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REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINES SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "Shall America be Re
served for Americans.


botomy were ordered, and standing in row
were an American. an Englishman, Scotch
man and an Ir shman, Frenchman, a Ger
man, Norwegian, an Icelander, a Spaniard.
an italian, a Russian and representatives
of all other nationalitities barred their right
arm and lancet were struck into
it, the blood let out would have the same
characteristics. for it would be red, complex.
fibrine. globuline, chlorine and containing
sulphuric acid, potassium, phosphate OF mag
nesia and so on, and Harvey and Sir Ast.ey
Cooper and Richardson aud Zimmerman and
Brown-Seauard and all the scientific doctors.
allopathic, homeopathic hydropathlc and
on Mars Hill. his pulpit 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
pre;udices 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-
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 hue, and the
American Indian the copper-colored COM
plexion, but the blood is the same and lndl-
Gates that they all had one origin and that
ce5treSs.
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
aPersian, man in Switzerland will always
remain Swiss man in Austria Will
always remain an Austrian, but all
lea were intended to be Americans
This land is the chemical laboratory where
foreign bloods are To be ineNtricably mixed
up and race preiudices and race antipathles
are to perish, and this sermon is an ak by
which hope to kill them. 1t is not hard for
me tt, preach such sermon, because al.
though my ancestors came to TINS
country about two hundred ard fifty
years ago, some of them came from Wales
and some from Scotland and some from
Holland and some from other lands, and
am mixture of so many nationalities that
I feel at home with people from under
every sky and have a right to call
caps and patriotic lunatics in this country
who are ever and anon crying out: Amer
lea for Americans" Down with the Ger
mans! Down with the Irish! Down with the
Jews! Down with the Chinese! are in some
directions the popular cries, all of which
vociferations ! would drown out by
the full organ of my text. while 1 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 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 Modocs, the Shawnees
the Chippewas, the Cherokees. the Chicka-
saws, the Semino!es and such like. If the
principle America only for Americans be
carried out, then you and have no right tc
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 The 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
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
drink out of. What makes the cry OF
"Amer;ca for Americans" the more absurd
and the more inhuman is that some in this
country who themselves arrived here in their
boyhood or arrived here only one or two
generations back are joining in the cry.
Escaped from foreign 8. s5sy despotisms ms
themselves they soy, Shut Shut a. tbs
door of escape for Others, Getting them
selves on our shores in life boat from the
sh' wreck saying: Haul the boat on the
beach and let the resi- Of the passengers go to
the bottom! Men who have yet on them
Scotch or German or English or Irish brogue
crying out, America. for Americans: Whatlt
the native inhabitants of Heaven, Imean 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 the Heavenians"
OF course we do well not 70 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.
pickpockets and anarchists We would not
let them wipe their feet on the mat Of the
outside door of Castle Garden. II England or
Russia or Germany or France send here
their desperadoes to get clear OF
them, we would have these des.
peradoes sent back in chains
to the places where they came from.
We will not have America become the
dumping place for foreign yasabond.
ism. 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 or
other lands who want to breathe the
air Of our free institutions and get op-.
portunity for better livelihood, and
God will tumble that wall flat on our
own heads with the red hot thunder
bolts of His omnipotent indignation.
You are father and you have I've children.
The parlor is the best room in your house.
Your son Philip says to the other four chill.
dren: Now. John. you live in the small
room in the end Of the hall and stay there:
George, you live in the garret 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 par.
lor It suits me exactly. like the pictures
on the wall. / like the lambrequins at
the windows ! like the Administer on
the floor. Now, !, Philip. propose to occupy
this parlor and command you to stay
the father. hear of this arrangement and
what will you dol 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 tho garrett: Mary. come up from
the cellar; Fannie, come out Of the kitchen,
choose: and, Philip for your greediness and
hours in the dark closet under the
stairs God is the Father Of the human
race. He has at least five sons, North
American, South American, European,
an Asiatic and an African. The North
American shifts the breeze and he says to his
four brothers and sisters: Let the South
american stay in South America, let the
European stay in Europe, lei the Asiatic stay
il Asia. let the African stay in Africa: but
America is for me- think it is the par,Or
Of the whole earth. l like its carpets of
grass and its upholstery of the front
window, namely the American sunrise,
nd thu upuolslerY Of the back window