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WHOLESALE Dealers and Shippers of all kinds of FRESH FISH 76 FULTON FISH MARKET. N. Y Particular attention paid to Shad Department. Wo employ no agents and2pay ns comm'sions. If your stencil is not In cod order let us know. Wantefl-An Idea l Who enn thtB of Mint llmpt iiau to nalrnl.' MORAL EXPANSION. IR. TALMAGE CN OUR DUTY IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Lraviac rolltUral Questions to the Stateauaeu, lie (ilres III Vlenrs of AVbt We Skonld Do Tor Their Ue Ilslons Welfare. Copyright, Lou!s Klopsch. 1S33.J Washington, June 4- In this dis course Dr. Talmage steers clear of the political entanglements of onr time and recommends that which will meet the approval of all who hope for the per petnity of oar republic and the welfare of other binds; text. Genesis xxviii. 14. "Thon shalt spread abroad to ths west and to the east" Since the Americano-Hispanic war is concluded and the United States em bassador is on the way to Madrid and the Spanish embassador is on the way to Washington the people of onr coun try are divided into expansionists and antiexpansionists. From a different standpoint than that usually taken I discuss this all absorbing theme. I leave the political aspect of this subject to statesmen and warriors and pray Al mighty God that they may be enabled rightly to settle the question whether the, islands in controversy shall be final ly annexed or held under protectorate or resigned to themselves, while I call attention to the fact that a campaign of mcral and religious expansion ought to be immediately opened on widest and grandest scale. At the close of this war God has pnt into the hands of this country the key to the world's redemption. Heretofore the religious movement in pagan lands had to precede the edncationaL After in China and India and the islands of the sea the missionaries have labored over 50 or 75 years the printing press and the secular school came in. Now to better advantage than ever before re ligious and secular enlightenment may go side by side, and so the work be ac complished in short time and more thoroughly. Starting with the fact that in Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philip pine Islands at least three-fourths of the people can neither read nor write, what an opportunity for school and printing press I Within five years every man in those islands may be taught to read not only the Bible, but the Declar ation of Independence and the consti tution of the United States and the biography of George Washington and cf Abraham Lincoln. It seems to me that the government of the United States ought by vote of congress afford common schools and printing presses to those benighted regions.' Onr national legislature by cne vote appropriated $50,000,000 to give bread and medicine to Cuba. Why not by a similar generosity give $50,000, 000 for feeding and healing the minds and souls of those ignorant and besotted archipelagoes. In the name of God I nominate a school for every neighbor hood of Cuba. Porto Rico and the Phil ippines. As soon as the gavel falls at 12 o'clock of next Dec. 4 on the table of senate and house of representatives and the roll has been called and the prelim inaries observed let some member of our national legislature, with mind and soul and voice strong enough to be heard not only through those halls, but through Christendom, propose a meas ure for the mental and moral disen thrallmentof the islands in controversy. What has made American civiliza tion the highest civilization the world has ever seen? Next to the Bible and the church, schools, common schools, schools reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from British America to gulf of Mexico. Five years under such educational advantage, and this whole subject that keeps our public men agitated, some of them to frothing at the mouth, will settle itself. Give those islands readers, spellers, arithme tics, histories, blackboards, maps, geog raphies, globes. Let the state legisla tures at their next meeting, some of them assembling in early autumn, take parts of those islands under their es pecial educational patronage. What is needed is state and national action in this matter of schools. Work of the Trlntlnsr Press. Then let the editorial associations of the United States, as many of such organizations as there are states, resolve at the next convocation to establish in every region of those islands a printing press, to be supported by people of this country until it can become self sup porting. Each of these state editorial associations sending out to those islands at least one editor and two reporters and enough typesetters, down will go the ignorance and superstition of those islands as certainly as the Spanish fleet under Cervera sank under the pound ing cf our American battleships, and Into their every port will go intelli gence and love of free institutions as certainly as into the harbor of Manila went Admiral Dewey on that famous night when he was not expected. Hoe s printing press t Nothing can stand be fore its bombardment Editors of American newspapers and publishers of American books! Take the ordination for such a magnificent servica Elo quence on jonder Capitol hill cannot meet the exigency. Epigrams of politi cal platforms or in state legislatures will not hasten the desired consumma tion one we?k or one hour or one mo ment nt , When Cubans and Porto Ricans and Filipinos see the morning and evening newspapers thrown into the doorways and hawked along the streets of Ha vana and Santiago and Manila, those tho cannot read by the force of curiosi ty will learn to read, so that they may know what information is being scat tered, and that which may be mission ary effort at the start and carried on by Americans sent forth to do the work will soonbe done by educated natives. Porto Rican editorsl Porto Rican re- t rwtn Rican tvnesettersl Porto I Rfcan publishers! It was a great mercy 1 . t. iciorwi from under toe jteeh of despotism, bnt it will be a nightier mercy to emancipate them from ignorance and degradation. The expansion of the knovlc Jge aiid intel- Iectcal qualiucaticu c: all tnoe isianay regions is the desire of all intelligent Americans- Awake, all you schools and colleges and universities and printing presses, to yuur opportunity! , Still further, here is a wide open door for Christianity. First of all. we have the attention of those people. The heathen nations are for the most part soporific. The American missionaries heretofore had great, difficulty in get tins? heathendom to listen. Thev ex cited some comment by their attire, so iifferent was the parting of the hair; and the shape of the hat and the cut of the coat and the f orntion-ofL the shoe of the evanzelizers. but the Questions constantly arose in regard to the mis sionary: "Who is he?" "What is he here fort" And then the interrogator would relax into the previous stupid in difference, cut that condition of tnings has nassed. The sruns of our American navy have awakened those populations. They do not ask who we are. iney have found out They are now listen ing to what American civilization and our Christian religion have to say on any subject. Now is the time, while their ears and eyes are wide open, to tell them of the rescuing and salvable and inspiriting power of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. The steam printing press which secular education plants there may be used ana will be used to print religious news papers and X tracts and sermons and mighty discussions of questions tem poral and eternal. Influence of Homes. The comfortable homes of those pop ulations, when Christianized, standing side by side with the degraded huts of those who remain pagans will be revo lutionary for good. The Porto Rican and the Filipino will come out from this uncleansed and low roofed and un inviting knnel and fay to his neighbor of beautiful household, "Why canaot I have things as you have them ?" And when he finds that it Is the Bible, with its teachings on family life and per-' sonal purity and exalted principle, and the church of God that proposes the rectification of all evil and the implan tation of all good, he will cry out, "Give me the Bible, and the church, and the earthly alleviations, and the eternal hope which have wrought for you such transfiguration." Now, church of God, now, all Chris tian philanthropists, is your opportun ity I Nothing like it has occurred since Christ came. Perhaps there may be nothing like it till his second coming. Here, is a definiteness of-aim that is most helpful and inspiring. " The mil lions of dollars given for the redemp tion of the world and the thousands of glorious missionaries who have as volun teers gone forth among barbaric nations were given and enlisted under a great and immeasurable idea. But when they, come to add to the great and immeas urable idea the idea of definiteness we will infinitely augment the work. More than three hundred million of heathen in India, more than three hundred mil lion of people in China and more mil lions of heathen than can be guessed outside of those countries sometimes stagger and confound and defeat our faith.. But here in these islands of pres ent controversy we can farm out the work among the churches and in five years, under the blessing of God, not only fit the people for the right of suf frage, but prepare them for usefulness and heaven. The difference between the general idea of the world's evangel ization and some particularized field of evangelization is the difference between the improvement of agriculture among all nations and the improvement of 75 acres put under one's especial care and industry. By all means let the general work go on. But here is the specific field for religious concentration and de velopment This is not chimerical or impractical I read this morning that the American Missionary association of the Congregational church has already begun the work at San Juan, Utuado and Albonito, and all denominations of Christians in six months will be in those Islandy fields, and we all need with our prayers and contributions to cheer them on to take for God and righteousness those regions which our American navy has captured from Spanish perfidy. It has been estimated that this Americo-Spanish war cost us $300,000, 000. It would not cost half of that to proclaim and carry on and consummate a holy war that will rescue those archi pelagoes from satanic domination. Who will volunteer? I beat the drum of a recruiting station. Who will enlist un der the one starred, Hood striped ban ner of Immanuel? Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philippines are stepping stones for our American Christianity to cross over and take the round world for Gcd. We need a new evangelical alliance or ganized for this one purpose. In all de nominations there sre those with large enough hearts and who have been thor oughly enough converted to join in such an advanced movement men who, putting aside all minor differences of opinion, "believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son." and who would march shoulder to shoulder in such a gospel campaign. The result would be that those islands, after such a scene of gcspelization, would assort themselves into denomina tions to suit themselves, and some would be sprinkled in holy baptism and others would be immersed in those warm rivers and some would worship In religious assemblage silent as the Quaker meeting bouse, and others would have as many jubilant ejacula tions as a backwoods camp meeting, of those who preached would ! be gowned and surpliced for the work, 1 1 .11 - .tani in fHiTPn'n Tv- ana oiueia v uuiu parel or in their shirtsleeves preaching that gospel which is to save the world. I Rellaloos Teachlns Seeded. Mark you well that statesmanship, jowever grand it is, and wise men cf the world, however noble, cannot do this work. Mere secular education does not moralize. Some cf the most thor oughly educated men inall the world have been the worst men". Quicken a man's intellect, while at the; same time you do not make his morals good, and you only augment bis power for eviL Geography and mathematics and meta phsjics and philosophy will never quali fy a people to govern . themselves. A corrupt printing press is wcrse than no' printing press at all, but let loose an open Bible upon tho33 islands and let the apocalyptic angel ence fly over them, and you will prepare tbera to become either colonies of the United States government or, as I hope will be the case, independent republic, , ; God did not exhaust himself when he built this nation. Those islands will yet have their Thomas Jeffersons, qualified to write for them declarations of. inde pendence; and George Wasbingtons, capable of achieving their liberties; and Abraham Lincolns, strong enough to emancipate their serfdoms, and Long fellows and Brjants, capable of putting their hills and theirrivers and their land scapes into poems; and their Bancrofts and Prescotts, to make their histories; and their Irvinss, to write their Sketch Books; and their Charles O'Conors and Rufus Choates, to plead in their courtrooms: and their Daniel Websters and John J. Crittendens, to move their senates. The dav cometh hear it all ye who have no hope for those islands of be- dwarfed and diseased illiterates the day cometh when those regions will have a Christian civilization equal to that which this country now enjoys, while I hope by that time this country will be as superior to what it now is as today Washington and New York axe better than Manila and Santiago. Do you see by this process of gospelized intelligence those archipelagoes will as a nation be protected from the two woes prophesisd in regard to tkis coun try tke one wei propaesUd y tke exr pansionists and the otbr woe prepfi esied by the antiexpansionists? It is said by those who would have us take all we can lay our hands on as a nation that, unless we enter the door now open for the enlargement of our na tional domain, we will decline the mis sion which God in his providence has assigned us. But surely no woe will come upon us or upon them if we Christianize them as we now have the opportunity of doing. The political technicalities are nothing as compared with the importance of this movement. I implore all political expansionists to augment us in this work of moral and religions expansion, for unless those islands are moralized and elevated in intelligence and habits we do not want them, and their annexation would be political damnation. On the other hand, I implore all antiexpansionists to take a hand in the gospelization of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands. The only way to prepare them to take care of themselves i3 to give them the Ten Commandments that were pub lished on Mount Sinai and let them hear the groan of sacrifice that was breathed out on the heights of Golgotha. What they most want is the gospel, the pure gospel, the omnipotent gospel, the gospel that helps heal-the wounds of the body and irradiates the darkness of the mind and achieves the ransom of the souL One Platform For All. But on this platform the so called ex pansionists and so called antiexpan sionists will yet stand side by side, Though I am not a prophet or the sen cf a prophet, within five years, if this religio-educational work is properly at tended to, there will be a Cuban re public, a Porto Rican republic and a Philippine republic, none of them on a large scale, but they , will all have their schools and printing presses and evan gelical churches, their presidents, their senates and house of representatives, their mayors and their constabularies, and as good order will be observed in their cities as now reigns -on Pennsyl vania avenue, Washington, or Broad: way, New York. Christ has started for the conquest of the nations, and nothing on earth or in hell can stop it. The continents are rapidly rolling into his dominion, and why not these islands, which for the most part are only fragments broken off from continents, the interval lands having been sunk by earthquakes, al lowing the ocean to take mastery over them? Each mother continent has around it a whole family of little con tinents. If the continents are being so rapidly evangelized, why not the is lands ? If America, why not Cuba and the Bahamas? If Asia, why not the Philippines and the Moluccas? If Eu rope, why not the Azores and the Ork neys? If Africa, why not Madagascar and St. Helena ? The same power that broke them off the mainland can lift them into evangelization. In the old book, which has become a new book by reason of modern discov eries, especial attention is called to the islands. "Declare the Lord's praise in the islands," commands Isaiah.' "Let the multitudes of the islands be glad thereof," says the psalmist. "All the islands of the heathen shall worship him," writes Zephaniah. "He shall turn his face to the islands," prophesies DanieL "The inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee," foretells EzekieL "Hear it and declare it to the islands afar off," exclaims Jeremiah. You see from this the islands are not to be neglected. Perhaps they are the Lord's favorites, as in households, if there is any favoritism at all, it is for the weakest. The islands, too small to iake care of themselves, have the eter nal God to take care of them. Let na tions look out how they tread on the islands, however small and weak, for they are omnipotently defended. They may not be able to marshal large ar mies or to send out natives to sweep the sea. but, better than that, they have the chariots of heaven on their side and the drawn swords of the Almighty. I lave as much faith In the salvation of the smallest island of the Falkland, of the Canaries, of the La drones, of the Carolines, of the Fiji s, of the Barba- does, of the Cape Verdes, of the Society islands, as I have in the salvation of America. The continents themselves are only larger islands, and the world in which we live is only a still larger island, and the solar system is a group of islands, and the universe is an archipelago stud ded with islands of worlds, surrounded by the great ocean of infinitude and immensity. So you see when God plan ned the universe he diagrammed it into islands, and he will look after the in terest of each of those islands, however small, and England and Holland and France and Germany and America must not treat the smallest and weak- est island that comes under their eway any different from the way they treat the strongest nation of all the earth. God may chiefly deal with individuals in the next world, but he deals with nations only in this world, and when persistently a nation practices injustice against other people it is only a ques tion of time when the offender will find his doom. The path of time is strewn with the carcasses of nations that be cause of their maltreatment of other nations perished. The higher such offending empires rise, the harder will be their falL Perpetuity of Onr Government. I believe the United States govern ment will last as long as the world lasts. I believe the fires of the judgment day will leap on the domes of our state and national capitals while yet they are in their full power. I believe the last earthquake will put its explosion under our national foundations while yet they stand firm. I believe that Republican and Democratic form of government will be the universal form cf govern ment for all nations when they have been evangelized, for then the nations will be capable of self government and win have demanded and secured that right. It will be either that or a the ocracy, which will be the direct govern ment of Christ in his personal reign on earth, as many Bible students believe. Yet that jubilant expectation is found ed not on the skill of human statesman ship or human legislation, but upon the belief that this nation will submit to divine guidance and obey the divine law and carry out its divinely imposed mission. But if we defy the God of na tions our doom is fixed. It required the pen of an Edward Gibbon, through four great volumes of more than 500 pages each, to tell the story of "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," concluding his monu mental work with the words, "It was L4imong the rhins of the capital that I tirst conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near 20 years of my life, and which, however inade quate tojny. own wishes, I finally de liver to the curiosity and candor of the public." What, the Roman empire deadl Did she lack warriors ? No. Be hold her Pompey and her Julius Csesar. Did she lack lawmakers and lawgivers? No. Think of the masters of Roman jurisprudence, our American attorneys today quoting those laws in our court rooms more than 15 centuries after they were enacted. In poetry did she not have her Virgil and Ovid? In his tory did she not have her Sallust and her Livy? In eloquence did she not have her Scipio and Cicero? In eatire did she not have a Juvenal and a Hor ace? What pens were wielded by her Cato and her Terence and her Pliny ! All nations heard the cry of her war eagles, the voices of her oratory and the chime of her cantos. But the day of judgment came for that nation, and Hannibal crossed the Apennines, and the Goths and Vandals swooped, arid the Carthaginian fleet assailed and Numidian horsemen galloped, s and na tions combined, and Rome sank. The tourist now on the banks of the Tiber sees the ruins of her forum, the ruins of her coliseum, the ruins of her art the ruinsxf her aqueducts, the ruins of her catacombs, the ruins of her pal aces. If our nation forgets Its duty to other nations and practices injustice against other people, however insignificant, it will not take another Edward Gibbon 20 years and through four great vol umes to tell the story of the decline and fall of American institutions. By so much as our opportunities have been greater than any nation that ever lived, and the mission to which fhe has been ordained is more stupendous than any beEtowed by the Almighty upon any people, if we forget our God and enaet wickedness our overthrow will be quick er an'l more tremendous, and yonder capi2; Iine hilL with its architectural msxHcence, will beccme a heap of gig? ?j tic ruins, to be visited by the peo ple at other times and other nations, wbu will read in letters of crushed and crnuitled marble that which David wrcle many hundred years ago upon parchment, "The way of the wicked he turneth upside down." Garlands For Onr Heroes. We concluded a few days ago the an nual decoration of northern and south ern graves. Three years ago, at this sea son, in memorial sermon I proposed the twisting of two garlands one to be put upon the grave of the northern sol dier and the otner to oe pw un.iMf grave of the southern eoldier. uut tnis year we need three garlands, the third to be put upon the graves of those who fell in this Americo-Hispanic conflict The third garland needs to be quite as fragrant and as radiant as the other two, These last heroes braved more than bayonets and bombehelL They braved ihe pestiferous breath of the tropics rwbole battalions, whole: regiments, whole brigades, whole armies of deatn ful malaria. They confronted those op positions of the torrid climes which no 1 word can pierce, no agility climb, no itratagem flank, no torpedo explode, no tourage conquer. Under the awful tharge of visible and invisible hosts I ifcout o.uuo men wen ctaut death and ethers through lia geiing pans; in hc?pitaL If in this third wreath you twi.t the criuii rc-J!, suggestive of sanguinary; sacrifice, ami the white calls lily, sug gestive cf glorious resurrection, put in also a few furgetmenots, suggestive of rcmemlrsnce.and a few padon flowers, suggettive of the love that mourns the slain, and n few heliotrope, unggestive of the fragrance of their memory. Then let the night's dew pat the tears into the bine ejes cf the violet?, and all the soldiers' cemeteries he to many censers burning incense before the throne of that Go I who has been the friend of this nation from the time of Lexington to the time of San Jnan Hill, from the guns of the United States warships Constitution and Constellation, at the beginning cf this century, to the guns ef the United States warships Oljinpia. Oregon, Brooklyn and other loaded thunders at the close of this century. Remember here and now that those brave bo; opened up the way for a kind of expansion we all believe in. They swung open tLe gates for the speedy gospelization of inland' stupid with the superstition of ages. They cleared the way for missionaries and Bibles. They set those islands free. Leaving to the United States govern ment to decide what shall be the politi cal destiny of those peoples, let us all join in a campaign of religious expan sion expansion of affection that can take all the world in, expansion of our theologies until none shall reject their broad invitation, expansion of hope that embraces eternity as well as time, expansion of effort that will not cease till the whole earth is saved and the time arrives when the prophecj shall be fulfilled, and "they thall come from the north and the south and the east and the west an J sit down in the king dom of God, 11 Ed the lakt shall befimt' and tho firat last. " Week before last, in this capital of the nation, wo set' three nights on fire in celebration of naval and soldiery heroics, and there wera ruokstsof fira, and wheels irf fira. au4 sheave vt Irs, and tytontint fountains of fira, aad .bombard uiut cf fire, and t-bips (J flra snnk in V i 1 1 j w of tire, and those three nights were thn grirbind of lire. Bat now we aro in wiftrr and qnleter mood, and thi" Jlir. g.irl.sr.ls f today ore wcVen vt M t -ori uu eoryllas of all color iiud all pungencies of aroma, and we bethink 'ourselves that this third garland was n'T-lfd to chain together the northern gailaii.1 of other decorative tijnes to the Hmthrrn garland of other decorative timr-r Floral chain of three links! For the nrt ti:no in GO years the north -'and' rout h ftand in complete brotherhoc'1. Heroes of Vermont and Al:ina:nn. of .ia--uthanetts and South Carolina, f. Maine and Louisiana, shoulder '"to thonMcr 1 Moy that alliance remain until the la-t oppression is ex tirpated from the earth and all nations 6tand iu the liberty with which Christ would make all iK':plo free! in ttj early flays in the northwest, when the Ilmlnon Bay company laid the foundations of great fortunes by trade with the savagi s, and a gun paid for as many beaver skins as would, reach to the muzzle of it, the kins packed flat and the gun-held upright, it was alleg- ed that tho barrel of the weapon grew and grew with each successive year un til the Indian, after be. had bought it; with the peltry, had to borrow a file and cut off a foot of useless metal Ban Francisco Argonaut Unr-a An rfrt rfof Tjj raw,; If you are young you nat urally appear so. If you are old, why ap pear so?' Keen young inwardly; we will look after the out wardly. You need not worry longer about those little streaks of gray; advance agents of agt. will surely jtstore color to gray hair; and it will - alao give your bair all the wealth and gloss; of early life. Do not allow the falling of your hair to threaten you longer with baldness. Do not be annoyed with dandruff. We will send you our beok on the Hair and Scalp, free upon request. Wrttm to thm Dodor. It Too do not obtain all tho MOO Ct too xpcfA trom th n ef tb Vlror, wnu tho doctor bot IC lfobsblr l ooms dlfflc',f with ywr general irttem wbUn may be eatlly remoTad. , a4dre. OK, fOWIj mw mm pttr.1 - i ' u ) 'L " 1 Kl V
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
June 9, 1899, edition 1
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