Milford chronicle., 1896-02-14
THE STARTING POINT
t4owREv. Or. TALMAeEW WOULD EVAN
oELizE AMERICA.

Wants an Outpourins Of the Holy sp,s
at the National Capisai-y'ouId BE
IncaIcuIabIe Value to Christianity
New Awakening.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The audience {
DIR. Talmago is throngcd with the chic
men Of the nation and people from al
parts, making this sermon most timely
An hour and half before the doors ops
the people gather IN tho street, and police
men keep tho way open for tho pewhold
ers. The text chosen for today's discours
was Luke xiv, AZ, Beginning at Jeru
salem.
.'Phere st is" said the driver, ant
we all instantly and excitedly rose il
the carriage to catch tho first glimpse O
( Jerusalem, so long the joy Of the who'll
earth. That city, coroneted with templi
and palace ard radiant, whether looked a.
at from the valley of .Jehoshaphat or gaze,
/ at from adjoining hills, sga5 aas capital O
a great nation. Clouds of incense hGC
lowered over it. Chariots of kings hal
rolled through it. Gathering rams OF enc
mics had Numbered against it. There
Isaiah propEesied, and jeremiah lamented
and David reigned, and Paul preached, anC
Christ was martyrod. Most interesting
city ever built since masonry rung its fist
trowel, or plumb line measured its first
wall, or royalty swung its first scepter.
What Jerusalem was to the jewish king
dom Washington is to cur own country
the capital, the place to which all the
tribes come up, the great national hear;
whose throb sends life or death through
the body polite clear out to tho geograph-
ioRl extremities.
What the resurrected Christ said in my
text to his disciples when lie ordered them
to start on the work Of gospolizaticn, be-
ginning at Jerusalem, " it seems to me
God says now in his providence to tens Of
thousands OF Christians in this city. Start
for the evanRelization Of America, "be-
ginning at Washington. America is 90
ing to be taken for God II you do not be-
lieve It, take your hat now and leave and
give room to some man or woman who
does believe it. AS surely as God lives,
and he is able to Go as he says be will,
this country will be evangelical from the
mouth Of the Potomac to the mouth of
the Oregon, from the Highlands q tho
Nayesink to the Golden Horn, from Baf
fms bay to the gulf of Mexico ana Christ
will walk every lake, whether bcstorncd
or placid, and be TRANSPORTED on every
mountain, and the night skies whether
they hover over groves Of magnolia OF
over Alaskan glacier, shall be filed with
angelic overture of glory to God and
good will to men,"
For God or For Apollyon.
Again and again does the old book an
nounoe that all the earth shall SEQ the sal
walton of God, and as the greater includes
the lesser that takes America glori3usly
in Can you not SEQ that il America is not
taken for God by his consecratod people it
will be taken for Apollyon2 Tho forces
engaged on both sides arc so tremendous
that it cannot be drawn battle. It is
coming, tho Armageddcn! Either the
American Sabbath will perish and this
nation DO handed over to HceUds and Hill
debrands and Dioolotians and Neros OF
baleful power, and Alcoholism will reign, |
seated upon piled up throne Of beer barrels, |
his mouth foaming with domestic and ma /
tiGnal curse, and crime will lift its un
hinderod knife Of assassination, and rattle |
keys Of worst burglary, ard wave torch OF /
widest conlagration, and our cities he 3
turned into Sodoms, waiting for Almighty
Of fro and birthstone, and one /
across the continent, or our SabbGths will /
takeon more sanotity, and the newspapers
will become apocalyptio wings of benedio-
ton, and penitentiaries will be abandoned
for lack of occupants, and holiness and
twin son and daughter Of heav-
IN, shall walk through the land, and
Christ reign over this nation either in
person or by agency so glorious that the
fa1as
ng echo Of heaven. 1t will be one or the
stheT, BY the throne of him who liyeth
lorever and ever declare it will DO the
after. II the Lord will help me, as he al
ways doos-blessed be his glorious name
i will show you how mighty work Of
graeo begun at Washington would have a
endency to bring the whole continent to
iod and before this century closes.
William Tho COnquorer ordered tho cur
ew, the custom Of ringing the bell at
at which all the fires on the
iearths were to 10 banked, and all the
lights extinguished, and all the people re-
ire to their pillows. pray God that the
urfew of this century may not be sounded
nd the fires be banked and tho lights ex-
as the clock strikes the mid
light hour that divides the nineteenth
entury from the twentieth century, until
his beloved land, which was to most of
s q cradle, and which will be to most Of /
S grave, shall come into the fall posses
on Of him who is so glorious that Will ,
am the Conqueror could not be compared /,
} him, even the One who rideth forth
and to conquer"
a Battle For Souls. !
Why would it be especially advantageous I
n foIaf ~nftlr of ctn od hau
at WashiDgton?" First, be- /
luse this city is on the border between .
70 north and the south. It is neither {
1rthern nor southern. It commingles 1
he two climates. 1t brings together the a
70 styles of population. 1t is not only y
ght, but beautiful, that people should a
I'VE especial love for the latitude where e
icy were born and brought up. With
hat loving aooentuation the Alabamian
eaks Of his orange grovesl And the 81
an from Massachusetts is sure to let you n
low that no comes from the land of the n
and John and John
uinoy. Did you ever know Virginian n
Ohioan whose face did not brighton i,
hen he announced himself from the n
uthern or northern state Of presideDtsf n
q man does not like his native cline, 10 n
because while he lived there he did not I,
have well. This capital stands where, n
its locality, and its political influence, q
stretches forth one hand toward tho 4,
nth ard the other toward tho SOUTH and 4
mighty work of grace starting hero d
luld probably DO national awakening. c,
orgia would clasp the hand of New Il
ampshire, and Maine the hand OF Louis u
IN, and California tho hand Of Now W
,rk, and say, Come, lot US go up and 81