The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-14
AT JERUSALEM.
Dr.. Talmage Would Have a Great
National Revival
And Have 1t Commence at the Capital of
the NatIon-Even "Peginning at
lem"-CharaeterIstic Ser
mon by the Noted Preacher.

The latest sermon by Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage at Washington was on the
subject of national religious awak-
ening at the national capital The
text chosen was from Luke xxiv:47:
beginning at Jerusalem" The ser.
mon follows:
There it is" said the driver, and we
all instantly and eXcitedly rose in the
carriage to catch the first glimpse of
Jerusalem, so long the joy of the
whole earth. That city, coronetted
with temple and palace, and radiant,
whether looked up at from the valley
of Jehosaphat or gazed at from
adjoining hills, was the capital of a
great nation. Clouds of incense had
lowered over il. Chariots of kings had
rolled through it. Gathering rams Of
enemies had Numbered against it
There Isaiah prophesied, and jeremiah
lamented, and David reigned, and Paul
preached, and Christ was martyred.
Most interesting city ever built since
masonry rung it's first trowel, or
plumb line measured its first wall, or
royalty swung its first scepter. What
Jerusalem was to the Jewish kingdom,
Washington is to our own country
the capital, the place to which all
tribes come up, the great national
heart whose throb sends life or death
through the body polite, clear out &c
the geographical extremities.
What the resurrected Christ said in
my text to his deciples, when he Or
dered them to start on the work of
| gospelizatian, beginning at Jerusa-
lem," it seems to me God says now, in
His providence, to tens of thousands
of Christians in this city. Start for the
| evangelization of America, beginning
at Washington" America is going tc
be taken for God. If you do not be-
lieve it, take your hat now and leave,
and give room to some man or woman
who does believe it. AS surely as God
lives and He is able to do as He saws
He will, this country will be evangel-
lied from the mouth of the Potomac
to the mouth of the Oregon, from the
highlands of the Neversink to the
Golden Horn. from Baffins bay to the
Gulf of Mexico, and Christ will walk
every lake, whether bestormed or
placid, and be tranfigured on every
mountain, and the night skies, whether
they hover over grove or magnolia or
over Alaskan glacier, shall be filled
with angelic overture of GLORY to God
and good will to men,"
Again and again does the Old Book
announce that all the world shall see
the salvation of God, and as the
| greater includes the lesser, that takes
| America gloriously in. Can you not
see that if America is not taken for
God by His consecrated people, it will
be taken for Apoilyon! The forces
engaged on both sides are so tremen-
| dous that it cannot be a drawn battle
1t is coming. the Armageddonl Either
the American Sabbath will perish and
this nation be handed over to Herods,
and Hide brands, and Diocletians, and
Neros of baleful power and Alcohol
ism reign, seated upon piled up throne
of beer barrels. his mouth foaming
with domestic and national curse, and
crime will lift its unhindered knife of
assassination, and rattle keys of worst
burglary, and wave torch of the
widest conflagratiOn, and our
cities be turned into SOdoms,
waiting for almighty tempest of
fire and birthstone, and one
tidal wave of abomination will surge
across the continent, or our Sabbaths
will take on more sanctity, and the
newspapers will become apocalyptic
wings of benediction, and penitenti-
aries will be abandoned for lack of oc-
cupants, and holiness and happiness,
| twin son and daughter of Heaven,
shall walk through the land, and
| Christ reign over this nation either in
person or by agency so glorious that
| the whole country will be one clear,
resounding echo of Heaven. 1t will be
one or the other. By the throne of
Him who liveth forever and ever, de-
clare it will be the latter. If the Lord
will help me, as He always does
blessed be His glorious name-I will
show you how a mighty work of grace
work begun at Washington would
have a tendency to bring the whole
continent to God, and before this CEN
fury closes
William the Conqueror ordered the
curfew, the custom of ringing the bell
at midnight, at which all the fires on
the hearth were to be banked, and all
the lights extinguished, and all the
people retire to their pillows. pray
| God that the curfew of this century
NAV not be sounded, and the fires
banked, and the lights extinguished,
as the clock strikes the midnight hour
| that divides the nineteenth century
from the twentieth century, until this
beloved land, which was to most of us
a cradle and which will be to most of
us a grave, shall come into the full
possession of Him who is so glorious
that William the Conqueror could not
be compared to Him, even the One who
rideth forth, ''conquering and to con-
quer."
Why would it be especially advanta-
geous if mighty work of grace started
here, beginning at Washington
First. because this city is on the border
between the north and the south. 1t
is neither northern nor southern; it