The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-12-22
A FAVORED NATION.
Dr.. Talmage Speaks Of Prosperity
Of American People.
Divine BIessthEs showersa uRoa u
He Draw Comparisons BE-
tween Oar 0wa ana
other Countries.

tCcpyright. isoo. BY Louis klopsch, N. r.
Washington. Dee Il
DR.. Talmage breaches a discourse
Of Christian patriotism aud shows the
resources Of our country and predicts
the time when all the world viii have
the same blessings. His two texts ART
Revelation xxi, 10, ~0n the south
three gates" Psalm exlvii.: He
hath not dealt 80 with any nation"
Among the greatest needs Of our
country is more gratitude 10 God fo'
the unparalleled prosperity bestowed
upon us, One of my texts calls NJ
10 international comparison. What
nation on all the planet has Of late
had such enlargement Of commercial
opportunity as is now opening befors
this nation? Cuba and Porto Riec
and the Philippine islands brought
into close contact with ua and
through steamship subsidy and Me
Aragua canal, which viii surely b
afforded by congress- all the republics
Of South America will be brought inte
most active trade with the United
States. "On the south three aateG.'
While our next-door n~eighbors. the
southern republics and neighborins
colonies, imported from European
countries 5000 miles away SeTs.0O0, o0t
worth Of goods in 8 year. only Slss,'
100000 worth went from the United
~States-Sl26, oOo, 900 out Of s67s, ooo.'
600, only one-hfth of the trade ours
European nations taking the four nm
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 q ferry between us and Bo'
livia, Peru. Paraguay, Uruguay, Vens-
zuela, Salvador. Nicaragua, coiomSts
Costa Rics, Ecuador, Brazil, whils
there are raging seal and long voy'
age between them And Europe. By
the mandate Of the United States oil
that will be changed through new ia
e%ilities Of transportation. Ths HIS
pano-Ameriean congress just closed
~ Madrid will fail In its attempt q
divert all the trade Of South Amsrics
from US to Europe. What snooursg
ing symptoms that our trade with
Cuba and Porto Rico has been quad
rupledi But that Is only a prophecy
"On the south three gatss"-ysa,
hundred gatssl
In anticipation Of what 10 sure u
come, ! nail ON the front door Of thil
nation an advertisement:
Wanted. - One hundred thousand
men 20 build railroads through south
America and the islands Of the SCI
under u protection.
W~anted.-A thousand telegraph op
orators.
Wanted.-0ne hundred million dol
lars worth Of dry goods from thu
great cities OF the United States
Wanted.-Al the clocks you csI
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 reapsrs you can fashion a
Chicago and all the hams you ear
turn out at Cincinnati and all tn,
railroad iron you can send from Pitts
burgh and all the statesmen that yoI
can spare from Washington.
Wanted. = Right away. wanted b,
new and swift steamers, wanted b,
rail-train, lawyers to plead oui
eausss.
Wanted.-Doctors to cure our sick
Wanted. = Ministers to sVangelis'
our population.
Wanted. - Professors to estabhL
our universities
"On the south three gates" yea. I
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 ii that We get what belong
to u.
And then tides Of travel will be some
what diverted from Europe to 10
lands at the south and TO the land o
the Aziscs. Much Of the sl25 ,000,o 0l
yearly expended by Americans in Eu
rope will be expended in southern sx
ploTAtion. in looking at some Of tn
ruins Of the ~ cities which Stephen
found only a little way apart and II
walking through the great doorway
and over the miracles Of Mosaic ant
along By the monumental gloriss o
a-.NL.- ntwf1tuuNsAA - .-g.-
America viii With cold Hps Of stonI
kiss the warm lips Of modern Americs
and to have seen the Andes and Popo
catapetl will be deemed as importan
as TO have seen the Alpine and Balkai
ranges, and there will be fewer peopb
spoiled by foreign travel, and in on
midst less OF the poor and n~aussatinl
imitation Of the French shrug and III
intentional hesitaney Of q brainles
foreign swell. The fact 10 that man,
are made vain by European travel. and
though sensible when they embarked
they return with = collar and . erava
and a shoe and q eoat and . pronun
citation and q contempt for Americas
institutions and . bend Of the elboy
that make one believe In svolutisl
backward from mar to ape. OF III
many thousands who now GROSS the sei
annually thousands will, on pleasur,
and business, visit southern lands, an,
80 tourists and merchants and seisn
fists and capitalists will all help In thi
national development. ION the soutl
three gates" And what other nstioi
has such openings for commercial On
largement a. ours?
Again, in this international CON
parison notice the happy condition o
our country as compared with mos
countries; Russia, under the shados
Of the dreadful illness Of her great an,
good emperor, who now, more than an,
man In all the world, represents 'pescI
on earth. good will TO men," and who's
empress, near the most solemn hou
that ever coneS to a woman's soul, I
anxious for him TO whom she has Rvsi
hand and heart, not for political rss
sons. but through old-fsshioned Low
such as blesses our humber dwellings
India under the agoniss Of q famin
which, though somewhat lifted. ha
filled hundreds Of thousands OF grave
and thrown millions into o~rphsnage
Austria only waiting for her Eenis
Francis Joseph TO die 80 a. to let Hun
gary rise in rebellion and make tn
palace Of Vienna quake with insurres
ton; Spain In Csrllst revolution an
psupsrizsd; Italy under the horrors o
hsr kings assassination; China shud
dering with a fear Of diSmembermeni
her capital in possession Of foreign NJ
tlons. After a review Of the eonditi0
in other lands can you find a more sp
~propriste utteTanes In regard to gu
country than the exclamation OF til
text: "He hath not dealt so with an,