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J turning will leave KhzaWth I ity f low inedafat2,:W p. t"v fteamer Har bioer. will .leave Eizabeth City for Hertfortl WetlnestHys nd Saturdays it 9. HO a. m.: Elizabeth City for Nor ,'olk Thursday and Mondays p. m Why will you buy bitter nauseating tonic when Grove'. Talele Chill Tonic is as pleasant as Ix-mon Syruiv Your dro:Kit Is authorized to refund the money in every case where it fails to cure. Price 50 cents. (0 () () -, "T '"' ff & J VJ vy 1- ! I ..ir. i : of it : s ii. jiurrei k.oi . AN ELOQUENT PLEA IN BEHALF OF FAMINE STRICKEN 4NDIA. - - Iter. Dr. Tliur I IIlpInr to Fill the Ship That Are to Carry Food For the Starring People of India A Thrilling Sermon- j , Chicago, May 2.Dr. Talznagp is on a mission of breaa for tho famine suf ferers of India. -'He is speaking every day to vast audiences in Iowa arid Illinois, helping to fill the ! ships provided by the United States government for carry ing corn to India. ! Text, Esther i, 1, "This is Ahasuerus which reigned from India even unto Ethiopia." Among tho 773,663- words which make up the Biblo only once occurs the word "India." In this part of the Scrip tures, which tho rabbis call " Megillah E.sthcr," cr the volume of Esther, a book sometimes complained against be cause tho wcrd "Cod" is not even once ir-entiontd ia it, although one rightly disposed can see God in it from tho first chapftr to the last, we have it set forth that Xerxes, or Ahasuerus, who invaded Grteco with 2,000,000 men, but returned in a poor fisher's boat, had a vast dominion, among other regions, India. In my text India takes its place in Biblo geography, and the interest in that land has continued to increase un til, with moro and more enthusiasm, all around the world Bishop Ilebcr's hymn about "India's coral 6trand" is being sung. Never will I forget the thrill of anticipation that went through my body and mind and soul when aft er two weeks' tossing on tho seas around Ceylou and India for the winds did net, according to tho old hymn, "blow soft o'er CeylonJs isle" our ship sailed up one of the mouths of tho Ganges, past James and Mary is land, so naimd because, a royal ship of that name wa9 wrecked there, and I stepped ashoro at Calcutta amid the shrines and temples and sculptures of that City of Palaces, tho strange phys iognomies cf the living and the cre mations of tho dead. I had never ex pected to bo there, because the sea and I long ago had a serious falling out, but tho facilities of travel are so increasing that you cr your children will probably visit that land of boundless fascination. A Wonderful Country. Its configuration is such as no one but God could have architected, and it seems as if a man who had no religion, going there, would bo j obliged to ac knowledge a God as did tho cowboy in Colorado. His companion, an atheist, had about persuaded the cowboy that tbero was no God t but, coming amid some of that tremendous scenery of high rocks and awful chasms and depths dug under depths and mountains piled on mountains, tho cowboy said to his athe istic companion, "Jack, if there is no God now, I guess, from tho looks of things around here, thero must have been a God some time. " No one but tho Omniscient could havo' planned India, and no one but tho Omnipotent could havo built it. It is a great triangle, its baso tho .Himalayas a word meaning "tho dwelling place off snows" those mountains pouring out of their crystal cup tho Indus, the Brahmaputra and the Gauges to slako' tho thirst of the vast populations of India That country is tho homocf 240,000,000 souls. What ever be cue's taste, going there his tasto is gratified. Some go as hunters of great game, and thero is no end to their entertainment Mighty; fauna bison, buffalo, rhinoceros, elephant, panther, lieu, tiger this last to bo the perpetual game for Americans and Europeans be cause ho ccmes up from the malarial swamps- where no human being dare en ter; tho deer and antelope his accustom ed feed, but ence having obtained the tasto of human blood he wants nothing else, and is called "the man eater." You cannot see tho tiger's natural fe rccity after ho has been humiliated by a voyage acrcss tho seal You need to hear his crowl as he presses his iron paw against tho cage in Calcutta. Thir teen towns have been abandoned as resi dence because of tho work of this cruel invader. In India in tho year 1677, 819 neonlo wero slain br the tiger and 10,- 000 cattlo destroyed. From tho back of tho elephant cr from galleries built among tho trees 1,500 tigers went down, and $18,000 of government re ward were raid the sportsmen. I advise all thoso who in America and other lands find amusement iii shooting sing ing birds, coming home at night with empty powder flask and a whole choir of heaven slung over their shoulder, to absent themselves for awhile and attack the justifiable game of India. Or if you go as botanists, oh, what opulence of floral With no distinct flora of its own it is tho'chorus of all tho flora of Persia and Siberia and China and Arabia and Egypt. . , - A laMlon For .Souls. Tho Baptist missionary, Carey, who did infinite good to India, had two great passions first a passion for touls and next' a passion for flowers and he adorned his Asiatic home and the American homes of his friends and museums cu either side cf the sea with tho results cf ,his floral expeditions in India. To prepare himself for morning prayers he was accustomed to waUc amid the flowers and trees. It is the heaven of the magnolia and abelmosk and palm tree. The ethnologist going there will find endless entertainment in the study cf the races now living there and the races of whose blood they are a commingling. The historian go ing there will find his theory cf War ren Hastings' government in India the reverse from that which Edmund Burke gave him in tho most famous address ever made in a courtroom, its two char acteristics matchless eloquence and one ridedness of statement The archaeolo gist will bo thrown into a frenzy of de light 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 historians and the archaeologists who visit Indrs, each one on his or her errand. But we today visit India as Christian women and men to bear the full meaning of a groan oi hunger that has traveled 14,000 miles, j-et gets louder and more agonizing as the days go by. But why have any interest in people so far away that it is evening there when it is morn ing here, their complexion darker, their languago to us a jargon, their attire unlike that found in any American wardrobe, their memory and their am bition unlike anything that we recall or hope for? With more emphasis than you put into the interrogatory "Why?" I answer: First,' because our Christ was an Asiatic. Egypt gave to us its monu ments, Borne gave to us its law, Ger many gave to us its philosophy, but Asia gave to us its Christ his mother an Asiatic; the mountains that looked down upon ' him, Asiatic; the .lakes on whose pebbly banks he rested and on whose chopped waves he walked, Asiat ic; the apostles whom he first commis sioned, Asiatic; the audiences he whelm ed with his illustrations drawn from blooming lilies, and salt crystals, and great rainfalls, and bellowing tem pests, and hypocrites' long faces, and croaking ravens all those audiences Asiatic. Christ during his earthly stay was never outside of Asia. When he had 16 or 18 years to spare from his active work, instead of spending that time in Europe I think he goes farther toward the heart of Asia namely, India. The Biblo says nothing of Christ from 12 years of age until 80, but there are rec crds'in India ;and traditions in India which represent a strange, wonderful, most excellent and supernatural being as staying in India about that time. I think Christ was there much of the time between his twelfth and his thirtieth year; but, however that may be, Christ was born in Asia, suffered in Asia, died in Asia and ascended from Asia, and all that make3 me turn my ear moro atten tively toward that continent as I hear its cry of distress. Missionary Achievements. Besides that I remember that some of the most splendid achievements for the cause of that Asiatic Christ have been made in India. How the heart of every intelligent Christian beats with ad miration at the mere mention of the name of Henry Martynl Having read the lifo of our American David Brain erd, who gave his life to evangelizing our American savages, Henry Martyn goes forward to give his life for the sal vation of India, dying from exhaustion of service at 31 years of age. Lord Ma caulay, writing of him says: Here Martyn lies. In manhood's early bloom The Christian hero found a pagan tomb. Religion, sorrowing o'er her favorite son, Points to the glorious trophies which he won. Immortal trophies 1 Not with slaughter red, Nor stained with tears by friendless orphans shed, But trophies of the cross. In that dear name, Through every scene of danger, toil and shame. Onward he journeyed to that happy 6hore, Where danger, toil and shame are known no more. Is there in all history, secular or re ligious, a more wondrous character than William Carey, the converted shoemak er of England, daring all things for God in India, translating the Bible into many dialects, building chapels and opening, mission houses and laying foundations for the redemption of the country, and although Sidney Smith, who sometimes laughed at things he .ought not to have satirized, had in the learned Edinburgh Review scoffed" at the idea of what ho called 'low born, low bred mechanics" like Carey at tempting to 'convert the Brahmins, Carey stopped not until he had started influences that eternity, no more than time, shall have power to arrest," 213, 000 Bibles going. forth from his printing presses at Serampore, His sublime hu mility showed itself in the epitaph he ordered from the old gospel, hymn: A wretched, poor and helphiss worm, On thy kind arms 1 falL Need I tell yen cf Alphonsc Lacroix, the Swiss missionary in India, cr of William Butler, the glorious American Methodist missionary in India, or of the royal family of the Scudders of the Reformed church of America, my dear mother church, to whom I give a kiss of love . in passing, or of Dr. Alexander Duff, the Scotch missionary whose vis it to this country some 01 us win re member forever? When he stood in the old Broadway tabernacle, New York, and pleaded for India until there was no other depth of religious emotion for him to stir . and no loftier height of Christian eloquence for him to scale, and.closed in a whirlwind of hallelu iahs, I could easily believe that which was said of him that while pleading the cause of India in one of the church es of Scotland he got so overwrought that he fell in the pulpit in a swoon and vas carried into the vestry to be resuscitated, aiid when restored to his senses and preparation was being made to carry him out to some dwelling where he could be put to bed he com pelled his friends to take him back to the pulpit to complete his plea for the salvation of India, no sooner getting on hia foot than he bean where he left iiit) - CJ ' off, but with more gigantic ; power than before he fainted. But just as noble as nnv I have mentioued : are the men and women who are there now for Christ's sake and the redemption of that people. Far awav from their native- land, fam ine on- one side and black plague on the other side, swamps breathing on tnem malaria, and jungles howling on them with wild beasts or hissing with cobras, the names of those missionaries of all denominations to be written so high on the roll cf martyrs that no names of the last 1,800 years shall be written above them. You need to see them at their work in schools and churches and lazarettos to appreciate them. All hon or upon them and their households while I smite the lying lips cf their slanderers. The Hindoo Faith. Most interestine are the people cf In- A t flalmtta I said to one of their U'M. leaders, who spoke English well: . 'Have these idols which I see any 1 rower of themselves to help or destroy?" He said: "No; they only God, There is but one God." "When, people die, where do: they go to?'? . : J - ! ; : :. ' "That depends upon what they have been doing. If thevihave been doing good, to heaven, and if they have been doing evil, to helL " ) j j - But do von not believe In the trans migration of souls, arid that after death we go into birds' of animals of some sort?" " ' . ,-t I " 1 " "Yea. The last creature a man is thinkins of while dvincr is the one: into , r ; , . which he. will go. - If he is thinking of a . ' ii 1 ' ;n ii? 1 a.' .tt'i : '. 1 oeasi, ne win go iuiu a ueasw ; 4f F thnneht; von Raid that at death the soul goes to heaven or hell?" He trees there by a Gradual process. It rixay take him years and years, "j "Can any one become a Hindoo? Could I become a Hindoo?" f ! . '3 Yes; you could-" . f i' . 'iHow could I become a Hindoo?" "By doing as the Hindoos do. " From the walls of i one of their mu seums at Jaipur I had translated lor me theso beautiful sentiments: ; i 5 ; The wise make failure pqual to success. Liter- threads r.f silver keen through crystal' bend-s, let love through gtod deeds show,, , Po not to others that, which if done to thee would cause thee pain. And this is the sum of duty. . Ml :' A man obtains a proper rule of action by looking on his neighborslas himself. From that continent of interesting folk, from that continent that gave the Chiist, from that continent which has been endeared by so many missionary heroics, there comes a groan of 80,000, 00 Oj people in hunger t More people are in danger of starving- to death in India today than the entirej population of the United States. In the fammein India in the year 1 877 aboiit 6, 000,060 people starved tp death. : That is ; more than all the people of Washington,; of New York, of Philadelphia! of Chicago, put together' But that famine was not a tenth part as awful las the one there now raging. Twentyj. thousand are dy ing! there of famine levery day.' Whole villages and towns have died-every man, woman and child none left to burv the dead. The 1 vultures and the jackals are the only pallbearers. f Though some help has been s nt, before lull re lipf ran reach them Iisucoose there will Jae at least 10,000,000 dead. - Starvation, even for one person, is an awful process. No food, the vitals gnaw f upon them selves, and faintness and languor and pangs from head to fpot, and horror and despair and insanity ake full possession. One handful of wheat or corn or rce per day would keep life going,' but they cannot get a handful! The crops failed, and the millions are dying. Oh, it is hard to' be hungry! in a world where there are enough grin and fruit and meat to fill all the jhungry mouths on the planet; but, alas, that the sufferer and the. supply cannot be brought to gether. There stands; India today I Look 'nt-. Tipr! Her face dusky from the hot suns of many centuries; under her tur ban such achings of brow as only a dy-r ing! nation feels; herf eyes hollow with unutterable 'woe; the' tears rolling down her 'sunken cheek; her back bent with more agonies than she knows how to carry; her ovfens containing nothing but! ashes. Gaunt, ghastly,: wasted, the dew of ; death upon her forehead and a pallor such as the last hour brings, she. stretches fcrth . her trembling ihand to ward us, and with hoarse whisper she i . . , . . s . 1 -.' at says: "14am aymgi urve me ureaui That is what I want! Bireadl Give it to me 'ouick. Give it to me now bread I bread! bread!" America has heard the cryj Many thousands of dollars- have already been, contributed. One snip laden with breadstuffs has sailed: from Sari Francisco for India. Our senate and hnnsp of representatives, in a bill signed by 6ur sympathetic president, j have au thorized the secretary of the navy to charter a- vessel to carry food to trie famine sufferers, and you may help fill that ship We want to send least fiOOLOOO bushels of corn. Thatiwul save the! lives of at least 600,000 people., ilariv will respond in contributions of money, and the barns arid c.orncribs of the' entire United States will pour tortn their treasures of f ood. : When that ship is laden ' till it can carry no more, we will ask him who holds the; winds in his fist and plants his triumphant foot on stormy waves to let nothing but cood happen to the ship till :it anchors in Bengal or Arabian waters, j They who help by contributions . 01 money or hreadstuffs toward filling that relief 6hip will ;flavor their own food- for their lifetime with appetizing qualities ana incmra thrir nwTi welfare throueh the- Tvrormco nf him WHO SaiQ. , OieSHBU IB W Inat: rnnsiderethl the POOT, the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. A Noble Mission. : i " Oh. what a relief ship that wrll be! It ihall riot turn a screw nor hoist a sail nntil we have had something to do with its 'cargo: Just 17. years ago from these Easter times a ship on similar errand went out from Ney York harbor the .vM rxrar frmatft Constellation. It had once carried guns of death, but there was famine in' Ireland, and the Constellation was loaded with. 500 tons of food. That ship, once covered vith smoke 01 pattie ith PTactpr Thnfiannas: that UlCUVUItxtu ...... - . ' ship, constructed to! battle England, go ing forth over the waters to carry relief to some of her starving subjects. Better than sword into plowshare, better than spear into pruning hook was that old war frigate, turned Into a white winged ancel of resurrection, to roll away the stone from the mouth of Ireland's sep ulchre. On like errand five years ago the ship Leo put out with many tons of food for famine struck Russia One Sat nniafr aftpmnmi on the deck of: that steamer, as she lay at Brooklyn wharf, a wondrous scene took place. A com mittee of the King's Daughters had dec orated the ship witti streamers and hunt- n,nMniin 'onf11?Tici!i9n flacrfl inter- 11JJ , .ClUJd JVUU , O ' twining. Thousands, of people on the wharves and on the! decks joined us in invoking God's blessing on the cargo, and the long merer .uoxoiugy in v ' . -1 -1 ' 3 1 M i ,3 1- Hundred" sounded grandly up amid the masts arid ratlines. Having had the joy of ! seeing that ship thus consecrated, we bad the additional joy of standing on KEEP YOUR Surely if the word REGULA it is a r j At ', 1 w ivoming eise ts ine same.i n I been put up by any one except , D- IHL ZEDLtfW & CO. And it can be easily told ; THE RED S. xvV.-F For Sale t- r. AV, W. C;RIC;CSS it MOM. the docks of St Petersburg when the planks of the relief ship were thrown out and the representatives of the mu nicipalities and of royalty went aboard her, the long.freight train at the same time rolling down "to take the food to 4he starving, and on. alternate cars of that train' American and Russian flags floating. But ncw the hunger in India is mightier than 'any that Ireland or Russia ever suffered. Quicker ought to be the response, and on so vast a scalo that the one ship would become a wholo flotilla New York sending one, Boston another, Philadelphia another, Charles ton another, New Orleans another. Then let them all meet in some harbor of In dia. What a peroration of mercy for Ue nineteenth century! I would like to stand on the wharf at Calcutta or Bom: bay and see such a fleet come in.; With what joy it would be welcomed!. Ihe emaciated would lift their heads" on shriveled hands and elbows, and with thiri lips ask, "Is it coming something to eat?" " ' And whole villages ; and : towns, too weak to walk, would crawl out on hands and knees to get the first grain of . 1 t . .1 a. 2 A. A. corn they couia reacn ana put it 10 their famished lips. May I cry out for - ,j x 1 1 . rv . you anq tor otners to -inose ujierfra. "Wait a little longer, bear up a littlo more, oh, dying men of India ; oh, starv ine women: oh, emaciated babes! Relief is on the 'vyay, and more relief will soon be coming. We send it in the name of the Asiatic Christ, who said: "I was hungry, and ye fed me. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one 01 the least or these my brethren ye have done it unto me.' " Christian people of America. I call your attention to the fact that we may now, as never before, by one magnificent stroke open tho widest door for tho evangelization of Asiav A stupendous obstacle in the way of Christianizing Asia has been the difference of lan-' guage, but all tnose people unaerscanu the gospel of bread. Another obstacle has been the law of caste, but in what 1 A Jl better way can we teach them the brotherhood of man? Another huge dif ficulty in the way of Christianizing Asia has been that those people thought the religion we would have them take was no better than their Hindooism or Mohammedanism, but they will now see by this crusade for the relief of peo ple ; 14,000 miles away that tho Chris tian religion is of a higher, Letter and grander type than any other religion, for when did the followers of Brahma or Vishnu or Buddha or Confucius or Mohammed ever demonstrate like inter est in people on opposite Eides of the world? Having taken the bread of ; this life from our hands, they will be more apt to take from us the bread of eternal life. The riiissionaries of different de nominations in India at 46 stations are already distributing relief sent through The. Christian Herald. Is it not plain that those missionaries, after feeding the hunger of the body, will be at bet ter advantage to feed the hunger of the soul? When Christ, before pz caching to the 5,000 in the wilderness, broke for them the miraculous loaves, ho indi cated that the best way to prepare the world for spiritual and eternal consider ations is first to look after their tem poral interests. Oh, church of Godwin America and Europe! This is your opportunity. We have on occasioris- of Christian patriotism cried, "America for God!"i Now let us add the battle shout, " Asia for God 1" In this movement to give food to starv ing India I hear the rustling of the wing of the Apocalyptic angel, ready to fly through the midst of heaven pro claiming to all the kingdoms and peo ple and tongues the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ . V r The Crospel Circled And now I bethink myself of some iMncf I never thoucbt of before. I had noticed that.thr- circle is God's favorite figure, and v ed you box. occur" to n seems to be 1 ed in Asia, i lage; JordaJ., ry, an Asiati pel moved c: chanels and that subject I address- time ago, but it did npt .til now that the gospel ing in a circle. It start-. . hit hern, an Asiatic vil ; ii Asiatic river; Calya i. bt-utain. Then this gos . io Europe. Witness. the churches and" cathedrals on, rihristian universities of that con tinent Then it crossed to America. It has prayed and preached and sung its way across our continent , It has cross ed to Asia, taking the Sandwich Islands in its way, and now in all the great cities on the coast of .China people are singing "Rock of Ages" and "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood," for you must know that ' not only have the 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 be had himself translated into Greek. The Christ who it seems spent 16 or 18 years of his life in India is there now in spirit, converting and sat ing the people by the hurideds cf thou sands, and the gospel will move right on through Asia until the story of the Saviour's birth will anew be made known in Bethlehem, and the story of a Saviour's sacrifice be told anew on EYES OPEN! TOR is not on a package not 1 a ' : ' ' ' 1 n cannot oe ana never nas by their Trade Mark and arov d Mount Calvary, and tb. ftory of . Saviour'i ascension be told anew on tl houlder of Mount Olivet And then go you not see the circle will be complete? . The glorious circle, the circle, of the earth! This old planet, gashed with earth-; quake and scorched' with' conflagration and torn with, revolution, will bo gir died with churches, with BchcMuls, With, universities, with millennial festivitfesr'. How cheering and how inspiring - tho thought that we are, whether giving temporal or spiritual relief, working on the segment of such a circle! And that tho Christly mission which started jn Asia will, keep on its way until it gon clear kround to the place where it' Btarted! Then the earth, will havo d m oust rated that for which it was creuted, and as soon. as a World has complt ted its mission it dies Part of the heaven'- is a cemetery of dead worlds. Our worh V built to demonstrate-to the worlds winch Have been loyal to God the awful re sults, of disloyalty, so that none of them may ever attempt it I say our world, having finished its mission, may then go oufcof existence. The central fires of the world which are burning out rapidly toward the cwist may have, reached tho surface by that time, and the Bible prophecy be fulfilled which declares that the earth and all things that aro therein shall be burned up ; Tho ran somed human raco at , that tiino on earth ' will start unhurt in thie chariot of fire for the great metropolis of tho uni verse, the heaven, where' tho redeemed of tho Lord shall talk over the famines and the plagues and the wars which this earth suffered and against which wo struggled and prayed as long as thero was any breath in us. Glorious consum-' mationl The East and th West. May 10, 1869, was a memorable day. fnr. f hpn was laid the last tie that con- nected the two rail tracks which united the Atlantio and Pacific oceans. The Central Pacific railroad was built frorri . California eastward. , The Union Pacific railroad was built westward. They wero within arm's reach of meeting, only one more piece of the rail track to put down. A great audience assembled " midcontinent to see the . last tie laid! . The locomotives of the eastern and western trains stood panting on tho tracks close by. Oration explained tho -occasion, and prayer solemnized it, and music enchanted it The tie was made of polished laurel wood, bound with sil ver bands, and three spikes were used a gold spike, presented by California; a "silver spike, presented by Nevada, and an iron spike, presented by Arizona When, air heads uncovered and , all , hearts thrilling with emotion, the ham- . mer struck the last spike into its place, the cannon boomed it amid the resound ing mountain echoes and the telegraphic . Instruments clicked to all nations that the deed was done. - My friends, if the laying of the last tie that bound the east and the west of one continent together was such a resounding occasion, what : will it be when the last tie of the track of gospel influences, reaching clear around the world, shall . be laid amid the antbeihs of all nationB? The spikes will be the golden and silver spikes fashioned out of the Christian generos- ity of .the hemispheres.' The last ham mer stroke that completes the work will be heard by all the raptured and piled up galleries of ' the universe," and - the mountains of earth will shout to the thrones of heaven: "Halleluiah, for the Lord God Omnipotent reignethl Halle Inlah. for the kincdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of omr Lord Jesns Chris!'' No. 11T. White Enameled Steel Bed. olid brass trtmmln. We have them M in. wide, 48 In. wide, 42 in. wide and as in. wide. All sixes are 18 la. lonr. Special Price (any size) (orders promptly ruled. 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The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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May 7, 1897, edition 1
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