Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-03-13
CHEERING THOUGHTS
REV. DR.. TALMAGE CONFIDENT THAT
AMERICA IS FOR GOD.

AWEFtCA 10 FOfA HObs
He Believes That This Continent Was Re
ferred to In Revelation and Presents q
Glowing Picture of Our Future Posi-
bilities and Prospects.
WAsHINGToN, March S.-This discourse
presents a sublime theme and is of ma
4 tional Importance and coming from the
capital of the nation must have n stirring
effect throughout the land. DR.. Talmaga
chose for his text Revelation xiii, II,
"And beheld another beast coming up
out Of the earth. and he had two horns
like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon"
Is America mentioned in the Bible?
Learned and consocrated men who have
studied tho inspired books Of Daniel and
Revelation more than / have and under
stand them bother agree in saying that the
leopard mentioned in the Bible meant
Grecia, and the bear meant Medic 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 q
dragon means our country, because among
other reasons 1t semod to come up out of
the earth when Columbus discovered 1t,
and it has been for the most part at peace,
like lamb, unless assaulted by foreign
foe, in which case it has had two horns
strong and sharp, and the voice of dragon
loud enough 10 make all nations hear the
roar Of its Indignation. Is it reasonable to
suppose that God would leave out from tho
prophecies Of his book this whole western
hemisphere? No, no. 81 beheld another
beast coming up out Of tho earth, and no
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.
America For God.
I start with the cheering thought that
the most popular book on earth today is
the Bible the most popular institution on
earth today is tho church, and the most
popular name on earth today is Jesus.
Right from this audience hundreds of men
and women would, if need be, march out
and die for him.
Am too confident in saying America
for God?" If the Lord will help me,
will show the strength and extent Of the
long line of fortressos to DO taken and give
YOU my reasons for saying it can be done
battle for God whether we are at Bull Run
or at Gettysburg. There is a Fourth of
Julgish way Of Dragging about this coun-
try. and the most tired and pluoked bird
that ever flew through the heavens is the
American eagle so much so that Mr.. Glad
stone said to me facetiouslyat Hawarden,
Il hear that the fish in your American
lakes arc so large that when one of them
is taken out tho entire lake is peroeptibly
lowered, A" and at a dinner given in Paris
an American offered for sentiment,
- Hero is to tho Cnitod States-bounded on
the north by tho aurora borealis, on the
south by tho procession Of the oquinoxes, /
Oh the east by primeval chaos and on tho .
west by the day of judgment" The effect +
Of such grandiloquence is to disoredit the .
real facts, which are so tremendous they
need no garnishing. The worst thing to .
10 in any campaign, military OF religious,
is to underestimate an enemy, and l will 4
nave no part in such attempt at belittle
nent
This land to be taken for God, according
% Hassel, tho statistician, has 1919 067
SQUARE miles, a width and length that
lono but the Omnisciont can appreciate.
Four Europes put together, and capable of
holding and feeding, as it will hold and
eed, according to Atkinson, the statisti-
ian, if the world continues in existence
md does not run afoul Of some other world
II get consumed by the fires already burn
ng in the cellars of the planet-capable, l
ay, of holding and feeding more than
600, 900, coo inhabitants. For you must
it must be held for God as well
IS taken for God, and the last SOC, 000, 900
must not be allowed to swamp
he religion of the first 600, 600, Goo. Not
much uso in taking the fortress if we can
lot hold it. 1t must be held until the
trumpet bids living and dead
rise from this laundering planet.