The Yale expositor., 1896-03-13


| W. that the leopard
| mentioned il the Bible meant Gre
| cha, and the bear meant Medo-Per-
| STA, and the lion meant Babylon, and
| the beast of the text coming up out
| of the earth with two horns like lamb
| and the voice of 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
dragon loud enough to make all
nations hear the roar of its
Indignation. Is it reasonable to sup
pose that God would leave out from
| the prophecies of His Book this whole
| Western Hemisphere? No, no. II be-
held 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 man
ners. 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 to-
day is Jesus. Right from this audience
| hundreds of men and women would, IL
need be, march out and die for Him.
Am too confident in saying "Ameri-
ca for God?" If the Lord will help me
| will show the strength and extent of
| the long line of fortresses to be taken,
and give you my reasons for saying IL
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
| few through the heavens is the Amerl-
can eagle, SO much so that Mr. Glad
stone said to me facetiously, at Hawar-
| den: Il hear that the fish in your
American lakes are so large that when
one of them is taken out the entire lake
| is perceptibly lower" and at dinner
given in Paris an American offered for
n sentiment: Here is to the United
| States-bounded on the north by the
aurora borealis, on the south by the
procession of the equinoXes, on the east
| by the primeval chaos, and on the west
by the Day of Judgment" The effect
Of such grandiloquence 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 will have no part in such
attempt at belittlement.
This land to be taken for God, ac-
| cording to Hassel, the statistician, has
fourteen million two hundred and nine
teen thousand nine hundred and sixty
seven square miles, a width and
| 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 IL existence and does not run
afoul OF sons other world or get con-
sumed by the fires already burning in
the cellars of the photographic, l say,
of holding and feeding more than one
billion of inhabitants. For yous must
remember it must be held for God as
we'll as taken for God, and tho last five
hundred million inhabitants must not
be allowed to swamp the religion of the
first five hundred million. Not much
use in taking the fortress if We cannot
hold it. 1t must be held until the arch
angels trumpet bids living and dead
arise from this laundering planet.
You must remember it is only about
seven o'clock in the morning of our
nations life. Great cities are to flash
and roar among what are called the
great Columbia Plains of Washing
ton state, and that on which we put
our school-boy fingers on the map and
spelled out as the Great American
Desert" is, through systematic and
concentrating irrigation, to bloom like
Chatsworth Park and be made more
productive than those regions depend
ent upon uncertain and spasmodic rain
fall. All those regions, as well as those
regions already cultivated, to be in
habited! That was a sublime thing
said by Henry Clay, while crossing the
Allegheny mountains, and he was wait
ing for the stage horses to be rested, as
he stood on a rock, arms folded, looking
off into the valley, and some one said
to him, "Mr. Clay, what are you think
ing about?' He replied, II am listen
ing to the on-coming tramp of the flu
turc generation of America" Have you
| laid our home missionary scheme on
such an infnitude of scale? If the work
Of bringing one soul to God is so great.
can a thousand million be captured?
In this country, already planted and to
be overcome, Paganism has built its
altar to Brahma, and the Chinese are
| already burning incense in their tenn
pies, and Mohammedanism drunk in
other days with the red wine of human
blood at Lucknow and Cawnporc, and