Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-03-12
A TIMELY SERMON.
When the Lord Almighty's Hosts
Gather for the Fray.
Each Country Has Its Motto-God's Word
Their Rally Ing Cry-Oid World Nations
Have Art and Science, Hut Amert-
cas- Chosen Pursuit 10 to
Work Gods VIII.

DIR. Talmagc chose for his text Sun
day: Revelation ill.,, II: And bchcld
another beast coming up out of the
earth: and he had two horns like "a
lamb, and he spalse rs a dragon"
Is America mentioned in the Bible?
Learned and consecrated men who
have studied the inspired books of Dan
icl end Revelation more than | have
and understand them better agree in
saying that the leopard mentioned in
the Bible meant Grecia, and the bear
meant Medic Persia. and the lion meant
BABYLON, and the beast of the text
coming mp out of the earth with two
horns like lamb. and the voice of the
dragoon means our country, because
among other reasons ii seemed to come
| up out of the earth when Columbus
discovered il, and 1t has been
/ for the most part Mt peace
/ like lamb, unless assaulted ~
/ foreign foe, in which case it has two
/ horns strong and sharp. and the voice
| of dragon loud enough to make all
nations hear the roar of its indigna-
/ ton. Is it reasonable to suppose that
/ God would leave out froan the prophc-
cies of His Book this whole western
hemisphere? No, no. II bcheld an
other beast coming up out of the earth
and he had two horns like n lamb, and
I he spal<e as a dragon"
Germany for scholarship. England
| for manufactures. France for man
ners. Egypt for antiquities. Italy for
pictures. But America for Cod
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
/ Tea for God?' If the Lord will help me
| / will show the strength and extent 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 pluclicd bird that ever
/ flew through the heavens is the
American eagle, SO much so that
/ Mr. Gladstone said to me face
| tiously, Mt 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 prcccptibly low
ered." and at a dinner given in Paris an
| American offered for sentiment:
Here is to the United STRAIGHTFORWARD
on the north by the aurora borealis, on
the south by the procession of the equi-
noxcs, on the east by primeval chaos,
and on the west by the Day of Judg-
ment" Tho effect of such grandilo-
quence is to discredit the real facts
! which are SO tremendous they need no
1 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 belit-
Element.
/ Th, land to be taken for GOD, nc
cor.Sig 10 Tas>Al, t., statistic.an, has
il.sl9, Ne squire al'S', width I'D i,
.i-2r-tii- t1.t none but the Omnisc INT
ca appreciate. Four Europes put to-
sether, and capable of holding and
/ feeding, as it will hold and feed,
according to Atkinson, the sta
tistician, II 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-capa-
BILE, / say, of holding and feeding more
than one billion of inhabitants. For
you must remember 1t must be held for
| God as we'll as taken for God, and the
! last five hundred million inha bitants
/ must not be allowed to swamp the reli-
gion of the first five hundred million.
Not much use in taking the fortress if
we can not hold it. 1t must be held un-
til the Archangel's trumpet bids living
/ and dead arise from this laundering
| planet.
You must remember it is only about
Z o'clock In the morning Of our nations
life. Great cities are to fash and roar
| among what are called the bad Lands
of the Dakotahs' and the great "Colum-
bia 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 MOI productive than
those religious dependent upon uncer-
1 tain and spasmodic rainfatls. All those
regions. as we'll as those regions al
ready 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 a rock, arms
folded, looking off into the valley, and
some one said to him: Mr. Clay, what
are you thinking about?" lie 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 infinitude of scale?
IL the work of bringing one soul to God
is SO great, can thousand million be
captured? In this country, already
planted and to be overcome, paganism
/ 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 Gavin
pore, and now fresh from the diabolism
in Armenia, is trying to get a
foothoid here, and from the NINA
rets of her mosques will yet
humble her blasphemy, saying,
God is great, and Mohammed is His
prophet" Then there are the vaster
multitudes with no religion at ALL
They worship no God, they live with
40 consolation, and they die with no
hope, No star Of peace points down to
the manger in which they were born,
and no prayer is uttered over the grave
into which they sink. Then there is
alcoholism, its piled up demijohn and
beer barrels, and hogshead of fiery
death, a barricade high and long as the
Alleghenies and Rockies and Sierra
Nevadas, pouring forth day and night
their ammunition of wretchedness and
woe. When a German wants to take
a drink he takes beer. When an En-
glishman wants to take a drink he
takes ale. When Scotchman wants
to take a drink he takes whisky. But
when an American wants to take a