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TRIBE OF ISSACHAR. DR. TALMAGE SAYS THEY UNDERr . STOOD THE TIMES. That la Inhere They Differed From the Incompetents or Today —We Shonltl Prepare For Stir ria* Events. Spread of the Gospel. (Copyright. 1898. by American Press Asso ciation.] Washington, Npv. 37.—This sermon of Dr. Talmage is an anticipation of things i c..r at hand and urges preparation for stirring events; text, I Chronicles xil, 83,’'‘The children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do. ” Great tribe, that tribe of ltsachar. When Joab took the census, there were 145,600 of them. Before the almanac was bom, through astrological study, they knew from stellar conjunctions all about the seasons of the year. Before agriculture be came an art they were skilled in the rais ing of crops. Before politics became a sci ence they knew the temper of nations, and whenever they marched, either for pleas ure or war, they marched under a three colored flag—topaz, sardine and carbun cle. But the chief characteristic of that tribe Os Issaoharwas that they understood the times. They were not like the politi cal and moral Incompetents of our day, who are trying to guide 181.8 by the theo ries of 1828. They looked at the divine in dications in their own particular century. So we ought to understand the times, not the times When America was 18 colonies huddled together along the Atlantic coast, but the times when the nation dips one hand in the ocean on one side the continent and the other hand in the ocean on the other side the continent; times which put New York Narrows and the Golden Horn of the Pacific within one flash of electric telegraphy; times when God is as directly, as positively, as solemnly, as tremendous ly addressing us through the dally news paper and the quick revolution of events as he evw addressed the ancients or ad dresses Us Through the Holy Scriptures. The voice of God in Providence is as im portant as the voice of God in typology, for in our own day we have bad our Sinaia with thunders of the Almighty, and Cal varies of sacrifice, and Gethsemanes that sweat great drops of blood, and Olivets of ascension, and Mount Pisgahaof farreaoh ing vision. The Lord who rounded this world 6,000 years ago and sent his Son to redeem it near 1,900 years ago has yet much to do with this radiant but agonized planet. May God make us like the chil dren of Issachar, “which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to da” The Dying Century. The grave of this century will soon be dug. The cradle of another century will soon be rooked. There is something mov ing this way out of the eternities, some thing that thrills me, blanches me, ap palls me, exhilarates me, enraptures me. It will wreathe the orange blossoms for millions of weddings. It will beat the dirge for millions of obsequies. It will carry the gilded banners of brightest mornings and the black flags of darkest midnights. The world will play the grand march of its heroes and sound the rogues’ march of its cowards. Other processions may halt or break down or fall back, but the procession led by that leader moves steadily on and will soon be here. It will preside over coronations and dethrone ments. I hail it I I bless it 1 I welcome it I The twentieth century of the Christian era. What may we expect of it and how shall we prepare for it arc the momentous ques tions I propose now to discuss. As in fam ilies human nativity is anticipated by all sanctity and kindliness and solemnity and care and hopefulness, so ought we prayer fully, hopefully, industriously, confidently prepare for the advent of a new century. The nineteenth century must not treat the twentieth on its arrival as the eight eenth century treated the nineteenth. Our century inherited the wreck of revo lutions and the superstitions of age. Around its cradle stood the'armed assassin of old world tyrannies; the “reign of ter ror," bequeathing its horrors; Robe spierre, plotting his diabolism; the Jacobin club, with its wholesale massacre; the guillotine, chopping its beheadments. The ground quaking with the great guns of Marengo, Wagram and Badajos. AJI Eu rope in convulsion. Asia in comparative quiet, but the quietness of death. Africa in the clutches of the slave trade. Ameri can savages in full cry, their scalping knives lifted. The exhausted and poverty struck people of America sweating under the debt of *800,000,000, which the Revo lutionary war had left them. Washington just gone into the long sleep at Mount Vernon, and the nation in bereavement, Aaron Burr, the champion libertine, be coming soon after the vice president. The government of the United States only an experiment, most of the philosophers and statesmen and governments of the earth prophesying it would be a disgraceful fail ure. No poor foundling laid at night on the cold steps of a mansion, to be picked up in the morning, was poorer oft than this century at its nativity. The United States government had taken only 12 steps on its journey, its constitution having been formed in 1789, and most of the na tions of the earth laughed at our govern ment in its first attempts to walk alone New Map of the World. The birthday of our nineteenth century occurred in the time of war. Our small United States navy, under Captain Trux ton, commanding the frigate Constitution, was in collision with the French frigates La Vengeance and L’lnsurgente, and the first infant cries of this century were drowned tn the roar of naval battle. And political strife on this continent was the hottest, the parties rending each other with pantherine rage. The birthday pres ent of this nineteenth century was vituper ation, public unrest, threat of national demolition and horrors national and in ternational I adjure you, let not the twentieth century be met in that awful way, but with all brightness of temporal and religious prospects. First, let ns put upon the cradle of the new century a new map of the world. The old map was black with too many barbar isms and red with too many slaughters and pals With too many sufferings. Let us see to it that on that map, so far as possible, our country from ocean to ocean is a Christianized continent —schools, col leges, churches and good homes in long line from ocean beach to ocean beach. On that snap Cuba must be free. Porto Rico must be free. The archipelago of the Phil ippines must be free. If cruel Spain ex pects by procrastination and intrigue to get back what she has surrendered, then the warships lowa and Indiana and Brook lyn and Texas and Vesuvius and Oregon must be sent back to southern waters or across to the coast of Spain to silence the Insolence, as decidedly as last summer they silenced the Cristobal Colon and Oquendo ami Maria Teresa and Vizcaya, When wo get those irlnnds thoroughly un der our protectorate, for the first time our missionaries in Chinn will be safe The atrocities imposed on those good men and women in the so railed Flowery Kingdom will never bo resur.iod, for our guns will be too near Hongk;.rg to allow the mas sacre of missiomuy sottjpicents. On that map mt st bo put the Isthmian canal, begun if not completed. No long voyages around Cape Horn for the world’s merchandise, but short and cheap commu nication by water instead of expensive commiiniciitioii I y rail train, and more millions will be added to our national Wealth and the world's betterment than I have capacity to calculate. On that map It must bo made evident that A inerlca is to be the world’s civilizer and evengelieer. Free from the national religions of Europe on the one side and from the superstitions of Asia on the oth er side, it will have facilities for the work that no other continent can possibly pos sess. As near ns I can tell by the laying on of the hands of the Lord Almighty this continent lias been ordained for that work. This Is the only country in the world where all religions are on the same plat form, and the people have free selection for themselves without any detriment. When wo present to the other continents this assortment of religions and give them unhindered choice, we have no doubt of their selecting this religion of mercy and kindness and good will and temporal and sternal rescue. Hear it I America Is to take this world for Godl On the map which we will put on the cradle on the new centi'fy we must have very soon a railroad bridge across Bering Strait, those 86 miles of water, not deep, and they are spotted with Islands capable of holding the plersof a great bridge. And what with America and Asia thus con nected, and Siberian railway, and a rail road now projected for the length of Afri ca, and Palestine and Persia and India and China and Burma intersected with railroad tracks, all of which will be done before the new century is grown up, the way will be open to the quick civilization and evangelization of the whole world. The old map we used to study in our boy hood days is dusty and on the top shelf or amid the rubbish of the garret, and so will the present map of the world, however 'gilded and beautifully bound, be treated, and an entirely new map will be put into the infantile hand of the coming century. Gospel Wldespreffff. The work of this century has been to get ready. All the earth is now free to the gospel except two little spots, one in Asia and one in Africa, while at the beginning of the century there stood the Chinese wall and there flamed the fires and there glittered the swords that forbade entrance to many islands and large reaches of con tinent. Bornesian cruelties and Fiji is land cannibalism have given way, and all the gates of all the continents are swung open with a clang that has been a positive and glorious invitation for Chris tianity to enter. Telegraph, telephone and phonograph are to be consecrated to gospel dissemination, and, instead of the voice that gain! the attention of a few hundred or a few thousand people within the church walls, the telegraph will thrill the glad tidings and the telephone will utter them to many millions. Oh, the in finite advantage that the twentieth cen tury has over what thenineteenth century had at the starting! In preparation for this coming century we have time in the intervening years to give some decisive strokes at the seven or eight great evils that curse the world. It would be an assault and battery upon the coming century by this century if we al lowed the full blow of present evils to fall upon the future. We ought somehow to cripple or minify some of these abomina tions. Alcoholism is today triumphant, and are we to let the all devouring mon ster that has throttled this century seize upon the next without first having filled his accursed hide with stinging arrows enough to weaken and stagger him? We have wasted about 25 years. How so? While wo have been waiting for the law of the land to prohibit intoxicants we have done little to quench the thirst of appetite in the palate and tongqe of a whole generation. Where are the public and enthusiastic meetings that used to be held 80 years ago for the one purpose of persuading the young and middle aged and eld that strong drink is poisonous and damning? When will we learn that we must educate public opinion up to a pro hibitory law or such a law will not be passed or if passed Will not be executed? God grant that all state and national leg islatures may build up against this evil a wall which will be an impassable wall, shutting out the alcoholic abomination. But while we wait for that let us, in our homes, in our schools and our churches and on our platforms and in our newspa pers, persuade the people to stop taking alcoholic stimulant unless prescribed by physicians, and then persuade physicians not to prescribe it if in all the dominions of therapeutics there may be found some other remedy. Seven or eight years ago on the anniver sary platform of the National Temperance society, in New York, I deplored the fact that we had left politics to do that which moral suasion only could do and said on that occasion, “IF some poor drunkard, wandering along this street tonight,should see the lights kindled by this brilliant as semblage and should come in and, finding the character of the meeting, should ask for a temperance pledge, that he might sign it and begin a new career, Ido not believe there is in all this house a temper ance pledge, and you would have to take out a torn letter envelope or a loose scrap of paper for the inebriate’s signature. ” I found out afterward that there was one such temperance pledge in the audience, but only one that I could hear of. Do not leave to politics that which can be done now in 10,000 reformatory meetings all over the country. The two great political parties, Republican and Democratic, will put a prohibitory plank in the platform the same day that satan joins the church and turns perdition into a camp meeting. Both parties want the votes of the traffick ers in liquid death, and if you wait for the ballot box to do the work, first you will have local option, and then you will have high license, and then a first rate law passed, to be revoked by the next legisla ture. Redeem the Nation. . Oh, save the young man of today and greet the coming century with a tidal wave of national redemption 1 Do not put upon the cradle of the twentieth century a mountain of demijohns and beer barrels and rum jugs and put to jts infant lips wretchedness, disease, murder and aban donment in solution. Aye, reform that army of inebriates. "Ah,” you say, “it cannot be done!” That shows that you will be of no use in the work. “O ye of little faith!” Awoy back in enrly times President Davies of Princeton college one day found a man in utter despair because of the thrall of strong drink. The presi dent said to him: “Sir, be of good cheer. Yon can be saved. tT.gn the pledge. " ! “Ah," said the despairing victim, “I have often signed the pk.ir*. but I have always bn ken my pledge. ” • But,” sai<ibo pres ! tent, “I wl’l be your strength to keep the pledge. 1 will lie your friend and with z loving arm around you will hold you □p When your appetite burns, and you foci that you must gratify ft, come to my house. Sit down with ire in the study or with the family in the parlor, and I will be a shield to you. All that I can do for yoiiwith my books, my sympathy, my ex perience, my society, my love, my money, I will do. You shall forget your appetite »nd master it.” A look of hope glowed on the poor man’s face, and he replied, “Sir, will you do alb that?” “Surely I will.” “Then I will overcome.” He sign ed the pledge and kept it That plan of President Davies which saved one man, tried on a largo scale, will save a million men. Alexander the Great made an Imperial banquet at Babylon, and, though he had been drinking the health of guests all one night and all next day, the second night ho had 20 guests, and he drank the health of each separately. Then, calling for the cup of Hercules, the giant, a monster cup, he filled and drained It twice to show his endurance; but as be finished the last draft from the enp of Hercules, the giant, he dropped in*a fit, from which he never recovered. Alexander, who had conquered Sardis and conquered Halicarnassus and conquered Asia and conquered the world, could not conquer himself, and there is a threatening peril that this good land of ours, having conquered all with tfhom it has overgone into battle, may yet be over thrown by the oup of the giant evil of the land—that Hercules of infamy, strong drink. Do not let the staggering and bloated and embruted host of drunkards go into the next century looking for in sane asylums and almshouses and delirium tremens and dishonored graves. Another thing wo must get fixed is a national law concerning divorce. William E. Gladstone asked me while walking in his grounds at Hawarden, “Do you not think that your country is in peril from wrong notions of divorce?” And before I had time to answer he said, “The only good law of divorce that you have in America is the law in South Carolina.” The fact is that instead of state laws on this subject we need a national law passed by the senate of the United States and the house of representatives and plainly inter preted by the supreme court of the country. Marriage and Divorce. There are thousands of married people who are unhappy and they ought never to have been wedded. They were deceived, or they were reckless, or they were fools, or they were caught by dimple, or hung by a curl, or married in joke, or expected a fortune and it did not come, or good habits turned to brutality, and hence the domestic wreck, but make divorce less easy and you make the human race more cautious about entering upon life time al liance. Let people understand that mar riage is not an accommodation train that will let you leave almost anywhere, but a through train, and then they will not step on the train unless they expect to go clear through to the last depot. One brave man this coming winter, rising amid the white marble of yonder Capitol hill, could offer a resolution upon the subject of divorce that could keep out of the next century much of the free lovlsm and dissoluteness which have cursed this century. Another thing that we need to get fixed up before the clock shall strike 12 on that night of centennial transition is the ex pulsion of war by the power of arbitra tion. Within the next three years we ought to have, and I hope will have, what might be called “a jury of nations,” which shall render verdict on all contro verted international questions. All civi lized nations are ready for it. Great Britain with a standing army of 210,000 men, France with a standing army of 580,000 men, Germany with a standing army of 600,000 men, Russia with a standing army of 900,000 men. Europe with stand ing armies of about 8,500,000 men, the United States proposing a standing army of 100,000 men. What a glorious idea, that of disarmament! What an emancipa tion of nationsand centuries! The czar of Russia last, summer proposed it In world resounding manifesto. Disarma ment! What an inspiring and heaven de scended thought 1 In some quarters the czar’s manifesto was treated with derision, and we were told that he was not in earnest when he made it. I know personally that he did mean it. Six years ago he expressed to me the same theory in his palace at Pe terhof, he then being on the way to the throne, not yet having, reached it. His father, Alexander 111, then on the throne, expressed to me in his palace the same sentiments of peace, and his wife, the then empress, with tears in her eyes, said, in reply to my remark, “Your majesty, there will never be another great war between Christian -nations, ” “Ah, .1 hope there never will be! If there should ever be an other great war, I am sure it will not start from this palace. ” Universal Peace. What a boon to the world if Russia and Germany and England and the United States could safely disband all their stand ing armies and dismantle their fortresses and spike their guns! What uncounted millions of dollars would be saved, and, more than that, what a complete cessation of human slaughter! What an improve ment of the morals of nations! What an adoption of that higher and better mani festo which was set to music and let down from the midnight heavens of Bethlehem ages ago! The world has got to come to this. Why not make it the perpration of the nineteenth century? Are we going to make a present to the twentieth century of reeking hospitals and dying armies and hemispheric graveyards? Do you want the hoofs of other cavalry horses on the breasts of fallen men? Do you want other harvest fields gullied with wheels of gun carriages? Do you want the sky glaring with confla gration of other homesteads? Ah, this nineteenth century has seen enough of war. Make the determination that no other century shall be blasted with it. During the first half of this century we expended 38,000,000 to educate the Indi ans and 1400,000,000 to kill them. Accord ing to a reliable statistician, during this century we have had the Crimean war, which slew 785,000 and cost *1,700,000,- 000, and our American civil war, which slew 1,000,000 men, .north and south, and cost $9,000,000,000, digging a grave trench from Barnegat lighthouse, New Jersey, to Lone Mountain cemetery at San Francis co. And you must add to these the Zulu war, and the Austro Prussian war, and the Danish war, and the Italian war, the Franco-Prussian war,Chino-Japanesewar, Napoleonic war and the Ametico-Span ish war. What a record for this boasted nineteenth century ! It makes all pande monium chuckle. It has called out all the realms of diabolus in grand parade, satan reviewing them from platform of fire as the demons in companies and regimen'« and brigades have passed with banners of Are and riding on horses of tire, keeping step to the rail of the grand march of hell In the name of tbs Qo.l rs nations, tot ths Semi! Os blood be rolled up and pat upon the shelf, never to be taken down. And by the n !.Mle of next century Ist the sword sod the carbine and the bombshell become curiosities In a museum about which your grandchildren shall ask ques tions. wondering what those instruments were ever med for, but let no one dare tell them but keep it from them an everlast ing secret, lest they too much despise our nineteenth century and curse the memory of their ancestors. Will it net bo g~ '.nd if on the first day of the twentieth century the last will and tqttamcat of the nineteenth century shall be opened and it shall be found to read: “In the name of God, arn-m- I, the dying century, do make this my last will and testament. I give ami bequeath to my heir, the twentieth century, peace of na tions; swords, which I direct to bo beaten into plowshares, and pears, which must be turned into pruning hooks; armories, to be changed late s hoolhouaes and for tresses, to be rebuilt into churches, and I order that greater honors be put on those who save life than upon those who destroy it. And if amid the universal peace now attained those two nations, Spain and Turkey, do not step, their cruelties, lot the other nations, banded together, extem porize a police force to wipe those coun tries off the map of nations as a wet sponge wipes from a boy’s slate at school a hard sum in arithmetic. This last will I sign and seal and deliver on the 81st day of December, in the year of our Lord 1900, all the civilized nations of earth and all the glorified nations of heaven witness ing.” But what we do as individuals, aa churches, as nations, as continents, we must do very soon, if we want the transi tion from century to century to be a wor thy transition, for I hear the trumpets of the approaching century and the clatter ing hoofs of the host it leads on. A Historic Street. For historical reminiscence there is no street in all the world like yonder Penn sylvania avenue. Champs Ely sees of Paris is more brilliant; Princess street, Edin burgh, more picturesque; Unter den Lin den, Berlin, more richly foliaged; Picca dilly street, London, more populous; Nev sky Prospckt of St. Petersburg stands for more years; the Corso of Rome is lined with more antiquities, but for an intelli gent and patriotic American yonder av enue has no equal for suggestiveness. The other night, while thinking of this sub ject, as to the way in which we ought to meet the new century so near at hand, I fell into a sort of dreamy state, in which the chronology of events seemed obliterat ed, and I saw on Pennsylvania avenue two processions, which seemed to meet each other aa this century goes out and an other comes in. As near as I could tell in that dreamy state it was the last night of the century and I saw the spirits of the mighties in American history passing down the marble steps of the capitol on yonder bill and moving through that memorable Pennsylvania avenue. There they come, the departed members of the supreme court of our nation, led on by Chief Justice Marshall. There oome the distinguished men of our national legis lature, in which are Webster and Olay and Benton and Calhoun and Preston and Corwin and Edward Everett and John Quincy Adame and Samuel L. Southard and Rufus Choate and others—some great for statesmanship, others great for wit, others great for eloquence, others great for courage. They pass on through the avenue immortal for those who in past times trod it Yonder I see the funeral pageants of senators and three presidents! Banners draped in gloom, tossing black plumes following tossing black plumes. Catafalques, each drawn by eight white horses, while minute guns boom. Yonder a nation in tears follows the victims of the exploded Princeton, the slain secre taries of state and navy. Presidential Inaugural processions, ac companied by vanished music that has re turned, the lips again on flutes and cornets long ago rusted, but now repolished, and I hear the beating drums, which, silent for many years, are again sounded, greet ed by the huzza of hundreds of thousands of voices. Many decades hushed, but again resonant. Regiments of the army of American Revolution followed by regi ments of the army of 1812 and regiments of the army of 1864. They have oome up from the encampments in the tomb to take part in this great parade in honor of the century on this night passing away. From the windows on both sides—win dows upholstered again, as in those olden days—the pomp and fashion of the na tional capital looking out upon the pass ing spectacle There Marquis de Lafayette passes, escorted by the chief men of the land, who have been authorized to wel come him in behalf of a nation which he helped to set free. On through that avenue pass the throngs toward the presidential residence, where, to greet them, come out on the platform built to review the pass ing century Washington and the Adamses and Jefferson and Madison and Monroe and Lincoln. As that long and brilliant procession, vanished, but now a resurrect ed and remarshaled host, passes before that reviewing stand I see anotherjproces sion coming from the opposite direction to meet this. They are the presidents, the senators, the legislators,, the judges, the philanthropists, the deliverers of the twen tieth century. They oome up from the schools, the churches, the farms, the cities, the homesteads of the continent. Their cradles were rocked on the banks of the Alabama, and the St. Lawrence, and the Oregon, and the Androscoggin, and the Potomac, and the Hudson. They have just as firm a tread, Just as well built a brow, just as great a brain, just as noble a heart, just as high a purpose, just as sublime a courage pasting in procession one way through that,aveoue aa the other procession pa subs the other way. Yea, the men coming out of the twentieth century in some respects surpass those coming out of the nineteenth century, for they have had better advantage, and will have grand er opportunity, and will take part in high er achievements of civilization and Chris tianity. What a meeting on this midnight 12 o’clock, the two processions of the mighties of two centuries! Uncover all heads and bow reverently in prayer. Thank God for the good done by the pro cession coming out of the past and pray to God for good to be done by the proces sion coming out of the future. But halt, both processions! Halt! Halt! Break ranks! Back to your thrones, ye mighties of the nineteenth century, and enjoy the reward of your fidelity! Back to your homes, 'ye mighties of the twentieth cen tury, your congressional chairs, your ju dicial benches, your presidential mansions, your editorial rooms, your stupendous re sponsibilities and do the work for the twentieth century! Farewell and tears for the one procession! Hail and welcome to the other procession I New Year’s Wnteh. It has been a custom in all Christian lands for people to keep watch night as an old year goes out and a new year comes tn Peopls ttßMtnble In ohurcbeA tbboul 10 o’clock of tea* last night of the old year, and they have prayers and aongs and ser mons and congratulations until the hands of the church clock almcot reach the figure It, and then all bow in silent prayer, and the scene is mightily impressive, until the clock in the tower of the church or the clock in the tower of the city hall strikes 12, and then all rise and ting with smil ing face and jubilant voice the grand dox btogy, and there to a shaking at hands all around. But what a tremendous watch night the world to soon to celebrate! This century will depart at 18 o’clock of the Slat of De cember of the year 1900. What a night that wUI be, whether starlit or moonlit or dark with tempest! It win be such a night aa you and I never sow. Those who watched the coming in of the nineteenth century long ago went to their pillows of dust. Here and there one Will see the new century arrive who saw this century, yet they were too infantile to appreciate the arrival. But on the watch night at which I speak in all neighborhoods and towns and cities and continents audiences will assemble and bow in prnyor, waiting for the last breath of the dying century, and when the clock shall strike 12 there will be a solemnity and an overwhelming awe such as have not been felt tor 100 years, and then all the people will arise and chant the welcome of a new century of joy and sorrow, of triumph and defeat, of happi net and woe, and neighborhood will shako hands with neighborhood, and church with church, and city with city, and con tinent with continent, and hemisphere with hemisphere, and earth with heaven, at the stupendous departure and the ma jestic arrival. May we all be living on earth to see the solemnities and join in the songs and shake hands in the congrat ulations of that watch night, or if between this and that any of us should be off and away may we be inhabitants of that land where “a thousand years are as one day," and in the presence of that angel spoken of in the Apocalypse who at the end of the world will, standing with one foot on the sea and the other foot on the land, “swear by him that llveth for ever and ever that time shall be no longer. ” CASTOR IA . .. The Kind You Hare Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of— and has been made under his per sonal supervision since Its Infancy. ' '''' Allow no one to deceive you In this. Ail Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are but Ex periments that trifle with and endanger the health of Intants and Children—Experience against Experiment. 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