REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Brooiiyn Divine'sSunday Sermon. oct tm Subject : “The Coming Worlds’ Fair; Shall it be Made a Blessing or Curse 7" Text: “They traded in thy fairs. —Ezs kiel xxvii, 12. Fairs may be for the sale of goods or for the exhibition of goods on a small scale or a large scale, for county or city, for one nation or for all nations. My text brings us to the fairs of Part ot ths city was on an island, and part on the mainland. Alexander, the conquerer, was much embarrassed when he found so much of the city was on an he had no ships. But his military genius was not to be balked. Having marched tear up the city on the mainland and throw hundred feet wide to the isiand, timber and brick and stone, on whieh his the city which was on the island, as though a hostile army should put Brooklyn into the York. That ruins which is still deposits Pe of New of built, lavial the island Tyrian causeway Alexander's arm there, and has the mainland, that sO it The sand, the greatest of all undertakers for most part Baalbec and Palmyra and Thebes and Memphis and Carthage and Babylon and Luxor and Jericho, the sand, so small and yet so mighty, is now gradually giving rites of sepulturs to what was left of Tyre. oh, what a magniflcent city it once was! Mistress of the sea! commerce’ All nations castin at her feet £ thei ivory. Wheres we have for ships sails of coarse canvas, richest smbroidery The chap from which my text is taken after mmerating richest countries in all the w 3 thy fairs Look in upon a I'yre. Ezekiel loads us ti ment and it is a horse { over driven ages, e you no idea of which, rearing and plungin and neighing, were brought d plank of the ships and led int inir at Tyre until Ezekiel, who ister religion and not know much about horses, fed out sdmiration: “They of the house of Togar- Hers 's fair of of our masts he had sails tar FET he vorid's fair at far 05 wn over the » the world's i 8 min- posed to t in of mah traded in thy fairs with horses.” in another department of that at Tyre, lec! on by Ezekiel the prog find everything all ablaze stones. Like petrified snow are ike fragments of fallen sky are the and here a-hlush with What is that aroma we inhale? chests of cadar iY Pp them filled with all styles of fabric aromatics increase as we pass down this lane f ‘hantment, and here are cassia and and balm. led on by prophet, we come to an {air with a display from Minni anp Pannag, rich as that of our m Da kota or Michigan. And here is a mineral- gical fair, with specimens of iron and silver and tin and lead and gold. But halt, for hers is purple, Tyrian purple, all tints and shades, deep almost unto the black and bright almost unto the bis waiting kings and queens to order it made into for coropation day: purple not that which is now made from the Orchills weed but the extinct purple, the lost } the ancients knew how to make ou teropod mollusks of the Mediterr look at casks of wine f wita vi GOen Ee the ultural wheat wien +&T1 in Ke from Helbon Ses those snow banks of wool from the back f sheap that once pastured in Gilead. Oh, the bewildering riches and wariety of that world’s fair at Tyre! But the world has copied mentionad fairs all and it has had its Louis the Rixth fair at Dagobert, and Heary the irst fair St. Bartholomew's Day Hunggrian fairs at Pesth, and fairs at Leipsic, and the Scotch at | toright was the day wh I was at of them. and afterward came the Loon- don world's fair, and ths New York world's fair, and the Vienna fair, and t Parisian world's it has been decided that in ration of the discovery of 1402, there shall those in succeeding ages on ne fair, and commen. 3 America in bs held in this coun try in 1802 a world's fair that shall eclipse all preceding national axpositions. I say, ture and music and pyrotechnics and elo yusnt and stupendous planning and mone tary expenditure and congressional appro priations which the most sanguine Christian patriot has ever dreamed of. Was any voy- age that the world ever heard of crowned with such an arrival as that of Colambus and his men? After they had been encouraged for the last few days by flight of land birds and foati branches of red berries and while Columbus was down in the cabin studying the sea chart Martin Pinson, standing on deck and looking to the southwest cried ‘land’ Land! Land © Ang ‘Gloria in Excalsia” was sung in raining tears on all the three ships of expedition. Most appro riate and patriotic and Christian will nr a commemorative world's fair in 1883. Leavi to others the discussion as to the site of such exposition-—-and I won ter not that some five or six of our cities are struggling to haveit, for it will give to any city to which itis as signed an impulss of prosperity for a hundred years—Isay, leav- ing to others the selection of the particular locality to be thus honored, I want to say some things from the point of Christian patriotism which ought to be said, and the sariler the better, that we get thousands of people tal in the right direction, and thas will » healthful public Spisioh I beg you to consider prayerfully what I feel ~ailed upon of God as an American citizon and as a preacher of righteousness to utter. My first su tion is that it 1s not wise, us certainly it is pot Christian, to continue this wide aad persistent attempt of Ameri can cities to belittle and mio other cities. It has been going on for years, but now the spirit seems to culminate in this dis enssdon as to wheres the World's Fair shall be held, a style of discussion which has a tenden- cy to injure the success of the fair as a great moral and patriotic enterprise, after the lo- ality has been decided upon. There ia such a thing as healthful rivalry between cities, but you will bear me out in saying that thers can be no good to come from the uncanny thi said about each other by N ork and Chi , by Chicago and Minneapolis, by od all h the two ximate cities, by lke Tdividunle, Aim their virtues and thelr vies. All our American eit. be our exultation. What What public libraries! What of mercy! What academies ! What mighty men in iw and medicine and art and scholarship’ W hat schools and colleges and universities! Wheat women radiant and gracious, and an th thelr own charities thousands | What “God's acres” for gardens of beauty and nds gi fe for the country districts to cease talking against the cities, and it will be well for the city of one locality to stop talking the cities of other localities. Now not get the World's Chicago, and Chicago will not get World's Fair by bombarding New York. Another suggestion concerning the coming exposition: let not the materialistic fork will the | gious. During that exposition, the first time i a peopte from other lands who will see a coun- try without a state religion. Let us, by an increased harmony among all denominations | of religion, impress other nationalities, as | they come here that year, with the superior advantage of having all denominations equal in the sight of government. All the rulers and chief men of Europe belong | to the state religion, whatever it may | be. Although our last two Presidents have | been Presbyterians, the previous one was an | Episcopalian; and the two previous Metho diste: and going further back in that line of Presidents, we find Martin Van Buren, a x ER * Ap soripted, are losing their lives, thelr General may sit mooking one of the bost Havana cigars after a dinner of quail on toast. It may be well enough for gradu. ating students of colleges on commencement of war to the men were at the front, or to some of us who, as members of the Christian commission, saw the ghastly hospitals at Antietam and Hagers. town, Ab you may worship the Lord of Hasta, 1 womship the “God of Peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great Shepherd of the sheep.” War is an accursed monster and it was born in the lowest cavern of perdition, and place from which it arose, its last sword and shield and musket rattling on the bottom of $00 there be called IR, with delegates a peacs convention for Governments of sent by all the decent a Unitarian; aud a man's religion in this { country is neither hindrance nor advantage in the matter of political elevation. All Europe needs that, All the world needs that A man's religion is something between him self and his God, and it must not directly or | indirectly bis interfersd with Furthermore, during that axposition, Christian civilization will confront bar. barism. We shall as a nation have a greater opportunity to make an evange impression upon foreign nation alities, than would otherwise be afforded as in a quarter of a century Lat the churches f the city where the exposition is Leld be open every day, and prayers be ofere) and sermo: preached and doxologies sung. In the fess than three years between this that world's couvoeation, let us get a tism of the Holy Ghost, so that the months of that world’s fair shall be oO i anda in the former Pentecost thousands will bs converted remember that the in the Bible occurred when there 1g-press, no books, no Chris religious newspapers influence was many The Medis th sand converted, as ¢ Of You must Pentecost mentioned Was no pr tian no tre- How touched? and that is, people fre “Phrygia and Pa ern ionalities SAYS mendous were ACC ahd eastern t 8 countries i biz that ix the west ‘Cyrens and strangers Arabians.” that but they wore spectacle, ig, the all moved Instead of the ven triths of peopis reported all the chief nations of North and Bouth America, et world's fair in Pentecost here and then would salvation of the round world jut, you say, we may have at that fair the Il lands and all the machinery for guspelization, the religious friniag presses and the churches, but all that would make a Pentecos vo must have God, Well you can hay fas He not been gra vi 3 id nothing stands in the way but our o unbelief and indolence and dn. May God break down the barriers! The grandest nity for the evangel- zation nations #1 Jesus “hrist the wil ries wt Asia it presented our sean the not i i apport: of all died the w God may t nes t ’ ni of harvest « known thee sy isa SX Pe ake u t of field before that, bu it Larste: the ugh tiial thal VaR bel w en May N of and Christian untain Alpine and opportunity overtop salvation Instead of ti having to send land by our own Ameri have diffienit language and foreign prejudices to have able and influ ertad during their visit hav them return OW process romped to other who an 58 iE miisso ions tidings nas Foun of grace {or ng in the i internat Hy We ma strokes sain and al Owing Nap ALY mand did no gathe wily destroyes rench Republic and builder ch monarchy might ig on thet. But what if the most popu rovernment on earth mean the United t Government-should practically say a all nations: On the American continent, a 1809 we will hold a worlds fair ne ths Governments of arope, Axia and Africa to send representa- Hves to a peace convention that shall be held st the same time and place and that shall don to whom shall be referred all controver ves between nation and nation, their decision final, and so all nations would be re isved from the expense of standing armies All the nations of the earth worth cone sidaration would come to it, mighty men of England and Germany and France and Ras sia and all the other great nationalities Bismarck who worships the Lord of Hosts, and Gladstone worships the God of Peace, and Boulanger who worships himesif, who ing out of chalices made out of human skulls and filled with blood The United Hiates Government is the only government in the whole worid that could successiully call such a ‘ongress. Suppose France should call it, rermany would not come; or Germany should eall it, France would not come: or Russia should call it, Turkey would not come; ww England should call it, nations long jeal yus of her overshadowing power in Europe would not come. America, in favor with all nationalities, standing out independent and alone, is the spot and 1802 will be the time May it please the President of the United States, may it please the Secretary of State, may it please the Cabinet, may it please the Senate and Houss of Representatives, may it please the printing presses and the churches and the people who lift up and put down our American rulers! To them 1 make this timely and sol emn and Christian appeal. Do you not think people dis fast enough with. out this wholesale butchery of war? Do you not think that we can trust to pneu- monias and consumptions and apoplexies and palsies and yellow fevers and Asiatic choleras the work of killi them fast enough? Poo you a th k that 3h greedy, wi Hn Jaws of 8 grave ougbt to be satisfied if filled by natural causes with hundreds of thousands of corpses a ear? Do you not think we oan do somethin ter with men than fo dash their life ont against casements or blow them into fragments by torpedoes or send them out into the world, where need all their faculties, footiess, ar not think that women mig an easier place than the clge trench to wring their es hands and weep out their Tie t in whood and child- loasness? hy, the last glory has gone out of war, There was a time when it demanded that quality which we all sdmire-~namely, cour. ~for § fan had 0 Mand «ithe hil of sword when olnt plerced Oe An while he was sia another the other night slay him; or it was bayonet charge. But now ibis cool and deliberate murder, and clear out at ses a bombshell be hurled miles away into a eer. or while . have no sands of ate soldiers, | et In Vieoutest, for they were oon above the exposition build. ings, you may find that the old gallery of lehem anthem of eighteen centuries ago was sung out, is rebuilt again in the clouds, and ht to chant “(Glory to God in the highest, ay on earth peace, good Again, | suggest in regard to the World's room for the importation of foreign vices America has enough of Its own, and we need A world's fair will bring all kinds of people, good and bad. The good we must prepare to welcomes, the bad we must prepare to shun. The attempt again be made in 1802, as in 1876, break up our American Sabbaths, attempt was made at the Phila. Centennial, but was defeated Babhath is the best kept We do not want it to delphi American on earth. down, and the Brussels Sabbath, the Vienna Petersburg Babbath or any broken thereof baths at all, 1 think the Lord is more than You let the Sabbath your Bible, and afte r children or 3 America 1 im : to wassall and go berties, and you fren will be here in as bad as in th they turn the Lord's day in frod Am 5 grandch Wt is + Wh z thoss who » will be, as at wii ¢ earid *. rans sa retto sOCioty get their | af not care their k splend: ¥ phernalia « tive There mandmonts that | ever | of men or women in all the w from « y those laws wri ger of lightn on the granit Mount Sina Surely we American vices without RG bexlioncs “» rough making drafts for 1802 would portunity a of some perils i rej verlag PD any - By this serm i made aware of to raprove it, and « ready to combat them bave the nat ie 0 iii « in that world's fair, What What God b Asuna + poodle y eyes are b smart eavy snd dim t and hand 1 sean fell saloon, a droam Make ready for th under the sus Have of mci till ist 3, Ch ian America crandest expositi fave Bibles enough | 1 established endowed halls [Presses redigi you will gh sgh printing nough set revivals of saough in full I believe Hosanna to the Bon of David! that cometh in the name of the Lord! Through the harsh volves of our day 3 low, sweet prefade finds iia way Brough donde of doubt and creeds of fear A Heht is breaking calm and clear Hava hulast up i¥ on Beam l i That song ¢ more 3 Ere long shall swell from star to st That ight. the breaking day which tips The golden spired Apocalypse Jove A555 Columbus Wasn't Much of a Fellow. “*On my las' 1r'p through Indiana,” sald a New York drummer recently, “threes or four of us put in a night at he tavern in a small town. It was ept by #4 dreadfully innocent looking old chap, and iu order to guy him a Lit the boys put him on that 1 was Christo- pher Columbus, the discoverer of America, The old fellow gave me con- siderable attention, fixed up the best roc in the house and introduced me to his aged wife, Next morning, as I sat on the veranda smoking a cigar, he came along and queried: “Let s see, What did you do?” “Piscovered America,” 1 soberly re. plied. “Oh, yes,” He looked disappointed as he went away, and in about ten minutes he re- turned to say: “I've had it all wrong about you.” “How?” “Why, I kinder had It that you was from Washington, and I was thinking you might get my boy Sam into some vitice.”’ “No, I'm not,” “You are dnly Christopher Colum. bus?" “That's all.” “All yon ever did was to dis over Ar vrunl” “That all.” “Humwph! I'll bave to charge you extra for them three billed eggs this morning, and the ole woman thinks she ought to hwve an extra quarter for monk ing real coffee for you, You mg. told me last that you didn’t amount to nuthin’l" i A Beggar's Revenge. It might have been a hundred years ago that there died in an old, damp hut in the little village of Monmouth two old women, and one can truthfully say they died of hunger and misery. When | the grave-diggers had ended their work, | a pale, thin, barefoot boy left the hut, | and after wandering some time on the | main street, finally entered a shoe maker's shop, | “Mr, King,” he said, erying, “there i8 no one left at my house, and I must | go away; will you sell me a palr of | shoes?” i “*And who will pay for them?” asked the shoemaker, with a look, i 1 will pay for them assoon as I can, | on my honor, as true a8 my naine Will Jones,” | Shaking bis head the old man looked | at the lad over his spectacles, then rose and took from his case a vatr fine, strong shoes, and gave them to the boy, “There, Will,”’ he said, take them; no one shall say that I sent away a poor orphan boy with no shoes on his feet, Y ou will pay me when you can, if not, all the worse for you; 1 shall not re- mist rustiul | is i Of I'he thanked him and away, etill assuring him be would } his word, Several boy Years ill Jones pa Shoemaker 0 at, but boy; if boy, was laughed answered, “A ill he can’t pay, he can’t pay He i8 an hol tint 1 J UNL § Lieve aj Monmouth who entered the g One day at last slreets of man, ern and begged a plece } nkeeper roug § %y » i i : | 1 he poor beggar wandered on nd going to UU ¢grped help of him, and 1 have i the world { ng has gone 5 left for m ive Lown, K 6 17 02. ope oul a woment, jie RijOw 8 you gave W 113 S14 uM n $ Wag | ot pay for.’ fie worlhy than, than noth Cartria : they are,’ y 3% wud DRE, ana “Here $y “a ri iy wl gentleman, and handed Master ing a beautiful chest, “They ane in and worn out 1 had to put them iu is little box in order to | the “EY ‘ h EOP, Master King was like one fallen from ¢ ciouds, The geotleman was ho n Will Jones, when he seid the chest he actually found the busi Hike with gold bring ail Hie «:Lher th ang Le ' EIIOES, i i i i i § ! ! | efore he could recover from his sur- wise the carriage moved away, and he ward a voice calling back. “‘Remetn- | wr poor Will J. nes, now Baronet aud Member of the Council,” Some months later, on the bill out- beautiful build. ing. On a blabk marble tablet over the entrance, 1 gold letlers, were the i i i Mommuouth cannot suppo 1." in misery and want, a — -—-- The Two Tennysons. Alfred Tenuys n wes born 1800 He gained the chsncellir’s me lal Trivity Colleze, Cambridge, in 1829, for his poem *“*Timbuctoo.” sarue year he published, conjointly with his brother Clumrles, lis first ccliaction of verse, Charles was a minister ia a In 1830 his frst Individual book of poets appeared, and since then his literary sctivity hss been incessant, He was elevated to the peerage 18873, and has gained a large fortune by his pen, ait ——— How many a man, by throwing him solf to the ground in despair, crushes and destroys forever a thousand flowers of hope that were ready to spring up and gladden all his pathway. A PI GRADUALLY WASTING AWAY, “When your practicing friend across the way has learned w play the coinet he will entertsin the whole neighbor. hood," sald Mrs, Brown, “Yes,” sald Mrs, Crown. “but by that time there won't be any neighbor- hood here,” Nerrnxn lifo nor death is as serious as marringe. Yet nothing is entered into half as thought by most women. * SUNDAY sCHOOL LESSON, Buxpay OCropen 20, 13%), David's Thanksgiving Prayer. LESSON TEXT. 18-29, @ Sam, 7 Memory verses, 28, 29.) LESSON PLAN. Toric oy THE QUARTER : Prospe rity i Gouoex Texr vor T™HE QUARTER: As | long as he sought the Lord, God made | him to prosper. —-2 Chron, 26: 5, Lzssox Toru The Joy of Grati-| ‘ersonal vAational Les BOX QUTLING sal Tex: (rii® 1 In cverything give thi (fod in 1 Thess. (GGorLoex thanks: Jia Christ Jesu Do: 18. will of concerning you Dany Hour Buapinas M. Pain % gratitude. T.—1 Chron. narrative. W.-2 Bs ETACIONE iii T.-1 Chron. narrative ii —-——— sai ANALYSIS, Personal Hum Who am 1, ility {) lL.ord iI. A Super What on thy peopl This g tion is g people (1 by tl sword! Dent He hath not dealt so Pea. 117: 20 A holy natin ii. The Lord's Thou ist est people el (M4 Ye shall be a peculiar treasure nn (Exod. 19: 5 To be unto { Deut Yet they tan : The Lord's portion is his peop 1 32:0 i111. Established Forevermore: The house of thy servant Dav be established (26) I will establish his kingdom (2 Sam. 7: 13). Thy kingdom shall be made sure (28am. 7: 16), Confirm thou it { His seed shall endore forever a0) 1. “What one nation people?” (Iv The acknowledged glories of the nations; (2) The sur passing glories of God's people i Super.or (1) In numbers; (2) In graces; (3) In duties; (4) Indestiny. , “Whom God went to redeem unto himself for a people.” Redemp- tion: (1) The suthor: (2) The sub- jeots: (3) The methods; (4) The par WIKOR a “fh A be Pet Peoole ablish il 1 ‘ 1 fs *y 49 Bin Ce 0) inthe ritancy and thy inheri + ER Den sd ghall forever fore vor orever (2 Sam. 7: 26). Pan. NO; is like thy as thou hast Promises remembered; ment besought. {iL GRATITUDE FOR PROMISED RILRESRINGS, . God's Purposes Revealed: Thon hast revealed, saying, 1 | will buald thee an house (27). {1is not in me; God shall give Phaaroh | | an answer (Gen. 41: 16). | Bhen was the secret revealed | Daniel (Dan. 2: 19). { It had been revealed unto him by the | | Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 2: 10). i 11. God's Goodness Promised: Thou hast promised this good thing nnto thy servant (28), Thon saidst, 1 will surely do thee good (Gen. 82: 12). The Lord hath spoken good concerning farael (Num. 10: 20). No good thing will be withhold (Psa. 84: 11). Yeo shall eat the good of the land (Tsa. 1 19). Fit thy iessing lot... thy hy “aun servant be blessed (20 1 will bless thee, und make thy name Gen. 12: 2 In : I will Dione thee (Gen. 22: spoken n 41) 2) Fulfil {ae} unto | 17. “3 pon yon (Pan. 120: 8), it maketh rich Prov. 10: 22). 1. “Thou, O Lord of hosts. . . . hast re- vealed to thy servant.” Bevelation; (1; Ita source; (2) Its recipients; (3) Its methods; (4) [is disclosures, 2, “Therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray.” (1) A pray- ing man: (2; A helping heart; (5) A stimulating promise, 8. “With thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed forever.” (1) God the benefactor: (23 Man the benificiary; (3) Eternity the scope, LESSON BIBLE READING. THANKSGIVING, (Psa. it ( 50 1 The ommand« d ndered it (Matt, 11 John 11 : 41) Heavenly host renders it (1 7:11, 12 } +16, ] ANY RY ET 17) pr : * smn AA LESSON BURROUNI] E INGE INTERVENING r mocha nly 5 gard as arawn The lawyer, or the it ith ters, thie Ka w i yes ed their eves ly Keep keen sight or than those who have never train- ed them In the of the man who bas neglected to give his eves their full development, they will fail in along with his other bodily functions When, however, the man who, born with good eves, has kept them in con stant bard work, and vet never strained them, Id nay find them capable of performing their fune- tions better than any other organ of the body. In short, if people will learn to use their eves wisely there is no reason why mankind should not increase rather than lose their power of seeing. If, however, we are to take this possible, we must lose no time in saving the eyes for the present generation. ———————— Dorings for salt in Northern Ger many have revealed the existence of immense deposits of mineral in some of the most neglected and forlorn locali- ties, One of thes: drills reacled salt at a depih of about 1100 feet from the strengt hen ing them pir who have wer CAS power reaches old age, he pencirated the deposit, giving the im- mense thickness of more than 400 feet. Lacs MI A preparation of artificial cork 1s patented in Germany by Grunzwaig Rhine, and is made by incorporating cork chips with 180 parts of boiling starch paste. The result is a plastic mass, which is pressed into forms, and alter being removed dried by means of heat, anni A The British Medical Jownal says that it is very easy to find organisms in any disease if the proper methods of preparation be observed, but it is very much more difficult, and far more im. portant to establish that there is any connection between the organism and disease. nM —— A pscoxTEsTED man is like a sunke who would swallow an 5 To | te the unfortunate is like thro stones on one fallen into &
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