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Title: Russia then and now, 1892-1917; my mission to Russia during the famine of 1891-1892, with data bearing upon Russia of to-day
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Reeves, Francis B. (Francis Brewster), 1836-1922
Subjects: Famines -- Soviet Union Soviet Union -- Social conditions Soviet Union -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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ching the Atlantic seaboard within a reasonabletime, the Philadelphia Committee proceeded withvigour to make their appeals to the public topurchase flour, rice, etc., and to charter a steam-ship to carry it to Russia. Sub-committees, oneon Transportation, one on Finance, another onPurchases and Supplies, were formed, and all theseworked with a will. The Committee met with thegreatest encouragement at the outset in themagnanimous offer by the International Naviga-tion Company of Philadelphia of the use of theS. S. Indiana free of cost, excepting the actualoutlay for expenses of voyage, and the generousproffer by the officers of the Pennsylvania RailroadCompany and the Philadelphia & Reading Rail-road Company of free transportation over theirrespective railways for all supplies given or pur-chased, without limit as to distance or quantity.The religious exercises on the wharf at the sailingof the S. S. Indiana, our first messenger of Mercyto the famine-stricken peasants of Russia, on
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Group of Workingmen of the Port of Libau. Under the picture is the following Biblical quotation; Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as yehave done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me. FAMINE OF 1891-92 Washingtons Birthday, 1892, were so uniqueand remarkable that they commanded attentionthroughout Christendom. Roman Catholic Arch-bishop Ryan, Jewish Rabbi Jastrow, PresbyterianRev. Charles Wood, Protestant Episcopal BishopWhitaker, Baptist Minister Dr. Wayland andMethodist Episcopal Bishop Foss, standing upona common platform, gave wings to the faith andhope that inspired every breast, that He who rulesthe winds and the waves would speed the greatship to its desired haven. And I thought as Ilooked upon this scene that, though propheciesshall fail, tongues shall cease, and knowledge shallvanish away, the love that binds the hearts of thechildren of men in the bonds of a common brother-hood shall endure forever. Here was Charity involcanic action, and in i

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