Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1900-12-28
TALMAGE SERMON.
lGNoAy's DISCOURSE BY TIE isLF o.,
VINE

show More Gratitude to God For His
blessings Our Lack of Appreciation
of the Lords Bounty.
Copyright lsoal
WASHINGTON, d. c. DR.. Talmage
breaches discourse of Christian patriot
ism, and shows the resources OF our coun-
try, and predicts the time when all the
world will have the same blessings. His
two texts are, Revelations xxi, l3, "On
the south three gates" Psalm cxlvii, 20,
HE hath not dealt so with any nation"
Among the greatest needs of our coun-
try is more gratitude to God for the un-
parelleled prosperity bestowed upon us.
One of my texts calls us to international
comparison. What nation on all the plan
ct 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 steam
ship 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 neighbors, the south
ern republics and neighboring colonies.
imported from European countries 5000
miles away S675.000, 900 worth of goods in
year, only 1926, 900 worth went from
The United States-Sl26, 000,0 900 out of $685.
100000, only one-ffth of the trade, ours,
European nations taking the four fingers
and leaving us the poor thumb. Now all
this is to be changed. There Is nothing
but comparative ferry between the ISL
ands which have recently come under our
protection. and only a ferry between us
and Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay,
Venezuela, Salvador, Nicaragua, Colon
ola, Costa Rica. Ecuador and Brazil, while
there are raging seas and long voyages be-
tween them and Europe. BY the mandate
of the United States all that will be
changed through new facilities of transpor-
tation. The Disqualification congress,
Just closed at Madrid, will fail in its at
tempt to divert all the trade of South
America from us to Europe.
In anticipation of what is sure to come
[ nail on the front door of this nation an
advertisement:
Wanted-One hundred thousand men
20 build railroads through South America
and the islands of the sea under our pro-
lection.
Wanted-A thousand telegraph opera
tors
Wanted-One hundred million dollars
worth of dry goods from the great cities
If 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 fashion at Chicago, and all the
hams you can turn out at Cincinnati, and |
al the railroad iron you can send from |
Pttsburg, and all the statesmen that you
,an spare from Washington.
NJ Il Aa1 l,-,
md swfter steamers, wanted by rail train, |
lawyers to plead our causes.
Wanted-Doctors to cure our sick.
Wanted-Ministers to evangelize our
population.
Wanted - Professors to establish our
universities.
"On the three south gatesl" Yea, a
thousand gates South America and all
the islands of the sea approximate are
rightfully our commercial domain, and
he Congress of the United States will see
TO it that we get what belongs to us.
And then tides of travel will be some
what diverted from Europe to our islands
at the south and to the land of the Az
Iecs Much of the sl25, 900 yearly ex-
pended by Americans in Europe will be
expended in southern exploration, in look
'ng at some of the ruins of the forty seven
.ities 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 glo-
.ies of another civilization, and ancient |
America will with cold lips of stone kiss !
the warm lips of modern America and to |
have seen the Andes and Popocatepetl |
will be deemed as important as to have |
seen the Alpine and Balkan ranges. And |
there will be fewer people spoiled by for |
eign travel and in our midst less of the |
poor and nauseating imitation of the French |
shrug and the intentional hesitancy of a |
branless foreign swell. The fact is that |
many are made vain by European travel,
and, though sensible when they embarked,
they return with collar and a cravat and
shoe and coat and a pronunciation and
a contempt for American institutions and
the bend of the elbow that make one be-
lieve in evolution backward from man to
APE. OF the many thousands who now cross
the sea annually thousands will on pleasure
and business visit southern lands and so
tourists and merchants and scientists and
capitalists will all help in this national de-
veiopment. "On the south three gates"
And what other nation has such openings
for commercial enlargement as ours?
Again, in this international comparison
notice the happy condition of our country
as compared with most countries. Rus
ness 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 a wom-
ans 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 famine which
though somewhat lifted has filed hun
dreds of thousands of graves and thrown
millions into orphanage; Austria only
waiting for her genial Francis Joseph to
die so as to let Hungary rise in rebellion
and make the palace of Vienna quake with
Instruction; Spain in Carlist revolution
and pauperized as seldom any nation has
been pauperized; Italy under the horrors
of her kings assassination; China shud-
dering with fear of ACKNOWLEDGMENT her
capital in possession Of foreign nations.
After review of the conditions in other
lands can you find a more appropriate Mt
terance in regard to our country than the
exclamation of the text, He hath not
dealt SO with any nation?"
Compare the autumnal report of har-
vests in America this year and the har.
vests abroad Last summer / crossed the
continent of Europe twice, and | saw no
such harvests as are spoken of in this