The Monitor-register., 1896-03-13
A SUBLIME THEME.
aAMERlcA FOR GoDnTHE SUBJECT OF
DR.. TALMAGE,S SERMON.
Other Nations Are Devoted to Ar' anu
Manufactures, but America SHAH DC ho1
God-Enemies rat Must Be overcome
Plan Of Campaign.

Manufactures but America Shall DC ro1
cod-rpe,nfes That Must Be Overcome.
Plan Of Campaign.
WASHINGTON, March e.-Thls DIS
.orrsa nresents a sublime theme and IS
Of national Importance, n coming
from the capital of the nation must have
a stirring effect throughout the land.
DIR. Talmage chose for his text Reveia-
t;on Viii. ii, "And I beheld another
beast coming up out of the earth, anu
he had two horns like a lamb ana 10
,pake as a dragon. n..,..
Ts America mentioned in the Blples
Learned and consecrated men VINO nave
s+rdiad the inspired books OF Daniel ana
povalation more than / have and unoer-
stand them better agree in saying ha'
tha leonard mentioned in the Blple
meant Grecia, and the bear meant Me-
do-Persia. and the lion meant Babylon,
and the beast of the text coming up ou'
of the earth, with two horns lie d iamD
and the voice of a dragon, means oul
conntrv. because among other reasons IL
seemed to come up out OF the eartn
.,hor Columbus discovered 1t, ana IL
ho. been for the most part at peace like
: ,amh unless assaulted by foreign foe'
IN which case it has had two horns
strong and sharp and the voice OF d
draoon loud enough to make all NATIONS
hoar the roar of its indignation. Is IL
reasonable to suppose that Goa wouio
leave ont from the prophecies OF ms DOCK
this whole western hemisphere! NO. mol
~T bebeld another beast coming up out
Of the earth. and he had two horns Ike
a lamb. and he spake as a dragon.
Germany for scholarship, England
for manufactures, France for Manners
Eeypt for antiquities, Italy for plctures'
but America for God.
start with the cheering thought that
the most popular book on earth today Is
the Bible. the most popular institution
ON earth today is the church, and the
most popular name on earth today Is
Jesus. Right from this audience hun
dreds Of men and women would, II need
he. march out and die for him.
Am I too confident in saying, Amer
;ca for God?" If the Lord will help me,
I will show the strength and extent of
the long line of fortresses to be taken
and give YOU my reasons for saying it
ran be done and will be done. Let Is
decide. in this battle for God, whether
we are at Bull Run OF at Gettysburg.
There is a Fourth of Julyish way of
Dragging about this country, and the
most tired and plucked bird that aver
n-LJ-z--L &1o haoranc &c Tho Ara owl
can eagle, SO much SO that Mr.. Gladstone
said to me facetiously at Hawarden, 81
hear that the fish in your American
lakes are so large that when one of them
is taken out the entire lake is percepti-
bly, lowered" and at a dinner given in
Paris an American offered for a senti-
ment, Here is to the United States
bounded on the north by the aurora bo-
reals, on the south by the procession Of
the equinoxes, on the east by primeval
chaos and on the west by the day Of
Judgment" The effect of such grand
i~loquence is to discredit the real facts,
which are SO tremendous they need no
garnishing. The worst thing to do in
any. campaign, military or religious, is
to underestimate an enemy, and I will
have nc part in such attempt at belittle-
ment.
To Be Taken For God.
This land to be taken for God, &C.
cording to Hassel, the statistician, has
IA, 1926 square miles, a width and
a length that none but the Omniscient
can appreciate. Four Europes put to-
gether and capable of holding and feed
ing, as it will hold and feed, according
to Atkinson, the statisticlan, If the
world continues in existence and does
not run afoul Of some other world or get
consumed by the fires already burning
in the cellars of the planet-capable,
say, of holding and feeding more than
1000. 900, 900 inhabitants. For you must
it must be held for God as
ke1l as taken for God, and the last
800, 600, 900 inhabitants must not be al
= lowed to swamp the religion of the first
500, 900, 900. Not much use in taking
the fortress if we cannot hold it. 1t
must be held until the archangel's
trumpet bids living and dead arise from
this laundering planet.
You must remember it is only about
2 O'Clock in the morning of our nations
life. Great cities are to fash and rear
among what are called the bad Lands
of the Dakotas and the great "Colum-
bia plains Of Washington state, and
that on which we put our ~schoolboy fin
gers on the map and spelled out as the
"Great American desert" is, through
systematic and concentrating irriga-
tion, to bloom like C~hatsworth park and
be made more productive than those re-
gions dependent upon uncertain and
spasmodic rainfall. All those regions,
as we'll as those regions already cult
waited, to be inhabited! That was a sub
lime thing said by Henry Clay while
crossing the Allegheny mountains, and
he wa 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 about?" He replied,
II am listening to the oncoming tramp
Of the future generation of America"
Have you laid our home missionary
scheme on such an infinitude of scale?
II the work of bringing one soul to God
AZ ~ eACab, OdA 1,OOO, OUO,O WV D5 Jap
tured? In this country, already planted
n to be overcome, paganism has built
Its altar to Brahma, and the Chinese
r already burning incense in their
temples, and Mohammedanism, drunk
In other days with the red wine of hui
man blood at Lucknow and Cawnpur
and now fresh from the diabolism in
Armenia. is trying to get a foothold
here, and from the minarets of her
mosques will yet humble her blasphe-
mics. saying, "God is great, and Mo-
manned is his prophet" Then there
are che vaster multitudes with no reli-
gion at all. They worship no God, they
live with no consolation, and they die
with no hope. No star of peace points
down to the manger in which they are
born, and no prayer is uttered over the
grave into which they sink. Then there
is alcoholism, its piled up demijohns
and beer barrels and hogsheads of fiery
death, a barricade high and long as the
Alleghanies and Rockies and Sierra Ne
vadas, pouring forth day and night their
ammunition of wretchedness and woe.
When q German wants TO take a drink,
he takes beer. When an Englishman
wants to take a drink, he takes ale.
When a Scotchman wants to take a
drink, he takes whisky. But when an
American wants to take a drink he takes
anything he can lay his hands on.
Foes to Be Overcome.
Plenty Of statistics to tell how much
money is spent in this country for rum,
and how many drunkards die. But who
will give us the statistics of how many
hearts are crushed under the heel Of this
worst demon of the centuries? How