The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1903-03-15
DR.. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
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Chicago. March Sin this sermon the
preacher shows that there are other than
commercial and financial obligations be-
tween nations and that Christian America
owes a debt both in the spiritual and phil
anthropic sense to the modern Greeks and
barbarians which she now has oppor-
tunity to pay The text is Romans i, Il,
Il am debtor both to the Greeks and to
the barbarians."
national debit 1t is popularity under
stood to be a financial obligation which a
government has pledged itself to pay.
Sometimes this is contracted in the in
terest of single subject. About thirty
years ago the English government as
stunned a debt of over s25. 100000 to lib
crate a single man, Captain Cameron,
who had been unjustly endungeoned by
the king of Abyssinia in the rocky fort
ress of Magdala. 1t took six months for
the news of the outrage to travel to
England, but in less than eleven days af-
terward a British army of 5000 men, un-
der General Napier, was ON its way. 1t
not only crossed the seas, but also
marched a terrible Journey of 400 miles
under a tropical sum- until the troops
reached Maguala and battered down the
fortress and rescued their inearcerated
countryman civilized country is u.s.
ually ready to begin any undertaking,
assume any financial responsibility, in or
der to protect it's own from the tyrannical
clutches of foreign foe.
Sometimes an extra financial obligation
is assumed by a government in times of
WI In W A de.
pleted treasury during the financial panic
of 1898 caused the President of the United
States to issue $500, 900 600 of government
bonds Some of these interest bearing
bonds were purchased by foreign capt.
talists and others by American citizens.
But there are still other forms and causes
of International obligations. A govern
ment can owe to foreign lands more than
money. Such definitions as we have given
are right as far as they go, but they are
too circumscribed When the Hebrew
Paul wrote, II am debtor both to the
Greeks and to the barbarians,' l do not
believe he had any idea of a financial
Interpretation. Referring to Greece, he
was abiding to the intellectual influ-
ence of the Athenian capital, which made
itself felt throughout the world. That city
swayed the scepter In the domain of in
telleetuality; it ruled the world of cul-
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pen and the Demosthenean oratory of a
patriot rousing the people to wage war
against King Philip. When Paul spoke of
the barbarians, l believe he was abiding
to the strength and the Vlriifty which
the world had ABSORBED from the differ-
ent provinces. AS man OF learning he
was indebted to those people to whom he
was about TO present Jesus christ. so TO-
day want TO speak OF America nation
al debt in moral and spiritual sense as
well as In a financial; l want to show
what we should give back to the lands
across the seas in return for what we
have absorbed from them, consciously or
unconsciously. AS we balance our nation
al books the debt side OF our ledger must
be cleared off. III we are nationally hon
est, we are ready to pay Tor what We
have received.
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