Milford chronicle., 1903-05-15
TAL>MAGSE
SERMON
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By RRR
FRANK DE WITT TALa4AGE, DID,,
Pastor Of JeRersen Park Presby-
terian 0aureh, chicago


Chicago My 1c.-ln this serrnoI
the preacher takes an optimistic view
Of the spiritual outlook and sees in th'
growing preGOminlncc 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 90 forward"
Napoleon Bonaparte. In some respects
the greatest warrior Of modern tines,
once declared, There sometimes comes
a crisis in battle or 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, marchr" 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 Onrush-
ing charge Of the pursuing Egyptians.
But the divine command given to the
children of Israel that they 90 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
tian 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 II the Chris
tian church will only realize its full |
opportunity and grasp 1t. want to
show this because | believe all the 4
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 I 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 II 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 freslde 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 {
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 f
home and to have an exclusive claim r
over his wife and children is recog-
lized in exery civilized land. We have Il
nj read the story of "The Miller and +
The Emperor" Frederick the Great p
wanted to enlarge his palace grounds n
A miller owned a little patch of land II
near the royal domain. The king offer p
ID TO buy it. The miller would not sell h
The king offered three, four, five times a
he value of the property. The miller o.
till refused. That land was to him n
lbove the value of money. 1t repre-. n
iented to him the home Of his child e
lood and the home of his ancestors. "
Then" said the king, Il will confis- =,
ate your land and take it forcibly NJ
rom YOU" "Then." said the miller to A
he king, Il will go to law and compel nj
ou TO give me back my property" p,
The king was helpless. He knew that III
n Prussia the king might sit upon q
hrone, but there was a power greater if
han the king. That one was the law h,
rotectins the man intrenched behind p
he imprcgnable walls of his own m
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But this condition of individual rights in
{ man and of a family did not al ST
'ays exist in the human race. There ri
as a time when the names husband
nd wife did not mean what they do dr
'day. "'ghere was a time" wrote Sir hf
)hn Lubbock in his book entitled tb
rhe Origin Of Civilization" when in m
any tribes the children took the name TO
the mother instead Of the father be ro
use the name Of the father was nev. s.
known" There was time when. ii,
? the old fcudal system. the corner q,
one Of society was not in the home Of n,
e laborer but in the castled wallis Of op
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