The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-13
REY. DR.. TALuAGE.
The Eminent Divine's SUNDAY
Sermon.



TEXT: And beheld another beast eos1pq
up out OF the earth, and he had two Iorn.
Hke d lamp. and he spake as . 6ss son"
S-Revelation xiii, IL.
lsAmerfca mentioned In the Bible? Learnet
and consecrated men who have studied the
inspired books of Daniel and Revelation
more Than l have and understand them bate,
agree In saying that the leopard mentioned
IN the BIoie meant Grecia, and the beer
meant Medo-Persia. and the lion meant
bapyion, and the beast OF the text coming IN
out OF the earth, with W horns like a lamb
and the voice Of "A dragon, means ON
country, because among other reasons it
seemed to CONT up out OF the earth when
lslumDus discovered it. and II has been for
the most part at peace like a lamb unless as
saulted by foreign foe, in which case 1t has
TWO horns strong and sharp and the voice
OF a dragon loud to make all Nations hear
the roar OF its indignation. Is it reasonable
TO suppose that God would leave out from
tho prophecies OF His book this whols west
ern hemisphere No. no! 81 beheld anoth-
er beast coming up out OF the earth. and he
had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as
q dragon"
Germany for scholarship, England for
manufactures, France for manners, Egypt
laF antiquities, Italy for pictures, but Amer
lea for God,
start with the cheering thought that ths
pest popular book on earth to-day Iis the
Blbls, the most popular institution on earth
to-day Is the church, and the most popular
Hstas an earth to-day is Jesus. Right from
this Audience hundreds Of men and women
would, II need be, march out and die for
Him.
Az fac confident In saying, america
Tor 6od?' II the Lord will help me, 1 will
snow the strength and extent OF the long
lima Of fort FRlGao 70 ha taL-an 49, aIu. -.
ray reasons for saying it can be done and
WIN be done. Let US decide, in this battle
tar 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,
80 much SO that Mr.. Gladstone said to me
facetiously at Hawarden, II hear that the
hshin your American lakes are so 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 discredit
the real facts, which are SO tremendous they
need no Rarnishing. TIL worst thing to do
In any campaign, military or religious, Is to
underestimate an enemy, and I will have no
part in such attempt at belittlement.
This and to be taken for God, according
to Hasse;, the statistician, has 1929, 967
square miles, a width and a length chat none
but the 0mniscient can appreciate. Four
Europe5 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 afouI
OF some other world or get consumed by the
fires already burning in the cellars OF tho
planet-capable, 1 say. OF holding and feed.
Ing more than 1000, 600. 900 inhabitants. For
you must remember 1t must be held for God
as we'll astaken for God, and the last $780,
coz, 900 inhabitants must not be allowed to
swamp the religion of the first 500. 900, 900.
Not much use In taking the fortress IL wa
cannot hold it. 1t must be held until the
a~rehangel's trumpet bids living and dead
arise from this laundering planet.
You must remember Ii is only about I
o'clock in the morning of our Nations life.
Great cities are to flash and roar among
| what are called the "Bad Lands" Of the Da-
kotas and the great columbian plains'' of
Washington State, and that on which we put
our schoolboy fingers on the map and spelled
out As the "Great American DESERT is,
through systematic and communicating irri-
Cation, to bloom like Chatsworth Park and
b. Fnads more productive than those regions
dependent upon uncertain and spasmodic
rainfall. All those regions, as we'll as all
those regions already cultivated, to be in-
habitedl That was a sublime thing said by
Henry CLAY while crossing the Allegheny
Mountains, and he was waiting for the stage
horses to be rested, as he stood on a rock,
arms folded, looking off into the valley, and
some one said to him. ''Mr. Clay, what are
! you thinking about2" He replied. 1T am
listening to the oncomiDg tramp Of the fu-
ture generation Of America"
Have you laid our home missionary scheme
on such an infinitude of scaleS II the work
OF bringing one soul to God is so great, can
LOCO. 900, 600 be captured? In this country.
already planted and to be overcome, pagan
ism has built its altar to Brahma, and the
Chinese are already burning incense in their
temples, and Mohsmmedanism, drunk in
other days with The red wine ofhuman blood
at Lucknow and Cawnpur and now fresh
from the diabolism In Armenia, is trying to
get a foothold here, and from the minarels OF
her mosques will yet humble her blasphe-
miles, saying. "God isgIeat, and Mohammed
Is His prophet" Then there are the vaster
muitltudes with no religion at all. They
worship no God, they live with no consola-
ton, and they die with no hope. No star of
peace points down to the manger In which
they are born, and no prayeri is uttered over
the grave into which they sink. Then there
10 alcoholism, its piled up demijohns and
hbNA dlh hOkoiptuS VI uCIy uttiu0 u
barricade high and long as the Alieghenies
and Rockies and Sierra Nevadas, pouring
forth day and night their ammunition OF
wretchedness and woe. When a German
wants to take a drink, he takes beer. When
an Engllsbman wants to take a drink, he
takes ale. When & Scotchman wants to take
Q drink. he takes whisky. But when an
American wants TO take adrink hetakes any.
thing he can lay his hands on.
Plenty OF statistics tOtell how much monay
Is spent in this country for rum, and how
many drunkards die. But who will give US
the statistics of how manyhearts are crushed
under the heel Of this worst demon Of the
oenturiesH How many hopes blasted? How
many children turned out on the world ac-
cursed with the stigma of a debauehed an-
cestry2 Until the worm of the disiillery be-
comes the worm that never dies and the
smoke Of the heated wine watts becomes the
smoke OF the torment that ascendeth up for
eyer and ever! Alcoholism, swearing-not
with hand uplifted toward heaven, for from
that direction 1t can get no help, but with
right hand stretched down toward the per-
ditton from which 1t came up-swearing that
II will not cease as long as there are any
homesteads to despoil, any magnificent men
and women 10 destroy, any immortal souls
10 damn, any moro Nations to balk, any
more civilizations 10 extinguish.
Then there is what In America we call
eOCldil5U, III fIAuCo communism ana IN
Russia nihtlism, the three names for one n
the same thing, and having but two doc
trines in Its creed, First, there Is no God;
second, there shall be no rights OF property.
One of their chief journals printed this senti.
ment; Dynamite can be made out OF the
dead bodies Of capitalists as well as out of
hogs" One Of the leaders OF communism
left inscribed on his prison wall, where he
had been justly incarcerated, these wordsi
''When once you are dead, there is an end OF
everything. Therefore, We s~coundrels, grab
you can-enly don't let yourselves
be grabbed. Amen" There are in this
country hundreds of thousands Of these lazy
s~coundrels. Honest men deplore 1t when
cannot get work, but those Of whom
speak will not do work when they can get it,
/ tried to employ one who asked mo fot
money. / said, "Down In my cellar l have
wood to saw. and I will pay you fol
For a little while I heard the saw 70.
ing, and then / heard It no more. / went
down stairs and found me wood, but tn
workman had disappeared, taking for com
both buck and saw.
Socialism, communism and nihilism meal
AToo wicked TO acknowledge God and to-
lazy TO earn q living" and among the might
lest obstacles to be overcome are those on
ganized elements Of domestic, social and
political ruin.
There are the businesses of infasutZ AM