---
title: 'Behold the American!'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas De Witt Talmage'
date: 1900-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Character and Conduct of Life'
- 'Puritan'
scriptures:
- 'John 13'
- 'Galatians 3'
- 'Psalms 133'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/talmage-1900-behold-the-american
---

# Behold the American!

T. DeWitt Talmage's lively dinner speech praises the Pilgrim forefathers, Puritan virtues, national unity and piety, celebrating American identity and the soldiers' homecoming.

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