The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-03-15
TALMAGES SERMON.
4 Pertinent Question: 'sshal Amer
lea be Reserved for Americana"
This Land of Ours Broad Enough for the
Sons of Every Race, and, If We Only
Let God Preside. No Danger
Need be Feared.

In a recent sermon at the Brooklyn Tab
ernacle Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage took
for his subject: ''Shall the American Con-
tinent be Reserved for Americans" His
text was:
And hath made OF one blood a: EatiOns.-
Acts xvii, 96.
That is. If for some reason general phle-
botomy were ordered. and standing in
row were an American, an Englishman,
a Scotehman and an Irishman, French
man, a German, a Norwegian, an Ice
lander, a Spaniard, an Italian, a Russian
and representatives. of all other national
tiles barred their right arm and lancet
were struck into it, the bloodlet out would
have the same characteristics, for it would
be red, complex, hbrine, globuline' chio-
rine, and containing sulphu1'fc acid, potas-
SUM, phosphate of magnesia and so on
and Harvey, and Sir Ashley Cooper, and
Richardson, and Zimmerman, and Browns
Eequard, and all the scientific dOetorssi
allopathic, homeopathic, hydropathic and
eclectic, would agree with Paul as, stand
ing on Mars Hill, his pulpit a ridge of
limestone rock fifty feet high, and
among the proudest and most ex-
elusive and undemocratie people of the
earth, he crashed into all their prejudices
by declaring in the words of my text that
God had made ssof one blood all nations"
The cOuntenance of the five races of the
human family may be different as a re-
suit of climate or education or habits,
and the Malay viii have the projecting
upper Jaw and the Caucasian the oval
face and small mouth, and the Ethiopian
the retreating forehead and large lip, and
the Mongolian the fiat face of olive hue,
and the American Indian the copper
colored complexion, but the blood is the
same, and indicates that they all had one
origin, and that Adam and Eve were their
ancestor and ancestress.
1 think God buils this American con-
tinent and organized this United States
Republic to demonstrate the stupendous
idea of the text A man in Persia VIII al"
ways remain a Persian, O man in Switzer-
land will always remain a Swiss, man
in Austria will always remain an Aus
| trian, but all foreign nationalities coming
| to America were intended to be Amer
leans. This land is the chemical labOra-
tory where all foreign bloods are to be
| inextricably mixed up and race preJud1ces
| and race antipathies are to perish, and
! this sermon is an axe by which hope to
! kill them. 1t is not hard for me to preach
/ such a sermon, because, although my
| ancestors came to this country about 25C
! years ago, some of them came from
| Wales and some from Scotland and some
/ from Holland and some from other lands
/ and am mixture of so many national.
tiles that feel at home with people from
under every sky and have right to cal
them blood relations. There are mad
caps and patriotic lunatics in this country
who are ever and anon crying out, 'tAmer'
lea for Americans.v Down with the Ger
i mansl Down with the Irish! Down witt
| Jewsl Down with the Chinesei are il
some directions the popular cries, all o.
which vociferatiORs / would drown out by
the full organ of my text, while l pulkou
the stops and put my foot on the peda
that will open the loudest pipes, and ruI
my fingers over all the four banks OF ivory
! keys, playing the chant, 'fGOd hath made
of one blood all nations"
There are not five men in this audience
nor five men in any audience to-day IL
America, except it be on an Indian reser.
Yation, who were not descended from
foreigners if you go far enough back
The only native Americans are the Mo
docs, the Shawnees, the Chippewas, the
Cherokees, the Chickasaws, the Semi
noles and such like. If the principle
| America only for Americans, be carried
out, then you and 1 have no right to b'
here, and we had better charter all thu
steamers and clippers and men of wal
and yachts and sloops and get out Of thii
| country as quick as possible. The pill
| grim fathers were all immigrants, thu
Huguenots all immigrants. The cradle O
almost every one of our families wal
rocked on the bank of the Clyde, or the
Rhine, or the Shannon, or the Seine, ol
the Tiber. Had the watchwOrd America
for Americans" been an early and sue
| cessful cry, where now stand our cities
/ would have stood wigWams, and canoes
! instead of steamers would have tracked
the Hudson and the Connecticut; and in.
stead Of the Mississippi being the mair
artery Of the continent, it would have
been only trough for deer and antelope
aud wild pigeons to drink out of. What
makes the cry "America for Americans
the more absurd and the more inhumar
is that some in this country who them
selves arrived here in their boyhoOd OF
arrived here only one or two generations
back are joining in the cry. Escaped from
foreign despotism themselves, they say
s'Shut the door of escape for Others
Getting themselves on our shore in life
boat from the shipwreck, saying: "Hau
the boat on the beach and let the rest o.
the passengers go to the bottom!p MeI
who have yet on them a Scotch or Ger
man or English or Irish brogue crying
out: america for Americans!n Wha
if the native inhabitants of Heaven,
mean the angels, the cherubim, the sera
phim born there, should stand in the gate
and when they see us coming up at th'
last should say: $50 back! Heaven foI
the Heavenians -
OF course we do well not to allow for
eign nations to make this country a con
vict colony. We would have q wall bull
as high as Heaven and as deep as hel
against foreign thieves, pickpockets ant
/ Anarchists. We would not let them wipt
their feet on the mat of the outside doc
Of Castle Garden. H'England, or Russia
or Germany, or France, send here thei
/ desperadOes to get clear Of them, W.
: IL. - L.. @~,. Il
in chains to the places where they caIn'
from. We will not have America becom
the dumping place for foreign vagabond
ism. But you build up wall az the Mar
rows before New York harbor, o
at the Golden Gate before San Fran
cisco, and forbid the coming Of the Ia
dustrious and hardwOrking and hon
est population of other lands who want I
breathe the air Of our free institutions AM
get opportunity for better livelihood, AM
It is only a question OF time when Coz
viii tumble that wall fat on our own head
with the red-hot thunderbOlts Of his ON
nipotent indignation. You are fathe
and you have five children. The parlor /
the best room in your house. Your so
Philip says to the other four children
Snow, John, you live In the small room
the end Of the hall and stay there; GeOrgs
YOU live in the garret and stay there
AAai y yVW 4AFo Al t40 SSAAesl @1A Stoy th0l
Fannie, you live ia the kitchen and sta
there. !, Philip, viii take the parlor.
suits me exactly. like the pictures o
the wall like the lambrequins at tn
/ windows. I like the Administer on Ii
floor, Now, I, Philip, propose to oS
cupy the parlor, and I comman
Yon to stay out. The parlor only fC
Philippians. You, the father, hear OF th
arrangement, and what will you do
You will get red IN the face and SAY
ssJohn. come ont Of that small room
the end OF the hall: George. come dow
ont nf the earret. Mary. come np fro