ER ae Er nn ——————. 1 a dn HEA ei AR THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Subject: The World as It Will Bewlm- provement in Haman Conditions After the Earth Has Been NRevolutionized For GoodwThe Coming Century, {Copyright, Louls Elopsch, 1590.) Wasmixarox, D. C.—~By a novel mode Dr, Talmage in this discourse shows how the world will look after it has been revoliu. tionized for good; text, II Peter iif, 13 “A new earth, wherein dwelleth righteous: ness." Down in ths struggle to make the world better and happier we sometimes get do- ressed with the obstacles to be overcome d the work to be accomplished, Will It Rot be a tonic and an inspiration to look at the world as it will be apa it has been brought back to paradisaical condition? Bo let us for a few moments transport our: selves futo the future and put ourselves forward in the centuries and see the world fn {ts rescued and perfected state, us we will see it if {a those times we are pormit. ted to revisit this planet, as I am suro we will, We all want to see the world after it bas been thoroughly gospelized and all wrongs bave been righted, We will want to come back, and we will come back to look upon the refulgent consummation to- ward which we have been on larger ot smaller scale tolling. Having heard the opening of the orchestra on whose strings some discords traveled, wo will want to hear the last triumphant bar of the per. feasted oratorio. Having seen ths pleture a8 the painter drew its first outilnes upon canvas, we wili want to see it when It is as compiete as Reubens’ “Descent From the Cross” or Michael Angelo's “Last Judg ment.” Having seen the world under the gleam of the star of Dethiebhem,6 we wil want to see it whep, under the nll shining of the sun of nghtecusness, the tower: shall strike 12 at noon. There will be nothing {nthat coming een: tury of the world’s perfection to hinder our terrestrial visit. Our power and velo olty of locomotion will have been improved infinitely. It will not take us long to com: here, however far off in God's universe heaven may be. The Bible declares that such visitation is going on now, *“‘Arethey pot all ministering spirits sent forth to minister to those who shall be heirs of sal. vation?’ Surely the gates of heaven wil not be bolted after the world is Edenized 80 as to hinder the redeemed from descend. ing for a tour of inspection and congratu- lation and triumph. You know with what foterest we look upon ruins—ruins of Kenilworth castle, tains of Melrose abbey, ruins of Rome, ruins of P.mpeii. So this world {n rains is an enchantment to look at, but we want to see it when rebuilt, repiliared, retowered, reaitered, rededicated. The exact date of the worid’s moral restoration I cannot foretell, It may be that through mighty awakenings it will take place in the middie of the nearby twentieth century, It may be at the opening of the twenty-first cen. tary, but it wouid not be surprising if it took more than 160 years to correct the ravages of sin which have raged for 600C years. The chief missionary and evangei- istic enterprises wers started In this cen tury, and be not dismayed if it takes a couple of centuries to overcome evils that have had full swing for sixty centuries, 1 take no responsibility in saying on what page of the earthly ealendar it will roll in, but God's eternal veracity is sworn to it that it will roll in, and as the redeemed in beaven do as they please and have all the faciiities of transit from world to world, you and I, my hearer or reader, will and look nt wha: my text calls “A new carth wherein dwelleth righteousness,” I imagine that we are desceading at that period of the world’s complete gospeliza- tion. There will be no peril in such ade. scent, Great heights and depths have no alarm for glorified spirits, We can come down through chasms between worlds without growing dizzy and across the tpaces of Lail tue Ruiveiss Without Jositg our way. Down and farther down we come As we approach this worid we breaths the perfume of {iiimitable gardens. Floraliza- tion that in centuries past was here and there walled in lest reckiess and dishonest bands pluo® or despoil it surges iis blilows of color aeross the flelds and up the hill- sides, and that which was desert blossoms as the rose. All the foreheads of erag erowned with flowers the feet of the moun- tains siippered with flowers! Ob, this per. fume of the continents this aroma of hemi. spheres! As we approach nearer and nearer we hear songs and laaghter aud hosannas, but not one g:oan of distress, not one sob of bersavement, not one clank of chaln, Alighted on the redeemed earth, we are first accosted by the Spirit of the twenty. first century, who proposes to guide and show us all that we desire to see, Without His guldancs we would lose our way, for the world is so much changed from the time when we lived in it. First of all, He ints out to us au group of abandoned uildings. We ask this Spirit of the twen- ty-first century, “What are those strue- tures whose walls are falling down and whose gates are rusted on the hioges?” Our esaort tells us: “Those werd once penitentiaries filled with offenders, but the erime of the world has died out, Thelt and urson and fraud and violence have guitted the earth. People bave all they want, and why should they appropriate the property of others even if they had the desire? The wmarnaders, the assassins, the buceaneers, the Herods, the Nana Sahibs, the ruffians, the bandits, are dead or, transformed by the power of the Christian religion, are now upright and beneficent und usefal. After passing on amid columns and gistaeas erected in memory of those who have been mighty for goodness in the world's history, the highest and the most exquisitely sculptured those in honor of such as have been most effectual in saving lite or improving life rather than those re- nowned for destroying life, we come upon another group of buildings that must have been transformed from their original shape und adapted to other uses, “What Is all this?” we ask our escort. He answers: “Those were aimshouses and hospitals, but socuracy in making ard prudence in running machinery of all sorts have almost abolished the list of casunities, and sobriety and industry have nearly abolished pau- perism, so that those buildings which ones were hospitals snd aimshoases have been turned into beautiful homes for the jess prospered, snd If you will look in you will seo the poorest table has abundance, and the smallest wardrobe luxury, and the harp, waiting to have lta strings thrummed, leaning against the piano, waiting tor Its keys to be fingered, “Hospitais and almshouses must have besn a necessity once, but they would ke useless now, And you gee all the swamps have been drained, the sewerage of the t towns has besn perfected, and the world’s climate Is 80 improved that there are no pneumonias to come out of the cold, or rheumatisms out of the dampness, ot fevers out of the heat. Consumptions ban. fshied, pneumonias banished, diphtheria banished, ophthaimia banished, neuralgia banished. As near as I ean tell from what I have read, our atmosphers of this cent. ury is a mingling of the two months ol Muy nnd October of the ninetesuth cent. ¥ ury.” whut aay to our swore LD i th n 80 te a og ore oan 400 a9 How did you get the 00 ship wree od world afloat again, out ol the breakers {nto the smooth sens?’ *'No, no!” responds our twenty-first century es eort, * you ses those towers? Thom are the towers of shurches, towers of re formatory institutions, towers of Christiax schools, Walk with me, and let us enter some of these temples.” We anter, and J Bud that the munis Ie fe rs. To, Ho y t > . onlsls’’ “Gloria In Excelsis’® coms used thin song, the words of which no one une derstands on the hp of a soluist, but mighty harmonies that roll from the outside door to ehancel and from floor to groined rafter eighteenth century into the twenty-first and had his foot on the organ pedal, and art of the nineteenth century into the wenty-first and were leading the volces, heaven llsten! ecort: *I eannot understand this, Have these worshipers no sorrows, or have they forgotten their sorrows?” forted with a supernatural condolence enced.” I ask again of the interpreter, “Has death been banished from the world?” The apswer is, “No, but people dis now out, and they reailze it 1s 1ime to go and going into a world where they will be in- finitely better off and ure to live In a man- sion that awaits their {mmediate oc- cupancy.” 1 nsk our escort. gospel power. Answer: “By flood of gion to be compared with what oceurred early the The pation » part of In our ehureh his. of the great awakening of five hundred thousand souls in twenty-four hours, tory we read 1887, when were saved, the coming showers into the kingdom tween the Atlantie that since then took of God everything be- and the The evils that good people were in the nineteenth century trying to destroy have been overcome by celestial foroes, bean dope by omulipotent thunderboits, ation of the coming centuries that cuurch has under God much, we ask our escort, the spirit of the ent kinds of churelies, 80 we are taken in god out of the churches of diferent denom- inations, and we find that they are just as were different in the nineteanth when we worshiped in them, There Is unity in them as to the great essentials of salvation, But we enter the Baptist Church, and it {a bap tismal day, and wo see the candidates for membership immersed. And we go into a Presbyterian Church and see a group of up thelr children for the christening. And we enter the Episcopal Chureh and hear the solemn roll of ministers are gowned and surpliced. And we outer the Lutheran hear in the sermon preached the doctrines of the greatest of German reformers we go into the Methodist Chureh just io time to sit down at a love feast and give audible “Amen’ when the service stirs us, At least fifty kinds of churches in the twenty-first century, as thers were 150 dif. kinds of churches in the ninetesnth eentury. “0 apirit of the twenty-first century, will you not show us something of the commer. eiul life of your time?’ He answers, *'Io- morrow I will show you all.” And on the morrow he takes us through the great marts of trade and shows us the bargain makers and the shelves on which the goods iny and the tlerces and hogsheads in which they are contained. I notice that the fabrics are of better quality than anything I ever saw in our pineteeath cantury, for the factories are more skiliful, and the wheels that turn and the looms that clack and the engines that rumbie are driven by force that were not a century ago discov- ered. The prices of the fabries indicate a rep sonable profit, and the firm Ia the count- fog room and the clerks at the counter sod the draymen at the doorway and the errand boy on his rounds and the mes. senger who brings the mall and the men who open the store in the morning as well as those who close it at night ail look as if they were satisfied and well treated, No swallowing up of small houses of merchandise by great houses, no ruinous the same the prices ment to ferent line nro bankrupt and lifted, no unnecasary assign defraud creditors, no over sharp the manufacturer right fn bis dealings with the retailer, and the customer. No purchasing of goods that will never be pald for. All right behind the counter; el! right before the counter, No repetition of what when way then he boasteth.” *O spirit of the twenty-first century, bow glad Iam thas you showed us these stores and factories and places of bargain and salel It was not we were earthly residents, merehants who are good at eiphering out other rules in arithmatio never could cipher out that sum In the rule of loss and gain, ‘What shall it Jront a man if he gain the whole world and lost his soni?” “But,” I say to our escort, the Bpirit of the twenty-first century, and vou and I say to sach other, ‘we must go home now, back again to heaven, We have staid long earthly residence bave come to pau, all the Davidie, Solomonie and cess in the universe, planet rescued! A world saved! It started with a garden. What a happiness that we could have seen this old world after it was righted and before it burned, for its in- ternal fires have nearly barned out to the erust, according to the geologist, mak- lisve in the Bible rediots, One element taken from the water and that will burn, and another slement taken from the alr and that will burn, and surrounding pian. ets will wateh this old ship of a world on fire and wonder if all its passongers got safely off. Before that planetary catas- trophe, hie us back to heaven, Farewell, spirit of the twenty-first century! Thanks for your guidanes! We can stay no longer away from doxologies that never and, in temples never closed, in a day that has no sundown. We must report to the immor. tals around the throne the i(ransformna- tions we have seen, the victories of truth on land and sea, the hemispheres (rradi- ated, and Christ on the throne of earth, as Iie is on the throne of heaven.” And now you and I have left our escort as we ascend, for the law of gravitation has no power to detaln ascending spirits. Up through immensities and by stellar and lunar and solar spiendors, which eannot be deseribed by mortal tongue, we rise higher nnd higher, till we reach the shining gate as it opens for our return, and the ques. tions greet us from nll sides: “What is the news? What did yon find in that earthi tower? What have you to report In th eity of the sun?’ Prophetic, apostoiie, saintly Inquiry. And, standing on the steps of the house of many mansions, we tex aloud the pews: “Hear it, all yo glorifl Obristian workers of all tho past esnturies! Wo found your work was successful, whether on earth you tolled with koittl neoadio, or rung a trowel on a rislog wall, or smote a shos last, or endowed a univer. sity, or swayed a scepter; whether on earth Saved cup of cold water in the name preached conflagration that ple, or at you of a disel AN ECCENTRIC OfrAN. Polaris’ Movements Are Affected by Stars That Are Invisible, flow the existence of an invisible celestial body may be revealed through the spectroscope is explained by Prof. W. W. Campbell, of the Lick Observa- Star, i8 a triple system, enables us to determine, he ceding from us, and how rapidly, cent observations of Polaris, with a spectograph attached to velocity is variable. solar system now five miles per second. This will quarters miles, and in the next two days will decrease until it again be- comes five miles, is repeated every four days. explanation of this mevement is that body, the two revolving about their common center of gravity, like balls of a dumbbell tossed into air, is comparable in size with the moon's orbit around the earth. The center of and. therefore, the binary sys. is approaching the solar system at with a velocity of seven and one-fifth milca per second. In 1896 it wis approaching at the rate of twelve and one-half miles per second. A part of this change of velocity since 1886 Le due to a change in the posi orbits of the binary tem, most of it must have heen produced by the attraction of a third body on the two bodies composing the eystem The period of the revolution of the binary system around the center of gravity of itself and the third body is not known, but is prob ably many years. Both companions of Polaris are invisible, but their ex- istence is proved by disturbances which their attractions produce in the motion of Polaris, gravity present May tions of the the ii but four-day the Monkeys as Balt for CUreocodiles. Recently a subscriber to the British to as the best crocodiles. 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