Milford chronicle., 1889-03-08
No KNOW -NOTHINGISM.
DR.. TALMAGE TALKS ABOUT THE
CRY, AMERICA FOR AMERICANS"

He Says 1t Is Absurd. Contrary to the
Spirit of American Institutions. and Un-
Just-who Are Americans?-Advanta
of the Influx OF Nations.
BROOKLYN, n. Y. March 3.-Dr. Talmage
preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle this
morning on the subject. "Shall America be
reserved for AmericansF 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
scriptures he gave out the hymn:
Arm OF the Lord awakel awakei
Put on thy strength. the nations shakel
Text, Acts xvii, 26' "And hath made Of one
blood all nations" That is, If for some rea-
son general phlebotomy were ordered, and
standing in a row were an American an
Englishman, a Scotchnian, and an Irishman,
a Frenchman, a German, Norwegian, an
Icelander, a Spaniard, an Italian, a Russian
and representatives of all other nationalities
barred their right arm and a lancet were
struck into it the blood let out would have
the same characteristics, fpr it would be red,
complex, fibrine, globuline, chlorine and con-
tanning sulphuric acid, potassium, phosphate
Of nlagnesia and so on, and Harvey and Sir
Ashley Cooper and Richardson and Zimmer-
man and Brown-Sequard and all the scientific
doctors, allopathic homeopathic, hydro
pathic 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 undemo-
cratic 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 countenances Of the five races
Of the human family may be different as a
result of climate or 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 retreat
ing forehead and large lip, and the Mongolian
the fat 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.
AMERICA Is THE MIXING CALDRoN OF NATIONS
| 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 Per-
sian, a man in Switzerland win always re-
main a Swiss, man in Austria will always
tiles coming to America were intended to be
Americans This land is the chemical labor
atory where foreign bloods are to be inextri
cably mixed up and race prejudices and race
antipathies are to perish, and this sermon is
an ak by which hope to help to kill them.
1t is not hard for me to preach such a SER
mon, because, although my ancestors came
to this country about two hundred and fifty
years ago, some Of them came from Wales
and some from Scotland and some from Hol-
land and some from other lands and / am a
mixture If so many natiOnalties 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 Americansrn Down with
the German. Down with the Irishl Down
with the Jewsl Dow with the Chinese
are in some directions the popula. cries,
all of which vociferations | win drovn
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 tho 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 today in America
except it be on an Indian reservation, who
were not descended from foreigners if you go
far enough back The only native Americans
are the Modocs, the Shawnees, the Chippe-
was 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 DO 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. The Pilgrim Fathers were all immi-
grants, 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
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 steam
ers would have tracked the Hudson and the
Connecticut, and instead of the Mississippi
bein the main artery of the continent it would
have been only a trough for deer and ante
lope and wild pigeons TO drink out Of What
makes tho cry Of America for Americans
the more absurd and tho more inhuman is
that some in this country who themselves ar
rived here in their boyhood or arrived here
only one or two generations 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 lifeboat from the shipwreck saying,
Haul the boat ON the beach and let the rest of
the passengers 60 to the bottoml Men who
have yet ON them a Scotch or German or
English or Irish brogue crying out, America
for Americansl What If the native inhab-
itants of heaven, mean the angels, the cher
ubim, the seraphim born there should stand
rrof, ott1 prha1, f,arr ,,e ror,,frr
at tho last should say: go backl Heaven
for the HeaveniansI"
WHERE THE ABsURDITY Is UNJUST.
OF course we do well not to allow foreign
nations to make this country convict colony.
Wo would have a wall builtas high as heaven
and as deep as hell against foreign thieves,
pickpockets and anarchists We would not
let them wipe their feet on the map of the
outside door of Castle Garden If England
or 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 dump
ing place for foreign vagabondisn But you
build up wall at the Narrows before New
York harbor, or at the Golden Gate before
San Francisco, and forbid the coming Of the
industrious and hard working and honest
populations of other lands who want 10
breathe tho air of our free institutions and
get opportunity for better livelihood, and it
s only a question of time when God will
tumble that wall fat on our own heads with
the red hot thunderbolts of his omnipotent In
dignation. You are father and you have five
children. The parlor is the best room in your
house Your son Philip says to the other
four children: Now, John, you live in the
small room in the end of the hall and stay
there; George, you livein the garret and stay
there Mary, you live in the cellar and stay
there Fannie, you live in the kitchen and
stay there. 1, Philip, viii take the parlor. 1t
suits no exactly. 1 like the pictures on the
wall ike the lambrequiIsa at the windows.
ike the Administer on the floor. Now, l,
Philip, propose to occupy this parlor and ]
command you to stay out Tho parlor only
for Philippians" You, the father, hear oi
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