The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-03-18
CHEERING THOUGHTS.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE CONFIDENT THAT
AMERICA IS FOR GOD.
lie Believes That This Contiarnt Was Re-
ferred to In Revelation and Presents a
Glowing Picture Of Our Future rossibili-

Glowing Picture of Our Future rossibili-
ties and Prospects.
WASHINGTON. March 5 This dis.
course presen,sa q sublime theme and is
OF national importance, and coming
from the capital Of the nation must
have a stirring effect throughout the
land. Dr.. Taimage chose for his text
Revelation xiii. II, And beheld an
ether beast coming up out OF the earth,
and he had two horns like lamb,
and he spalle as dragon:
Is America mentioned in the Bible:
Learned and consecrated men who
have studied the inspired books of
Daniel and Revelation more than !
have and understand them better agree
in saying that the leopard mentioned
in the Bible meant Grecia, and the
bear meant Medo-Persia, and the lion
meant Babylon, and the beast of the
text coming up out of the earth with
two horns like a lamb and the voice
Of a dragon means our country, be-
cause among other reasons it seemed
to come up out of the earth when Co.
lumbus discovered it, and it has been
for the most par. at peace, like lamb,
unless assaulted by foreign foe, in
which case it has had two horns strong
and sharp, and tho voice of dragon
loud enough to make all nations hear
the roar of its indignation. Is it rea,
sonable to suppose that God would
leave out from the prophecies of this
book this whole western hemispherel
No, no. Il beheld another beast com
ing mp out of the earth, and he had
two horns like a lamb, and he spake as
a dragon"
Germany for scholarships, England
for manufactures, France for man
ners, Egypt for antiquities, Italy for
pictures, but America for God.
I 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 hundreds of men and
women would, if need be. march out
and die for him.
AMI too ccnfdentin saying Amer,
lea for God2" If the Lord will help
me, will show the strength and eX-
tent of the long line OF fortresses to be
taken and give you my reasons for
saying it can be done and will be
done. Let us decide in this battle for
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 pluck,
ed bird that ever flew through the
heavens is the American eagle, so
much so that Mr.. Gladstone said to
me facetiously at Hawarden, II 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 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 equinoxes, on the
east by primeval chaos and on the
west BY the day of judgment" The
effect of such grand eloquence is to
discredit the real facts, which are so
tremendous they need no garnishing.
The worst thing to do in any cam.
paign, military or religious, is to un-
derestimate an enemy,and l will have
no part in such attempt at belittle-
ment.
This land is to be taken for God, ac-
cording to Hassel, the statician has
Il ,2l9, ,067 square miles, width and a
length that none but the Omniscient
can appreciate. -Four Europes put to-
gether, aud capable of holding and
feeding, as it will hold and feed, ac-
cording to Atkinson, the statiscian, if
the world continues in existence and
does not run afoul ofsome other world
or get consumed by the fires already
burning in the cellars of the planet
capable, I say, of holding and feeding
more than l,00O,000,000 inhabitants.
For you must remember it must be
held for God as well as taken for God,
and the last 100000, 900 inhabitants
must not be allowed to swamp the re-
ligion of the first 500,000,0 900. Not
much in taking the fortress if we can
not hold it. It must be held until the
archangel's trumpet bids living and
dead arise from this laundering
planet.
You must rememberit is only about
Z o'clock in the morning of our ma.
tion's life. Great cities are to flash and
roar among what are called the bad
Lands" of the Dakotas and the great
columbia 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
consummating irrigation, to bloom
like Chatsworth park and be made
more productive than those regions
dependent upon uncertain and spas
molic rainfall. All those regions as
well as those regions already cultivat'
ed to be inhabited! That was sub
lime thing said by Henry Clay while
crossing the Allegheny mountains
and he was waiting for the stage hor-
ses to be rested, as he stood on a rock,
arms folded, looking off into the val
ley, and some one said to him, ''Mr:
Clay, what are you thinking about?'
He replied, Il am listening to the on
coming tramp Of the future generation
of America. !" Have you laid our home
missionary scheme On such an infni-
tude of scale? If the work of bring
ing one soul 20 God is so great, can
], 600, 100000 be captured? In this
country, already planted and to be
overcome, paganism has built its altar
to Brahma, and the Chinese are al
ready burning incense in their tenn
Piles, and Monammedanism, drunk in
other days with the red wine of hu-
man blood at Lucknow and Cawnpur,
and now fresh from the diabolism IN
Armenia, is trying to get foothold
here, and from the minarets OF her
will yet humble her bias
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