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KfcV. DH.TALMAGE
Th# Kmmont Divine's Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: The Outlook Inspiring — A Far
book Into tke Future—Marvelous Ad¬
vances Predicted — Kellglou and Sci¬
ence. In the Next Hundred Years.
(Copyright 1901.1
Washington, J). C.—In this discourse
Ur. Talmage tells something of 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 of 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 1
expect something as startling as the tele¬
graph and the telephone and the X-ray.
In the realm of poetry I expect as great
poets as Longfellow and Tennysan. In
the realm of religion ). expect more than
one l’enteeost like that of 1857, when 500,
■<>00 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 be century fully has expired The the
'millennium will inaugurated.
twentieth century will be as much an im¬
provement on the nineteenth century as
the nineteenth century was an improve¬
ment ou the eighteenth. But the conven¬ ifill al¬
tional length of sermonic discourse
low us only time for one hopeful consider¬
ation, and that will be the redemption ot
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 w-orkers and to all who are
toiling to make the world better if we
should this morning, for a little while,
took forward to the time when our cities
•hall be revolutionized by the gospel of the
Son of God, and all the darkness of
sin and trouble ar.d 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 Rome, - Virgil of
Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demosthe¬
nes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse
and Paul of Tarsus. I should have suspi¬
cion of base lieartedness in a man who
had no escepcial 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.
I have noticed that a man never likes a
city where he has not 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 Argos and Rhodes
and Smyrna trying to prove themselves right
the birthplace of Homer, I conclude
away that Homer behaved well. Ho liked
them, and they liked aim. 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. Faneuil Boston Hall must and
continue to point to its
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, I
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
-'lace ?”
Every city is influenced by the character
-of the men who founded it. Romulus im¬
pressed his life upon Rome. The pilgrim
fathers will never relax their grasp from
New England, ^Villiam Penn left a leg¬
acy of fair dealing and integrity to Phila¬
delphia, and you can now, any day, on the
streets of that city, see his onstoms, his
manners, his morals, his hat, bis wife’s
bonnet and his meeting house. So the
Hollanders, founding following New York, left their
impression on all the generations.
Ho this capital of the nation is a perpetual
•eulogy upon the Washington who founded
it.
I thank God for the place of our resi¬
lience, and, while there are a thousand
things that ought to be corrected and
many wrongs that ought to be overthrown,
while I thank God for the past, I look for¬
ward this morning to a glorious future. I
think we ought—and I take it for granted
that you are interested in this great work
of evangelizing the cities and saving the
worid—we ought to toil with the sunlight
in our faces. We are not fighting in a
miserable Bull Ru.i of defeat. We are on
the way to final victory. We are not fol¬
lowing the rider on the black horse, lead¬
ing ns down to death and darkness and
doom, but the rider on the white horse,
with the moon under His feet and the stars
of heaven for His tiara. Hail, conqueror,
hail!
I know there are sorrows and tlfcre are
(tins and there are sufferings all around
about us, but as in some bitter cold win¬
ter day when keep we are thrashing our arms
-around us to our thumbs from freez
jng we think of the warm spring day that
xvill after awhile come, or in the dark win¬
ter night we look up and see the northern
lights, the windows of just heaven illumined
by some great victory, 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.”
I want you to understand, all you who
x re toiling for Christ, that -the castles of
sin are all ■hrist going to be captured. The vie
tory for C in these great towns is
going 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 I know? I
know it just holy as certainly as God lives and
that this is truth. The old Bible is
full of it. The nation is to be saved; of
■course all the cities are to be saved. It
makes a great difference with you and
with me whether we are toiling on toward
a defeat or toiling this on toward a victory.
Now, speak in I municipal elevation of
which I have to remark there will
be greater financial prosperity than our
cities have ever seen. Some people seem
io have a morbid idea of the millennium,
-xnd they think when the better time
•comes to our cities and the world people
xvill give their time up to psalm singing
and the relating of their religious expe¬
rience, and as all social life will be puri¬
fied there will be no hilarity, and as all
business will be purified there will be no
enterprise. There is no ground for such
ran absurd anticipation. In the time of
which I speak, where now one fortune is
jnade there will be a hundred fortunes
snade. We all know business prosperity
depends upon Now, confidence when that between time man of
and man. comes
which I speak, and all fraud all double dealing, all of
dishonesty and are gone out
itommereial circles, thorough confidence
xvill be established, end there will be bet
Mr business done and larger fortunes
Adhered and mightier successes achieved.
T.Ie great business disasters of 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, shall have hurled back
the wrong, and shnll have purified th*
commercial code, and shall have thus*
dered down fraudulent establishments,
and shall have put into the hands of hon¬
est men tlie keys o! business, blessed
time for the bargain . akers. I am not
talking an abstraction; I am not lucking
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 States taxes, coun¬
ty taxes. State taxes, United taxes,
stamp taxes, license taxes, manufacturing
taxes—taxes, taxes, taxes'. Our business
men have to make a small fortune every
vear to pav their taxes. What fastens on
our great industries this awful load!
Crime, individual and official Wc have
to pay the board of the villains who are
incarccrnted in our prisons; we have to
indulgence; we have to support .the mum
cipal governments, which are expensive proclivi
just in proportion as the criminal
ties are vast and tremendous. Who sup
ports the almshouses and police stations
and all Ihc 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 xvill 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
the pockets of those who voted them; no
oyer and terminer kept up at vast expense
to the neople, no impaneling murder of and juries slan¬ to
try theft and arson and
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
erf 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 every 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¬
cism, no exclusiveness.
In our great cities the churches arc not
to-day large enough to hold mere than a
fourth of the population. The churches
that aie linilf—rnmmraHri.lv buiit-compaiatnely few tew nf ol tnem them
are fully occupied. The average United attend- States
ance in the churches of the
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 what be
all thronged with worshipers. Oh,
rousing songs they will sing! Oh, what Oh,
earnest sermons they will preach.
what fervent prayers they will otter! .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 m
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! be
But all these wrongs are going to
righted. I expect to live to see the day.
I think I hear in the distance the rum¬
bling of the King’s chariot. Not always God
in the minority is, the church of
going to be, or are going good men filled going with to be.
The streets are to be re¬
generated What populations. those fleece
will you do with who
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
God s love will yet bring back this
ruined world to holiness and happiness.
An infinite rather bends over it m 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 vyill 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 filled trumpet peals and the air is
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,
i’eople have no faith and say: "It does
well not amount to anything. You might as
quit that.” Why, when Moses
stretched his hand over the Red 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 sea parted.
It did not amount to anything, this
stretching out of his hand over the sea!
But after awhile the wind blew all night
from the east, and the waters were gath¬
ered into a glittering palisade on either
side, and the billows roared as God pulled
back on their crystal bits. Wheel into
line, O Israel! March, march! Pearls
crashed under feet, flying spray gathers
into rainbow arch of victory for the con¬
querors to 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
clap, and the shields clang, and the waters
rush over the pursuers, and the swift
fingered 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 hand of God go forth, and they stretch their
over the sea, the boiling sea of crime
and sin and wretchedness. “It doesn’t
amount it? God’s to anything,” winds people say. Doesn’t
of help will after awhile
begin to blow. A path will be cleared for
the army of Christian philanthropists.
The path will be lined with the treasure
of Christian beneficence, and we will be
greeted to the other beach by the clap¬
ping of all heaven’s cymbals, while those
who pursued us and derided us and tried
to destroy us will go down under the sea,
and all that will be left o£-' them will b.
east high and dry upon the beach, the
splintereu wheel of a chariot or thrust out
from the foam, the breathless nostril of
a riderless charger.
Elephant Parties a Social Pad.
The Maharajah of Durbhungu hav¬
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Viceroy of India, a herd of elephants,
she has devised elephant parties as the
latest social function. On these occa¬
sions each animal carries a young
woman and an attendant young man
to rendezvous, where tiffin Is served.
Lady Curzon rides In a howdah of
sliver, protected by a white silk um¬
brella, embroidered with pearls. Her
mahout carries a silver goad and tlie
fly-fan trappings of the elephant are
embroidered with silk and gold, while
festoons of pearls hang ’round his cars,
Her elephant testifies his aifectlon
by snatching , , . treasures . from , passerc-by
or bazaars and bestowing them on the
rider. This becomes a trifle embnr
rasslng at titans, especially when
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hoy with nothing on except a string
ol beads about his neck. The little
follow was the sen of the elephant’s
keeper, and the particular friend of the
animal, nn)mn | xvhlch evidently ^ ,__,, thought ,. . , his
two favorites should be together. The
little brown boy returned home a
richer and happier child,
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