The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-05-17
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINEs SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: Shall America be Re
served for Americans.

we're an American. an EnglisLman, a Scotch
man and an IT shman, Frenchman, a Ger
man, a Norwegian, an Icelander, Spaniard,
an Italian. a Russian and representatives
of all other nationalitities barred their right
arm and a lancet were struck into
| it, the blood let out would have the same
characteristics. for 1t would be red, complex,
hbrine, globuline, chlorine and containing
sulphuric acid potassium, phosphate OF mag
nesia and 50 on, and Harvey and Sir Ashley
Cooper and Richardson and Zimmerman and
! BroWn-SeQuard and all the scientific doctors.
allopathic, homeopathic hydropathic and
eclectic would agree with Paul as, standing
on Mars Hill, his pull pit ridge of limestone
rock fifty feet hi gu and among the proudest
and most exclusive and undemocratic people
of the earth, he crashed into all their
prejudices by declaring in the words
Of my text that God had made ''of
one blood all nations The countenance
Of the five races of the human family may
be different as a result of climate or educa-
ton or habits, and the Malay will have the
projecting upper jaw, and the Caucasian the
oval face and small mouth and the Ethiopian
the retresting forehead and large lip, and the
Mongolion the fiat face of olive hue, 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 - '''"er.----
ee7t res, hey were discussing ce
and organSJ---tliis United States Republic
to demonstrate the stupendous idea Of the
text A man in Persia win always remain
Persian, man in Switzerland will always
remain Swiss, man in Austria VII
always remain an Austrian, but al
foreign nationalties coTring to Amer
lea were intended to be Americans.
This land is the chemical laboratory wi.1n8
foreign bloods are to be inextricably mixed
up and race preludices and race antipathies
arc to perish, and this sermon is an ak bY
which hope to XIII them. It is not hard fcr
me to preach such a sermon, because, g.
though my ancestors came TO tltis
country about two hundred ard fiffY
years ago, some Of them came from Wales
and some from Scotland and some from
Holland and some from other lands, aE5.
an mixture Of so many nationalities that
feel at home with people from under
every sky and have a right to cal
them blood relations There are rnhit-
caps and patriotic lunatics in this countrF
who are ever and anon crying out: "Au1er-
lea for Americans Down with the Ger-
mansl Down with the Irish Down with the
Jewsl Down with the Chinesel are in some
directions the popular cries, all OF which
vociferations / would drown out by
the full organ of my text. while I pull out
the stops and put my foot on the pedal that
will open the loudest pipss, and run nv
fingers over all the four banks of ivory KEYS,
playing the chant: God hath made of one
blood all nations
There are not five men in this audience.
nor five men in any audience to-day in
America except it be on an Indian reserva-
ton, who were not descended from foreigners
If you go far enough back. The only native
Americans are the Hodocs, the Shawnees
the Chippewas, the Cherokees, the Chicka-
saws, the Seminoles and such like If the
principle America only for Americans be
cd ont
he here and we had letter charter all the
steamers and clippers and men-of-war and
yachts and slOOps and get out OF this country
as quick as possible The Pilgrim Fathers
were all immigrants, the Huguenots all i'm
migrants. The cradle Of most every one of 4
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
MISSISSIPPI being the main artery of the
continent, it would have been only trough
for desr and antelope and wild pigeons to
drink out of. What makes the cry Of
America for Americans the more absurd
and the more inhuman is that some in this
country who themselves arrived here in their
SSf -lNA VI ElA mere DllF one OF Two
generations back are joining in the cry.
Escaped from foreign despotisns /
themselves they say: "Shut the
door Of escape for Others Getting them |
selxes On our- sAe=es 4 eress sIl,s--l
81 wreck saying: HUI the boat on the
beach and let the rest Of the passengers 70 10
the bottom Men who have yetou them a
Scotch or German or EaglisE or Irish brozue
crying out, America. for Arnsrfcanst Khatif I
the native inhabitants Of Rsareu, Ifnsan the I
angels, the cherubim. the seraphim born \
there, should stand in the gate and when /
they see us coming up at the last should say: !
SO back Heaven for the Heaveniausr'
OF course We do well not 10 allow foreign
nations TO make this country convict colony.
We would have wall built as high as heaven
and as deep as hell against foreign thieves.
and anarchists. We would not
let them wipe their feet on the mat of the
outside door of Castle Garden If England or
Russia or Germany or France send here
heir desperadoes to get clear OF
hem, we would have these des
'eradoes sent back in chains
o the places where they caue from.
We VIII not have America become the
Jumping place for foreign vagabond-
SIN. But you build up a wall at the
Narrows before New York harbor. or at
he Golden Gate before San Francisco. and
orbid the coming of the industrious and
I
,ther lands who want to breathe the
ir Of our free institutions and get Cd
)ortunity for better livelihood, and
is only a question of time when
Iod viii tumble that wall fat on our
'wn heads with the red hot thunder
olts Of His omnipotent Indignation.
on are father andyoI have FIVE children
he parlor is the bast room in yoar rouse.
our son Philip says to the other four chill
rem: Now, John. you live in the small
ocm in the end of the hall and stay there:
gorge, you live in the garrett and
-ay there; Mary, you live in the cellar and
Jay there; Fannie, you live in the kitchen
nd stay there. l. Philip, will take the par
". 1t suits me exactly. | like the pictures |
n the wall. 1 like the lambrequins at
lie windows. 1 like the Administer on
lie floor. Now, /, Philip. propose to occupy {
lis parlor and / command you to stav | /
ut. The parlor only for Philippians You. I
le father, hear of this arrangement and [
hat will you dol You viii get red in the face
nd say: John, come out of that small I
pom at the end of the hall; George, come
own out of the garrett; Mary. come up from t
le cellar; Fannie, come out of the kitchen .
nd go into the parlor or anywhere YOU !
loose; and, Philip, for your greediress and !
norotherly behavior, ] put you for two !
ours IN the dark closet under the Z
airs. God is the Father OF the human !
ice. He has at least five sons, a North
merlcan, oouJn american, a European.
Asiatic and an African. The North
merican shifts the breeze and he says TO his
'ur brothers and sisters: LET the South
merlcan stay in South America. let tho l
uropean stay in Europe, let the Asiatics tav :,
ASIA. let the African stay in Africa: INIT
msrica is for me. think iii the parlor .
the whole earth. l like its carpsts of
ass and its upholstery OF the front =
indow. namely the American sunrise ! !
the upholstery OF the back window. =
meiy the American sunset. Now 1 want \,
u all to stay out and keep to your places-n y
m sure the Father of the whole human race =,
,uld near OF it and chastisement would Il
me, and, whether by earthquake or flood q,
uroughI or heaven darkening swarms OF a
usO ana graSshoprar or destroying angel Il
pestilence, God would rebuke our selfish Il
5 as nation and say to the four winds 81
heaven s This world is my house and the OF
rtn American is no more my child than is ia
/, south American and the European TO
l Ine Aslatic and the African. And ] nc
1t this world for all the children. and Y
parlor IS theirs and all is theirs" For, n ,,r
me say whether we will or not. the ~ ~
1uiation OF other lands will come ~ ~
e: there are harbors all the Vay from ne ~
INNS Bay TO Galveston, and If YOU shut nj
gates there will be other gates I'M a. -
irueu- ana you rUrUlu Ivr- ~
ners from coming on the steamers -; ~
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