Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — TALMAGE ON RUSSIA. [ARTICLE]

TALMAGE ON RUSSIA.

Be Believed It to Be a Mach Lied-About Empire. T. DeWitt Talmage is a firm friend of He believes that country to be the most maliamedand lied-about ofaay In the world. In a sermon Sunday he spoke with great earnestness on the teubjoct, and among other things, speaking of the famine in that country and America’s aid, said: “I sat at the dining-table in the house ■of one of dur American representatives Reside a baroness who had not only impoverished her estates by her contributions to the suffering, but who left her own h >me and went down into the 'worst of the misery, and until prostrated with fever; then reviving and 'toiling on until prostrated by the smalljpox. She had come home to get a little strength, and in a few days she was going down again to the suffering districts, and commissioned me to execute -in America a literary enterprise by ’which she expects with her pen more money, all of which is to go for bread ;to those who lack it. Then there are r the Bobrlnskia. They are of the nobility, not only the nobility of earth but ‘the nobility of heaven. You know we rhave in America certain names which ; are synonyms for benevolence —George Peabody, James Lenox, William E. Dodge, Mr. Slater and so on. What their names mean in America Bobrinski means in Russia. “The Emperor has made larger contributions towards this relief fund than any monarch ever made for any cause since the world stood, and the superb kindness Written all over the faces pf Emperor and Empress and Crown Prince is demonstrated in what they have already done and are doing for the sufferers in their own country. When a few days ago I read in the papers that the Emperor and Empress, hearing an explosion, stopped the royal rail-train to find out what accident had occurred, and the Empress knelt down by the side of a wounded laborer and held his head until pillows and blankets could be brought and the two wounded men were put upon the royal train to be carried to a place where they could be better cared fdr, I said to my wife: ‘Just like her.’ “When I saw a few days ago in the papers that the Emperor and Empress had walked through the wards of the most virulent cholera, talking with the patients, shaking hands with them and cheering them up, it was no surprise to me, for I said to myself: ‘That is just like them.’ Any one who has ever seen the royal family will "believe anything in the way of kindness ascribed to them, and will join me in the execration of that too prevalent opinion that a tyrant Is on the throne of Russia. ”