The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-03-21
TALMAGE's SERMON.
A Patriotic Sermon Based Upon
"Ame erica for God"
America tho Hope Of the Christian World
Armed with the Spirit of Christ
This Country II Invinci-
BILE for God.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage preaehe,
the following patriotic sermon befor
his Washington congregation, taking
Cor his text:
| And beheld another beast coming up out o
the earth: and he had two horns like lamb
and he spake as dragon. kill. ii
Is America mentioned in the Bible
| Learned and consecrated men whS
have studied the inspired books o.
Daniel and David more than l 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 com
ing up out of earth with two horns
like lamb, and the voice of dragon
means our country, because among
other reasons 1t seemed to come
up out of the earth when Co
lumbus discovered 1t, and 1t has
been for the most part at peace
like lamb, unless assaulted by for
eign foe, in which case it has had two
horns strong and sharp, and the voice
of dragon loud enough to make all
nations hear the roar of its indigna-
ton. Is 1t reasonable to suppose that
God would leave out from the prophe-
cies of His book this whole western
hemisphere? No, no. II beheld an
other beast coming up out Of the earth;
and he had two horns like lamb, and
he spake as a dragon"
Germany for scholarship. England
for manufactures. France for man
ners. Egypt for antiques. Italy for
pictures. But America for God!
l start with the cheering thought
that the most popular book on earth
to-day is the Bible, the most popular
institution on earth to-day is the
church. and the most popular name on
earth to-day is Jesus. Right from this
audience hundreds of men and women
would, if need be, march out and die
for Him.
Am too confident in saying Amer
lea for God?" II 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 Get
tysburg. There is Fourth of July
ism way of Dragging about this coun-
try, and the most tired and plucked
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 a dinner given in
Paris an American Offered for senti-
ment: Here is to the United States
bounded on the north by the aurora
borealis, on the south by the process
sion of the equinoxes, on the east by
primeval choas, and on the west by the
day of judgement" The effect of such
grandiloquence is to discredit the real
facts which are so tremendous they
need no garnishing. The worst thing
to do in any campaign, military or re-
ligious, is to underestimate an enemy,
and l will have nc part in such at
tempt at belittlement
cording to Hassel, the statistician, has
4,219, 967 square miles, width and
length that none but the omniscient
can appreciate. Four Europes put to-
gether, and capable of holding and
feeding, as it will hold and feed, ac-
cording to Atkinson, the statistician,
If the world continues in exist
ence and does not run afoul of
some other world or get consumed
by the fires already burning in
the cellars of the BILE, l
say, of holding and feeding more than
one billion of inhabitants. For you
must rembember it must be held for
God as well as taken for God, and the
last 1000, 900 inhabitants must not be
allowed to swamp the religion of the
first 500,000,000. Not much use in TAX
ing the fortress If we can not hold it.
1t must be held until the archangel's
trumpet bids living and dead arise
from this laundering planet.
You must remember that 1t Is only
about seven o'clock in the morning of
our nations life. Great cities are to
lash and roar among what are called
the BAD Lands" of the Dakotas and
the great Columbia plains" of Wash
ington state, and that on which we
put our schoolboy fingers on the map
and spelled out as the Great Ameri-
can desert" is, through systematic
and consummating irrigation, to
bloom like Chatsworth park, and
be made more productive than
those regions dependent upon uncer-
tain and spasmodic rainfall. All these
regions, as those regions already cul-
tivated, to be inhabited! That was a
sublime thing said by Henry Clay
while crossing the Allegheny noun.
tains, 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 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 infini-
tude of scale? II the work of bring
ing one soul to God is so great, can
1000, 600, 900 be captured? In this