Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-12-20
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
BLESSINGS SHOWERED UPON
AMERICAN PEOPLE.
Draws Comparisons Between Our Own
and Other Countries Duty To Ex-
tend These blessings to the World
Some Happy Conditions.

Copyright, 1900. Louis Klopsch. N. ~
Washington, Dec. 16.-Dr. Talmage
breaches a discourse of Christian pa
triotism and shows the resources OF
our country and predicts the time
when all the world will have the same
blessings. His two texts are Reve-
lation xxi, 10, "On the south three
gates;" Psalm cxlvii.. He hath not
dealt so with any nation"
Among the greatest needs of our
country is more gratitude to God for
the unparalleled prosperity bestowed
upon us. One of my texts calls us to
international comparison. What ma
tion on all the planet has of late had
such enlargement of commercial OPP
portunity IS Is now opening before this
nation? Cuba and Porto Rico and the
Philippine Islands brought into close
contact with us,and through steamship
subsidy and Nicaragua canal, which
will surely be afforded by congress,
all the republics of South America will
be brought into most active trade with
the United States. "On the south three
gates. While our next door neigh
bors, the southern republics and neigh
boring colonies, imported from Euro
pean countries 1900 miles away $685.
100000 worth of goods in a year, only
$4,000 600 worth went from the Unit
ed States-S126 900 900 out of s675, O0O,-
600, only one-ffth Of the trade ours.
European nations taking the four fin
gers and leaving us the poor thumb.
Now all this is to be changed. There
is nothing but comparative ferry be-
tween the islands which have recently
come under our protection, and only
ferry between us and Bolivia, Peru,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela, Saliva
Ecuador, Brazil, while there are raging
seas and long voyage between them
and Europe BY the mandate of the
United States all that will be changed
through new facilities of transporta-
ton
The Nations Advertisements.
In anticipation of what is sure to
come, | nail on the front door of this
nation an advertisement:
Wanted.-One hundred thousand
men to build railroads through South
America and the island of the sea un-
der our protection.
Wanted.-A thousand telegraph op-
orators.
Wanted.-One hHndred million dol
lars worth of dry goods from the great
cities of the United States.
Wanted.-All the clocks you can
make at New Haven and all the brains
you can spare from Boston and all the
bells you can mold at Troy and all the
mccormick reapers you can fashion
turn out at Cincinnati and all the rail-
road iron you can send from Pitts
burg and all the statesmen that you
can spare from Washington.
Wanted.-Right away. wanted by
new and swifter steamers, wanted by
lawyers to plead our cause.
Wanted.-Doctors to cure our sick.
Wanted.-Ministers to evangelize
our population.
Wanted.-Professor to establish our
universities.
ION the south three gates" yea, a
thousand gates. South America and
all the islands Of the sea approximate
are rightfully our commercial do
main, and the congress of the United
States will see to it that we get what
belongs to us.
And then tides OK .ravel will be
somewhat diverted from Europe to our
islands at the south and to the land of
the Aztecs. Much of the s125,000, 900
yearly expended by Americans in Eu-
rope will be expended in southern ex-
ploration, in looking at some of the
ruins OF the AZ cities which Stephens
found only little way apart and in
walking through the great doorways
and over the miracles Of mosaic and
along by the monumental glories of
another civilization, and ancient Am
erica will with cold lips of stone kiss
the warm lips or modern America, and
to have seen the Andes and Popocate-
petl will be deemed as important as to
have seen the Alpine and Balkan
ranges, and there will be fewer people
spoiled by foreign travel, and in our
midst less of the poor and nauseating
imitation OF brainless foreign swell.
Some Happy Conditions.
Again, in this international compar-
ison notice the happy condition of our
country as compared with most coun-
tries. Russia under the shadow of the
dreadful illness OF her great and good
emperor, who now, more than any man
In all the world, represents peace on
earth, good will to men," and whose
empress, near the most solemn hour
that ever comes to woman's soul, is
anxious for him to whom she has
given hand and heart, not for political
reasons, but through old fashioned
love such as blesses our humber
dwellings,; India under the agonies Of
a famine which, though somewhat lift
ed, has filled hundreds of thousands of
graves and thrown millions into or
phanage: Austria only waiting for her
genial Francis Joseph to die so as to
let Hungary rise in rebellion and make