Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-03-14
SUNDAYS SERMON.
ONE OF REV. DIR. TALMAGES
STERLING DIsCOURsEs.
Subject "Shall America be Reserv
ed for Americans ?"

botomy were ordered, and standing in q row
were an American. an Englishman. Scotch
man and an lr shman, Frenchman, a Ger
man. a Norwegian, an Icelander, u Spaniard.
an Italian. Russian and representatives
of all other nationalitites barred their right
arm and a lancet were struck into
it, the blood let out would have the same
characteristics. for it would be red, complex
fibrine. giobuline, chlorins and containing
sulphuric acid potassium, phosphate OF mag
nesia and so on, aud Harvey and Sir Ast,ev
Cooper and Richardson and Zimmerman and
Brown Sequard and all the scientific doctors.
allopathic. homeopathic. hydropathie and
eclectic, would agree with Paul as, standing
ON Mars Hill. his pulpit a ridge OF limestone
rock fifty feet high and among the proudest
and most exclusive and undemocratic people
of the earth, he crashed INTO all their
preiudices by declaring in the words
of my text that God had made 'ot
one blood all nations The countenance
Of the five races OF the human family may
be different as result of climate or educa,
tion or habits, and the Malay will 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
Mongolion the fiat face of olive hus and the
American Indian the copper-colored COM
plexion, but the blood is the same and indi-
Gates that they all had one origin and that
Adam and Eve were their ancestor and an
cestress.
l think God built this American continent
and organized this United States Republic
TO demonstrate the stupendous idea OF the
text. A man in Persia will always remain
a Persian, man in Switzerland will Away
remain a Swiss, man in Austria wi.
always remain an Austrian, but al
foreign natonalties coming TO Amer
lea were intended to be Americans
This land is the chemical laboratory wher
foreign bl0ods are TO be inextricably mixec
up and race prejudices ami race antlpathies
are to perish, and this sermon is an AK by
which hope to kill them. IL is not hard for
me to preach such a sermon. because, al
though my ancestors came TO this
country about two hundred ard fifty
years ago. some of thsm came from Vale
and some from Scotland and some from
Holland and some from other lands, and
am mixture of so many nationalities that
feel at home with people from under
every sky ana have right to cal
them blood relations. There are mad
caps and patriotic lunatcs in this country
who are ever and anou crying out: Amer
lea for Americans Down with the Ger
mans! Down with the Irish Down with the
Jews Down with the Chuesel are in some
directions the popular cries all OF which
vociferations | would drown out by
the full organ of nv text. while / pull on;
the stops and put my foot on the pedal that
will open the loudest pipes, and run my
fingers over all the four banks OF ivory keys
playing the chant: God hath made of onf
blood all nations "
There are not five men in this audience.
nor five men in any audience to-day in
America except II be on an Indian reserva
ton who were not descended from foreigners
if you go far enough back. the only native
Americans are the Modocs. the Shawnees
the Chippewas, the Cherokees. the Chicka
saws, the Semnoles and such like II the
tp.la A svtt "a.
carried out, then You and | have no right &C
be here and we had better charter all the
steamers and clippers and men-of-war and
yachts and sloops and get out OF this country
as quick as possible. Tho Pilgrim Fathers
were all immigrants. the Huguenots all i'm
migrants The cradle Of most every one OF
our families was rocked on the bank OF the /
Clyde or the Rhine or the Shannon |
or the Seine or the Tiber. Had the |
watchword America for Americans /
been an early and successful cry /
where now stand our cities would have stood |
Indian wigwams, and canoes instead OF /
steamers would have tracked the Hudson ]
and the Connecticut; and instead OF the I
Mississippi bong the main artery of the /
continent, it would have besn only a trough I
for deer and antelope and wild pigeons TO 4
drink out Of. WHAT makes the cry OF !
. America for Americans the more absurd /
and the more inhuman is that some in this /
boyhOod or arrived here only one or two
back are joining in the cry,
Escaped from foreign despotisms
themselves they say: "Shut the
door of escape for Others Getting them.
selves on our shores in life boat from the
'hipwreek saying: Haul the boat on the
beach and let the rest of thu passengers 20 to
he bottom Men who have yet on them
Scotch or German or elish or irish brogus
,rying out, America. for Americans. Whatif
The native inhabitants Of Heaven, lmean the
angels, the cherubm the serap1im bora
here. should stand in the gate and when
hey see us coming up at the last should say:
go back Heaven for the Heaveniausp'
OF course we do well not TO allow foreign
nations to make this country convict colony
We would have a wall builtas high as HEAVIER
Ind as deep as hell against foreign thieves.
and anarchists. We would not
ct them wipe their feet on the mat of the
Russia or Germany or France send here
heir desoeradoss TO get clear OF
hem. we would have these des
,eradoes sent back in chain,
o the places where they came from
Ne will not have America become the
Jumping pace for foreign vagabond,
SIN. But you build up wall az the
Narrows before New York harbor, or at
he Golden Gate before San Francisco, and
orbid the coming of the industrious and
lard working and honest populations OF
ther lands who want to breathe the
ir of our free institutions and sss Oh
'ortunity for better livelihood, and
is only a question of time when
iod VIII tumble that wall fiat on our
wn heads with the red hot thunder.
otis Of His omnipotant Indignation.
you are father and yol have Eve children
ne parlor is tine best room in your houss
our son Philip says to the other four chill
rem: Now. John. you live in the small
DOM in the end Of the hall and stay there:
Ieorge, you live in the garrett and
,ay there; Mary, you live in the cellar and
say there; Fannie, you live in the kitchen
nd stay there. l. Philip, will take the par
". IL suits me exactly. [ like the pictures
n the wall / like the lambrequins at
le windows. | like the Administer OF
he floor. Now, I, Philip. propose to occupy
his parlor aud | command you to stas
ut The parlor only for Philippians You
lie father, hear OF this arrangement and
hat will You do, You will get red in the face
nd say: John. come ont Of that small
pom at the end of the hal; George, CONS
own out of the garnet; Mary. come up from
he cellar; Fannie, come out OF the kitchen,
nd go into the parior or anywhere YOU
moose; and. Philip. for your greatness and
nbrotherly behavior, ] put you for tive
ours in the dark closet under the
airs God is the Father of the huna7