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BROOKLYN, March 3.-Dr. Talmage
preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this
morning on the subject, "Shall America be
Reserved for Americans?" As his sermons
are now translated in every language OF
Europe and many languages of Asia, in his
audiences may be seen persons from many
different nations. After an exposition OF the
scripture he gave out the hymn:
Arm of the Lord, awalkel awake!
Put on thy strength, the nations shake!
Text, Acts xvii, 26: "And hath made of one
blood all nations" That is, if for some reason
general phlebotomy were ordered, and stand
ing in a row were an American, an Englishman,
a Scotchman and an Irishman. a Frenchman, a
German, a Norwegian, and Icelander, Span
lard, an Italian, Russian and representatives
of all other nationalities barred their right arm
and a lancet were stuck into it. the blood let out
would have the same characteristics, for it would
be red, complex, fbrine, globuline, chlorine
and containing sulphuric acid, potassium,
phosphate of magnesia and so on, and Harvey
and Sir Ashley Cooper and Richardson and
Zimmerman and Brown-Sequard and all the
scientific doctors, allopathic, homeopathic. hy-
dropathic and eclectic, would agree with Paul
as, standing on Mars Hill, his pulpit ridge of
limestone rock so feet high 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 ma
tons"
The countenance of the five races Of the hu-
man family may be different as result of
climate OF education 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 Mongolian the fiat face of
nd 10 Indian the
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.
WHY AMERICA WAS BUILT.
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 Persian,
man in Switzerland will always remain a
Swiss a man in Austria will always remain an
Austrian, but all foreign nationaiities coming
to America were intended to be Americans
This land is the chemical laboratory where for
eign bloods are to be inextricably mixed up
and race prejudices and race antipathies are TO
perish and this sermon is an ak by which
hope to help kill them. 1t is not hard for me
to preach such a sermon, because although
my ancestors came to this country about go
years ago. some of them came from Wales and
some from Scotland and some from Holland
of so many nationalIties that feel at home
with people from under every SKY and have a
right to call them blood relations.
There are madcaps and. patriotic lunatics in
this country who are ever and anon crying out,
America for Americans" Down with the
Germans! Down with the Irish! Down with
the Jews! Down with the Chinese! are in
come directions the popular cries, all of which
vOciferations would drown out by the full
organ of my text, while pull out 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 one blood all nations"
There are not five men in this audience, nor
five men in any audience to-day in America ex-
ceptit be on an Indian reservation, who were
not descended from foreigners if you 90 far
enough back. The only native Americans are
the Modocs, the Shawnees. the Chippewas, the
Cherokees, the Chickasaws, the Seminoles and
such like. If the principle America only for
Americans be carried out, then you and have
no right to 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
county as quick as possible. The Pilgrim
Fathers were all immigrants, the Huguenots
all immigrants. 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 TiDer.
A MISTAKEN CRY.
Had the watchword America for Ameri-
cans been IN 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 Con
necticut: and instead of the Mississippi being
the main artery of the continent, it would have
been only trough for deer and antelope and
wild pigeons to drink out Of What makes the
cry of America for Americans" the more alb
surd and the more inhuman is that some in this
country who themselves arrived here in their
boyhoOd or arrived here only one or two gen.
erations back are joining in the cry. Escaped
from foreign despotisms themselves they say,
''Shut the door of escape for Others" Getting
themselves on our shores in a life-boat from
the shipwreck saying, Haul the boat on the
beach ana let the rest of the passengers go to
the bottom! Men who have yet on them a
Scotch or German or English or Irish brogue
crying out, America for Americans! What if
the native inhabitants of heaven, l mean the
angels. the cherubim, the seraphim born there,
should stand in the gate and when they see us
coming up at the last should say: go back!
Heaven for t1s Heavenians!"
OF course we do well not to allow foreign
nations to make this country a convict colony.
We would have wall built as high as heaven
and as deep as he'll against foreign thieves
pickpockets and Anarchists. We would not
let them wipe their feet on the map of the out
side door of Castle Garden. If England
Russia or Germany or France send here their
desperadoes to get clear of them, we would
have these desperadoes sent back in chains to
the places where they came from. We will not
have America become the dumping place for
foreign vagabondism.
But you build up a wall at the Narrows before
New York harbor, OF at the Golden Gate before
San Francisco. and forbid the coming of the in
dustrious and hard working and honest popula-
tions of other lands who want to breathe the
air of our free institutions and get opportunity
for better livelihood, and it is only question
of time when God will tumble that wall fiat on
our own heads with the red hot thunderbolts
of His omnipotent Indignation. You are a
father and you have five children. The parlor
is the best room in your house.
A PARALLEL CASE.
Your son Philip says to the other four child
rem, "Now, John. you live in the small room in
the end of the hall and stay there; George, you
live in the garnet and stay there; Mary, you
live in the cellar and stay there; Fannie, you
live in the kitchen and stay there. /, Philip
will take the parlor. 1t suits me exactly. 1
like the pictures on the wall l like the lam
brequlns at the windows. like the Administer
on the floor. Now ], Philip propose to occupy
this parlor, and command you to stay out
The parlor only for Philippians" You, the
father, hear Of this arrangement and what will
you do? You will get red in the face and say:
"John, come out of that small room at the end
of the hall; George, come down out of the gar
ret; Mary, come up from the cellar; Fannie,
come out of the Kitchen and go into the Parlor
OF anywhere you choose; and Philip. for your
greediness and unbrotherly behavior, put you
Tor two hours in the dark closet under the
God is the father of the human race He has
at least five sons, North American, a South
American, european, an AslatlctanQ an A1rl-
can. The North American shifts the breeze
and he Gays to his four brothers and sisters:
Let the South American stay in South Amer
iea, let the European stay in Europe, let the
Asiatic stay in Asia let the African stay in At
rica: but america is for me. l think it is the
parlor of the whole earth. like its carpets of
grass and its upholstery of the front window,
namely the American sunrise, and the uphol-
stery Of the back window, namely, the Ameri-
can sunset Now want you all to stay out
and keep to your places" am sure the Fa-
fher of the whole human race would hear of il
and chastisement would come, and whether by
earthduake or flood. or drought OF heaven