The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-03-21
AMERICA FOR GOD, h
Rev. DIR. Talmago breaches a Patri-
Nv otto Sermon.
The Hope of the Christian World Is Free
America--The Armies OF the Lords
Mighty Hosts are Making
Triumphal March.

The following patriotic discourse
was delivered by Rev. T.. Dewitt Tai
mage before his congregation in Wash
ington. The text was:
And beheld another beast coming up out o
the earth; and he had two horns like lamb
and he spake as dragon. Revelation Kill, II
Is America mentioned in the Bible
Learned and consecrated men who
have studied the inspired books o.
Daniel and David more than l have
and understand them better agree in
saying that the leopard mentioned In
the Bible meant Grecia, and the 6ea1
meant Medo- Persia, and the lion meant
Babylon, and the beast of the text COM
ing up out of earth with two horns
like lamb, and the voice of a dragon
means our country, because among
other reasons it seemed to come
up out of the earth when Co
lumbus discovered it, and it has
been for the most part at peace
like lamb, unless assaulted by for
eign foe, in which case it has had two
horns strong and sharp, and the voice
of dragon loud enough to make all
nations hear the roar of it's indigna-
tion. Is it reasonable to suppose that
God would leave out from the prophe-
cies'o His book this whole western
hemisphere? No, no. 81 beheld an
other beast coming up out of the earth;
and he had two horns like lamb, and
he spake as dragon"
Germany for scholarship. England
for manufactures. France for man
ners. Egypt for antiques. Italy for
pictures. But America for God!
Am I too confident in saying Amer
lea for God?" If the Lord will help
me, will show the strength and ex-
tent of the long line of fortresses to be
taken, and give you my reasons for
saying it can be done and will be DONE
Let us decide, in this battle for God,
whether we are at Bull Run or at Get
tysburg. There is Fourth of. July
ism way of Dragging about this coun-
try, and the most tired and plucked
bird that ever few through the
heavens is the American eagle, so
much so that Mr.. Gladstone said to
me facetiously, at Hawarden: II hear
that the fish in your American lakes
are SO large that when one of them is
taken out the entire lake is percepti
bly, lowered" and at dinner given in
Paris an American offered for senti-
ment: Here Is to the United States
bounded on the north by the aurora
borealis, on the south by the process
sion of the equinoxes, on the east by
primeval choas, and on the west by the
day of judgement" The effect of such
grandiloquence is to discredit the real
facts which are SO tremendous they
need no garnishing. The worst thing
to do in any campaign, military or re-
ligious, is to underestimate an enemy,
and I will have no part in such at
tempt at belittlement.
You must remember that it is only
about seven o'clock in the morning of
our nations life. Great cities are to
fash and roar among what are called
the bad Lands" of the Dakotas and
the great Columbia plains" of Wash
ington state, and that on which we
put our schoolboy fingers on the map
and spelled out as the "Great Ameri-
can desert" is, through systematic
and concentrating irrigation, to
bloom like Chatsworth park, and
be made more productive than
those regions dependent upon uncer-
tain and spasmodic rainfall All these
regions, as those regions already Gull
tivated, to be inhabited That was
sublime thing said by Henry Clay
while crossing the Allegheny noun
tains, and he was waiting for the
stage horses to be rested. as he stood
on rock, arms folded, looking off
into the valley, and some one said
to him: "Mr. Clay what are you
thinking about?" He replied: Il
am listening to the oncoming
tramp of the future generation Of
America" Have you laid our home
missionary scheme on such an infini-
tude of scale? If the work of bring
ing one soul to God is SO great, can
ZOO, 10000 be captured? In this
country, already planted and to be
overcome, paganism has built its altar
to Brahma, and the Chinese are al
ready burning incense in their tenn
pies, and Mohammedanism, drunk in
other days with the red wine of human
blood at Lucknow and Cawnpore, and
now fresh from the diabolism in Ar
menia, is trying to geta foothold here,
and from the minarets of her mosques
will yet humble her blasphemies, say
ing: God is great, and Mohammed is |
His prophet" Then there are the vast
er multitudes with no religion at ali. |
They worship no God, they live with |
no consolation, and they die with no
hope. No star of peace points down
TO the manager in which they are born,
and no prayer is uttered over the grave
into which they sink. so sttbt
Then there is is alcoholism. its piled |