Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-03-09
A SUBLIME THEME.
"AMERlCA FOR GOD" SUBJECT OF
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON.

Other Nations Are Devoted to Art and
Manufactures, but America Shall Be For
God-Ener,ics That Must BE Overcome.
Plan of Campaign.
WASHINGTON, March S.-This dis
course presents a sublime theme and is
of national Importance, and coming
from the capital of the nation must have
stirring effect throughout the land
DIR. Talmage chose for his text Revela-
ton xiii, II, "And I beheld another
beast coming up out of the earth, and
he had two horns like a lamb, and he
spake as dragon
Is America mentioned in the Bible?
Learned and consecrated men who have
studied the inspired books of Daniel and
Revelation more than have and under
stand them better agree III saying that
the leopard mentioned in the Bible
meant Grecia, and the bear meant Me-
do-Persia, and the lion meant Babylon,
and the beast of the text coming up out
of the earth, with two horns like a lamb
and the voice of a dragon, means our
country, because among other reasons it
seemed to come up out of the earth
when Columbus discovered it, and it
has been for the most part at peace like
a lamb unless assaulted by foreign foe,
in which case it has had two horns
strong and sharp and the voice of a
dragon loud enough to make all nations
hear the roar of it's indignation. Is it
reasonable to suppose that God would
leave out from the prophecies of his book
this whole western hemisphere? No, no!
'tI beheld another beast coming up out
of the earth, and he had two horns like
a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
Germany for scholarship, England
for manufactures, France for manners,
Egypt for antiquities, Italy for pictures.
but America for God
l start with the cheering thought that
the most popular book on earth today is
the Bible, the most popular Institution
ON earth today is the church, and the
most popular name on earth today is
Jesus. Right from this audience hun
dreds of men and women would, if need
be, march out and die for him.
Am I too confident in saying, "Amer-
lea for God?" If the Lord will help me,
will show the strength and extent of
the long line of fortresses to be taken
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can be done and will be done. Let US
decide, in this battle for God, whether
we are at Bull Run or at Gettysburg.
There is a Fourth of Julyish way of
Dragging about this country, and the
most tired and plucked bird that ever
flew through the heavens is the Ameri-
can eagle, SO much SO that Mr.. Gladstone
said to me facetiously at Hawarden, 81
hQoy that fhn fish in
lakes are SO large that when one of them
is taken out the entire lake is percepti-
bly, lowered,' and at dinner given in
Paris an American offered for a senti.
ment, ''Here is to the United States
bounded on the north by the aurora bo
reals, on the south by the procession OF
the equinoxes, on the east by primevai
chaos and on the west by the day Of
Judgment The effect of such grand
iloquence is to discredit the real facts,
which are so tremendous they need no
garnishing. The worst thing to do in
any campaign, military or religious, is
to underestimate an enemy, and l will
havo no part in such attempt at Eelittle-
ment.
To Be Taken For God.
This land to be taken for God, &C.
cording to Hassel, the statistician, has
14,219,967 square miles, a width and
q length that none but the Omniscient
can appreciate. Four Europes put to-
gether and capable of holding and feed
ing, as it will hold and feed, according
to Atkinson, the statistician, if the
world continues in existence and does
not run afoul of some other world or get
consumed by the fires already burning
in the cellars of the planet-capable,
say, of holding and feeding more than
1000, 600, 900 inhabitants. For you must
remember it must be held for God as
we'll as taken for God, and the last
300, 900, 900 inhabitants must not be al
lowed to swamp the religion of the first
500, 900, 900. Not much use in taking
the fortress if we cannot hold it. 1t
must be held until the archangel's
trumpet bids living and dead arise from
this laundering planet
You must remember it is only about
O'Clock in the morning of our nations
life. Great cities are to fash and roar
among what are called the bad Lands
of the Dal1otas and the great ''Colum-
bia plains of Washington state, and
that ON which we put our schoolboy fin
gers on the map and spelled out as the
"Great American DESERT is, through
systematic and concentrating lrrlga-
ton, to bloom like Chatsworth park and
be made more productive than those re-
gions dependent upon uncertain and
spasmodic rainfall. All those regions,
as we'll as those regions already Guilt
waited, to be inhabited! That was sub
lime 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 a rock, arm
off i,ata