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REY. DR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Washington Divine's
Sunday Sermon.
Subject: “America for God,”
Trxr: “And I beheld another beast coming
~-Revelation xiif,, 11.
Is America mentioned in the Bible? Learned
inspired books of Daniel and
agree in saving that the pard mentionod
in the Bible meant Grecia, and the beer
meant Medo-Persin, and the lon meant
1
leo
out of the earth,
and the voice dragon,
country, because among
seemed to come un out of
Columbus djs :
with
of a
two horas like a lamb
means our
other reasons it
the earth when
wwered it, and it has been for
the most part at peace like a lamb unless as-
saulted by foreign foe, in which case it has
two horns strong and sharp and the voice
of a dragon loud to make all Nations hear
the roar of its indignation, Is it reasonable
to suppose that God would leave out from
the prophecies of His book this whole west-
ern hemisphere? No, no! “I beheld anoth-
er beast coming up out of the earth, and he
had two borns like a lamb, and he spake as
a dragon,” ;
Garmany for scholarship,
manufactories, France {o
for antiguiti
fea for God,
I start with the cheering ti
most popular book on earth
Bible, the m PO nstitu
to-day is ti
name on
this aud
would, it
Him,
A i i te 0 confi fen
for God: If tl
show the strength
Ane of fortresses to
my reasons f 4
will be d Let us
for God, whether we are a
Gettysburg. Toere is a F
way of braggis Is
most tired and
throu
$0 muc
faceti
pr
England
manna,
¢, Italy fo s
ought th
18
usly
the we
fect of
the re
ne
ilk ANY
ur
od no
f8 ale
beer |
barrie
nd
forth
wret
want
an FE
take
adrink,
American want
thing he cag
Plenty o
many drunkards die y will give us
under the heel of this worst n of
centuries? How many hopes blasted?
many children turned out on the world ac- |
cursed with the stigma of a debauched an-
eestry? Until the worm of the distillery be- |
comes the worm that never dies and the
smoke of the heated wine vats becomes the |
smoke of the torment that aseendoth up fore |
ever and ever. Alcoholism, swearing -—not |
with hand uplifted toward heaven, for from
that direction it can get no help, but with |
right hand stretched down toward the per |
dition from which it came up—aswearing tat |
it will not cease as jong as there are aay
den
and women to destroy, any ymmortal souls
more civilizations to extinguish.
Then there is what in America we eall
gocialism, in France communism and in
Russia nihilism, the three names for one and
the same thing, and having but two doe.
trines in its creed. First, there {8 no God:
second, there shall be no rights of property,
One of their chief journals printed this senti-
ment: “Dynamite ean be made out of the
dead bodies of capitalists as well as out of
bogs.” One of the leaders of communism
Jeoft inscribed on his prison wall, where he
had been justly incarcerated. these words:
“When once you are dead, there is an end of
everything, Therefore, ye scoundrels, grab
whatever you ean—only don't let yourselves
be grabbed, Amen.” There are in this
country hundreds of thousands of these lazy
geoundrels, Honest men deplore it when
they cannot get work, but those of whom I
Ypak will not do work when they can get it.
tried to employ one who asked me for
money. I said, “Down in my esllar I have
some wood to saw, and I will pay you for
down stairs and found
pany both buck and saw,
Boolalism, communism and nihilism mean,
“Too wicked to acknowledge God and too
fest obstacles to be
ganized eloments
politieal rain,
There are the fastnesses of infidelity and
atheism and fraud and political corruption
oversome aro
of domestio, social
land, While the
mightiest agencies for righteousness on earth
are good and healthful newspapers, and
good and healthful books, and our da.
pendence for intelligence and Christain
achievement is upon them, what word
among the more than 100.000
words in
voeabulary ean describe the work of that
ehinf
What man, attempting anything for
flithy wing? What g
its hinderment? What other obstacle in all
the land so appalling? Bux I eannot
more than one-half the battlements, the bas-
tions, the intrenchments, the redoubts, the
fortifications to be stormed and overcome if
this country is ever taken for God, The sta-
tistics are so awful that if we had nothing
but the multiplication ta! and the arith-
le
it.” Fora little while I heard the saw go-
ing, and then I heard it no more. 1 went
metin the attempt to evangelize America
ot Babel before it dropped on the plain of
Where are the drilled troops to
rafnst those fortifleations as long ns
t? Where are the batteries that
ered against theses walls?
Wheres are the g 3 of large enough
rin these gates? Well, let
the f all, w
| be our leader until
baldi, with 1000
another
General
the con
us |
o is
the wi
yok
first o
Ire
COMMAan
ith 10,000 Sher
one
slaware with a
fer than
American
zh the Na
sank in Hell
great leaders, was
and it was an
Hye wi le
ve mues
mignt
'
1 His native
id His pat}
it He
Way
Hginus
anitarian
Fre
at
n te all iyin ) hun
cities,
ws did the relief gO
ranstown oO .
n earthquake,
ou th
and Ohio
¢ y oii
Jarist send out His
spalize the word?
will do more than
s contribution of Ch
twelve apostiea to
From a city. What
any other place, by
etian men and women
and means, in this work of taking Ameriea
for God? New York City. The wav Paris
goes, goes France, The war Berlin goes,
The way Edinburgh goes,
goes Seotland.. The way London goes, goes
England, he way New York and a couple
other cities go, goes Amerioa, May the
Eternal God wake us up to the stupendous
iseun!
Another thing quoted pessimistically is the
si and overtopping fortune in this country,
and they say it means concentrating wealth
and luxuriousness aad display and moral
ruin. It is my observation that it is psople
who have but limited resources who make
the most gpiurges, and 1 ask you, Who are
endowing colleges and theologioal semi-
naries? Did you ever hear of Peter Cooper
and James Lenox, and sainted William E.
Dodge, and the Lawrences Amos and Ab-
bott, while I refrain from mentioning living
benefactors who, quite as generous and
Christian, are in this assembly at this mo-
ment planning what they ean do in these
Says, and in their last will and testament in
this campaign that roposes taking Amerion
for God? The Tr mite, honored of
the Lord, is to have its part in this com-
tinental capture, but we must have more
than that, and more right away. Many of
the men that expect to get the blessing for
bestowing the widow's mite will not get the
blessing. In the first piace, they are not
widows, and In the next place they have no
“mite,”
The time is coming--hasten it, Lord—and
I think you and I will see ft, when, as Jo-
soph, the wealthy Arimathman, gave for the
dead Christ a costly mausoleum, the affluent
men and women of this country will rise in
their strength and build for cur King,
one Jesus, the throne of this American eontl
nent,
Another thing quoted for discouragement,
but which I quote for encourngement, is for.
eign immigration, Now that from
Garden we turn back by the first poor shir
the foreign vagabondism, we are
the bravest and the best,
Europes the forelg
ministers of the gospel, and the fore i
torneve, and the foreign merchants, and the
pulpit, our courtrooms, our store
houses and our benefleent institution
what a putting back of every monetary,
&t nf the
Nu
will
land! ‘This commingling here of
under the blessiag of God
in seventy-five 100
magnificent of
the aver
the one
mit
produce
the most
and woman
They will have
or
style
world
wit
man
of
of another, the generosity of another,
msthetio taste of another, the high moral
character of another, and when that man
and woman step forth, their brain and nerve
and muscle an intertwining of the fibers of
all Nationalities, nothing but the new eleo.
tric photographié apparatus, that can
elear through body, mind and soul ean take
them an adequate pieture, But the
foreign population of America is than
ol
jess
one-aleventh of all our population, and why
fuss about foreign immigration?
Eighty-nine born Americans to eleven for-
! If eighty-nine of y
us
men or eightv-nins of
ightyv-uine of us Oh
us Georginn
aro not «
are astarveling,
culi that oug
But now
under
wine ies
are the weap
potent
the wav
leaaer,
in of
are to be
img ine
ri phrase
Natio v 1
all to
ail mn
Apoeal
PENSIONERS ON T
the
interesting Facia,
Secretary Smith Gives Renate Some
at it
r informed the
1. 1808
destructive
820,
CAUSeR, AS
# assannt
on» ouas
gorvice
; roped,
ny, 83;
tr non-depend-
ng peocsioned under other
disability or death not due to the
{ reenlistment, 2;
soldiers on whose account claim was made
found to he still living, 4; declarations being
invalid, 4
oldiers, 5
COST OF THE CUBAN WAR.
The Spaniards Say They Have Spent
830,000,000 in a Year,
Madrid papers’'contain some curious official
statistios regarding the war in Caba, Ao-
acording to these there were sent to the island
up to March, 1896, 118.000 men. Thirteen
thousand of these wore sant at the time of
the outbreak of the rebellion, The cost of
the war thus far is placed at 860,000,000
For the second year the cost is estimated at
$75,000,000, Each soldier in Cuba costs the
Government $500 annually. During the first
veur 406 scidiers were killed and 3472 died
from yellow fever.
The Havana correspondent of the London
Pall Mall Gazette says that Captain-General
Weyler will no more suppress the rebellion
than did General Martinez Campos. The
United States, he adds, should, on the score
of humanity and her general political and
findnoial interests, insist on autonomy for
the Cubans,
Arbitration for a Suit,
In the libel suit brought by the Governor
of Vermont nst the Ratliand Herald to
recover £50,000 because of an article charg-
ing the Governor with the responsibility for
liquor selling in the Van Ness House at Bur-
lington, owned and kept by Governor Wood.
bury, a stipulation has been signed by both
parties submitting the matter for arbitration
to the Justioes of the Supreme Court,
Horseless Carriages Making Headway,
Horseless carriages are gaining headway
m Paris. Four hundred and twenty-six of
those vehicles have been registerod at the
Two Kinds of Herolsm,
No one is irretrievably lost in whom
the sense of honor survives, A
paper recounts the case of no woman
vho had arrested, convicted of
gome offense, and sentenced to fmpris
onment. A detective was taking her 1
the prefecture from Boulogne
by steamer, wi nt
Parle
heen
§
sur-Seine
“n the Concords
bridge a well-dressed
gelf Into the river
before thelr eyes
The officer
excellent swimmer; it
see a life lost
gave, if he were free to act
“If I were alone,” he
would save that man.”
“Save him,"
walt for you at the plier.”
The officer for an
and then plunged Into ¢he
hud barely the
when na boat struck him
he lost his grip
and
man threw him
and was drowning
was a brave man and
COST him un strug
gle to vhich he might
exclaimed,
snld the woman, “I
will
hesitated instant,
He
drownin nan
water
sejzed
vainly,
was pulled into
itself narrowly escn
steamer
The heroic
erowd who bh
affoeg
ad wi
and the body of th
to save wi Ie
not the
for
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shown,
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to Lier
Cheaper than Paying for a Bed.
Many people In New )
8100 Reward. B100,
AN INVITATION,
It i leassy o Publish the fol-
(sives
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she has to dra
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living ever treated so many cases of
female ills, and from this vast experi
y it
she has gained the very knowledge
that will help your case.
She is glad to have yon write or cali
upon her. Yon will find her a woman
full of sympathy, with a great desire to
assist those who are sick. If her medi-
cine is not what you need, she will
frankly tell you so, and there are nine
chances out of ten that she will tell
you exactly what to do for relief. She
asks nothing in return except your
good will, and her advice has relieved
thousands,
Surely, any ailing woman, rich or
poor, is very foolish if she does not
take advantage of this generous offer
of assistance,
Never in the history of medicine has
the demand for one particular remedy
for female diseases equalled that at-
tained by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound, and never in the
history of Mrs. Pinkham's wonderful
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0 great as it is to-day.
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