The New York herald., 1873-12-15
TALMAGE AT THE ACADEMY.

National blessings and Prosperity-A
Warning to Those Who Would Create
Eread Riot-The Governments
Spanish Pcacc Policy Sustnincd-"Wc
VIII Never Fight for Cuba!'
Every seat in the Academy was occupied before
the services commenced yesterday morning. Mr..
Talmage entered at hafpast ten O'Clock, and
while the immense congregation sung "Praise
God, from Whom All Blessings Flow'' with great
effect he glanced his notices and selected the
opening hymn. After the singing and prayer and
the reading OF portion OF the scriptures
Mr. Tamage remarked that as this building
was occupied for other purposes on Thanksgiving
Day he did not have an opportunity then
OF saying some things that he would say now. His
subject was the Goodness of God" He sald:-
Twelve months have gone on and we have sung
'.Harvest Home" On the freight cars rumbling
through the night, and in boats crashing through
the ice OF the closing canals the great harvests Of
the West are pressing down towards our Eastern
markets, and are pouring into the holds OF ships
for expectation. have 1t direct from the Oifce OF
the Underwriters that this season twice as much
grain has gone forth to other lands from our ports
as ever before in the same length OF time. The in
dication is that there shall be bread for ALL Let
not foreign populations in our midst, with pla-
carded carts and handbis scattered through the
streets, attempt to raise riot demanding
BREAD OR BLOOD
such cry as that may mean much in France,
but 1t means nothing here save the doom OF those
who utter it. Instead of trying to intimidate the
land by calling out for bread riot, they had better
call for its sympathies, and then there shall not be-
starving man rom the Penobscot to the
.golden gates' OF California. God has this autumn
SO bountifully spread our national table that the
probability Is that all shall be fed unless forget
the propretes OF the place and fight each other
ocr m
the venison, the pork, the flax, the cotton,
the wool, the lumber, the coal, are reasons
OF thankiulness to God, and there ought TO be an
anthem in which the whole nation can join, the
two oceans, like organs at either end OF the cathe-
dral with open dapason, sounding forth the dOxOl-
0gy OF praise to God.
/ find, also, cause for congratulation in the fact
that the world is at peace. l mean comparatively
at peace. our race Is so struck through with 4
spirit OF quarrel tnat, when for IL months the ma
Gus war there ought to be especial Thanksgiving
going up to God. Peace in England, though so
many are dissatisfied WITH " the throne ana crying
though the government has gone from Thiers to
MacMahon, and
THE POOR MARSHAL IS NCARcERATED.
Peace In spain, though that nation vacillaJeS from
republic to monarchy and from monarchy to re-
public. Peace in the United States, though there
are so many men crying out for war, f0rgetlul Of
the hospitals which only eight years ago rent the
air with their agonies, and the shadows of widow
hood and orphanage that stll darken the land,
and the ghastly grave trenches III which more
than zoe, 600 men & fell; on am glad that we have
tain national honor but also how to maintain
International peace (Applause) Time was in
this country when war was poetry; but after the
to TO- me me broken jaws and fractured limos.
and extingusned eyes. and masned feet, and
dying away from home. and the curse OF the Lord
God Almighty on nations crimnalites I have
no doubt that Cuba will some day come into our
peaceful possession, but
FIGHT FOR HER WE NEVER WILL.
could not pay u.s. thought Il were ali put tosener
for the sacrifice OF one regiment OF American so.
diers. (Applause). "Oh,n people say. III we couu %
business Commerce would be gaivanizea ni anu
our manufactures would again pc openuu @
and everything would be prosperous, ~ we
could only hear the clash OF waI anr naas,ngor, grs,
head TO oil your own pocketbook. % wont w." noseI @
do There is only one massacre tnaI i wMne W see:
II War; the grim breaker o. al the bater,es n
earth omen nnon him, and all the bayonets inn
painv MIN on their sharp points, ana all the how
tiers smiling him WIN a was ever au a
hrouaht IN one concentrated fire on the place where
he stood. until, alter the charge was over, there
should not be enongr eagr =. riiNnna, nm sp,. "
sscIorv he TO God III the highest; and on earth,
roaca and good Will TO men,
Mr.. Talmage then proceeded to speak OF other
oo,acs oi thanksgiving-tne goodness OF God 10
tnem as q church and IN their domestic surround
imos ana to them personally-on all OF which he
dweit tendcrly retaining the deep attention oil his
great audience throughout.
There has been
GREAT REVIVAL
among those who fock to hear the Tabernacle
pastor, and the awakening Is on the Increase.
Nearly 200 persons have recently connected them
selves with the church and many more are re-
ported converted. Two Thousand people remain
NJ the prayer meeting which Is held In the Acad-
emy every sunday evening after the sermon.
SUICIDE BY DROWNING.