Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-03-18
RET. DR.. TALuaGE.
The Eminent Divine's Sunday
Sermon.
Subject: "America for God.'s

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sAmerica mentioned in the BibI-? Learnes
ana consecrated men who have studied the
inspired books Of Daniel and Revelation
more than have and understand them b:,ttai
agree In saying thnt the leopard mentioned
IN the Bible meant Grecia, and the beer
meant Medo-Persia. and the lion meant
BABYLON, and the beast of the text coming nm
Out OF the earth, with two horns like lamb
ana the voice OF a dragon, means our
country, because among other reasons 1t
seemed to come up out Of the earth when
G~lumbus discovered it. and it has been for
the most part at peace like lamb unless as.
sauited by foreign foe, in which case IT has
TWO horns strong and sharp and the voice
OF dragon loud to make all Nations ear
tne roar OF its indignation. Is it reasonable
TO suppose that God would leave out from
tho prophecies OF His book this whole west
ern hemisphere2 No, no! 81 beheld anoth.
OF pease coming up out of the earth, aud he
mad two horns like lamb, and he spake as
= dragon"
Germany for scholarship, England for
manufactures. France for manners. Exypt
!eF antiquities, Italy for pictures, but Amer
start with the cheering thought that thu
Hset popular book on earth to-day il the
plp!s, the most popular institution on eartn
hs7as on earth to-day Ii Jesus. Right from
this Audience hundreds Of men and women
Xeaid, II assd be, march out and die for
HiR.
~ fGIsfas ,ss fa,a in III, s-yaE ATess
sasw the strength and extent Of the long
4Rs 81 fortresses to be taken and give you
ny reasons for saying It can be done and
will be done. Let US decide, in this battle
ler God, whether We are at Bull Run or at
Gettysburg. There is Fourth Of Julyish
way of Dragging about this country. and the
most tired and plucked bird that ever fiew
through the heavens is the American eagle.
so much so that Mr.. Gladstone said to me
iacetfously at Hawarden, II hear that the
nsh In your American lakes are 50 large that
when one Of them Is taken out the entire
lake Is perceptibly lowered" and at dinner
given In Paris an American offered for q
sentiment, Here Is to the United States
bounded on the north by the aurora borealis.
on the south by the procession of the eaui.
noxes, on the east by primeval cnaos and on
the west by the day Of judgment" The ef-
lect OF such grandiioquence 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 will have no
part In such attempt at belittlement
This land to be taken for God, according
to Hasse;, the statistician, has 14.2I9.967
but the Omniscient can appreciate. Four
Europes put together and capable Of holding
and feeding, rs 1t will hold and feed Accord
Ing to Atkinson, the staitstician, II 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 feed.
ing more than !. .O0o, 900 900 inhabitants. For
you must remember it must be held for God
rs welt astaken for God, and the last oOo,-
in ho ffan ~, a,,ctvA Ak h, Ill
swamp the religion of the first 500. 900 900.
Not much use In taking the fortress II we
cannot hold it. 1t must be held until the
archanSers trumpet bids living and dead
arise from this laundering planet.
You must remember 1t is only about !
O'Clock In the morning Of our Nations life
Grvat cities are to flash and roar among
what are called the bad Lands" Of the Da-
kotsS and the great columbian plains" of
Washington State, and that on which we put
our schoolboy fingers on the map and spelled
out a. the "Great American desert" is,
through systematic and oonsummating irri-
cation, to bloom like Chatsworth Park and
hs made more productive than those regions
dependent upon uncertain and spasmodio
rainfall. All those regions, as we'll as all
those regions already cultivated, to be in
AabitsdI That was a sublime thing said bv
Henry Clay while crossing the Allegheny
Mountains, and he was waiting for the stage
horses to be rested, as he stood on q rock.
arms folded, looking of into the valley. and
some one said to him. MIR. Clay, what are
you thinking about?'' He replied, II am
listening to the oncoming tramp of the fu.
ture generation Of America
Have you laid our home missionary scheme
on such an tnf1nitude Of scaley II the work
OF bringing one soul to God is so great, can
1.OcO, ,OOO. COO be capt ured2 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 Mohammedanism, drunk in
other days with the red wine of human blood
at Lucknow and Cawnpur and now fresh
from the diabolism in Armenia, is trying to
her mosques will yet humble her blasphe-
mics, saying. "God is great, and Mohammed
Is His prophet" Then there are the vaster
muititudes with no religion at all They
worship no God, they live with no consola.
lion, 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 aud hogsheads Of fiery death, Q
barricade high and long as the Alleghenies
and 'cktes and Sierra Nevadas, pouring
forth day and night their ammunition OF
wretchedness and woe. When a German
wants to take drink. he takes beer When
an Englisbman wants to take q drink, he
takes ale. When & ScotchDan wants to take
drink. he takes whisky. But when an
American wants to take adrink hetakes any.
thing he can lay his hands on.
Plenty Of statistics to tell how much money
IL spent in this country for rum, and how
many drunkards die. But who will give US
the statistics OF h ow many hearts are crushed |
under the heel Of this worst demon of the |
centuries2 How many hopes blasted2 How
many children turned out on the world ac-
cursed with the stigma Of a debauched an
cestry? Until the worm of the distillery 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
sver and ever! Alcoholism, swearing-not
With hand uplifted toward heaven, for from
shat direction 1t can get no help, but with |
right hand stretched down toward the per-
dttton from which IT came up-swearing that /,
II will not cease as long as there are any
homesteads to despoil, any magnificent men |
and women to destroy, any immortal souls |
to damn, any more Nations to balk. any |
more civilizations to extinguish.
Then there is what In America We call |
socialism, in France communism and in |
Russia nihilism. the three names for one and |
the same thing, and having but two doc |
trines in its creed: First, there is no God;
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, ye scoundrels, grab
whatever you can-enly don't let yourselves
be grabbed. Amen" There are in this
country hundreds of thousands OF these lazy
ecoundrels. Honest men deplore It when
they cannot get work, but those Of whom ]
speak will not do work when they can get 1t.
/ tried to employ one who asked mo for
money. said, "Down in my cellar have
some wood to saw. and I will pay you fol
IT," For little while heard the saw 60.
ing, and then heard 1t no moro. / went
down Stain and found me wood, but tN
workman had disappeared, taking for com
pany both buck and saw.
Socialism, communism and nihilism meal
"Too wicked to acknowledge God and to\
lazy to earn a living" and among the might