The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-09
TALMAeE'S STIRRING THEME.
THE POPULAR PREACHER on THE
GREAT FUTURE OF AMERICA.

is Our Country Referred to in the
Bible s-The Famed WHShinEton
Preacher says America il Mostly
at Peace With All the World, Like
"A Lamb. But IL Assaulted by "A For
eign Foe Would Resemble the For
mIdabIe Beast Of Revelations,
With Horns Strong and sharp and
Voice Like the Roar of "A Dragon
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. Ialmaee
chose for his text. Revelation j.; u; And
I beheld another beast coming up out OF
the earth: and he had two horns ike
lamb. and he spake as "a dragon
Is America mentioned in the Biblee
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 Aledo-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
because, among other reasons, it seemed
TO have come up out of the earth when
Columbus discovered it. and il 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 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. 4 beheld
another beast coming up out Of the earth
and he had two horns like a lamb ana
he spake as dragon.
Germany for scholarship. England LOT
manufactures. France for manners.
Egypt for antiquities. Italy Tor pictures
But America for Coz
l start with the cheering thought that
the most popular book on earth to-day
is the Bible, the most popular INSTITUTION
on earth to-day is the church, ana the
most popular name on earth to-day IS
Jesus Right from this audience hundreds
of men and women would, II need be,
march out and die for him.
Am l too confident in saying, America
for God?" II the Lord will help me l
will show the strength and extent OF the
long line of fortresses 10 be taken anu
give you my reasons for saying II can
be done and will be done. Let us de-
eide, in this battle for God, whether we
are at Bull Run or at Gettysburg. Inere
a
about this country. and the most tired
and plucked bird that ever flew through
the heavens is the American eagle SO
much so, that Mr.. Gladstone SAID to me
facetiously at Hawarden. Il hear that
the fish in your American lakes are SO
large that when one OF them IS taken
out the entire lake is perceptbly low
cred" and at a dinner given IN fafls
an American offered for sentiment
Here is to the United States-bounded ON
the north by the aurora borealls on me
south by the procession of equinoXes, on
the east by primeval chaos, ana ON the
west by the Day OF judgment. me e.
feet of such grandiloquence is TO discredit
the real facts. which are so tremendous
they need no garnishing. The worst thlnS
to do in any campaign, military OF rels5
ious, is TO underestimate an enemy, anu
] will have no part in such attempt at
This land to be taken for God, accord
ing TO Hassel, the statstician, has four
teen million two hundred and nineteen
thousand nine hundred and siXty-seNen
square miles. a width and length that
none but the omniscient can appreciate
Four Europes put together ana capable
of holding and feeding, as II Will hold
and feed according to Atkinson, the
statistician If the world continues in eX-
sstence and does not run atoul or some
other world or get consumed by the nres
already burning in the cellars of the plan
et-capabe, / say, of holding and feed
ing more than one billion inhabitants.
For you must remember It must be held
for God, as we'll as taken Tor COD, ana the
last five hundred million inhapltants
must not be allowed to swamp the re-
Ngion of the first five hundred million.
Not much use in taking the fortress If
we cannot hold 1t. 1t must be held until
the Archangels trumpet bids living and
dead arise from this foundering planet.
You must remember 1t is only about
z o'clock in the morning Of our nations
life. Great cities are 10 hash ana roar
among what are called the Bad LANDS
of the Dakotas and the great columbia
Plains of Washington state ana that
on which we put our schoolboy myers
I,n md rahl lad n "A =
American Desert" is, through systematic
and concentrating irrigation, 10 bloom
like ChatswoTth park ana be made more
productive than those regions depend
ent upon uncertain and spasmodlc ram
fail. All those regions, as well as those
regions already cultivated, 70 be nnaD-
itedl That was a sublime thing said by
Henry Clay, while crossing the Allie
gheny mountains, and he was waiting Tor
the stage horses to be rested, as he stood
on a rock, arms folded, looking Off into
the valley, and some one SAID TO MN,
Mr. Clay, what are you thinking about!
He replied, Il am listening TO the on
coming tramp of the future generation
of America Have you laid our home
missionary scheme on such an inhnitude
IF scale? If the work of bringing one soul
TO God is so great, can thousand million
be captured2 In this country already
planted and to be overcome, Paganlsm
has built its altar to Brahma, and the Chi
nese are already burning incense in their
temples, and Mohammedanism, drunk IN
other days with the red wine OF human
blood at Lucknow and Cawnpore, and
now fresh from the diabolsm in Armenia,
is trying to get foothold
here, and from the minarets of
her mosques will yet humble her plasphe-
mics, saying, God is great and Moham-
med is his prophet" Then there are the
Master multitudes with no religion at all.
They worship no God, they live with no
consolation, and they die with no hope
No star of peace points down to the man
ger in which they are born. and no prayer
is uttered over the grave into which they
sink Then there is Alcoholism, its piled
up demijohns and beer barrels and hogs
heads of fiery death, a barricade high
and long as the Alleghentes and Rockies
and Sierra Nevadas, pouring forth day and
night their ammunition of Wretchedness
and woe. When a German wants TO take
a drink he takes beer. When an English
man wants TO take a drink, he takes ale.
When a Scotchmau wants To take drink,
he takes whisky. But when an American
wants TO take a drink. he takes anything
he can lay his hands on.
Plenty of statistics to tell how much
money is spent in this country for rum,
and how many drunkaTds disi But who
will give US the statistics of how many
hearts are crushed under the heel of this