The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1901-01-19
TALMAGE SERt,iiG,Nn
!LNOW's DISCOURSE BY T-t .3.r 3
VINE
Subject Onr Nations Needs-We Shouia
show More Gratitude to God FOR his
blessings Our Lack of Appreciation
OF the Lords bounty.
Downright 1919

WASHINGTON, D. C. DR.. TaImagf
nreachos discourse Of Christian patriot
ism, and shows the resources OF our c"uh
try. and predicts the time when an ,ne
world will have the same blessings. ~, X
two texts are, Revelations XXI. TO- w
the south three gates" Psalm cSiVli, ~
"He hath not dealt so with any nation.
Among the greatest needs OF our co'h
trv ;s more gratitude to God for the un.
pareIleled prosperity bestowed upon US
One of NV texts calls us to international
comparison What nation on all the plan.
ct has Of late had such enlargement OF
commercial opnortnnitv as is now opening
before this natione Cuba and Porto REQ
and the Philippine Islands brought into
close contact with us. and through steam
shin subsidy and Nicaragua canal. when
will surely be afforded by Congress. all the
rcurb!ics Of South America VIII he brought
into most active trade with the United
States. con the south three gates.
While orr next door neighbors. the south
prn republics and neigh5orins colonies.
imported from Euro0ean countries "NV
miles away Sf-5 GOO 900 worth OF goods IN
a year. only sl26 900 600 worth went from
.ha limited States 1925 600. 600 ont Of 1913
100000. only one-ffth of the trade ours,
European nations taking the four fingers
ana Fl"ll.p us liz ptOt t'AN'+-p -''' 49,
this is to be changed There is nothing
but A comparative ferry between the Isl.
and. which have recently come under our
protection. and only a ferry between us
and Bolivia. Perm. Paraguay, lru=1ay.
Venezuela Salvador. Nicaraguh, to!onl-
ola. Costa R;ca. Ecuador and Brazil, while
there are ra-ing seas and long vora-os be-
tween them and Europe. By the mandate
Of the United States all that will tie
,haaeed through new facilities of transDor-
fation. The HSpano-American congress,
last closed at Madrid. will fail il its at
ternnt to divert all the trade OF South
America from us to Europe.
In anticipation Of what is sure to come
I nail on the front door Of this nation an
Advertisement:
Wanted-One hundred thousand men
10 bald 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.
Warted-All the clocks you can make at
New Haven and all the brains you can
spare from Boston, and all the bells you
ran mold at Troy, and all the Mccormick
reapers Won fashion at Chicago, and all the
hams YOU can turn out at Cincinnati, and
Ill the railroad iron you can send from
Pittsburg, and all the statesmen that you
Fan spare from Washington.
Wanted = Right away, wanted by new
md swfter steamers. wanted by rail train,
.awvers to plead our causes.
Wantcd-Doctors to cure our sick.
Wanted Ministers to evangelze our
population.
Wanted -- Professors to establish our
universities.
"On the three south gates," Yea,
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
jecs Much of the sl25,000 900 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-
lies of another civilization, and ancient
America viii with cold lips Of stone kiss
The warm lips of modern America, and to
have seen the Andes and popocatepetl
will he deemed as important as to have
seen the Alpine and Balkan ranges. And
there will be fewer people spoiled by for
eiCa travel and in our midst less of the
ooorand nauseating imitation of the French
shrug and the intentional hesitancy of
hranless foreign swell. The fact is that
many are made vain by European travel,
and, though sensible when they embarked.
they return with a collar and a cravat and
shoe and coat and pronunciation and
contempt for American institutions and
the bend of the elbow that make one be-
!leve in evolution backward from man to
,pe. 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-
vclopment. '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
STA under the shadow of the dreadful i'll
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 won-
ans soul, is anxious for him to whom she
has given hand and heart, not for political
reasons, but through old-fashoned love
such as blesses our humber dwellings;
India, under the agonies of a 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
insnrrection; Spain in Carlist revolution
AMI pauperized as seldom any nation has
been rauperized; Italy under the horrors
OF her kings assassination; China shud-
derlng with fear Of dsmemberment, her
capital in possession OF foreign nations.
.Atter a rev;ew of the conditions in other
lands can you find more appropriate ut
teranee IN regard to our country than the
exclamation of the text. He hath not
dealt 50 with any nation?"
Compare the autumnal report of har
vests in America this year and the hsr-
vests abroad. Last summer I crossed the
continent Of Europe twice and | saw no
such harve>ts as are spoken of in this
statement Hear it. all YOU men and
women who want everybody to have
enough to cat and wear. | have to tell
you that the corn crop of Our country
this year is one of the four LARGEST
crons on record. 2.l05 Goo.0o1 bushels. The
cotton crop. though smaller than az
some times. will on that account bring
bigger prices, and 50 cotton planters OF
no South Thu wheat