Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-02-14
THE PLACE rjsb,r.
REV. DIP. TALMAGe SAYS IT IS AT THE
CAPITAL.

In Washington-All VIII Cry Amen to
This.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 0.-The audience
Of Dr. Talmage 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
for the pewholders. The text chosen for
today's discourse was Luke xiv, A.,
Beginning at jerusalem.
"There it is, said the driver, and
we all instantly and excitedly rose in
the carriage to 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 from the valley Of Jehosh-
aphat or gazed at from adjoining hills,
was the capital of great nation. Clouds
of incense had lowered over it. Chariots
Of kings had rolled through it. Batter
ing rams Of enemies had thundered
against it. There Isaiah prophesied, and
jeremiah lamented, and David reigned,
and Paul preached, and Christ was mar
tvred. Most interesting city ever built
since masonry rung its first trowel or
plumb line measured its first wall or
royalty swung its first scepter. What
Jerusalem was to the Jewish kingdom
Washington is to our own Countrywide
capital, the place to which all the tribes
come up, the great national heart whose
throb sends life or death through the
body polite, clear out to the geographical
sxtremities.
Christ VIII Reign There.
What the resurrected Christ said in
nv text to his disciples when he ordered
them to start Oh the work Of gospeliza-
tion, beginning at Jerusalem, it
seems to me God says now in his proyi-
dence to tens 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 believe it, take your hat
now and leave and give room to some
man or woman who does believe it. As
surely rs God lives and he is able to dc
as be SAYS he will this country will be
evanpelized from the mouth Of the Po-
tomac to the mouth of the Oregon, from
the Highlands of Nayesink to the Gold
On Horn, from Baffin's bay to the gulf
of Mexico, and Christ will walk every
lake. whether bestormed or placid, and
be transhgured on every mountain, and
the night skies, whether they hover over
groves 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
announce that all the earth shall see the
salyation Of God, and as the greater in
cludes the lesser that takes America
gloriously in. Can you not see that II
America is not taken for God by his
consecrated people it will be taken for
Apollyon? The forces engaged on both
sides are 30 tremendous that 1t cannot
b q drawn battle. 1t is coming, the
Armaseddon. Either the American Sab
bath will perish and this nation be
handed over TO Herods and Hildebrands
and Diocletians and Neros Of baleful
pover. and Alcoholism willreign, seated
upon piled up throne Of beer barrels, his
mouth foaming with domestic and ma
tional curse, and crime will lift its un-
hiudered knife Of assassination and rat
tie KEYS Of worst burglary and wave
torch of widest conhagration, and our
cities be turned into Sodoms, waiting
for mighty tempest Of fire and brim-
stone and one tidal wave Of abomlna-
tion will surge across the continent, or
our Sabbaths will take on more sancti-
~. and the newspapers will become
apocalyptic wings Of benediction, and
penitentiaries will be abandoned for
lack of occupants, and holiness and hap
piness. twin son and daughter Of heay-
an. 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, re-
sounding echo Of heaven. twill be one
or the other. BY the throne Of him who
uveth forever and ever l declare it Will
ha tbe latter. II the Lord will help me,
~ be always does-blessed be his glori-
cus name-I will show you how q
mighty work Of grace begun at WASH
Agton would have a tendency to bring
the whole continent to God, and before
this century closes.
William the Conqueror ordered the
surfew, the cLJtom Of ringing the bel
as midnight, at which all the fires OIL
the hearths were to be banked. and al
the lights extinguished, and all the peo
pie retire to their pillows. pray 6oc
thst the curfew of this century may no
Be sounded, and the fires be banked, anC
the lights extinguished as the cloci
strikes the midnight hour that divides
the nineteenth century from the TWEEN
tieth century until this beloved land
which was to most Of Us a cradle an'
which will be to most Of US a grave
shall come into the full possession o
him who is so glorious that William TN
Conoueror could not be compared t.
him, even the One who rideth toru
"conquering and to conquer.
A Battle For Souls.
Whv would it be especially advanta
Qeous if Almighty work of grace started
here, beginning at Washington
First. because this city is on the borde
between the north and the south. IL
neither northern nor southern. IL com
minRles the two climates. lt brings 10
rether the two styles Of population.
is not only right, but beautiful ina
people should have especial love for tn
latitude where they were born AM
brought up. With what loving accentu
alton the Alabamian speaks Of his orang
groves And the man from Massachusett
il sure to let you know that be come
from the land Of the Adamses-Samu'
and John and John Quincy. Did 20
, ever know a virginian or Ohioan who's
face did not brighten when he announ'
ed himself from the southern or nortl
ern state OF presidentsl II man dot
a. ~. ...t,,-o olf,,,o IL IL hoCau.