Semi-weekly independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-14
Sermon at the Capital.

This discourse presents Il sublime theme
enG is of national Importance. and coming
FROM the capital Of the nation must have
n stirring effect throughout the land. DR..
Talmage chose for his text Revelation
Nil. il, And | hchcld another beast
coming up OUT of the earth. aud he had
two horns like 4 lamb. aad he spake as u
dragon"
l. America mentioned in the Bible?
Learned and consecrared men who have
STUDIED the inspired books of Daniel and
Revelation more than ! have and under
sand them better agree n saying that the
leopard mentioned in the Bible meant
Grecia and the bear meant Medo-Persla.
and the lion meant Baby lon. and the beast
o. the text coming UP out of the earth
wl.n two horns ike lamb ana the voice
ot q dragon means our country, because
among other reasons ii seemed 10 come UP
-out of the earth when Columbus dlscOy-
errd IT, and L has been for the most part
q ueace like q lamb. unless assaulted by
foreign foe, in which case il has had two
horns strong and sharp. and the voice OF
dragon loud enough ~ make ali nations
hear the roar of It's Indignation. Is 1t rea-
sonable TO suppose thai God would leave
or from the prophecies of his book this
whole western hemisphere: No. no. Il
orAeld another beast coming M out OF the
earth. and he had two horns like lamb,
aad h. spakc a. a dragon.
Germany for scholarship. England for
manufactures. France for manners,
Egypt for antiquities. Italy for pictures.
b.; America for God
America for God.
! start with the cheering thought that
the most popular book OF earth to-day is
the Bible, the most popular institution on
earth to-day is the church. and the most
popular name on earth to-day is Jesus.
Eicht from this audience hundreds of men
and women would, il need be, march out
and die for him.
Am [ too confident in saying America
Coz GOd?' II the Lord will help me, i
VII show the strength AMI extent of the
long ii1o of fortresscs TO be taken AMI give
you my reasons for saying il can he done
aud will be done. Let Us decide in this
battle for God whether we are 1T Bull Run
or ut Gettysburg. There is Fourth of
Julyish way of Dragging about this coun-
Try. and the most tired and plucked bird
chat ever flew through the heavens is the
American eagle. so much so that Mr..
N-duolOUt StlU 10 lie ldttllOusil Id
warden, Il hear that the fish in your
American lakes are so large that when
one Of them is taken out the entire lake is
pc~ceptibly lowered and II Il dinner Civ
ell II Paris an American offered for
sentiment. Here is to the United States
bounded ON the north by the aurora
bo-ealis, on the south by the procession of
me equiDoxeS. on the east by primeval
4 Ii. L. II. 4 Is. L.,
ment" The effect of such grandiloquence
Is % discredit the real facts. which are
So tremendous they need no garnishins.
The worst thing to do in any campaign.
military or religious. i 10 underestimate
ar enemy. and | will have no part in
such attempt nj belittlement.
This land 10 be taken for God. according
q Hassel. the statistician. has 14.219.0C7
square miles, 4 width and a length that
1ole but the Onniscient can appreciate
Tour Europes put together. and capable of
holding and feeding, as Il VIII hold and
feed according To Atkinson. the statis;;-
elan, if the world continues in existence
uId does not run afoul Of some other
world or ger consumed by the fires already
burning in the cellars Of the panet-capa-
De. | say. of holding and feeding more
than 900. COO.0o0 inhabitants For YOU
mus remember ii must be held for God a.
well rs taken for God, and the last 100
ooe.000 inhabitants must not be allowed
- swamp the religion Of the first 800
0o0.000. Not much use in taking the for
1ress if we cannot hold it. 1t must he
held until the archangels trumpet bids
living aud dead arise from this laundering
p.anet.
\ Nations Morning.
SOG must remember il is only about =
o'clock in the morning of our nations
life. Great cities are To flash and roar
among what are called the bad Lands"
81 the Dakotas and the great columbia
Plains Of Washington State and that on
which we put our schoolboy fingers on the
nap, and spelled ont as the Great Amer
team desert" is, through systematic and
ronsCmmating irrigation, 10 bloom like
<Shatsworth park and be made more pro
'dgctive than those regions dependent upon
uncertain and spasmOdic rainfall. All
those regions as we'll as those regimes al
-eady cultivated 10 be inhabited, That
was a sublime thing said by Henry Clay
while crossing the Allegheny Mountains
and he was waiting for the stage horses To
be- rested, as he stood on rock. arms
folded, looking of into the valley. and
some one said to him, 'Mr. Clay. what
are you thinking abcut?' He replied. Il
am listening to the oncOminS tramp Of the
future generation of America" Have
you laid our home missionary scheme on
such nfintudc of scale? If the work
OF bringing one soul to God is So great.
can 1000 100000 he captured? Ia this
country. already planted and To be over
come, pagansm has built its altar Ia
Brahma. and the Chinese are already
Burning incense in their temples and
Mohammedanism drunk in other DAYS
with the red wine Of human blood at Luck
now and Cawnpur, and now fresh from
the diabOIism in Armenia, is trying 10 get
n foothold here. and from the minarctS Of
her mosques will yet humble her bla :
y,h,anes, saying. tod is great, and Mo
BANNED is his prophet" Then there ar,
che yaster multitudcs with no religion ~
all They worship no God. they live with
40 consolation. and they die with no hope
No star of peace points down to the man
ger in which they are born. and no prayer
fS uttered OYER the grave into which tlp1