Washington For God
T. DeWitt Talmage
Luke, 24: 47
"There it is," said the driver, and we all instantly and excitedly rose in the carriage to catch the first glimpse of Jerusalem, so long the joy of the whole earth. That city, coroneted with temple and palace and radiant, whether looked up at from the valley of Jehoshaphat or gazed at from adjoining hills, was the capital of a great nation. Clouds of incense had hov- ered over it. Chariots of kings had rolled through it. Battering-rams of enemies had thundered against it. There Isaiah prophesied, and Jeremiah lamented, and David reigned, and Paul preached, and Christ was martyred. Most interesting city ever built since ma- sonry rung its first trowel, or plumb-line tested its first wall, or royalty swung its first sceptre. What Jerusalem was to the Jewish kingdom, Washington is to our own country-the capital, the place to which all the tribes come up, the great national heart whose throb sends life or death through the body politic, clear out to the geographical extremities.
What the resurrected Christ said in my text to his disciples, when he ordered them to start on the work of Gospelization, "beginning at Jerusalem," it seems to me God says now, in his Providence, to tens of thousands of Christians in this city. Start for the evangelization of America, "beginning at Washing- ton." America is going to be taken for God. As surely as God lives, and he is able to do as he says he will, this country will be evangelized from the mouth of the Potomac to the mouth of the Oregon, from the Highlands of Navesink to the Golden Horn, from Baffin's Bay to the Gulf of Mexico; and Christ will walk every lake, whether bestormed or placid, and be transfigured on every mountain, and the night skies, whether they hover over groves of magnolia or over Alaskan glacier, shall be filled with angelic overture of "Glory to God and good-will to men." Warned by the doom of nations which declined the mission on which they were sent a ...
T. DeWitt Talmage
Luke, 24: 47
"There it is," said the driver, and we all instantly and excitedly rose in the carriage to catch the first glimpse of Jerusalem, so long the joy of the whole earth. That city, coroneted with temple and palace and radiant, whether looked up at from the valley of Jehoshaphat or gazed at from adjoining hills, was the capital of a great nation. Clouds of incense had hov- ered over it. Chariots of kings had rolled through it. Battering-rams of enemies had thundered against it. There Isaiah prophesied, and Jeremiah lamented, and David reigned, and Paul preached, and Christ was martyred. Most interesting city ever built since ma- sonry rung its first trowel, or plumb-line tested its first wall, or royalty swung its first sceptre. What Jerusalem was to the Jewish kingdom, Washington is to our own country-the capital, the place to which all the tribes come up, the great national heart whose throb sends life or death through the body politic, clear out to the geographical extremities.
What the resurrected Christ said in my text to his disciples, when he ordered them to start on the work of Gospelization, "beginning at Jerusalem," it seems to me God says now, in his Providence, to tens of thousands of Christians in this city. Start for the evangelization of America, "beginning at Washing- ton." America is going to be taken for God. As surely as God lives, and he is able to do as he says he will, this country will be evangelized from the mouth of the Potomac to the mouth of the Oregon, from the Highlands of Navesink to the Golden Horn, from Baffin's Bay to the Gulf of Mexico; and Christ will walk every lake, whether bestormed or placid, and be transfigured on every mountain, and the night skies, whether they hover over groves of magnolia or over Alaskan glacier, shall be filled with angelic overture of "Glory to God and good-will to men." Warned by the doom of nations which declined the mission on which they were sent a ...
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