Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-03-12
CHEERING THOUGHTS
REV. Or. TALMAeE CONFIDENT THAT
AMERICA IS FOR GOD.

WAsHINGToN, March S.-This discourse
presents a sublime theme and Is Of ma
tional Importance, and coming from the
capital of the nation must have stirring |
effect throughout the land. DR.. Talmage
chose for his text Revelation xiii, IL,
And 1 beheld another beast coming up |
out of the earth, and he had two horns
like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon"
In America mentioned In the Bibles
Learned and consecrated men who have |
studied the inspired books Of Daniel and |
Revelation more than have and under |
stand them better agree In saying that the |
leopard mentioned in the Bible meant |
Grecia, and the bear meant Medo-P Persia, |
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 semed to come up out OF
the earth when Columbus discovered IT.
and 1t has been for the most part at peace
like lamb, unless assaulted by foreign
foe, in which case 1t has had two horns
strong and sharp, and the voice of 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. 81 beheld another
beast coming up out Of the earth, and he
had two horns like lamb, and he spake
as dragon"
Germany for scholarship, England for
manufactures, france lor manners, DSype
for antiquities, Italy for pictures, but
America for GOD.
America For God.
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 hundreds OF men
and women would, II need be, march out
and die for him.
Am too confident in saying America
for GodYn II the Lord will help me, I
will show the strength and extent of the
long line of fortresses to be taken and give
Won INV reasons for saying it can be done
and will be- done. Let us decide in this
hattle for God whether we are at Bull Run
or al GettysburQ. There Is Fourth of
IuIuiab xvav Of brapCinQ about this coun-
trv And the most tired and pluoked bird
that ever flaw through the heavens is the
American eagle. 90 much so that Mr.. Glad
STONE said To me facetiously at Hawarden,
sT T hear tbat the fish In your American
,ates arc 90 large that when one of them
IL takan ont the entire lake Is perceptibly
iovored - and at a dinner given In Paris
an Amer;oan offered for a sentiment,
staaro is to the United States-bounded on
.ho north bv the aurora boreaIis, on the
sonth bv the procession of the equinoxes,
ON the east by primeval chaos and on the
west by the day of Judgment" The effect
of such grandiloquence Is TO olscfeolb sne
real facts, whloh are SO trenenoous oney
need no garnishtng. The wors6 tnlng 10
do in any campaign, minsary OF reiigious,
Is to underestimate an enemy, anu Win
have no part IN sucn a5oenlpo ao peiA''ie-
ment.
This land to oe taken ZOE voo' aocoluins a,o nae
to Hassel, the statistician, mas l4,sts,vo1
square miles, width ana Ionesn una'
none but the Omnlsoleno can appreo,a'e:
Four Europes put togeehel, anu oapa1io "
holding and feedlng, as ~ Wlai hoiu anu
feed, according TO Atklnson' INC seaelsol-
| clan, II the woria con1inues ~ ,s oAiooonus
and does not run aloul Oh some oOner worAu
or get consumed py tne nfes aiio"uS puln
ing IN the cellars Oh ehe planoO -oap"D.o, az,
say, OF noldlng anu ieeuinS inoio ona'u
1,0O0, ,00o, 00o inhaDltahgs; nor s9u mus, nI,
remember IL mus0 DO noiu hol 80 oao ns oor 1a-
as taken for dod, ana 'he iaso ooo'ooo,ooe
inhabitants must not % allo"eo o "eo ooo W. s"al
the reHgion OF the nlso oov,ooo'Uoo. "a -
much use IN eakins Vno ~ lol SaId ,,,,tsI ~,
noG noiu ~. " inusu LA 10 iiu;ro and deaS
arcnangei 1Iuinpoo pius ,s .,ane. N N
arise iroia 'nis iounu'.s r
A Nations Morning.
You must remember it Is only about
o'clock in the morning of our nations
life. Great cities are to flash and roal
among what are called tho Bad Lands
of the Dakotas and the great "Columbis
Plains" of Washington state, and that OF
which weput our schoolboy fingers on thu
map, and spelled out as the Great Ameri
can DESERT" is, through systematic ant
concentrating irrigation, to bloom lik
Chatsworth park and be made more pro
ductive than those regions dependent upol
uncertain and spasmodic rainfall. Al
those regions as well as those regions ai
ready cultivated to be inhabited! Tha
was sublime thing said by Henry Cla.
! while crossing the Allegheny mountain
and he was waiting for the stage horses t.
be rested, as he stood on rock, arm
J folded, looking off into the valley, am
some one said to him, "Mr. Clay, wha
are you thinking aboutS" He replied, :"
! am listening to the oncoming tramp OF tn
future generation of America" Hav
/ you laid our home missionary scheme o.
such an infnitude OF scalef II the wor
of bringing one soul to God Is so great
= can 1000, 1000, 900 be capturedg In thl
country, already planted and to be over
come, paganism has built It's altar {
Brahma, and the Chinese are already burr
ing incense in their temples, and Mohan
mechanism, drunk in other days with th
! red wine of human blood at Luckno'
4 and Cawnpur, and now fresh from th