The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-03-13
ALL MADE OF ONE BLOOD.
Or. TALMAee's PATRIOTIC SERMON.
The Preacher Discusses the Question ''Shan
America BE Reserved For Ameri.
cans ?'--Room For All with God
For Our Ruler.

The Rev. DIR. Talmage preached a
patriotic sermon last Sunday morning.
His subject was: "Should America be Re-
served for Americans ?" and he answered
IL in the most anti-know-nothing style.
a very large audience listened. The text
was: "And hath made of one blood all
nations" The preacher spoke in part, as
follows:
think God built this continent and
organized this United States republic to
demonstrate the stupendous idea Of my
text. II the Persian stay in Persia he re-
mains a Persian, if Swiss stay in Swltzer-
land he remains a Swiss. If an Austrian
stay in Austria he remains an Austrian;
but all these and other nationalities COM
ing to America become Americans. This
continent is chemical laboratory where
all foreign bloods are to be inextricably
mixed, and race antipathies and race
prejudices are to perish, and this sermon
is an ak by which l hope to kill some of
them or help to kill some of them. 1t is
not difficult thing for me TO preach this
sermon, because when 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 Holland, and some from other
nationalities, so that / feel at home with
all people from under the sky and feel
blood relation to all of them. There are
madcaps and patriotic lunatics who
are ever and anon crying out, america
Tor Americansl down with the Germans!
down with the Irish down with the
Jewsl down with the Chinesew and these
vociferations come from many directions,
and propose this morning, as far as pos
slble, to drown them out by the full organ
of my text, and to pull out all 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 while
play the chant of my text: God hath
made Of one blood all nations" There
are not five persons in this audience, or in
any audience to-day in America-unless
1T be on an Indian reservatiOn-whO do
not descend from foreigners, if you 60 far
enough back. The only native Americans
are the Modocs and the Mohawks and
the ChOctaws and the Cherokees and the
Seminoles and the Shawnees and such
like. If the cry, America for Ameri-
cans" be a Christian and a righteous cry,
then you and | have no business here,
and we had better charter the steamers
and the slOOps and the yachts and the
men-Of-war and get out OF this land as
quick as possible. If the cry that 1 abhor
had been a successful CRY at the start,
where now stand our American cities
would have stood Indian wigwams, and
the Connecticut and the Hudson, instead
OF being cut with the prov of steamers,
would be cut with canoes, and the Missis-
slssippi river, instead of being the main
artery of this continent, would have
been only a trough for deer and an
telODe and wild pigeons TO drink out
Of What makes the cry america
for Americans" the more absurd and the
more inhuman and the more unchristain
is the fact that people who only arrived
IN this country in their boyhoOd or only
one or two generations back are joining
IN the cry. Escaped from foreign des-
pOtisms themselves, they say: &" Now shut
the door; don't let any more escape"
Having got ashore in the liieboat from
the shipwreck, they say: 'NOw pull up
the boat on the beach and let all the rest
OF the passengers go to the bottom" And
people who have yet the Scotch and the
brOgue are saving: America for Amer
leans" How would it be if the native
inhabitants of heaven, the angels who
were born there, the Cherubim and ser
aphim VINO have ALWAYS lived there
should come out on the shore of heaven
when YOU and i at last try to 90 up, and
they should come out and shout TO us
''Co back heaven is for the heavenians -
The fact is that here is a subject which
needs to be presented from every Amer
lean pulpit. OF course, we do not want
America 10 become a convict colony. We
would build wall high as heaven and
deep as hell against all foreign thieves,
cut-thrOats, pickpOckets and anarchists
10 wipe their feet on the
mat of the outside door OF Castle
Garden. Ii England and France and
Germany and Russia send their vagabonds
here because they want to get rid OF them,
let us put those vagabOuds in chains and
send them back again to the place whence
they came. But you build a wall at the
narrOws in front of New York harb0r. or
at the golden gate, in front OF San Fran
CISCO to keep out the honest, hard-wOrll-
ing populations OF this world who want to
breathe the free air of America. or get a
better livelihood for their families, and it
- Jill lutellOu Vi lllle WDcU llldl wall
will tumble down on us under the red
hot thunderbOlts of the Lord God Al
mighty. They are coming, they will con-
tinue to come, and, If had voice loud
enough to be heard across the seas this
morning, ] would put it to the utmost
tension and | would say: ''Let them
Gomez You mean, shriveled-up, stingv
blasted soul, seated at YOUR silver dinner
plate piled up with bursting roast turkey
incarnadined with cranberry, your mouth
full and your fork full, examining down
superabundance that sets your digestive
organs into state of terror, do let some
other nation of the earth have at least a
Westinghouse. believe that some of this
cry is an honest cry on the part of people
who really fear that America is going to
be over-crowded. Now, let me say TO all
such people: Take the populations of the
whole earth-all the people OF Europe,
Asia, Africa and all the islands of the sea
and pour them out on the American
continent, and yet there will be ROOM
The Rocky Mountain desert and all the
other American barrennesses are to be
fertilized, and as salt Lake City and Utah
once could not have raised in many places
as much as a spear OF grass, they have be-
come the gardens of the world through
artificial irrigation, so the time will come
when all the barren places on this Ameri-