News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-02-13
THE PLACE TO START.
REV. DR. TA-MACE SAYS IT is AT THE
CAPITAL

He Says America Is Going 60 Be Taken
For God and That the Place to Begin Is
In washington-All win Cry Amen to
This.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 9.-TLe audience
of DR.. Talmago is thronged with the
chief men of the nation and people from
all parts, making this sermon most
Timely. An hCur 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, II,
Beginning at Jerusalem. 3"
"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
ling rams of enemies had Numbered
against it. There Isaiah prophesied, and
Jeremiah lamented, and David reigned,
and Paul preached, and Christ was mar
Ityred. Most interesting city ever built
since masonry rung its first trowel or
plumb line measured it's 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
9xtremities.
Christ Will Reign There.
What the resurrected Christ said in
my text to his disciples when he ordered
them to start on the work of gospeliza-
ton, beginning at Jerusalem" it
seems to me God says now in his provi-
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 as God lives and he is able to do
as he says he will this country will be
evangelical from the mouth of the Po-
tomac to the mouth of the Oregon, from
the Highlands of Navesink to the Gold
en- Horn, from Bafiin's bay to the gulf
of Mexico, and Christ Will walk every
lake, whether bestormed or placid and
be TRANSPORTED 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
salvation of God, and as the greater in
cludes the lesser that takes America
gloriously in. Can you not see that if
America is not taken for God by his
conSecrated people it will be taken for
Apollyon? The forces engaged on both
sides are SO tremendous that it cannot
be q drawn battle. 1t is coming, the
Armageddon. Either the American Sab
bath will perish and this nation be
handed over to Herods and Hildebrands
and Diocletians and NerOs of balefu!
power, and Alcoholism wiIlreign, seated
upon piled up throne of beer barrels, his
mouth foaming with domestic and ma
tional curse, and crime will lift its I'M
hindered knife Of assassination and rat
tie keys Of worst burglary and Wave
torch of widest confiagration, and our
cities be turned into Sodons, waiting
for mighty Temp Of fire and brim-
stone and one tidal wave Of abomiua-
ton will surge across the continent, or
our Sabbaths will take ON more sancti-
ty, and the newspapers will become
apocalyptic wings Of benediction, and
penitentiaries will be abandoned for
hack 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 III
person or by agency SO glorious that the
whole country will Ue one clear, le-
sounding echo Of heaven. 1t will be one
Or the other. BY the throne of him who
liveth forever and ever I declare it will
be the latter. If the Lord will help me,
as l0 always iOGH-UlCbSCu no IlS lOLA'
GUS name--I will show You how 9
mighty work Of grace begun at Wash
ington would have ateRdency to bring
the whole continent to God, and before
this century closes.
William the Conqueror ordered the
curfew, Tie custom Of ringing the bel
at midnight, ut which all the fires OF
the hearths were to be banked, and al
the lights extinguished, and all the Peo
pie retro to their pillows. pray Gee
That the culfew of this century may no
be sounded, and the fires be banked, anC
the lights uztnguished as the clocl
strikes the midnight hour that divide
the nineteenth century from the TWEEN
tieth century until this beloved land
which was to most Of us a cradle ant
which will 10 to most Of us a grave
ehall come into the full possession 0
HIM who is 50 glorious that William til
Conqueror could not be compared t
him, even the One who rideth fort
"conquering and to conquer. "
A Eattla For Souls.
Why would it be especially Gdvanta
geous if Almighty work Of grace s,arte,
here, "beginning at Washington?
First, because this city is on tie horde
between tho north AND tie south. 1t
neither northern nor southern. 1t com