The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-02-15
AT JERUSALEM.
DR.. Talmage Would Have a Great
National Revival
And Have 1t Commence ut the Capital of
the Nation-Even "Seglnning at
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ser
mon by the Noted Preacher.

The latest sermon by Rev. T. De Wit
Talmage at Washington was on the
subject of a national religious awak
ening at the national capital. Thu
text chosen was from Luke xxiv:47
beginning at Jerusalem" The ser
mon follows:
There it u.s." said the driver, and we
all instantly and excitedly rose in the
carriage to catch the first glimpse Oh
Jerusalem, so long tho joy of the
whole earth. That city, coronetted
with temple and palace, and radiant,
whether looked up at from the valley
of Jehosaphat or gazed ut from
adjoining hills, was the capital of a
great nation. Clouds of incense had
lowered over it. Chariots of kings had
rolled through it. Battering rams OF
enemies had Numbered against it.
There Isaiah prophesied, and jeremiah
lamented, and David reigned, and Paul
preached, and Christ was martyred.
Most interesting city ever built since
masonry rung its first trowel, or
plumb inc measured it's first wall, or
royalty swung its first scepter. What
Jerusalem was to the Jewish kingdom,
Washington is to our wi country
the capital, the place to which all
tribes come up, the great national
heart whose throb sends life or death
through the body polite, clear out to
the geographical extremities.
What the resurrected Christ said in
my text to his deciples, when he or
dered them to start on the work of
gospelizatian, beginning at Jerusa-
lem," it seems to me God says now, in
His providence, to tent of thousands
of Christians in this city. Start for the
evangelization of America, beginning
at Washington" America is going to
be taken for God. If you do not be-
lieve it, take your hat nov and leave,
and give room to some man or woman
who does believe It As surely as God
lives and He is able to do as He says
He will, this. country will be evangel-
lied from the mouth of the Potomac
to the mouth of the Oregon, from the
highlands Of the Neversink to the
Golden Horn. from Baffin's bay to the
Gulf of Mexico. and Christ will walk
every lake, whether bestormed or
placid, and be tranfRured on every
mountain, and the night skies, whether
tLCI A0bSA wv SASNo ~
over Alaskan glacier, shall be filled
with angelic overture of "Glory to God
and good will to men"
Again and again does the Old Book
announce that all the world shall sec
the salvation of God, and as the
greater includes the lesser, that takes
America gloriously in. Can you not
see that If America is not taken for
God by His consecrated people, it viii
be taken for Apollyonl The forces
engaged.on both sides are so tremen-
dous that it cannot be a drawn battle.
It Is coming. the Armageddonl Either
the American Sabbath will perish and
this nation be handed over to Herods,
and Hildebrands, and Diocletians, and
Neros of baleful power and Alcohol
ism reign, seated upon piled up throne
of beer barrels, his mouth foaming
with domestic and national curse, and
crime will lift it's unhindered knife of
assassination, and rattle keys of worst
burglary, and wave torch of the
widest .conflagration, and our
cities be turned into Sodcms.
waiting for almighty tempest of
FIRE and birthstone, and
tidal wave of abomination will surge
across the continent, or our Sabbaths
will take on more sapctity, and the
ne wspapers will become apooalyptic
wings Of benediction, and penitenti-
aries will be abandoned for lack Of oc-
cupants, and holiness and happiness,
son and daughter of Heaven,
walk through the land, and
reign over this nation either in
person or by agency SO glorious that
the whole country will be n clear.
resembling echo Of Heaven. It will be
or the other. 8y tho, throne of
Him H7pth forever and ever, 1 de-
riaas f35tH 6e fhe inter. II the Lord
WI help me. rs He always does-
BLESSED be His glorious name-I will
show you how a mighty work of grace
work begun at Washington would
nave a tendency to bring the whole
continent to God, and before this CEN
fury closes. :
William the Conqueror ordered the
.urfew, the custom of ringing the bell
1t midnight, at which all the fires on
,he hearth were to be banked, and all
.he lights extinguished. and all h
retire to their pillows. / pray
Tod that the curfew of this century
not be sounded, and the fires
banked, and the lights extinguished,
Is the clock strikes the midnight hour
hat divides the nineteenth century
rom the twentieth century, until this
land, which>w was to most of us
|. cradle and which will be to most of
ia a grave, shall come into the full
of Him who is so glorious
hat William the Conquerpr could not
,e compared to Him, even the One who
.ideth forth, ''conquering and to con-
Why would. it be especially advanta-
reous if a mighty work of grace started
beginning at Washington%'
first, because this city is On the border
etween the north, and the sopth. 1t
$ neither northern nor southern, it
omminples the two climates. 1t
,rings together the two styles of pop
1t is not only right, but
,eautiful, that people should have
special love for the latitude where
hey were born and brought up. With
THAT loving accentuation h Ala
AMMAN speaks of his orange groves?
md the man from Massachusetts, is
ure 10 let you know that he comes
rom the land OF the ADMINISTRATIVE,
nd John. and John Quincy
Did you ever know u Virginian or
Ihioan whose face did not brighten
then he announced himself from the
outhern or northern state of presi-
If u man does not like his M
i've cline, it is because whilo he lived
here, he did not behave well. This
.pital stands where. by it's locality
nd its political influence, it stretches
orth one hand toward the north and the
Their toward the south, and a mighty
'ork OF grace starting here would
robably be a national awakening.
would clasp the hand of New
and Maine the hand of
,ouisiana, and California the hand of
lew York, and say, Come. let US go
p and worship the God of nations, the
OF Golgotha. the Holy Ghost of
ne ~pentecostal three thousands" 1t
as often been said that the only way
ne north and the south will be brought
ito complete accord is to have a war
18th some foreign nation, in which
9th sections, marching side by side,
-ould forget everything but the foe to
e overcome. Well. If you wait for