6 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, sELLEFONTE 1869, ————————— A NATION'S DANGERS. Dr. Talmage Eloquently Portrays the Country’s Destiny. Momopoly the Overshadowing Curse of Our Land<Nihilism an Evil Power~Infidelity a Source of Weakness, [Copyright, 1899, by Louis Kiopech.) Washington, May 28 In this discourse Dr. Talmage speaks of some of the perils that threaten our American institutions, and points out the path of safety; text, Isaiah 62:4: “Thy land shall be married.” As the greater includes the less, so does the eircle of future joy around our entire world include the epicycle of our own republic. Bold, exhilarant, unique, Divine imagery of the text, At the close of a week In which for four days our national capital was a pageant and all | that grand review and bannered proces- sion and national anthems could celebrated peace, it may not be inapt to anticipate the time when the Prince of Peace and the heir of universal domin- fon shall take possession of this nation, and “thy land shall be:married.” In digeussing the final destiny of this nation {t makes all the difference in the | world whether we are on the way to a funeral or a wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this subject. In pulpits and on platforms and in places of pub- lio concourse I hear so many of the muffled drums of evil prophecy sound- ed, as though we were on the way to na- tional interment, and besides Thebes and Babylon and Tyre in the cemetery of dead nations our republic entombed, that I wish you to stand it is not to be obsequies, but nup- tials; not mausoleums, but altar; not cypress, but orange soms; notrequiem, but wedding march; for “thy land shall be married.” I propose to name some of the suitors who are elaiming the hand of this re- public. This land is so fair, so beaut!- ful, so affluent that it has many suitors, and it will depend muck upon your ad- vice whether this or that s! cepted or rejected. In the fix remark: There is a greedy ing monster who comes seeking the hand of thi that monster is kn monopoly. His scepter is ms the rail track and raphy. advantage and of the people. Things went on to worse until in the three legislatures of New York, New Jersey and vania for a long time monopx« everything. If monopoly fave it passes; if monopoly opy is rejected. Monopoly stands in the railroad depot putting into his pockets in one year $200,000,000 in excess of all reasonable charges for services. Monop- oly holds in his one hand steam power of locomotion and in the other the electricity of swift « munication. Monopoly has the republican party in one pocket and the democratic party in the other pocket. Monopoly decides nominations and elect tions, state election tions. Wi of legislators, giv giving ap; tives to luce them as attorne: carrying their § they ¢ vervstubborr puts down bribery But now as Buchanan the leg! one of our states exp! the manner in whi company had obtained a public land. It was f the senators of that state rece 000 among lower house of that sta tween $5,000 and #1 each ernor of that state received §3 clerk received $5, the lieutenant governor received $1 all the clerks of the legisiature received $5.0 h. while $30,000 lobby agents. That thing on a larger or amaller scale is all the time going on in some of the states of the union, bul it is not so blundering as it used to be, and therefore not so easily exposed or arrested owing « do, was to be under- carpeted blos- wn the wire He does evervthing for } for the robbery fr 8 Own m bad Pennsvl- ly decided ralaw, ose a law, it the th brit are merchar mon when ch a certain railws them, 6 mer te re 2 was divided the among I tell you that the overshad of the United to day is monopoly. He j upc ishel of wheat, upon rack of salt, upon every ton of ,vYery man United moneyed despotism irse Ntates uts his hand neveryl every coal, and and child in the touch of that I rejoice that in 24 states of the union already anti-mo nopoly leagues have been established God speed them in the work of tion. woman feels the “tate = ibera- I have nothing to say against eapi- talists, a man has a right to all money he can make honestly. I have nothing to say against corporations as such; without them no great enter. prise would be possible, but what I do say is that the same principles are to be applied to capitalists and to cor- porations that are applied to the poor. est roan and the plainest laborer. What is wrong for me is wrong for great cor- porations. If I take from you your property without any adequate com- pensation I am a thief, and if a rallway damages the property of the people without making any adequate compen- sation that is a gigantic theft. What is wrong on s small seale is wroag on a large scale. Monopoly in England bas ground hundreds of thousands of her best people into semistarvation, and | in Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants almost Lo madness, and in the | United States proposes to take the | wealth of 60,000,000 or 70,000,000 of peo ple and put it in a few silken wallets, Monopoly, brazen-faced, fronin- vulture-hearted monopoly, of- his hand to this republic. He stretches it out over the lakes and up the | prudence, the great rallroads and over the tele- graph poles of the continent and says: “Here are my heart and hand. Be mine forever." Let the millions of the people north, south, east and west forbid the banns of that marriage, forbid them ut the ballot box, forbid them on the plat form, forbid them by great organiza- tions, forbid them by the overwhelming sentiment of an outraged nation, forbid them by the protest of the church of God, 1 them by prayer to high Heaven Herod shall not have this It shall not be to all-de- yout nopoly that this land is to be married Another suitor claiming the hand of this republic is nihilism. He owns nothing but a knife for uni- versal cutthroatery and a nitroglycerin bomb for universal explosion. He be- lieves in no God, no government, no Heaven and no hell except what he can make on the czar of Russia, keeps many a king practically fmprisoned, killed Abraham Lincoln, would put to death every king and pres ident on earth, and, if he had the power, would climb up until he drive the God of Heaven from His throne and take it himself, the universal butcher. In France it in the United States itis called anarchism; in Russia it is called nihilism, but that last is the most graphic and descriptive wrh i hat earth. He slew could is ealled communism; term. It means complete and eternal smash-up. It would make the holding of property a erime, and it would drive a dagger through your heart and put a torch to your dwelling and turn over this whole land into the possession of theft and lust and rapine and murder Where does this monster live? In all the towns and cities of this land. It of fers its hand to this fair republic. It the ballot the congres- 1 take this rather, di- tear to pieces proposes to box, the legislative hall, assembly It and divide it up, « It would give as much t« worker, to the bad This pan- other sional woul land vide it down the idler as to the the good Nihilism! as to ther, having lands, has set its paw on ou prowled a and it waiting for the time in which pring upon its prey It was nil irned the mn that g inkeries rants years ago; iti it of the wir upon s its} RT nres ber as they go by Ah wer } yet been tested may never be fully had chapel, cathed lege in ashes Let me say it is the w the laboring The honest cry f pressed laboring men is by the vociferation f parchy. T} the range } T it the | ASEfE IND r reforn it , criminals and vagabonds wh through our cities talking about their rights, when their first right is the pen- {tentiary-—if they could be hu and the downtrodden lab could be } shed ur re bread for } tar igen | That tes [) nite wita altar hed skulls wii Lira ing priest must be a dripg Ing assassin, he music must be the smothered groan of multitud 1s victims, the garlands f night shade ples of Sodom 1 of St. Barth No It is not to ni the inary ster, that sang mor yin land is to be married Another suitor for the hand of this When the midnight the grave f 1 Mark's churchyard ev it infidelity proposes something worse than that ing of f Chris tendom in the hope of a resurrection It prop« chisel out fr stones of nation is infidelity ruffians Stewart in des fled Ht shocked: b ervbhody was the rob! all the graves « ses tO m the tomb your Christian dead the words the words annihilation Infidelity proposes to take the letter from the world's Father, inviting the nati to virtue and happiness, and tear it up into fragments so small that t read a word of it. It pro- poses to take the consolation from the broken-hearted and the soe from the dying. Infidelity proposes to swear in the president of the United States, and the supreme court, and the governors of states, and the in the courtroom with their right hand on Paine's “Age of Reason,” or Vol taire’s “Philosophy of History It pro poses to take away from this country the book that makes the difference be- tween the United States and the king dom of Dahomey, between American civilization and Bornesian cannibalisnt. Asleep in Jesus” and substitute “Obliteration ns you canmn 1} ng} iow witnesses | Jt infidelity could destroy the Scrip tures it would in 200 years turn the | civilized nations back to semibarbar. fsm, and then from semibarbarism inte midnight savagery, until the morals of A menagerie of tigers, rattlesnakes and chimpanzees would be better than the morals of the shipwrecked human race. The only impulse in the right direc. tion that this world has ever had has come from the Bible. It was the moth- er of Roman law and of healthful juris That book has been the mother of all reforms and all charities ~mother of English magna charta and American Declaration of Independgnee, Benjamin Franklin, holding that holy book In his hand, stood before an infl- | patriots, by your | Your prayers, hasten on the fulfillment i | del elub in Paris and read to them out of the prophecies of Habakkuk, and the infidels, not knowing what book it was, declared it was the best poetry they had heard I'hat book brought George Washington down on his knees in the Valley Forge, and led the dying Prince Albert to ask some ever snow at one to ming "Rock of Ages I tell you that the worst attempted erime of the century is the attempt to Yet infidelity, loath- pestiferous, destroy this book some, stenchful, leprous, rotten monster, stretches out its hand, the second death, to take It stretches ichorous with the hand of this republic it out through seductive and through through caricatures of religion for all that part of the cont ready fully settlal and the tv thirds not It says: “(ive me all east of the Mississippi, with the keys of the church and with the Chris- tian printing Then give me Wyoming, give laskn, give me Montana, give me Colorado, give me all the states west of the Mississippi and I will take those places and keep them by right of possession long before the Gos pel ean be fully intrenched And this suitor presses his case ap- pallingly. Shall the banns of that mar- riage be proclaimed? *“No!" say the bome missionaries of the west, a mar tyr band of not 4 1 fatigues and ma INaghzines, and It asks cnt lyceum lectures, al vet ood upied presses, me A whom the world is worthy ling amid , No, not if we ur chil- ‘aria and starvation ean help it. Dy dren have suffered we forbid of that marriage!” “No!” sav all g what we and the banns atri- ote volees ‘Our institutions were bought at too dear a price and were de- fended at too great a sacrifice to be so cheaply surrendered.” God of B hall this nation cry 1 ¥ land shall n But there is ar nker Hill and and Gettysburg for such oh ‘ t be married!” ther suitor thas pre- for the hs of th sents his sre publie menti followir text w it sav the br nre! ver the so ahal ce over thee « the fig is not gra mar gathering He « ging a Christ hold Pil pectoration on hold awful cob the face the Calvarean hemorrhage of 14 } Christ, my Lord, the King, suffered in the love of t} served vears f torture 33 Years to win world. As often princesses at their vers birth are pledged in treaty of 1 to princes or kings « tion at its birth was pledged to Christ for Divine marriage Pet Arriage f earth, so this na re Columbus a: His the Santa Mar a for their w e last 1} Len see rood ( { has been Just ¢ } the « and see hoy is shared f« prosperities in number other land, rolling into the sea, prophesying large manufact Look great ranges of me timbered on the t sides, metaled with wealth un One tinent rir measurabie Navigable greater own rivers re and than any 4 Kil mides on ealy « f ires and mmercs he ue imtains with wealth p and ierneath thousand indred and usand square miles of iron #0 contoured that extreme hardly ever dave eighty square mil th ana One bh eighty The weather three extreme heat or extreme cold. Climate for the most part brac ing and favorable for brawn and brain All fruits, all minerals, harvests, Scenery displaying an aut pa geantry that no land on earth pretends to No South American earth. quakes. No No London fogs. No Egyptian plagues. No Ger manic divisions. The people of United States are happier than any peo ple on earth. It is the testimony of every man that has traveled abroad For the poor, more sympathy; for the industries, more opportunity. Oh, how good God was to our fathers, and how good he has been to us and to our chil- dren. To Him-blessed be His mighty name-—to Him of cross and triumph, to Him who still remembers the prayer of the Huguenots and Holland refugees and the pligrim fathers—to Him sball this land be married. Oh, you Christian contributions and lasts more than "Ri minal rival Scotch mists the of the text, Needed Him, “I must send them all efrculars.” ex- olaimed the man who was addressed by his acquaintances as professor. “Those | men who have testified in the investi. gation ought to know about me." “What business are you in?" “I have a new system of m tralnlog "Washington Star, the verse | | CROIY SCHOOL AND CIURCH. A wording \ railing to recent statistion gathersd from alk enomis ehureh membership in the } Drates is ir creasing more rapidly thar the population, Statistics have been given concerning ts of the students 1 the paren our de. ational ¢« the fifths of them AHs- ROD! fou CCS, nowing be professing Christi United Presbyter The Methodist chureh in Canada is in- augurating a fire insurance business to 10 take risks only on churches and par- sonages. The profits will go to the fund for superannuated ministers. A petition in favor of clesing all sa- loons all day on Sunday in England has been signed by 4,000 clergymen, rep resenting the Presbyterian, Baptist, Congregational and Methodist churches of that country. The Tennessee Methodist Episcopal conference ter. hood." The institution fee is 25 cents, eath of a member each sur- has a “Conference BSis and on the d vivor pays one dollar. The membership consists of the wives and + Tennessee preachers The Eng! 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