Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-11-26
when the Windows Of Heaven viii
bs Illuminated at the News
of Some
Great Victory From Beyond THIS
Bitter Night Of Suffering
and Crime.

guilty. secured a full report of the sermon
and sends it to you to- night by wire so that
the thousands of readers of the SUNDAY
RralsrER can peruse il at their breakfast
tables tomorrow morning three or four
hours before its delivery in the celebrated
Brooklyn pulpit.
The opening hymn to be sung at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle, is
"Hark, the song Of jubilee
Loud ss mighty thunder'sroGr,
or the fullnesS OF the sea
When IL breaks upon the shore:'
I- Tslmsge will read passages of Scrip
ire descriptive of the better state Of the
world.
Subject
.The American Cities ReVOIutIOnIEsd."
Text II. samuel, xiii. 4: "A Morning With
out Clouds
pr Talmage will say:
Pulpi,s and printing presses give much
Of their time to picturing what the cities
are now. Would it not be healthIully en-
rouracirg to look at them as they will be
when the clouds OF suffering and sin have
81! passed oil the sky and it shall be "a
morning without Clouds Pride of city
il natural to men in all times, if they live
Or have lived in 4 metropolis noted for
dignity or pruwess. Cesar boasted Of his
native Rome; Lycurgus Of Sparta; Virgil
Of Mantua; DemoSthenes of Athens;
a chimedes OF Syracuse, and Paul of Tar-
su. | should suspect a man Of base-heart-
edneSs who carried about with him no
feeling Of cOmplacency in regard TO the
llace OF his residence; who gloried not in
its arts or arms or behavior; who looked
with no e1ultation upon the evidences OF
It's prosperity, its artistic embellishments
snd its scientific sttainments. l have no.
ticcd that men never like a place where
they have not behaved we'll. SwarthOut
did not like New York; nor DR.. Webster,
Boston When / see in history Argos,
Rhodes. Smyrna, Chios Colophon and sew
e-sI OF her cities claiming Homer l con-
c.ude that Homer behaved well. Let US
Mt var against this pride of city nor eS'
pec' 10 build up ourselves by pulling
others down. Let Boston have its COM
,uaOns, its Eane6iI Hal. It's superior eduea-
tional institutions. Let Philadelphia talk
shout its mint and Indepence Hall, and
Girard College. When find man living
in either Of those places who has nothing
u say i'm favor of them, l feel like asking
him. What mean thing did you do that
y,U 70 not like your native city
New York IL a GOOdIy City.
1t is one city on both sides of the river.
The East river i only the main artery OF
tsgreat throbbing life. After while four or
Eve bridges will span the water, and We will
be still more emphatiCally one than now.
When therefore say New York City," l
mean two million of people, including
every thing between Spuyten Duyyil creek
ALL Gowanus That which tends to elevate
q part eleyates all; that which blasts part
blasts all. Sin is giant, and he comes to
tie Hudson or CUnnecucut TlYer ana
passes il as easily as We step across figure
IN The CARPET. The blessing of God Is an
angel. and when II stretches Ou. its two
VII -, one of them hOyerS over that and
the otter over this. In infancy, the great
metrul Oils vas laid down by the banks D.
the Hudson. It's infancy was as teeOls aS
that Of Moses sleeping in the oulrushes ~
the Nile. and, like Miriam, there our
fathers s,,Od aud watched IL. The royal
spirit Of Amerlcan Z Imm srce ca me down
10 tn wafer To baIhe, and there sue found
il. she took il in her arms, and the child
grew and WaIeI strong, AMI the ships OF
,"rt'gn lands brought gold and spies TO its
feet, nj, slr,tCh ng .tself up into the
lrO, Ir OnS Ui n mstrUpOas, IL has looked
\ Up Otte noun aims anu OIL upon the sea
enc U' he mightiest of the energies Of
AH -,ican cIyIIIzstiOn.
The cl aIacter of the founder of a ci y
will De I'll for many years ia its inhabi
ants. Rome lluS Impressed his life upon
home. The II grim, rel * not their hold
UPON the cities OF New England. vii lam
Tenn haS left Philadelphia an inheritance
o. Iut,- -r!ly and iaIr uealngi and On any
DAY a. lhAt city you may see in the man
rtr>. ,uSt"mS and principles of it, peOpIe,
his l., te. his coat, his hat, his wiie'S bon
let aHu Lis PI,Iu meeting house. The
HO!anderS still wi Id an influence over
AtS York. Grand old New York! What
southern Jh' ruughiare was ever smirt-u by
pes,iltnce when our physicians did not
throw themselves upon the sacrifice. WHAT
II dis Sute ianu na> Crtvd Out IN the agony OF
fan.ILe and our ships have not put out
NTH bIesdstuus, What street Of DamsS
n Gus or BCysout or Madras that has not heard
the SteI OF our missionaries, What Strug
gle Tor national u!e IN which our citizens
: have LOt
Poured Their Blood
ia.O the trenches, What gallery OF eXqui
site az in which our painters have moi
hung their pictures, What department OF
literature or SCIENCE 10 which our scholars
have not contributed, need not speak o
Z Cur Punijc Schools, Ghers the children o.
y ut ,uiGWainer and milkmaR and glass
bCy tr stand by the side Of the fiSttereC
Nu & nl!IiIUuaiTes ana merchant princes
OF e the inSsnc asylums on all toeS'
lsiaI d., where they VINO came out euttinf
themselves, among the tombs, now SIT
clothed snd in their right minds. l neeC
Do, speak of the institutions for the blind
The iame, the deaf and the dumb, for th'
ncurahles. for the widow, the orphan snc
IN the OJtcast; or Of the thousaud-armed ma
.b'nefy that sends streaming down from
me reservoirs the clear, bright, sparkling
: bed given water that rusheS through ouI
sfCvducts and daShes out Of the hydrant'
4 40 losses up 10 our fountains and Kisses
ID our steam engines and showers out the
,,n'dagrstion, and sprinkles from the bSp'
u>mai T. Mt Of our churches; and with silver
d a. u and golden sparkle and crystalline
whine, says TO hundreds Of thousands OF
!, Ut population in the authentic words OF
ra VINO made 1T Will: De thOu clean.
81 Aith' ugh the cities are far now fr, m
Ssihg What they ought to be. vet nv Bible
mpels me to take Q most enchanting
~ OF their future. As on some bitter
otd night while threshisg our hands
Ont 10 keep our thumbs from freezing
nave looked up and seen the northern
-shlS blazing along the sky.
The wIndOWs Oi Heaven
Illuminated at the news of some great vic
Sry, 50 from beyond this bitter night #
,Hsnering and crime a brightness strikes
S'ongh from the other side. remark
=" this coming time Of municipal elsv 4
'n viii be time of financial prosperity.
} seem to suppose that when the
foul's better days come the people will
EsiSlAAe their Industries and give them
St.'es to ?. rPs,uli psalm singing. aud.
''-s al sbsol bed in spiritual l'.inss, wi!.