The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-14
TALNAGE
SERMON
By Rev.
FRANK DE WITT ThLMAGE. DID,.
Pastor Of Jefferson Park presby-
terrain Church, Chicago

Chicago. May 1O.-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, Is, Speak unto the children of
Israel that they go forward"
Napoleon Bonaparte, in some respects
the greatest warrior Of modern times.
once declared, There sometimes comes
crisis in battle or campaign when
victory, as bird, will hover over the
standards of that general who has
brains and grit enough to give the
command, Forward, march," This
was the way the French commander
defeated the two great wings of the
Austrian army at .Montenotte and
Ceva. This was the way he won his
battles at Arcola and Marengo and
Wagram. This was the way he tried
to 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 onrusli-
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 Of
God at the present time. I believe we
are at a crisis in the worlds history.
In 1890 my father preached a sermon
entitled Last Decade of the Cen
tury." By it 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
year. But today l want to show that
the world can be brought to Christ
even in less time than that if the Chris
tan church will only realize its full
and grasp it. l want to
show this because l believe all the
great preliminary battles have been
fought and won which are necessary
for this final triumph. AS Concord and
Lexington and Bunker Hill and Prince
ton and Saratoga had to precede the
Yorktown surrender, so would trace
hn rf af tina
human race to show how we are fast
the golden milestone
where the world can be redeemed from
sin. Then would try to show how the
race, as human agency.
can take the chief part in this glad
some and worldwide triumph if we
will only move forward in Gods name,
The Worlds Redemption.
The first great battle for the worlds
was fought and won when
every mans fireside became his city
Of refuge" or his impregnable castle.
from which no feudal lord or arbitrary
chieftain could dislodge him. 1t was
won when a husband and father
could walk into his home and shut the
door and defy the great wide world as
be said: These goods are mine. This
wife is mine. These children are mine.
and no man dare touch them" 1t was
won when an honest man, no matter
how humble he might be, had right
IN fee simple to the property which his
energy had earned, to the woman
whom he had led to the marriage altar
and to the children who were born to
them. -
The right of man to own his own
home and to have an exclusive claim
over his wife and children is reeog
1ized In exery civilized land. We have
lii read the story of THE Miller and
he Emperor" Frederick the Great
wanted to enlarge his palace grounds.
A miller owned a little patch of land
near the royal domain. The king offer
ID to buy it. The miller would not sell.
The king offered three, four, five times
he value of the property. The miller
IT'LL refused That land was to him
above the value of money. 1t repre-
,ented to him the home Of his child
hood and the home of his ancestors.
Then" said the king. 81 will confis-
.ate your land and take it forcibly
rom you" Then" said the miller to
he king, 81 will go to law and compel
7ou to give me back my property.
Che king was helpless. He knew that
n Prussia the king might sit upon a
hrone, but there was power greater
han the king. That one was the law
protecting the man intrenched behind
he impregnable walls of his own
home. -. 4
But this condition of individual rights
4 man and of family did not al
Ways exist in the human race. There
vas time when the names husband
md wife did not mean what they do
oday. There was time" wrote Sir
ohm Lubbock in his book entitled
The Origin Of Civilization" when in
many tribes the children took the name
4 the mother instead of the father be-
ause the name of the father was new
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