Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-05-11
TALMAGE
SERMON
BY Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. DID,.
Pastor Of Jefferson Park Presby-
terrain Church, Chicago

Chicago. May 10.-In this sermon
the preacher takes an optimistic view
OF the spiritual outlook and sees in the
growing predominance OF the Anglo
Saxon race an augury that foreshad- /
ows the spread OF the gospel through !
out the world. The text is Exodus |
xiv. 10. Speak unto the children or |
Israel that they go forward"
Napoleon Bonaparte, in some respects
the greatest warrior OF modern times,
once declared. There sometimes comes
a crisis I'm battle or u campaign when
victory, as a bird. will hover over the
standards OF that general who has
brains and grit enough TO give the
command, Forward, marchp" This
was the way the French commander
defeated the two great wings OF the
Austrian army at Montenotte and
Ceva. This WIS the way he won his
battles at Arcola and Marengo and
Wagram. This was the way he tried
20 win Waterloo, when he commanded
Marshal Ney to lead the Old Guard
against the solid squares OF the British
infantry. And this was the way Moses,
the great law giver and soldier, LED
the children OF Israel out of Egypt,
over the sands and on through the Red
sea. and freed them from the onrush-
ing charge of the pursuing Egyptians.
But the divine command given to the
children of Israel that they go for
ward" is applicable to the children or
God at the present time. l believe we
are at q crisis in the worlds history.
In 1890 my father preached sermon
entitled Last Decade of the Cen
fury" BY II he tried to show how
easily the world could be brought to
Christ within ten years If every Chris
tan would annually bring only one
soul to Christ and these new converts
in turn would also individually bring
one soul to Christ every following
wear. But today | want to show that
the world can be brought to Christ
even in less time than that If the Chris
tian church will only realize Its full
opportunity and grasp ii. l want to
show this because | believe all the
great preliminary battles have been
fought and won which are necessary
Lexington and Bunker Hill and Prince
ton and Saratoga had to precede the
Yorktown surrender so l would trace
the great onward movements of the
human race TO show how we are fast
approaching the golden milestone
where the world can be redeemed from
sin. Then would try to show how the
Anglo-Saxon race, as human agency
can take the chief part in this glad
some and worldwide triumph If we
will only move forward i'm Gods name
The worlds Redemption.
The first great battle for the worlds
redemption was fought and won when
every mans freside became his "city
of refuge" or his impregnable castle
from which no feudal lord or arbitrary
chiefta!n could dislodge him. 1t was
won when husband and fathe!
could walk into his home and shut thu
door and defy the great wide world a
he said: These goods are mine. Thi
wife is mine. These children are mine
and no man dare touch them" 1t wa
won when an honest man, no matte
how humble he might be, had RICH
In fee simple to the property which hi
energy had earned, to the woma
whom he had led to the marriage alta
and to the children who were born t
them.
The right of a man to own his ow
home and to have an exclusive daiI
over his wife and children Is recot
nized in every civilized land. We hav
n N
the Emperor" Frederick the Grea
wanted to enlarge his palace ground
A miller owned little patch of Ian
near the royal domain. The king offe
ed to buy IL. The miller would not SCI
The king offered three, four, five time
the value OF the property. The mile
still refused. That land was to hi
above the value OF money. 1t repr
scented TO him the home OF his chill
hood and the home of his ancestor
Then" said the king, Il will conf
cate your land and take 1t forcib
from you" Then" said the miller
the king, 81 will go to law and comp
YOU to give me back my property
The king was helpless, He knew tn
ln Prussia the king might sit upon
throne. but there was a power great
than the king. That one was the Ia
protecting the man intrenched behi
the impregnable walls Of his on
home.
But this condition OF individual rigl
OF a man and OF family did not
ways exist In the human race. Tbs
was a time when the names husoa
and wife did not mean what they
today. There was a time" wrote
John Lubbock In his book EMIT
The Origin OF Civilization" when
many tribes the children took the ma
OF the mother instead Of the father
cause the name OF the father was
or known" There was a time VII
Nv the old feudal system. the corr