The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-04-03
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE NOTED DIviNE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.


inspired books OF Daniel and Revelation
more Than have aud under land them baitrl
ugroa I'm saying THAI the leopard mentioned
in the hlbln meant 0fatia. aud tho beer
meant Medo-ptrau. and the lion meant
Babylon, and the beast OF thetoxt coming up
ont OF the earth, with two horns like "a lamb
and tho voice OF dragon, means eur
country, because among other reasons it
seemed 20 como up out OF the earth when
Columbus discovered al. and h has been fof
the most part at peace like q lamb unless ass
saulted by foreign foe, I'm which case it has
Two horns strong and sharp aud the voice
of o dragon loud 10 mako an Nations hear
the roar Of Co. Indignation. ls Il reasonable
20 suppose that God would leave out from
the prophecies Of Iis book this whole west
ern hemisphere 80. no, "l beheld un0th-
OF BEAST edming ub out OF the earth. aud hs
hai two horns Ike % lamb and he spako as
a dragon"
Germany for scholarship. England for
manufactures. France Tor manners, Egypt
for antiquities, Italy for pictures, but Amer
lea for God
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, aud the most popular
name on earth to-day Is Jesus. Right from
this audience hundreds Of mon and women
would, II need be, march out and die for
Him.
Am too confident in saving. "America
for God2' II the Lord will help me, / will
show the strength and extent OF the long
line OF fortresses 10 DO taken aud give you
my reasons for saying II can be done and
will be done. Let Us decide. Ia this battle
for God, whether we are at Bull Run or at
Gettysburg. There Is a Fourth Of Julyish
way Of Dragging about this country, and the
most tired and plucked bird that ever few
through the heavens is the American eagle,
so much 80 that Mr.. Gladstone said 70 me
facetiously at Hawarden, 81 hear that the
fish in your American lakes are 50 large that
when one OF them Is taken out the entire
lake is perceptibly lowered - and at a dinner
given In Paris an American offered for a
sentiment, Here Is to the United States
bounded on the north by the aurora borealis,
on the south by the procession Of the equi-
noxes, on the east by primeval chaos and on
the west by the day OF Judgment The eff
| feet OF such grandiloquence is to diseredit
the real facts, which are 50 tremendous they
! need no garnishing. The worst thing to do
[ in any campaign. military or religious, Is TO
underestimate an enemy, and will have no
/ part in such attempt at belittlement
This land to be taken for God, according
| to Hasse'. the statisticiAn. has 1925, 967
square miles, width aud a length hat none
! but the Omniscient can appreciate. -Four
Europes put together and capable Of holding
and feeding, as 1t will hold and feed accord
ing to Atkinson, the stalistician, II the world
continues In existence and does not run afoul
Of some other world or get consumed by the
fires already burning in the cellars OF the
| planet-capable, say. Of holding and feed.
ing more than 1000, 900 900 inhabitants. Fol
you must remember it must be held for Goo
as we'll astaken for God. and the last 800.
100000 inhabitants must not be allowed tC
swamp the religion Of the first 800. Oe0 900
Not much use in taking the fortress il W,
cannot hold il. 1t must be held until thu
archangeps trumpet bids living and dea(
arise from this laundering planet
You must remember 1t is only about
o'clock in the morning Of our Nations lie
Great cities are to fash and roar amonl
what are called the "Bad Lands" Of the Da
kotas and the great columbian plains'' o
Washington State, and that on which we pu
ourschoolboy fingers on the map and spelled
out as the "Great American desert" is
through systematic and concentrating irri
CATION, to bloom like Chatsworth Park an,
be made more productive than those region
dependent upon uncertain and spasmodi
rainfall. All those regions, as we'll as al
those regions already cultivated, to be in
habitedl That was sublime thing said b
Henry Clay while crossing the Alleghan
Mountains, and he was waiting for the stag
horses to be rested, as he stood on a rock
arms folded, looking off into the valley, an
some one said to him. ''Mr. Clay, what ar
you thinking about2" He replied, at an
listening to the oncoming tramp of the fu
ture generation Of America"
Have you laid our home INSTRUMENTATION
on such an infnitude Of scaleY II the wor
OF bringing one soul to God is so great, ca
,OOO,0OO,O 900 be captured? In this country
already planted and to be overcome, pagan
ism has buat its altar to Brahma, and tn
Chinese are already burning incense in thei
temples, and Mohammedanism, drunk h
other days with tho red wine OF human bloc
at Lucknow and Cawnpur and now fres
from the diabolism In Armenia, is irving I
get foothold here, and from the minarets {
her mosques will yet humble her blasphC
mics, saying. "God isgEeat, and Mohamine
is His prophet" Then there are the waste
muttitudes with no religion at all. The
s worship no God, they live with no console
ton, and they die with no hope. No star (
peace points down to the manger in whic
q they are born, and no prayer is uttered oy,
the grave into which they sink. Then thet
IS alcoholism, its piled up demiiohns an
q beer barrels and hogsheads Of fiery death.
barrloade high and long as the Allegheni,
9 and Rockies and Sierra Nevadas, pourin
n forth day and night their ammunition {
wretchedness and woe. When Germa
4 wants to take drink, he takes beer. Whe
an Engllsbman wants to take q drink, |
> takes ale. When & Scotchman wants TO tai
e drink, he takes whisky, But when a
American wants to take drink hetakes an,
= thing he can lay his hands on.
Plenty Of statistics to tell how much none
is spent in this country for rum, and no
: many drunkards die. But who will give /
T the statistics of how many hearts are crushe
under the heel Of this worst demon of ii
q centuries2 How many hopes blasted? 40
a many children turned out on the world a
cursed with the stigma of debauched a
y cestrYl Until the worm Of the distillery b
comes the worm that never dies and Il
smoke Of the heated wine watts becomes Il
!, smoke OF the torment that ascendeh up 70
ever and ever! Alcoholism, swearing-n
with hand uplifted toward heaven, for fro
a that direction It can get no help, but wi
right hand stretched down toward the pc
dition from which II came up-swearing tn
it will not cease as long as there are al
homesteads to despoil, any magnificent m,
II and women to destroy, any immortal sou
] a. 4 NTaAs