Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

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¬ ing given Ladj Curzon, wife of the 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 «.*■» * 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, To Cure a Cold in One Dht. 'l ake Laxativk Bromo Quinink Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. K. \V. Li rove's signature is ou each box. sioo. The Paramount Issue. “What is the paramount issue in. this cam¬ paign?” whether hat “it is I am to wear a new at Smith’s expanse or wnether Smith i> to wear a new h«U at my expense.”—Chicago Record. Pctnam Fadeless Dyes do not stain the hands or spot the kettle. Sold by all druggists. _ None But the Brave. Mr. Billincoo—Ah! my dear, I wish I might be like a knight of old, and perform some deed of daring for you. you’re Miss worked Lovylips—Ob, George! Now that up to it, suppose you apeak to papa.____ Have you ever experienced the joyful sensation of a good appetite? Frutti. You will if you chew Adams’ Pepsin Tutti He Felt That He Wasn’t Included. “.See that fellow over there with the pretty 8id»^ whiskers?” “Yes.” “Well, he got up and left the audience the other night when the orator said he wanted to talk to the plain people.” 1 do not believe Fiso’s Cure _ for , 1 „ onsumption has au „ , for „ ()Ugha nud C olds-J ohn F. BoritB, Trinity Springs, Iud.. Feu. 15,1900. Catarrh Cannot be Cured With local applications, as the yean not reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and in order to cure aSSdU rect j v on the blood and mucous surface. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best is physicians regular in this country tor years, and a pre acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in cur ins c fTchmey Druvgpq^rfce A Co^Ib’OPS^ToledoO " Sold bv 75c. Hall’s Family Pills are the best, Wh«n the Man Guts a Chance. “What a pretty girl she is!” “Ts she otherwise attractive?” “Yes; she stutters dreadfully.” Worth Knowing. Teaspoonful doses of Crab Orchard Water night end morning will cure the moat obsti¬ nate cases of constipation. Careful of His English. “Now,” cautioned the eminent represen¬ tative who hud talked for publication, “don’t quote mein no bad English.” The Best Prescription for Chills 8«d Fever is a bottle of Grove’s Tastblbss Chill Tonic, it is simply iron and quinine In k lasieieas form. No cure— no pay. Price 50c. Husband. „ , , , ... stairs.” dear.” replied John i-leep -You go down, woman.” ily. ‘'They won’t dare strike a Bilious—Got a Cold? You’re bilious, got a cold, you have a throbbing sensation in your head, a bad taste in your mouth, your eyes burn, your skin is yellow with dark rings under your eyes, your lips are parched and you feel ugly and mean, as if you wanted to kick a lame infant or kill a canary bird. Your system is full of bile not properly passed off and what you need is a cleaning up inside. Don't continue being a bilious nuisance to yourself and those who love you, but send out at once for a box of CASCARETS and work off the cold while you sleep. Be sure you get CASCARETS! Don’t let them sell you a fake substitute. .WSI ft aou. A«W < .ffUt (lU Ali» Will- JXU .son cers Deoeixioer 4 , 1783 . awh» l ita tiled vilieble CAS¬ of 9f “I have your e* t CARETS and find them perfect. Couldn’t «iat do without them. I have used them for capv 'd’s somei time for indigestion and biliousness woe' ■gtr- and am now completely Once cured. tried, Recommend will bat them to every one. you mw n - JjNMSW never be without them in the family." na v . EDW. A. MARX, Albany, N. T. i an d A movement > on foot in New Y—It self,' BEST FOR BOWELS AND LIVER. THIS IS JOc. © ^ ^QRK WHILE YOU SiE^ DRUGGISTS NEVER SOLD 25c. IN BULK. 50c THE TABLET headoeh«, tudtffeattoB, ptowhia, l ; La Creole Will Restore those Cray Hairs La Creole' Hair Restorer is a Perfect Dressing and Restorer. Price $1.00. , TOO Weary Women Get Strength end Vigor from TIRED Dr. Greene's Nervura. HE had planned to go out with her husband, but her strength failed her. Her nerves were excited all day, and when STIRI ........ night came she just couldn't find the courage. It is the old story of weakness and nervousness taking the pleasure out of life and filling it with discontent and suffering. It is not honest fatigue resulting from the daily task; it is weariness born of weakness and ill health. The ideal strengthener for weak women is Dr. : Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy. It builds them up in every way by toning up the blood and strengthening the nerves. Nothing else in the world can do Nervura’s work. It seeks out the weak spots and strengthens them. It en¬ riches the blood and gives it a healthy circulation, thus putting new life into the entire body. Strength to overcome the general discouragement is followed by the ambition to be well. A few nights of sound, refreshing sleep brings a new sensation of acquired strength. How ready now is this woman for 4 every duty and every h Dr« Greene's plan for pleasure ! The M H ■! u -i new color in her cheeks V (tm NERVURA shows the potent work of the vegetable ele¬ FOR THE BLOOD AND ments in N er» P NERVES. vura. This jriMlSiJil woman ■m is now a cured woman, and such transforma tions are occurring in every community A m% Tv through the use of Dr.Greene’s Nervura. £ If you are run-down and discouraged, /ypll here is the certain help. ' wW. MRS. OLIVER WILSON, of North boro, Mass., soys: “ I was suffering from nervous¬ ness, caused by female weakness and nervous and prostration. weak I could I not was so ner¬ vous go up rC5>, a stopping common pair rest, of and stairs troubled without to ** "'S to J sleep at night. I took Dr. Greene's A Netvura and have obtained my .3 old elastic step around the house. l After years, hardly cree, BB 1)1 around e to do anything, for two & it has proved V boon to me truly.’’ READ I' HP V-' :a‘ DR. GREENERS mM OFFER. S’ Dr. Greene’s advice Is HSi all who seek It, V * free to Tl fji VJ • either bv personal call >,1 at his office, 35 W. 14th % W Street, New York City, __C| in or by letter through x the mall. All who are wl broken In health should m call or write without —H delay to for Nervura’s free counsel. dls- <Hi flj g m; coverer It Surely Wasn’t. The Schoolmaster: The trolley stops; a lady and ten children climb lu. Conductor—Are those your children, madam, or is It a picnic? The Lady—They are my children, and it’s no Picnic. Dr.BulPS «S fc throSt e snd^unfl ^ w troubles. People praise Cough Syrup Dr. §£s?°SE"£Eu; Bull's Coujch Syrup. Refuse substitutes. Get DROPSY Book of testimonial* q u?c7r?i and 1 O i. 8 daya* | C .nd ® treatment ££ cases- Os Free. Dr. H. H. GREEN S BONB. Box B. Atlanta, Use CERTAIN COUGH CJS oc m Sft CHILL 6» CORN •IS FREE ELECTR1S BELT OFFER V, WITH TEN DAY S f REE home, WEARINQ S«fui’ui TRIAL In your own genuine and we 8 h the only HKIDKLSf KG ALTERNAT¬ ES ' ’ a to ISG any CURRENT reader ELECTRIC of this paper. BELTS No money in advaae*; very lew e#«t;poclllTeruarnntee. NOTHING comparefl COSTS ALMOST nil other ole*, With most oil other treatments. Cure* when trie belt*, than appliance* 50 ailments. and ONLY remedies SURECURK fall. QUICK for all CURE nervous for more diseases, weaknesses mid disorders. For complete sealed confidential catalogue, cutthUndont and mailt*n*. GEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., Chicago. PISO’S CURE FOR CURfcS WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. „ Us© Beet Cough Syrup, Tastes Good. in ... time. . 8old d by druggists. WeUre faith, and will *elTC aScJAH^TH i *b*olateljr . 150 KINDS For t6 Cents Last year we started out for fi0Q.000nevr customers. We received 370,000. We I ■ now h*ve on onr books 1,U0/X)0names. ' 1 J We B9QJ00 in IWl, making I Cl 71 f 1,500,000 full, hence more thi* unprecedented offer fer 16 cents postpaid of SO kind* of rerest Inscloun radishes. IS magnificent earliest melons, 7 10 sorts gdorloas tomatoes, A M RS5 f peerless lettuce varieties. 1* splendid beet sorts, •6 fargeouily beautiful flower seeds la all ISO kind*, aura to delight at>A pleue sad eaptivst* tout heart*, together with *«r *re»i illustrated Plant and Seed Cataleg, telling alt •bout Broraus, Billion Dollnr Grs**, Peseat, Teesintc, i for 19 Spelts, Onion Seed *t «0e., «tc., all Catalog cento stamps ond this notice. y\\l planter positively worth $100 to aa j of gardes and form eeed*. I JOHN A. 8ALZER SEED CO. f/JA a La Crosse, Wts.