The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-03-06
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
TnE NOTED DIvINE's SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subjects "rhs Place to Begin.

"Ihore q f." said the driver. and We all
instantly ana exsIiody rose lu the carriage
70 catch The hut glimpse of Jerusalem. ao
long The Joy oi the whole earth. That city,
coroneiod with temples and palaces and
radiant. whHlher looked up ai from tire val
icy oi Juh0shnphat or gaz6d at from adIoln-
ing hills, was The capital Of "a great Nation.
Clouds oiineHnao had lowered over n. Char
lots Of kings had rolled through b. Batter
ing rams Of enemies had Numbered against
IT. There Isaiah pr0phasIed. and Jeremiah
lemeniod, and David reIgned, aud Paul
preached, and Christ was murtyrod Most
interesting city ever built since masonry
rung ila llut tr0gel or plumb line measured
iM ilrst wall or royalty swung a. first
aeepter What Jerusalem WIS 90 tho jewish
kingdom washington IS to our own country
the capital, tho place TO which all the
tribes come up, the great National heart
whose throb sends life or death through the
body polite, clear out 20 the geographical
extromiues
What tho resurrected Christ said 10 my
ta1tlo His disciples when Ho ordered themt0
start on Che work Of gosplizauon, "begin-
ming az Jerusalem, u seems % me God says
now In itla providence TO tens OF thousands
o. Christians In this city. Start for tho
eYangelzaiion OF America. beginning at
Washington" America r. going to be taken
Tor God. III you do not believe Il, take your
hat now and leave aud give room 10 some
man or woman who does believe q. As
surely Gs God lives and He Is able TO do az 10
says he will this country wall be evangelical
from tho mouth OF tho Potomac 10 the
mouth OF the Oregon, from the Highlands OF
Nayoslnk 10 the Golden Horn, from Baffln's
Bay 10 the Gulf OF Mexico, and Christ will
walk every lake, whether bestOrmod or
placid, and be transAgured on every noun
tain, and the night skies, whether they hover
oyor groves OF magnolia or over Alaskan
glacier, shall be 1llsd with the angelic over
ture OF "giory to God and good will TO
men,"
Again and again does the old book an
nounee that all tho earth shall see the saliva
ton Of God, aud az the greater includes the
lesser that takes America glorlously In. Can
you not soe that n America Is not taken for
God by His con5ecrated people IL will DO
taken for Apollyon2 The forces engaged on
both sides are 50 tremendous thnt IL cannot
be drawn battle. Il is coming, the Arma-
geddon. Either the American sabbath will
perish and this Nation DO handed over to
Herods and Hlldebrands and Dlocletians
and Neros OF baleful power, and Alcoholism
will reign, seated upon piled mp throne OF
beer barrels, his mouth foaming with do
nestle and National curse, and crime will
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and rattle keys Of worst burglary and wave
torch Of widest conhagration, and our
cities be turned into Sodoms, waiting for
mighty tempest Of fire and birthstone
and one tidal wave OF abominatlon
will surge across the continent, or our
Sabbaths will take on more saneH-
~, and the newspapers will become apocal-
yptic wings OF benedlctlon. and penitentiaries
will be abandoned for lack OF occupants, and
holiness and happiness, twin son and daugh-
ter OF heaven, snail 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 the other.
BY the throne OF Him who liveth forever aud
ever l declare it will be the latter. II the
Lord will help me, as He always does
blessed be His glorious name-I will show
you how mighty work Of grace begun at
Washington would have q tendency to bring
the whole continent to God and before this
century closes.
William the Conqueror ordered the eurfew,
the custom Of ringing tho bell at midnight.
at which all the fires on the hedrths were to
be banked, and all the lights extinguished.
and all the people retire to their pillows. /
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 CEN
fury until this beloved land, which was to
most Of US a cradle and which will be to most
OF us grave, shall come into the full pos
session Of Him who is so glorious that Will
lam the Conqueror could not be compared TO
Him. even the One who rideth forth "con-
quering and to conquer"
Why should 1t be especially advantageous
IL a MIGHTY FUorlr ~ urn a. rfa
ginning at Washington" First, because this
city Is on the border between the North and
the South. 1t isneither Northern nor South
ern. 1t commingles the two climates. It
brings together the two styles of population
1t Is not only right, but beautiful that peo-
pie should have especial love for the latitude
where they were born and brought up. With
what loving accentuation the Albanian
speaks OF his orange grovesl And the man
from Massachusetts is sure to let you know
that he comes from the land OF the Adamges
Samuel and John and John Quincy. Did
you ever know Virginiap or Ohioan whose
face did not brighten when he announced
himself from the Southern or Northern
State OF Presidents? If a man does not like
his native cline, it is because while he lived
there no did not behave well. This capital
stands where, by its locality and its political
influence, ii stretches forth one hand toward
the North and the other toward the South.
and mighty work Of grace starting here
would probably be National awakening.
Georgia would clasp the hand of New Hamp-
SHIRE and Maine the hand of Louisiana, and
California the hand of New York, and say.
Come, let us 90 up and worship the God
OF Nations, the Christ of Golgotha, the Holy
Ghost OF the pentecostal thousands" It has
often been said that the only way the
North and the South will be brought into
complete accord Is to have a war with
some foreign Nation in which both sections.
marching side by side, would forget every
thing but the foe to be overcome. Well, il
| you wait for such foreign conflict, you
| will wait until ail this generation is deat
and perhaps wait forever. The war that
will make the sections forget past contro-
versies is a war against unrighteousness
such as a universal religious awakening
| would declare. What we want is battle
| for souls in which about 40, 600, 900 Northern
ers and Southerners shall be on the same
| side and shoulder to shoulder. In no other
| city on the continent can such war be de-
| clared so appropriately, for all the other
! great cities are either Northern or Southern.
! This Is neither, or rather it is both.
Again. itwoud be especially advantageous
/ Q sr-I,k ya.-1-, g