DR. TALM AGE'S SERMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The Outlook Inspiring A Far I.ook luto the Future—Marvelous Ad vances Predicted Keliglon and Sci ence In tlie Next Hundred Years. [Copyright 1901.1 WASHINGTON, D. C.—ln this discourse Dr. Talmage tells something o£ what he expects the next hundred years will achieve, and declares that the outlook is most inspiring; text, II Samuel xxiii, 4, "A morning without clouds." "What do you expect o£ this new cen tury ?" is the question often asked of me, and many others have been plied with the same inquiry. In the realm of invention I expect something as startling as the tele graph and the telephone and the X-iay. In the realm of poetry 1 expeet as great poets as Longfellow and r lennyson. In the realm of religion I expect more than one Pentecost like that of 1857, when 500,- 000 souls professed to have been con verted. I expect that universal peace will reign, and that before the arrival of the two thousandth year gunpowder will be out of use except for glasting rocks or py rotechnic entertainment. 1 expect that before this new century has expired the millennium will be fully inaugurated. The twentieth century will be as much an im provement on the nineteenth century as the nineteenth century was an improve ment on the eighteenth. But the conven tional length of sermonic discourse \fill al low us only time for one hopeful consider ation, and that will be the redemption of the cities. Pulpit and printing press for the most part in our day are busy discussing the condition of the cities at this time, but would it not be healthfully encouraging to all Christian workers and to all who are toiling to make the world better if we should this morning, for a little while, look forward to the time when our cities shall be revolutionized by the gospel of the Son of God, and all the darkness of sin and trouble and crime and suffering shall be gone from the sky, and it shall be "a morning without clouds?" Every man has pride in the city of his nativity or residence if it be a city distin guished for any dignity or prowess. Caesar boasted of his native Koine, Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demosthe nes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse and Paul of Tarsus. I should have suspi cion of base hcartedness in a man who had no eseepcial interest in the city of his birth or residence—no exhilaration at the evidence of its prosperity, or its artistic embellishments, or its scientific advance ment. 1 have noticed that a man never likes a city where he has nut behaved well! Peo ple who have a free ride in the prison van never like the city that furnishes the ve hicle. When I find Argoa and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to prove themselves the birthplace of Homer, 1 conclude right away thai llomer behaved well. He liked 1 hem, and they liked him. We must not war on laudable city pride or with the idea of building ourselves up at any time to try to pull others down. Boston must continue to point to its Faneuil Hall and to its superior educational advantages; Philadelphia must continue to point to its Independence Hall, and its mint and its Girard College; New York must continue to exult in its matchless harbor, and its vast population, and its institutions of mercy, and its ever widening commerce; Washington must continue to rejoice in the fact that it is the most beautiful city under the sun. If I should find a man coming from any city, having no pride in that city, that city having been the place of his nativity or now being the place of his residence, L would feel like asking him right away: "What mean thing have you been doing there? What outrageous thing have you been guilty of that you do not like the place?" Every city is influenced by the character of the men who founded it. Komulus im pressed his life upon Rome. The pilgrim lathers will never relax their grasp from New England. William Penn left a leg acy of fair dealing and integritv to Phila delphia, and you can now, any day, on the <trtets of that city, see his customs, his manners, his morals, his hat, hi* wife's bonnet and his meeting house. So the Hollanders, founding New York, left their impression on all the following generations. So this capital of the uation is a perpetual fulogy upon the Washington who founded it. I thank God for thp place of our resi dence, and, while there are a thousand things that ought to be corrected and many wrongs that ought to be overthrown, while 1 thank God for the past, I look for ward this moruing to a glorious future. I think we ought—and 1 take it for granted that you are interested in this great work of evangelizing the cities and saving the world—we ought to toil with the sunlight in our faces. We arc not fighting in a miserable Bull Bun of defeat. We are on the way to final victory. We are not fol lowing the rider on the black horse, lead ing us down to death and darkness and doom, but the rider on the white horse, with the moon under liisfeet and the stars of heaven for llis tiara. Hail, conqueror, ha 111 1 know there are sorrows and tlfjre are sins and there are sufferings all around about us, but as in some bitter cold win ter day when we are thrashing our arms around us to keep our thumbs trom freez ing we think of the warm spring day that M ill after awhile come, or in the dark win ter night we look up anil see the northern lights, the windows of heaven illumined by some great victory, just so we look up from the night of suffering and sorrow and wretchedness in our cities, and we see a light streaming through from the other side, and we know we are on the way to morning more than that, on the way to "a morning without clouds." 1 want you to understand, nil you who are toiling for Christ, that the castles of sin are all going to be captured. The vic tory lor Christ in these great towns is guiug to be so complete that not a man on earth, or an angel in heaven, or a devil in hell will dispute it. How do 1 know? I know it ju.it as certainly as God lives and tli.it this is holy truth. The old lliblo is full of it. Ihe nation is to be saved; of eomse all the cities are to be saved. It makes a great difference with you and with me whether we are toiling on toward a I ft it or toiling on toward a victory. Vow, in this municipal elevation of Mlueh | fp.ak I have to remark there will t»- greater financial prosperity than our cities have ever seen. Some people seem to have a morbid idea of the millennium, anl they think when the better time comes t.i our eitie* and the woild people will give their tune up to psalm singing and the relating uf their religious e*|ie r.ime and as all sot ml life will la? purl tied there will be i,,, hilarity, ami as all business will be puritu-d there will be no i'iterpriss. Iht-re is no ground for Mich so ale.uid anticipation. IN the time of • l.eli 1 sj -ak. where now ..ne fortune is Ui id. 111. re will be a huv.dre l fortunes ilb \\e all know business prosperity d ptoids upon coliHdeiite l«Mv. ~u man so lin in N< w, when th.it time eouif* of whi h 1 speak, and all double dealing, all .•v and all fraud IN (MM Mil • commercial circles, thorough cmtftdeuee will be e.tabhshad, ami there will la- bet lei business done and larger fortunes gs' lu isd and mightier successes achieved lite gleal business liisastvi • ut this country have come from the work of god« less speculators and infamous stock gamb lers. The great foe to business is crime. When the right sliall have hurled back the wrong, and shall have purified th« commercial code, and shall have thun* dered down fraudulent establishment*, and shall have put into the hands of hon est men the keys of business, blessed time for the bargain n.akers. I am not talking an abstraction; I am not making a guess; I am telling you God's eternal truth. In that day of which I speak taxes will be a mere nothing. Now our business men are taxed for everything; city taxes, coun ty taxes, State taxes, United States taxes, stamp taxes, license taxes, manufacturing taxes—taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business men have to make a small fortune every year to pay their taxes. What fastens on our great industries this awful load? Crime, individual and official. We have to pay the board of the villain* who are incarcerated in our prisons; we have to take care of the orphans of those who plunged into their graves through beastly indulgence; we have to support the muni cipal governments, which are expensive just in proportion as the criminal proclivi ties are vast and tremendous. Who sup ports the almshouses and police stations and all the machinery of municipal gov ernment? The taxpayers. But in the glorious time of which I speak grievous taxation will all have ceased. There will be no need of support ing criminals; there will be no criminals. Virtue will have taken the place of vice. There will be no orphan asylums, for pa rents will be able to leave a competency to their children; there will be no voting of large sums of moneys for some munici pal improvement, which moneys, before they get to the improvement, drop into tho pockets of those who voted them; no oyer and terminer kept up at vast expense to the people, no impaneling of juries to try theft and arson and murder and slan der and blackmail; better factories; grand er architecture; finer equipage; larger for tunes; richer opulence. "A morning with out clouds." In that better time also coming to these cities the churches of Christ will be more numerous, and they will be larger, and they will be more devoted to the service of Jesus Christ, and they will accomplish greater influences for good. Now it is often the case that churches are envious of each other, and denominations collide with each other, and even ministers of Christ sometimes forget the bond of brotherhood. But in the time of which I speak, while there will be just as many differences of opinion as there are now, there will be no acerbity, no hypercriti cisru, no exclusiveness. In our great cities the churches are not to-day large enough to hold mere than a fourth of the population. The churches that are built—comparatively few of them are fully occupied. The average attend ance in the churches of the United States to-day is not 400. Now, in the glorious time of which I speak there are going to be vast churches, and they are going to be all thronged with worshipers. Oh, what rousing songs they will sing! Oh, what earnest sermons they will preach! Oh, what fervent prayers they will offer! Now, in our time what is called a fashionable church is a place where a few people, hav ing attended very carefully to their toilet, come and sit down —they do not want to be crowded, they like a whole seat to themselves —and then, if they have any time left from thinking of their store, and from examining the style of the hat in front of them, they sit and listen to the sermon warranted to hit no man's sins, and listen to music which is rendered by a choir warranted to sing tunes that no body knows! And then, after an hour and a half of indolent yawning, they go home refreshed. Every man feels better after he has had a sleep! Jivit all these -wrongs are going to be righted. I expect to live to see the day. 1 think 1 hear in the distance the rum bling of the King's chariot. Not always in the minority is the church of God going to be, or are good men going to be. The streets are going to be filled with re generated populations. What will you do with those who fleece that young man, getting him to purloin large sums of money from his employer— the young man who came to an officer of my church and told the story and franti cally asked what he might do? Nothing. (iod's love will vet bring back this ruined world to holiness and happiness. An infinite Father bends over it in sym pathy. And to the orphan He will be a Father, and to the widow He will be a husband, and to the outcast He will be a home, and to the poorest wretch that to day crawls out of the ditch of his abom ination, crying for mercy. He will be an all pardoning Redeemer. The rocks will turn gray with age, the forests will be unmoored in the hurricane, the sun will shut its fiery eyelid, the stars will drop like blasted figs, the sea will heave its last groan and lash itself in ex piring agony, the continents will drop like anchors in the deep, the world will wrap itself in sheet of flame and leap on the funeral pyre of the judgment day, but God's love will never die. It shall kindle its suns after all other lights have gone out. It will be a billowing sea after all other oceans have wept themselves away. It will warm itself by the blaze of a con suming world. It will sing while the archangel's trumpet peals and the air is filled with the crash of breaking sepul chers and the rush of the wings of the rising dead. Oh, commend that love to all the cities and the morning without clouds will come! I know that sometimes it seems a hope less task. You toil on in different spheres, sometimes with great discouragement. People have no faith and say: "It does not amount to anything. You might as well quit that." Why, when Moses stretched his hand over the Ked Sea it did not seem to mean anything especially. I'eople came out, I suppose, and said, "Aha!" Some of them found out what he wanted to do. He wanted the tea parted. It did not amount to anything, this stretching out of his hand over the sea! Hut after awhile the wind blew oil night from tin- east, and the waters were gath er! d into a glittering palisade on either side, and the billows roared as (Sod pulled back on their crystal bits. Wheel into line, O l»rael! March, march! l'earls crashed under feet, flying spray gathers into rainbow arch of victory for the con querors t« march under, shout of hosts on the beach answering the shout of hosts amid sea, and when the last line of the Israelites reach the beach the cymbals cup, and the shields clang, and the waters rush over the pursuers, and the swift lingered winds on the white keys of the foam play the grand march of Israel deliv ered and the awful dirge of Egyptian over throw. So you and I go forth, and all the peo ple of 004 g„ furth, and they stretch their hand over the sea, the boiling sea of crime and sin and wretchedness, "It doesn't amount to anything," people say Doesn't it? <;.»«!'* winds of help will after awhile I " VIII to blow , a path will I* cleared for tlji; ariuy of Christian philanthropists, Ihe path will be lined with the treasure of ( hristian Ixneliecttee, and we will be greeted to the other beach by the clap ping of all li.-.neii s cymbals, wlnle those who pursued us and dm ted us and tried to destroy us will gn down under the «ea, and all that will he left of them will l*t east high and dry Upon the beach, the •phntereu whe« I uf a chariot or thru*! uut fruMi the foam, the breathless nostril ui a r* letlcss I'batger, n forerunner «112 Insomnia strong' enough to stand mm up under the strain of sleepless nights? 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