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TALMAGE
SERMON
By Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMACr, 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. 10, 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
| a crisis in battle or a campaign when
victory. MS a 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 Arcoa 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 onrush-
ing charge of the pursuing Egyptians.
But the divine command given to the
children of Israel chat they 20 for
ward" Is applicable to the children Of
God at the present time. believe we
are at n crisis in the worlds history.
In 1890 my father preached sermon
entitled Last Decade of the Cen
fury" 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 I want 10 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 1t. l want to
show this because ] 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
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 IN Gods name.
The Worlds Redemption.
The first great battle for the worlds
redemption was fought and won when
every mans fireside became his "clty
of refuge" or his imprcgnable castle,
from which no feutlal lord or arbitrary
cheftain could dislodge him. 1t was
won when husband and father
could walk into his home and shut the
door and defy the great wide world az
he 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 a man to own his own
home and to have an exclusive claim
over his wife and children is recog.
nized in every civilized land. We have
all read the story OF The Miller and
the 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
ed To buy it. The miller would not sell,
The king offered three, four, five times
the value of the property. The miller
still refused That land was to him
above the kaluc Of money. 1t repre-
scented to him the home of his child
hood and the home of his ancestors
"Then" said the king. II will copiis-
cate your land and take it forcibly
from you" Then" said the miller to
the king, II will go to law and compel
you to give me back my property
The king was helpless. He knew that
in Prussia the king might sit upon a
throne, but there was n power greater
than the king. That one was the law
protecting the man intrenched behind
the impregnable walls of his own
home.
But this condition of individual rights
of man and of family did not al
ways exist in the human race. There
was time when the names husband
and wife did not mean what they dc
today. "Therc was time" wrote Sill
John Lubbock in his book entitled
1.-THE Origin of Civilization" when In
many tribes the children took the name
OF the mother instead of the father be
cause the name of the father was new
er known There was time when
by the old fcudal system, the corner
stone Of society was not in the home OF
the laborcr, but in the castled walls OF
the near by ruling lord. The feuda
lord rot only owned his peoples cat
tie and sheep and horses, but If he
wished he could do what he would
with his serfs wife and children
There was timesAyhen every woman
became by law the wife of every male
member of her tribe and every mar
the husband of every female member