The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-02-22
TALMAGE's SERMON.
A Stirring Appeal for a Great Ma
tional Revival,
To Have Its beginning In Washington AND
sweep the Country-A Revival OF
Forty Years Ago ut the
Nations Capital

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage made the
following appeal for a national revival
of religion to his Washington congrega-
CATION, which included many of the
chief men of the nation, taking for his
text:
Beginning at Jerusalem--Luke xiv, a.
There it is, said the driver, and we
all instantly and excitedly rose in the
carriage 10 catch the first glimpse of
Jerusalem. so long the JOY of the
whole earth. That city, coronetted
with temple and palace, and radiant,
whether looked up at from the valley
of Jehoshaphat OF gazed at from ad-
| Joining hills, was thecapital of great
nation. Clouds Of incense had lowered
over il. Chariot of kings had rolled
through it. Battering rams of enc
mics had Numbered against it. There
| Isaiah prophesied. and jeremiah la
mented. and David reigned, and Paul
preached. and Christ was martyred.
Most interesting city ever built
since masonry rung its hrst
trowel, or plum line measured its first
wall or royalty swung its first scepter.
kingdom, Washington is 10 our own
country-the capital, the place to which
all the tribes come up, the great
national heart whose throb sends life
or death through the body polite,
clear out to the geographical extremi-
ties.
What the resurrected Christ said in
my text TO His disciples, when He or
dered them TO start on the work of Cos
pelization. "begiuning at Jerusalem"
it seems to me God says now, in His
providence. TO tens of thousands of
Christians in this city. Start for the
evangelization of America, begin
ming al Washington. America is
going TO be .aken for God. If
you DO not believe il, take your
hat now and leave. and give room 10
some man or woman who does believe
it. As surely as God lives, and He is
able 70 do as He says He will, this
country will be evangelical from the
mouth of the Potomac TO the mouth of
the Oregon, from the highlands of the
Neversink to the Golden Horn, from
Bailin's bay TO the gulf of Mexico and
Christ will walk every lake, whether
bestormed or placid, and be transtig-
ured on every mountain, and the night
skies, whether they hover over groves
of magnolia or over Alaskan glacier.
shall be filed with angelic overture of
GLORY TO God and good will TO men"
Again and again does the Old Book
announce that all the earth shall see
the salvation of God. ard as the great
er includes the lesser, that takes
America gloriously in. Can you not
see that if America is not taken for
God by His consecrated people, it will
gagged on both sides are so tremend-
Gus that it can not be drawn battle.
1t is coming, the Armageddon! Either
the American Sabbath will perish and
this nation be handed over to Herods.
and Hildebrands. and Dioc letians. and
Neros of baleful power, and alcohol
ism will reign, seated upon piled-up
throne of beer barrels, his mouth foam
ing with domestic and national curse,
and crime will lift its unhindered knife
of assassination, and rattle keys of
worst burglary, and wave forth the
widest contlagration, and our cities be
turned into Sodoms. waiting for AL
mighty tempests of fire and birthstone,
and one tidal wave OF abomination will
surge across the continent. or our Sab
baths will take on more sanctity. and
the newspapers will become apoca-
lyptic wings of benediction, and
penitentiaries will be abandoned
for lack of occupants, and holiness
and happiness, twin son and daughter
Of Heaven, shall walk through the
land, and Christ reign over this nation,
either in person or by agency so glo-
rious that the whole country will be
one clear, resounding echo of Heaven.
II Will be one or. the other. By the
thronelof Him who liveth forever and
ever. I>declarc it viii be the latter. If
the Lord will help me, as He always
does-blessed be His glorious name.-I
will show YOU how mighty work of
grace begun at Washington would have
a tendency to bring the whole CONT
nent to God, and before this century
closes.
William the Conquerer ordered the
curfew, the custom of ringing the bell
at midnight, at which all the fires on
the hearths were to be banked. and all
the lights eXtinguished. and all the
people retire to their pillows. pray
God that the curfew Of this century
may no be sounded, and the fires be
banked. and the lights extinguished,
as the clock strikes tile midnight hour
that divides the nineteenth century
from the twentieth century. until this
beloved land, which was to most of us
cradle, and which will be to most of
us grave, shall came into the full
possession of Him rho is so glorious
that William the Copqueror could not
be compared TO Him, even the one who
rideth forth ''conquering and to con-
quer.'
Why would it be especially advan-
tageous If a mighty work of grace
started here, beginning at Washing
ton?" First, because this city isson
the border between the north and the
south. 1t is neither northern nor
southern. 1t commingles the two
climates. 1t brings together the<two
styles of population. IL is not only