---
title: 'The Nation’s Opportunity: Thanksgiving Discourse'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas De Witt Talmage'
date: 1884-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Economics, Employment, and Work'
- 'United States'
scriptures:
- 'Ezekiel 41'
- 'Revelation 21'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/talmage-1884-the-nations-opportunity-thanksgiving-discourse
---

# The Nation’s Opportunity: Thanksgiving Discourse

Talmage's 1884 Thanksgiving sermon warns that American overproduction must be met by new southern markets. He urges seizing the New Orleans Exposition as a hemispheric commercial opportunity.

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