Europe I tbirk he ge e* farther toward
the heart of Asia—namely, Imiia. Th.*
Bible say* uothing ef Clirist from 12
ye>ars cf age until 80, Let the ro are re c-
ord* in l!:t!ia and traditions in India
which represent a strange, wonderful,
most excellent and supiinctural be ing
us staying iu lue’.iu about tiiat time. I
think Christ Wiss the re mueli of the* time
between ht« tvre!fth anel his thirtieth
year; but, kwteavtr that may lx*, Christ
was beau iu Asia, suffered in Asia, died
iu Asia p«4 MctHeie ei from Asia, and all
that make s me* turn my ear more atte n-
tivciy towarel that ccmineut as I hear
its cry cf el is: re. s.
Mittftiouary Acltieveiucnts.
Besides that I remember that eemeof
the* me st hpi«iiuid achievemeiits for tho
cause of that Asiatic Christ have* been
made* in Inelia. How the heart of every
intelligent Christian beats with aei-
n.irutieiu at the* mere menticu of the
name* of Henry Martyn! Having reae!
the life* of cur American Davitl Brain-
erd, who gave his lile* to evangelizing
our Ame rican savage s, Hcmy Mi.ityn
goes 1< rward to give his life le r the* sal
vation ef Inelia, e.ymg lie in exhaustion
of se rvice* at 81 years of age*. Lord Ma
caulay, writing ef l.im says:
II'Te* Miirtyn He s. In ii:t*i:!:<.'<,d's e arly Plexnu
Du* e lirif-; >:.n he ie» l< i.nu i*, j i.i.'iai ;< nb.
R<*!if.i( a, st/iiew.r.g t/cr l.i i* lave) i'.'* «,n,
l’< ints tu it <• iii,us tvogluis *., hit !i hi* wen.
Ii. ii.i r;: I in ;,hu*s! Nut with :•-.."liter ml,
Nor sti.initi with teais by 1:nunss orphan*
shell.
But trophies <.f the cross. In that tlcr.r name,
Tlaouyh evi .y >< t ::< < 1 c::r < t , ti i! a::*t si:.• tan,
Ciiwp.ul he jomneyed to that happy shore*,
\ihi..e (baiter, toil untl eia:n;o uio huottauo
moii*.
Is there in all history, secular or re
ligious, « more won iu us cliaraeier tliau
William Cany, tli<* e < uverted shoemak
er of Eng ;.:.*1, elating all things for
God in Inoia, translating the* Bible* into
many dialects, building chapels anel
opening misiieu l.e.u* s and laying
foundedie.ns le r the ie eltniptiou e.f tho
countiy, and althcugh Fione.y Hutith,
who sometime* laughed at things ho
ought not t have* satirized, bad in tho
le urn cel Eerinburgh lb view scolied at
the* itle a of wliat l;e* eaile el “low I cm,
low bred mtchauies” like Carey at
tempting to ce avert the Eiab.mins,
Carey stopted neit until In* had staiied
inflututis that eternity, nei mere than
time, shall have power to arrest, 218,-
OCO Bibleji going le-rJi fre.m his printing
pre sses at nkramp.ore*. His .sublime* hu
mility shov.ceJ u.vslf in the epitaph be
on.ere ei fn.m the old ge sp: 1 hymn:
A V. n te hia, ja«or tnel Lelpleaa wom.
lie said: “No; they only represent
Gcd. There is but cue Goeb”
“When people: die, where do they gc
tc?”
“That depends upon what they hr.vf
bee n doing. If they have been dcinp
good, to heaver:, and if they have beer;
doing evil, to hell.”
“But do yon not believe in the trans
migration (T souls, and that after death
Vic go into birds or uuimato of some
f( rt?”
“Ye*. The last creature a man it
thinking of while dying is the cue intt
which he will go. If he is thinking of ■
beast, he will go into a beast”
“I thought yon said that at deatb
the* soul goes tei heave n or hell?”
“H*: goe s there* by a gradual proe**s.
It may takr him years and years.”
“Can any one become: a Hindoo:
Could I lit come a Hindoo?”
‘‘Yes; you could.”
“How c’onld I become a Hindoo?”
"By doing as the* Hinders do.”
From 1 he walls of ons of their mu
seums at Jaipur I had translated fen
me these beautiful sentiments:
TI.i- wist- iritl.t fjilluri- c*juul to Ktuwss.
Liki* t’.n Mis < * silver n e-n t) reiuph crTstt!
be n'ls, l«*t love* through yoixi khow.
IJo net to i.thi is li ::t which if ilin*.* to thee
would cause) thee pain. And this is the «uta ot
duty.
A man obtains a proper rr.!n of action by
IoeiI:i:*.B cn his ufdghbors ns himself.
From tiiat continent of interest ins
folk, from that coutimut that gave the
Christ, from that continent which has
been endeared by so many miinionary
heroics, tin re* conics a groan of 80,000,-
(.00 people in hunger. More people arc
in danger cf starving to de ath in India
today than the entire population of the
United Ftz‘.os. In the* famine* in India
in the year 1877, about G,000,000people
starved to death. That is more* riian
all the people of Washington, of New
York, cf Philadelphia, of Chicago, put
together. But that famine* was not a
tenth part as awful as tho ecu there
now raging. Twe*nty thousand are fly
ing there ef famine everyday. Whole
villages and towns lave* died—every
mau, woman and child; none left te:
bury the dead. The vultures and the
jackals are* the only pallbearers. Thcug’
some help has been sent, before full re
lie f can reach them I suppose there* wiT
be at le ast 10,000,000 dead. Starvatio:,
even for one person, is an awful pre.ee: ■).
No foeid, the vitals gnaw upon them
selves, and faintness and languor a id
pangr from head to feie.t, and horror i ’ll
(it spair :n:d insanity take fall pi sscss* u.
One handful of whe at or corn 'or r c-e
per day would keep life going, but they
cannot get a handful. The crops failed,
anel tho millions are dying. Oh, it is
hard to be* hungry in a world where:
there* arc emouglr grain and fruit and
all tiie hungry mouths on
meat tei fill
the planet;
and tiie
getbe r.
at l:ir! Her
suns of mauv
but, alas, that the sufferer:
ply canne t Le brought to-
stands India today! Look
late dusky from the l et
centuries; under 1:< v tur-
Gii thy kinu ani.s 1 tall.
Neeei I tell you cf Alphonse Lacroix, i
ti e fc'wiss missionary nr India, or of :
Vn’illiam Butler, the glorious American
Jletheidist missionary in India, or (if
the rcyal family of the* Beuddtrs of the
IU formed church of America, my dear
mother church, to whom I give) a kisseti
love* in passing, or of Dr. Alexander
Duff, the hcoteh missionary whose vis- 1
it to this country’some cf us. will re
member li revel ? When he stood in tho ;
old Broadway tabernacle, New York,
and pleaded for India until thero was I
no other elt pth of religious emotion for
him to stir and no loftier he ight of
Christian eh epic nee for him te» scale,
anel close d iu a whirlwind cf hallelu
iahs, 1 could easily belie vo that which
was said of him—that while pleading
tiie cause of India iu one of the church
es of Feotkmd ho* got so overwrought
that he fell in the pulpit in a swoon
and was carried into the vestry to be
resuscitated, and when restored to his
Ecase s and preparation was being made
to carry him out to some dwelling
where ho could be put to bed he ecm-
p* lied his friend* to take him back tc»
the pulpit to complete his plea for the
salvation of India, no sooner getting on
bis feet than he began where ho left
off. but with more gigantic power than
be fort* he faiute d. But just as noble a*
any I have mentioned are* the men and
women who are there now for Christ's i
sake* and the redemption of that people. I
Far away front the ir native land, ram- :
iue on cue side and black plague on the
other side, swamps breathing on them
malaria, and jungle s howling err them
with wild te asts or hissing with cobras,
the name * of tiie te missionaries of ail
denominations to U* written so high on
the roll ef martyr* that no name s of
rhe last i,8U0 ye ars shall be written
above them. You need to see the m at
their werk in schools and churches and
lazarettos to appreciate them. All Iron- I
or upon them and their household*
while I smite the lying lips of their
slanderer*.
Tlu* Iliniloo Faith.
Most interesting are* the people cf In
dia. At Calcutta i said to one of their
lenders, who spoke English well:
“Have these idol* which I see any
pow t r of the nisei vc* *.p help or destroy?’ ’
ban such aching* of brow as cnly a dy
ing natin leek-; her eyes hollow with
unutte rable wee; the tears rolling down
her sunken cheek; her back bent with
1 more agonies then she* knows how to
curry; her e vens containing ue thing
but asiits. Gaunt, gha-Hy. wasted, the
dew of death upon her forehead and a
"pallor such as the last l our brings, she
I stretches ferth he r trembling la nd to
ward v.s, iU-d with hearse 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 has heard the
cry. j.Iany thousands of dollars have
already letn ecrieributed. One ship
laden with breadstulls has sailed from
ban Francisco lor India. Uursenate* and
1 house ei representative?, in a bill signed
i by e ut* sympathe tic pre sident, have an- (
thorizea the see rotary ef the navy to i
charier a vessel to carry food te< the: I
famine suffer, rs, anel you may help fill
that ship. We want tei send at least
60.0,'.'OO bushels of corn. That will save
i the lives ef at least 600,000 people.
Many will re spend in contributions of ;
money, anel the* barns anel terneribs of
the* entile United .State* will jour forth
their treasures of food. When tiiat ship
is laden till it can carry no more, we
will ask him who holels the winds iu
bis list and plants his triumphant foot
on btorniy waves to let nothing but
good happen to the ship till it anchor*
in Be ngal eir Arabian w ate rs. They who
the dock* of St. Petersburg when the
planks of the relie f *hip were thrown
out and tho representative * of the mu
nicipalities and of royalty went aboard
her, the long freight train at the same
time rolling down to take tin: food tc
the starving, and on alternate curs ol
that train American and Russian flags
floating. But now the: hunger in Inuia
is mightier than any that Ireland or
Russia ever suffered. Quicker onght tc
be tho response, and on so vast a scale
that the one ship would become a whole
flotilla—New York sending one, Boston
another, Philade lphia another, Charles
ton another, New Orleans another. Then
let the m all meet in Be.me harbor of In
dia. What a peroration of mercy for the
nineteenth century! I would like tc
stand en the wharf at Calcutta or Bom
bay and see sueli a fleet come in. With
what joy it would be welcomed! The
emaciated would lift their heads on
shriveled hands and elbows, and with
thin lips ask, “Is itceming—something
to eat?”
And whole village* and towns, too
weak to walk, would crawl out on
hands and knee* to get the first grain ol
eern they could reaeli and put it to
their famished lip*. May I cry out for
you aud for others to those sufferer*:
“Wait a little longer, bear up a little
mere, e*h, dying men of India;oh, starv
ing women; oh, emaciated babe*! Relief
is on the way, and more relief will scon
be* coming. We* send it in the name of
the Asiatic Christ, who said: ‘I was
hungry, aud ye fed me. Inasmuch as yc
have dene* it unto cue cf the least ol
these my brethren ye* have done it untc
me*.’ ”
Christian people of America, I call
your attention to the fact that we may
now, as never before, by one magnificent
stroke open the widest door for the
evangelization cf Asia. A stupendous
obstacle in the way of Christianizing
Asia has been the difference of lan
guage, but all those people understand
the gospel of bread. Another obstacle
has been tho law of caste, but in what
better way can wo teach them the
brotherhood cf man? Another huge dif
ficulty in the way of Christianizing
Asia li:’* been tiiat those people* thought
the religion we would have them take
was no belter than their Hinriooism or
Mohammedanism, but they will new
Sfo by this crusade for tbo relief e.f peo
ple 1-1,600 miles away that the Chris
tian religicu is ef a higher, better and
grander type than any other religion,
fer when did the followers of Brahma
or Vishnu or Buddha or Confucius or
Mtbaimxcd ever demom trato like inter-
irt in pee pie on opposite sider. cf the
world? Having taken the bread of this
life* from our hands, they will be mere
apt to take from ns the bread of eternal
life. The missionaries of different de
ne minations iu India at 46 stations are
already distributing relief sent through
The CTiristk.n Herald. I; it not plain
that these missionaries, afte r feeding
the* hungt r e f the hotly, will ho at het-
ti r advantage to feed the hunger of tho
h uJ? When Christ, before pie.■.eking to
the 5,COO in the* wilderness*, broke for
ti: m tin* miraculous loaves, he indi
cated that the* bo*t way to prepare the
vve rid lor spiritual anel < ternal consider
ations is first to look ■ Iter their tom-
peral inteiists. Oh, church of Godin
America and Europe!
This is your opportunity. Wo have
on cocasicps ef Christian patriotism
evied, “America for God!” Now let us
add the* battle shout, “Asia for God!”
In til*.*; lucviment to give food to starv
ing India i hear the rustling e f the
wing ef the Apocalyptic angel, icady
to fly through the midst of heaven pro-
fiming to all the kinpde ms and pe*o-
vrhatever.
have been loyal to Gcd the awful re
sults of disloyalty, so that none* t f then)
may ever attempt it—I say our world,
having finished its mission, may then
go out of existence. The central fires cl
the world which aro burning out rapidly
toward the crust may have reached tht
surface by that time, and the* Biblt
prophecy be fulfilled which declares
that the •*rth and all things that art
therein shall be burned up. The ran
somed buMiait race at that tune on earth
will start ankart in those chariots o!
fire for the great metropolis of the uni-
ver««. ths heaven, where the redeemed
of the* Lord Hiall talk over the faminct
and the plagues and the wars which thii
er.ith suffered aud agaicst which wt
struggled and prayed as le ng a* then
was any breath iu u*. Glorious eeiiiiium-
matioa!
fttm East and th* We«t.
May 10, 1860, was a memorable day,
for then was laid the last tie that con
nected the two rail trucks which united
tiie Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The
Central Pacific railroad was built froir
California eastward. The Union Pacific j
railroad was built westward. They
were within arm's reach of meeting, pains, my left arm
only one iiwrs piece of tiie rail track tf that I was unable
put down. A great audience assembled I
midcontinmt to see tho last tie laid.
The kjcomotive* of tho eastern and !
western trains stood panting on the
tracks close by. Oration explained tiie j
oecjtEion, end prayer solemnized it, and
music enchanted it. The tie was made
of polished laure l wood, bound with sil- .
ver bauds, aud three spikes were used—
a goltl spike, presented by California; a '
silver spike, presented by Nevada, and
nu iron spike, presented by Arizona.
When, all heads uncovered and all
hearts thrilling with emotion, the ham
mer struck tbs last spike into its place,
the cannon boomed it kmid tho resound
ing mountain echoes and the telegraphic
instruments clicked to all nations that
the deed was done. My friends, if the
laying of tiie last tie that bound the cast
and the west of one continent together
was such a resounding occasion, what
will it be when the last tie of tiie track
ef gospel influences, reaching clear
around the world, shall be laid amid
the anthems of all nations? The spikes
will be the golden and silver spikes
fashioned out of tho Christian gonercs- ;
ity cf tbo hemisphe res. The last ham
mer stroke: that completes the work will j
be heard by all the raptured and piled , KelViffCrtltor
up gallerie s cf the universe, and the |
mountains cf earth will shout to the
throne.! of heaven: “Halleluiah, for tho
Lora God Omnipotent uigue th! Halle
luiah, for the kingdoms cf this world
have* become the kingdoms cf our Lzrd
Jesus Christ!”
Of Mercury!
Mr. Henry Roth, of 1848 tM«*li 9lh
Street, St. Louis, was given tUa usual
mercurial treatment for coatqgiom;
blood poison. He was twica pras^unc-
ed cured, but the disease ret armed eacU
time, he was seized with rhmNtictic
pains, and red lumps and mtrm cov
ered bit body.
“I waaim a hor
rible i« ,T the-
says, “mmd the
mor« ttceot-
ment I rtceiv-
ed. th* worse* l
seemed to gel.
A New York
specialist said
he could cure
me, but h:s
treatment did
me no good
stiff and full of
was useloK 'so
to do erom the
lightest work. This was my cenaditiou
when I began to take S. S. S.. and a
few bottles convinced me that I was
being benefitted. I continued the
medicine, and one dozen bottlea cured
me sound and well. My system was
under the effects of mercury, and I
would soon have been a eromplctc
wreck but for S. S. S.”
S. S. S., {guaranteed purely vegetable)
is the only cure
SSS
for real blood dis
eases. The mer
curial treatment
of the doctors al
ways does more
harm than good. Beware of mercury!
Books on the disease and its treat
ment mailed free to any address by
Swift Specific Co., Atlanta. Ga.
Something New
Under the Son!
We have just put in a nice
ami hereafter you
can get nice beef, cold as ice, at
the lowest prices, by calling ou
Ci.
ph* ai:el te ugucs the urn can liable riche*
of Jesus Christ.
Tiie (io:»*i<*l Circle.
And now I bethink myn lf cf sonu*-
thing 1 r.e ver thought cf holem*. I had
i.otieHl t!::.t ii:c* circle is Grd’s favorite
figure’, :;:,d upon that sal ject i. address
ed yon se Die* time ago, ! ut it did not
ecf’r.r to i::c* until in,w that the gospel
te; ms to be* moving in a circle. It start
ed iu Asia, E*. thlolicm, an Asiatic vil
lage; Jordan, an Asiatic river; Calva
ry, an Asiatic mountain. Then this gos
pel moved cn to Europe. Witness tho
chapels and churches and cathedral*
and Ciiri.-tian universities of that con
tinent. The u it crossed to America. It
lias praye d and preached aud sung it*
way across our continent. It has crcss-
The Senate Wouldn't Mind.
A group of De nioeratic congressmen
in the cloakroom were discussing the
attitude ef the senate with respect tc
the tariff bill, fciciiie of them were in
favor of agreeing to the Re publican pro
gramme and adjourning without doing
lusiiKss iii e rdcr that attention might
be feeused on the* senate. They thought
that this would hurry up the senate in
the final disposition of tho bill.
“It won't do anything of the kind,”
said Congressman Terry cf Arkansas.
“The senate will go ahead in it* own
way and pass the tariff bill in its own
time. It will be totally indifferent tc
public opiuie u. It reminds me of a man
with a wooden leg who used to be a
neighbor of mine. As be* went down
town eve ry morning ho had to pass a
garden iu which was a noisy dog. The
dog would run to the fence and hark
and snarl until the man finally grew
tiral cf the annoyance. One morning,
as lie went by the garden, he opened
the gate and stuck bis wooden leg in-
biuo; The dog flow at it and chewed it
to his heart's content. ‘Now,’said the
man, T hope you feel better. You have
had lot* e f fun, and you didn’t hurt me
a little bit. ’
“The public,” said Ur. Terry, “will
chew en the senate's
Washington Post.
Clarj & Kendrict
DR. J. F. GARRETT,
Dentist,
Gaffney, - - - S. C-
Office over J. li. Tolle son's new store
In office from 1st to 24th of eueli
month;
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
FMimuo.i via I’.'.r.
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help by contribution* of money or
bio ads tuffs toward filling that relief t(1 to Asia, taking the Sandwich Islands
ship will flavor their own feed ftr their in its way, aud now iu all the great
lifetime with appetizing qualities aud
insure their own welfare through the
promise of him who said, “Blessed is
be that eciisidereth the poor, the Lord
will deliver him iu time cf trouble.”
A Noble MUsion.
Oh, what a relief ship that will be!
It shall n it nun a screw nor hoist a sail
until vve jave had something to do with
its cargo. Just 17 years ago from these
Easter tiucs a ship on similar errand
went out fre m New York huilor—tho
(Id war frigate Constellation. It had
once carried guns of death, but there was
famine iu Ire land, and the Constellation
was loaded with 500 ton* of feed. That
ship, cnee cove red with smoko of battle,
thui covere d with Easter hosannas; that
siiip, constructed to buttle England, go
ing forth over the waters to carry relief
to sonic of he r starving subjects. Better
than sword into plowshare. Letter than
spear into pruning hook was that old
war frigate*, turned into a white winged
angel of resurrection, to roll away the
stoin* Iremi the mouth of Ireland’* sep
ulchre. On like errand live years ago
the* ship Leo put out with many tons of
food for famine struck Russia. One fciut-
ureffiy afternoon on the de ek of that
Steamer, as she lay at Brooklyn wharf,
u wondrens scene took place. A com
mittee of the King’s Daughters had dec
orated the ship with streame rs and bunt
ing, American and Russian flags inter
twining, Thousands of people ou tho
wharves and ou the decks joined us iu
invoking God’s blessing ou tiie cargo,
and the long meter Doxology iu “Ulel
Hundred” sounded grandly up amid tho
masts and ratline*. Having had the joy
of seeing tiiat ship thus consecrated, we
bad the additional joy of standing on
cities ou the coast of China people arc
singing “Rod: ef Ages” and “There Is
a Fountain Filled With Ble.oel,” for
j you must know that not only have tho
Scriptures been translated into those
Asiatic tongues, but also the evangelical
hymns. My missionary brother, John,
translated some of them into Chinese,
and Mr. Gladstone gave me a copy of
* the: hymn, “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,”
which he had himself translated into
Greek. The Christ who it seems spent
j 16 or 18 years of hi* life in India is
, there now iu spirit, converting and sav
ing the people by the handed* of thon-
j sands, and tiie gospel will move right
ou through Asia until the story of tho
Saviour’s birth will anew be made
known in Bethlehem, and the: story of
! a Saviour’s sacrifice be told anew on
and around Mount Calvary, aud tho
! stcry of a Saviour’s ascension be: told
anew on the shoulder of Mount Olivet.
And then do you not see the circle will
be complete? The glorious circle, tho
circle of the earth!
This old planet, gashed with earth
quake and rcorchcd with conflagration
and torn with revolutions, will bo gir
dled with churches, with school*, with
unive rsities, with millennial festivities.
How cheering and how inspiring the
the.ngiit that we are, whether giving
temporal or spiritual relief, working ou
; the segment of such a circle! And that
the Cbristly mission which started iu
Asia will keep ou it* way until it goes
Gear around to the place where it
started! Then the earth will have dem
onstrated tiiat fer which it was created,
aud as socn as a world has completed
its mission it dies. Part of the heaven*
i* u ee men ry cf dead world*. Our world,
built todoucualrutu to the worlds which
Tolstoi an a C'Iicsh Euthr.sSrxt.
An inte re sting piece cf chess news is
scut from fc*t. Petersburg by tiie* ccrre-
fponeh'rt of tin* London Daily Mail. lie
says that Count Tolstoi, who is now
staving in tzt. Petersburg, take s up from
time: to time: a new hobby and devotes
himself to it with astonishing energy.
Chess is the latest e;f these, and the
count is new studying openiugn, eeuu-
binatious and end games with gre at as
siduity. Visitors to the* house* v.nere the:
great author and se vial reforme r live*?
iu striking simplicity may frequently
find Count Tolstoi and his wife aud
children playing chess as if their lives
depenele d upon the result. The table s in
the various rooms are nearly all marked
out us chessboards, aud even the dog*
aud othe r family pets have: been given
names of dices pieces—rook, knight,
pawn, aud so forth.
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have stoeid iu tho temple of Neptune.
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seum here and has caused much interest
aine'ug ardiieologists, who are inclined
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Delphi.—Athens Dispatch to Lou Jon
Btaudurd.
We* Awiike'M Interest.
Two high das? German art journals—
Vom Pels Zum Mecr aud Mode me* Kuu*t
—of Berlin have recently printed beauti
fully illustrated sketches of President
McKinley and hi* family by C. Frank
Dewey, an American writer, now liv
ing in Be rlin. This is only one of many
indications that intelligent people iu
Europe are coining to take more interest
iu American affairs.
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