Connecticut western news., 1896-02-13
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 wAsHlNeroN. Feb s.-The audience of Dr. Tamaxe is thronged with the chief men of the nation and people from all parts. making this sermon most timely. An hour and half before the doors open the people gather in the street, and policemen keep the way open fg the pewholders The tex, chosen for toiay's discourse was Luke xxiv. II. ., BeSinnins at Jerusalem.
 .sThere it is" said the driver, and we all instantly and exciredly rose in the carriage 10 catch the first glimpse of Jerusalem. so long the joy of the whole earth That city. coroneted with tenn pie and palace and radiant, whether looked up at fram the valley of JehoSh sphat or gased at from adjoining hills, was the capital of great nation. Clouds ot incense had lowered over il. Charioss of kings had rolled through is Batter ing rams of enemies had thundered against it. There Isaiah prophesied. and Jeremiah lamented, and David reigned, and Paul presShed. and Christ was mar tyresi- Most interesting city ever built since masonry rnng its first trowel or plumb line measured it's first wall or royalty swung its first scspter. What Jerusalem was to the Jewish kingdom Washington h to our own countryside capital. tho place 70 which all the tribes come up, the great national heart whose throb sends life or death through the body poliiic. clear out to the geographical extremitics.
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 What the resurrected Christ said in my text 10 his disciples when he ordered them to start on the work of gospeliEa- tion. beginning ss Jerusalem" it seems to me God says now in his provi- dence to tens o4 thousands of Christians in this city. Start for rhe evangelisaticl of America, |" beginning at Washington. America is going to he taken for God. If you dc Bos believe 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 do as he says he will this country will be evangelssed from the mouth of the Pc tomac to tho mouth of the Oregon. from en Torn, from Baffin's bay to the gulf of Mexico, and Christ will walk every lake, whether bestormed or placid. and be trans6gured on every mountain. and the night skies, whether they hover over graves of magnolia or over Alaskan glacier, shall be filled with the angelic overture of ''glory to God and good will to men"
 Again and again does the old book aDnoiDce that all the earth shall see the salvation of God. and as the greater in gloriousiy in Can you not see that if America is not taken for God by his oonsecrated people it will be taken for Apollyon? The forces engaged on both sides are % tremendous tha. is cannot be . drawn battle. It is coming. the Arma9eddon- Either the American Sab hath will perish and this nation be handed over to Herods and Hildebrands and Dioclefians and Neros of balefnl power. and Alcoholism will reign, seated upon piled up throne of beer barrels, his mouth foamins with domestic and na- rional curse, and crime will lift its un- hindered knife of assassination and rat rle keys of worst burglary and wave torch of widest confiagration, and our cities be turned into Sodoms, waiting for mighty tempest of fire and brim- stone and one tidal wave of abomina- ton will eurge across the continent, or our Sabbaths will take on more sancti- fy. and the newspa pers will become apocslyptic wings of benediction, and penitentiaries will be abandoned for laek of occupants, and holiness and hap piness. twin son and daughter of heav- en, shall walk through the land and Christ reign over this nation either in person or hy agency so glorious that the whole country will be one clear. re- sounding echo of heaven. It will be one or the other. By the throne of him who iiveth forever and ever declare it will he the latter. If the Lord will help me, as he always does-blessed be his glori- ous name-I will show you how mighty work of grace begun at Wash ington wonld have a tendency to bring the whole continent to God. and before this century closes
 William the Conqueror ordered the curfew, the custom of ringing the bell at midnight, at which all the fires on the heArths were to be banked, and all fhe lights extinguished. and all the peo- pie retire to their pillows pray God that the curfew of this century may not he sounded. ard the fires be banked, and the lights extinguished as the clock strikes the midnight hour that divides the nineteenth century from the twen- tieth century until this beloved land. which was to most of us a cradle and which will be to most of us a grave, shall come into the full possession of him who is so glorious that William the Conquercx could not be compared 70 him, even the One who rideth forth .'conquering and to conquer.
 A Battle For Souls.
 Why would it be especially adyanta- Gco2c H o IIsSbtg WohA oi Sh"Co sksu tS3 here, beginning at Washington?'' First. because this city is on the border between the north and the south. It is neither northern nor southern It com mipsles the two climates. IT brings to- gether the two styles of population It IS not only right. but beautiful that people should have especial love for the latitude where they were born and brought mp, With what loving accentu- alton the A Alabamian speaks of his orange groves And the man from Massachusetts is sure to let you know that he comes from the land of the Adamsss-Samuel and John and .kbn Quincy. Did you ever know a virginian or Ohioan whose face did not brighten when be announc- cd himself from the southern or north ern state of presidents? If 8 man doe not like his native cline, it is becaus'