Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-03-19

Should be the Battle Cry of All
Christians.
Many Ramparts Have Already Been Taken,
Glorious Victories Have Been Won,
and Satan's Forces Can Surely
be Overthrow by the
Gospel Batteries.

u Or. Talmage's latest Washington
i sermon was powerful blast on the
Al gospel trumpet for the evangelization
81 of our country. His sermon was based
N on the text: Revelation 13: IL: "And
y ! beheld another beast coming up out
X OF the. earth; and he had two horns like
& lamb, and he spake as dragon"
N Is America entioned in the Bible?
4 Learned and consecrated men who
n have studied the inspired books Of
NJ Daniel and Revelation more than
u have and understand them better agree
n IN saying that the leopard mentioned
n in the Bible meant Grecia, and the bear
n meant Medo-Persia, and the lion meant
4 Babylon, and the beast OF the text
\ coming up out of the earth with two
horns like lamb, and the voice of a
dragon means our country, because
among other reasons it seemed to come
up out of the earth when Columbus
discovered it, and it has been for the
most part at peace like lamb, unless
1 assaulted by foreign foe, in which case
and the voice of a dragon loud enough
to make all nations hear the roar of its
Indignation Is it reasonable to sup
pose that God would leave out from the
prophecies of His book this whole west
ern hemisphere? No, no. II behold
another beast coming up out of the
earth and he had two horns like a
lamb, and he spake as dragon.
Germany for scholarship. England for
manufactures France for manners
Egypt for antiquities. Italy for pic
lures. But America for God!
] 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 au-
would, if need be, march out and die
for Him.
Am too confident in saying: "Amcr-
lea for God?" 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 Get
tysburg. There is 4th of Julyish
way of Dragging about this country.
Apd 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: 81 hear that the fish in
your American lakes are so large that
when one of them is taken out the en-
tire lake is perceptibly lowered, and
at dinner given in Paris an American
offered for a sentiment: Here is 70
the United States-bounded on the
north by the aurora borealis, on the
south by the procession of the egui-
noxes, on the east by primeval chaos,
and on the west by the day Of judg-
ment." The effect of such grendilo-
Quence is to discredit the real facts
which are so tremendous that they
need no garnishing. The worst thing
to do in any campaign, military or re-
ligious, is to underestimate an enemy,
and will have no part in such attempt
at belittlement.
This land to be taken for God, ac-
cOrding to Hassel the statistician, has
967 square miles, a width and
length that none but the Omnscient
can appreciate Four Europes put to-
gether and capable of holding and feed
ing, as it will hold and feed. according
to Atkinson the statistician, if the
world continues in existence and does
not run afoul of some other world or
get consumed by the fires already burn
ing in the cellars of the planet-more
than 1000, 600 900 of inhabitants. For
you must remember it must be held for
God as well as taken for God, and the
last 500, OOO, 900 inhabitants must not be
allowed to swamp the religion of the
first 500, 100000. Not much use in talk
ding the fortress if we cannot hold it. 1t
must be held until the Archangel's
trumpet bids the living and dead arise
from this laundering planet
You must remember it is only about
Z o'clock in the morning of our ma
tion's life. Great cities are to fash 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
concentrating irrigation, to bloom like
Chatsworth park and be made more
productive than those regions depend
emit upon uncertain and spasmodic
rainfall. All those regions, as well as
those regions already cultivated, to be
Inhabited! That was sublime thing
said by Henry Clay, while crossing the
Allegheny mountains, and he was
waiting for the stage horses to be
rested, as he stood on 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 on-coming tramp
Of the future generation of America"
Have you laid our home missionary
scheme on such an infnitude of scale?
II the work of bringing one soul to
God is so great, can thousand mil
lion be captured? In this country al