The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-12-22
A FAVORED NATION.
Dr.. Talmage Speaks of Prosperity
Of American People.
Divine blessings Showered Upon u
He Draws Comparisons He
tween Our own and
Other Countries.
copyright. 1900. by Louis Klopsch. N. VI
Washington,

Copyright. 1900, by Louis Klopsch. N. ~
Washington.
DR.. Talmage breaches a discourse
OF Christian patriotism and shows the
resources of our country and predicts
the time when all the world will have
the same blessings. His two texts are
Revelation xxi, 13: "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
nation on all the planet has of late
had such enlargement of commercial
opportunity as 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 Mic
aragua 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. ION the south three gates.
While our neXt-door neighbors, the
southern republics and neighboring
colonies, imported from European
countries 5000 miles away 75,000,0oo
worth of goods in a year, only $780,
100000 worth went from the United
States-S126, ,oo0. 600 out of S675,ooo,-
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 a comparative ferry
between the islands which have re-
Gently come under our protection
and only n ferry between us and Bo
livia, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Vene'
zuela. Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia
Costa Rica, Ecuador, Brazil, while
there are raging seas and long voy
age between them and Europe. BY
the mandate of the United States al
that will be changed through new ia
cilities of transportation. The His
pano-American congress just CLOSED
at Madrid will fail in its attempt t.
divert all the trade of South America
from us to Europe. What encourag
ing symptoms that our trade will
Cuba and Porto Rico has been quad
rupled! But that is only prophecy
"On the south three gates"-yea,
hundred gates!
In anticipation Of what is sure t.
come, nail on the front door of thi'
nation an advertisement:
Wanted. - One hundred thousand
men to build railroads through Soutl
America and the islands of the ,sei
under our protection.
Wanted.-A thousand telegraph op
orators.
Wanted.-One hundred million dol
lars worth of dry goods from thu
great cities of the United States.
Wanted.-All the clocks you car
make at New Haven and all the brain
you can spare from Boston and al
the bells you can mold at Troy ant
all the reapers you can fashion a
Chicago and all the hams you cal
turn out at Cincinnati and all thu
railroad iron you can send from Pitts
burgh and all the statesmen that yol
can spare from Washington.
Wanted. - Right away, wanted b,
new and swift steamers, wanted b,
rail-train, lawyers to plead ou
causes.
Wanted.-Doctors to cure our sick
Wanted. - Ministers to evangeliz
our population.
Wanted. - Professors to establish
our universities.
ION the south three gates" yea, +,
thousand gates. South America and al
the islands of the sea approximate ar
rightfully our commercial domain, ant
the congress of the United States will
see to it that We get what belong
to us.
And then tides of travel will be some
what diverted from Europe to our is
| lands at the south and to the land O
the Aztecs. Much of the S125 900 90,
yearly expended by Americans in Eu
rope will be expended in southern ex
| ploration, in looking at some of tn,
ruins of the At cities which Stephen
found only a little way apart and il
walking through the great doorway
and ove- the miracles Of Mosaic ans
along by the monumental glories o
another civilization, and ancien
America will with cold lips of ston
kiss the warm lips of modern America
and to have seen the Andes and Popo
catapetl will be deemed as importan
as to have seen the Alpine and Balkal
| ranges, and there will be fewer peopl
spoiled by foreign travel, and in on
midst less Of the poor and nauseatin
imitation of the French shrug and til
intentional hesitancy of a brainles
foreign swell. The fact is that man,
are made vain by European travel. and
| though sensible when they embarked
| they return with a collar and crava
and shoe and a coat and pronun
citation and contempt for America
Institutions and bend of the elbo,
that make one believe in evolution
backward from man to ape. OF tn