Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — TALMAGE ON RUSSIA. [ARTICLE]

TALMAGE ON RUSSIA.

He Brileved It to Be a Much Lled-Abot* Empire. T. DeWitt Talmtge 1b a firm friend et Russia. He believes that oountry to be the most maligned and lied-about of any In the world. In a sermon Sunday he spoke with great earnestness on the subject, and among other things, speaking of the famine in that country and Amerloa's aid, said: *1 sat at the dining*table m the houst of one of our Amerloan representative! beside a baroness who had not only impoverished her estates by her contributions to the suffering, but who left her own home and went down Into the worst of the misery, and until prostrated with fever: then reviving and toiling on until prostrated by the smallpox. 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 Amerioa a literary enterprise by which she expeots with her pen more money, all of whioh is to go for bread to those who lack it. Then there are the Bobrinskis. They are of the nobility, not only the nobility of earth but the nobility of heaven. You know we have 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 Amerioa Bobrinskl 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 of 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 in find out what aocldent 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 oould be better cared for, 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."