News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-03-14
SUNDAYS SERMON.
ONE OF REV. DIR. TALNIAGES
STERLING DISCOURSES.
Subject: "ShalI Am erica be Resery
ed for Americans :?
TEXT: "4nd hath made of ons b.oOI all

TEXT: "And hath made of oRs btUo al
nations Acts xvii, 70.
That IS, if for some reason general phle
botomy were ordered, and standing in 6 roy
were an American, an Englisnman. Scosch
man and an lr snman, a Frenchman, a Ge.'
man, Norwegian, an icaiander, a Spaniard
an italian. a Russian and representative
of all other nationaiieit;es barred their RICH
arm and lancet were struck int
it. the blood let out would have the sam
cd=racteriss. cs. for it would be red, complex
&briR5. giobgline, ch.orins AMI contaiuin,
sulphGric ac.d, potassium, phosphate of mag
nesia and 50 on, and Harvey and Sir Asst
Cooper and Richardson and Zimmerman ant
Browu-Sequard and all tue scientific doctors
allopaehic, homeopathic. hydropathlc an,
eclectic, would agree with Paul as, standin:
on Mars Hill, his pulpit ridge OF limeston
rock fifty fesS hi GO and among the proadsS
and most exc, uSlve and undemocfatc peopt
OF the earth, he crashed INTO all thei
pre!udices by declaring in the word
OF my text that God had made 20
ere blood all nations" The countenanc
Of the five races OF the human family ma
be different as result of climate or educa
ton or habits, and the Malay will have TIN
projecting upper Jaw, and the Caucasian tn,
oval fate and small mouth. and the Ethiopian
She recreating forehead and large lip, and tn,
Aeagolion the fat face Of olive hue, and the
american lndisn ths copper CON
pEexion, but the blood is the same and inli
Gates that they sill had one origin and thai
Adam and Eve were their ancestor and an
cestress.
THINK God built this American continent
and Organized this United States Republic
Go demonstrate the stuDendous idea Of chs
Eaxt A man in Persia Will always remain
Persian, man in Switzerland will Away,
remain a Swiss, a man in Austria viii
always remain an Austrian, but al
foreign natio1alties coming to Amer
lea were intended to be Americans
This land is the chemical laboratory wher
foreign bloods are to be inextsssss Aly mi zee
up AMI race prejudicss AMI -. ami pan
are TO perish, AMI this sermon is an AK by
which 1 hope to XIII them. 1t is not hard fol-
me to preach such a sermon, because, a.
though my ancestors came to thi:
country aecat two hundred and fifty
years ago, some of them came from Wa!e
and so.aa from Scotland and some from
Holland and some from Other lands, and
am a mixture of SO many nationalities thai
! feel at home with people from unde
every sky and have a right to cal
them biood relations. There are mad
caps s-ad patriotic lunatics in this countr-
VINO are ever and anon crying out: Amer
lea for Americans" Down with tbs Ger
.H.ansl Down with the Irishl Down with the
Jews. Down with the Chinese, ara in SOME
directions the popular cries, all of which
vociferations 1 would drown out by
the full organ of nv text. while / pail oul
will open the loudest pipes, and run my
fingers over all the four banks of ivory keys.
Paying the chant: "God hath made of on
b4ood AL 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 deScende1 from foreigners
IL you go Jar enough back the ONLY native
Americans are the Modocs, the Shawnees
the Chippewas, the Cherokees, the Chcaa
-, ,r1lo oh sl-a 4 r..
principle America only for Americans be
carried out, then you and l have no right K
he here and we had better charter al the
steamers and clippers and men-of-war and
yachts and sloops and ges out OF this country
as quick as possible. Tho Pilgrim Fathers
migrants. The cradle of most every one o.
our families was rocked on the bank of the
Clyde or the Rhine or the Shannon
or tue Seine or the Tiber. Hal the
" America for Americans
been an early and successful cry
where now stand our cities would have stood
Indian wigwanls, and canoes instead of
steamers would have tracked the Huiso1
and the Connecticut; and instead OF the
Mississippi bong the main artery of the
continent, it would have been only a trough
or deer and antelope and wild pigeons to
rink out of. WHAT makes the cry o.
America for Americans" the more absurd
md the more inhuman is that some in this
country who themselves arrived here in Their
JOY hood or arrived here only one or two
generations back are joining in the cry.
5scaped from foreign :. de despOtisns
door of escape for others Getting them
selves on our shores in a life boat from the
shipwreck saying: Haul the boat the
beach and let the rest of thu passengers go to
the oottoml Men who have YET them a
Scotch OF German or English OF Irish brogue
crying out, America. for Americans. WHAT
the native inhabitants OF Heaven, Imea1 the
ANGELS, the cherubtm. the serapliua born
there should stand in the gate and vvhey
they see us coming uD at the last Should say
go back Heaven for the Heaveniansr'
OF course we do well not TO allow foreig9
nations to make this country convict colony
We would have a wall built as high As HEAVIER
and as deep as hell against foreign thieves
p;ckpockets and anarchists. We would moi
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
their desoeradoes to get clear OF
them, we would have these des
peradoes sent back in chain
to the places where they came from
we Will noe have America become tn
dumping pace for foreign vagabond
ism. But you bull up a wall at th.
Narrows before New York harbor, or al
the Golden Gate before San Francisco, anC
forbid the coming of the industrious an,
hard working and honest populations o
OLQST laEuS WHO want TO breathe tbs
air of our free institutions AMI get op
portunity for better livelihood and
it is only a question of time whe1
God will tumble that wall fiat on oul
own beads with the red hot thunder
bolts of His omaipoten5 Indignation
You are a father and vo1 have five children
The pAr.Or Is tine bss5 rooIn IN your hoas4
Your son Philip says to the other four chill
dren: Now. John. you live in the small
room in the end of the hall AMI STAY there
George, you live in the garrett ami
stay there; Mary, you live in the cellar ami
stay there: Fannie, you live in the kitchen
and stay there. |. Philip, will take the par.
Tor. 1t suits me exactly. | like the pictures
on the wall. l like the lam5requinS a.
the windows. / like the Administer OF
the floor. Now, I. Philip. propose to occupy
this parlor and L conmsn1 You to STAY
out. The par.or only for Philippians F." You.
the father, hear of this arrangement an
what will you do. You will get red in the face
and say: John, come out of that small
room at the end of tue hal: George, come
down OUT Of the garrett; Nary. come up from
the cellar; Fannie, come out of the kitchen,
and go into the par.or or anywhere you
choose: aud, Philip, for yuur greatness and
unbrosheriy behavior, ] put you for tive
hours in the dark closet under the
stairs-" God is the Father of the humar
race. Fe has at lss:15 five sons, a Mort
America. S0cEu American, a European
an Asistjc and an African The Nortt
American shifts the breezs and he saws to his
four brothsrs and sters: Let the South
american stay in South America, let tn.
European stay in Europe, let the Asiatic stay
IN ASIA. let the African stay in Africa: but
America is for me. l think iii the par.o,
OF the who.e earth. l like its carpets o;
grass and its upholstery of the from
window, namely the American sunrise
M the upholstery or the DdcK WINDOW,
namely the American sunset Now l want
Won all TO stay ou5 and keep to your places"
am sure the Father of the whole human race
would hear Of it and chastisement woaid
come. and, whether by earthquake or food
or drought or heaven darkening swarms OF
locust su | grasshopper or DESTROYING angel
OF p5stileace, Col would Iebuke our selhsn-
ness as nation and say to the four winds
OF heaven: This world is my house and the
North American is no more my Child than is
the South American and the European
and the Asiatic AMI the African And ]
built this world foc all ths children, and
the parior is tn IRIS AMI all is theirs" For,
population of Other lan1s will come
here. Thera ara haroors all the way from
Baifin's Bay to Galveston, and if yon shut
fifty gates there will be other gates I'M
guarded. And if you forbid for
eigners from coming on the steamer
they will take sailing vessels. Anc
if you forbid them coming on sailing
vessels they will como in boats. An0
il yoa will not let them come in boats they
will come on RATS. Aud if you will not a.
low wharfage TO the raft theY will leave il
outside Sandy Hook aud swim for free
America Stop theml You might as wei pass
n law forbidding a swarm of summer bees
from lighting on the clover top. or pass law
forbiddng the tides of the Atlantic to rise
when the moon puts under it silver crap
pling hooks. or law that the monday sun
should not irradiats this atmosphere. They
have come. They are coming now. They
will come. And if l had a voice louc
enough to be heard across the seas }
would put it to the utmost tension and cry.
Let them comet You stingv, selfish. shriveled
up blasted souls who sit before your silver