The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1896-02-19
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5f tho National Capital--Would Ise of IncaI-
IL oolabio gyslne} to schristisni.y--A New
Awakosing.
WASHING aToN, Feb. 0. The audience
3 Of DR.. IIalmage Is thronged with the
I chief mon OF the nation ana people
from all parts, making this sermon
most timely. An hour and half be-
fore the doors open the people gather
lin the street and policemen keep the
way open for the pewholders. Tho
i text chosen for today's discourse was
Luke,,xxiy, AZ, "Beginning at Jerusa-
There It'll said the driver, and
& we all instantly and excitedly rose in
n the carriage to catch the first glimpse
tof v Jerusalem, SO long the joy of tho
whole earth. That city, coronetcd
with temple and palace and radiant,
; whether looked up at from the valley
OF JehOshaphat or gazed at from adj
Joining hills, was the capital Of a
great nation. Clouds Of incense had
n hOyered over it. Chariots of kings
mad rolled through it,. Battering rams
y of enemies had numbered against 1t.
S There Isaiah prophesied, and Jeremiah
j lamented. and David reigned, aud
4 Paul preached, and Christ was mar
tYred. Most interesting city ever
4 built since masonry rung its first trow-
ell or plumb line measured its first
What erusal EN- was to the jewish
4 kingdom Washington is to our own
country--the capital, the place to
which all the tribes come mp, the great
national heart whose throb sends life
q or death through the body politic clear
out to the geographical extremities.
What the resurrected Christ said in
my text to his disciples when he or
7 dered them to start on the work Of
4 gospelization, 'begi,,ning at Jerusa-
u lem, y it seems to me God says now in
his providence to tens of thousands of
Christians in this city. Start for the
q eyangelization of America, "begin-
Z, ming at Washington. America is 90.
ing to be taken for God. If you do
not believe it, take your hat now and
\ leave and give room to some man or
woman who does believe it. AS sure
4 ly as God lives, and he is able to do as
he says he will, this country will be
evangelized from the mouth Of the Po-
tomac to the mouth of the Oregon,
from the Highlands Of the Navesink
to the Golden Horn, from Baffin's bay
\ to the gulf of Mexico, and Christ will
walk every lake, whether bestormed
i or placid, and be transfigured on ev
cry mountain, and the night skies,
whether they hover over groves of
magnolia or over Alaskan glacier,
shall be filled with angelic overture of
"glory to God and good will to men. :"
Again and ae ain does tho old book
announce that all the earth shall SEQ
I the salvation of God, and as the great
er includes the lesser that takes Amer
lea gloriously in. Can you not see
that if America is not taken for God
by his consecrated people it will be
taken for Apollyon9 The forces on
gagged on both sides are so tremendous
that il cannot be drawn battle. 1t
is coming, the Arnageadonl Either
the American Sabbath will perish and
this nation be handed over to Herods
I and Hildebrands and Diocletians and
Neros baleful power, and Alcoholism
will reign, seated upon piled up throne
: with domestic and national curse, and
crime will lift it's unhindered knife Of
assassination, and rattle keys of worst
.conflagration, and our cities be turned
into Sodoms. waiting for Almighty
tempests of fire and birthstone, and one
tidal wave of abomination will surge
across the continent, or our Sabbaths
will take on more sanctity, and the
newspapers will become apocalyptic
wings Of benediction, and penitentia-
4 ries will be abandoned for lack of oc-
cupants, and holiness and happiness,
twin son and daughter of heaven,
shall walk through the land, and
( Christ reign over this nation either in
person or by agency SO glorious that
the whole country will be one clear,
resounding echo of heaven. 1t will be
one or other. By the throne of him
who liveth forever and ever declare
it will be the latter. If the Lord will
help me, as he always does blessed
be his glorious name L will show you
how a mighty work of grace begun at
Washington would have tendency
to bring the whole continent to God
and before this century closes.
William the Conquerer ordered the
curfew, the custom of ringing the bell
at midnight, at which all tho fires on
the hoarths were to be banked, and ali
the lights extinguished, and all the
people retire to their pillows. L pray
God that the curfew of this century
may not be sounded, and the fires be
banked, and the lights extinguished
as the clock strikes the midnight hour
that divides the nineteenth century
from the twentieth century, until this
beloved land. which was to most of us
a cradle, and which will be to most Of
usa grave, shall como into the full
h possession Of him who is SO glorious
that William the Conquer or could not
be compared to him, even the One who
rideth forth "conquering and to con
.quer."
2 Why would it be especially advan-
tageous if q mighty work of grace
started here, beginning at Washing
ton2" First, because this city is on
the border between the north and
south. 1t is neither northern nor
southern. 1t commingles the two eli
( mates. II brings together 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 up.
With what loving accentuation the
Alabamian speaks of his orange
groves And the man from Massachu-
setts is sure to let you know that he
comes from the land of the Adamses--
Samuel and John and John Quincy.
Did you ever know q Virginian or
Ohioan whose face did not brighten
when he announced himself from the
southern or northern state of presi-
dentS9 If @ man does not like his no