The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-12-02
THE DAY DAWN.
The Coming ClOudless Morning
of Regeneration.
When all the Wrongs of Humanity Shall be
Made Right and General Peace and
righteousness Prevail.
Opening hymn:

Loud as mighty thunder's roar;
Or the fullness OF the sea
When 1t breaks upon the shOrep'
DIR. Talmage read passages of Scripture
descriptive of the better state OF the
world.
subject OF THE SERMON: 1.-THE AMERICAN
CITIES REvoLUTIoNIZED."
TExT-II. Samuel, xiii, 4: "a Morn
ing Without Clouds.
Pulpits and printing press give much
of their time to picturing what the
cities are now. Would 1t not be health
fully encouraging to look at them as
they will be when the clouds of suffer
ing and sin have all passed off the sky
and 1T shall be "a morning without
clOuds?" Pride of city is natural to
men in all times if they live, or have
lived, in metropolis noted for dignity
or prOWess. Caesar bOasted of his native
Rome, Lycurgus of Sparta, Virgil of
Mantua, DemOsthenes of Athens, Archi-
medes of Syracuse, and Paul of Tarsus.
should suspect man of base-hearted-
ness who carried about with him no
FEELING of complacency in regard to
the place of his residence; who glOried
not IN It's arts, or arms or behavior; who
looked with no exultatiOn upon its evil
dences of prosperity, its artistic embel-
lishments and its scientific attainments.
have noticed that men never like a
place where they have not behaved we'll.
Swarthwut did not like New York, nor
Dr. Webster Boston. When | see in his
tory Argos, Rhodes, Smyrna. ChiOs, Colo
phOn and several other cities claiming
Homer, l conclude that Homer behaved
well. Let us not war against this pride
of city, nor expect to build up ourselves
by pulling others down. Let Boston
have its Commons, it's Faneull Hall, it's
nhn M II -
Philadelphia talk about its Mint, and
Independence Hall, and Girard College.
When l find man living in either one
of those places who has nothing to say
in favor of them, feel like asking him:
What mean thing did you do that you
do not like your native city~ New
York is g0Odly city. 1t is one city on
both sides of the river. The East River
is only the main artery of it's great
thrObbing life After a while four or
five bridges will span the water, and we
shall be still more emphatically one
than now. When, therefore, l say New
York City mean near two millions of
people, including everything between
Spuyten Duyvill Creek and GOWanus.
That which tends to elevate part ele-
Yates all. That which blasts part blasts
all. Sin is giant; and he comes to
the Hudson or Connecticut River and
passes it as easily as we step across a
figure in the carpet. The blessing of
God is an angel, and when 1t stretches
out its two wings one of them hOVerS
over that and and the other over this.
In infancy the great metropolis was
laid down by the banks of the Hudson.
Its infancy was as feeble as that OF
Moses sleeping in the bulrushes by the
Nile; and like Miriam, there our fathers
stood and watched it. The royal spirit
of American commerce came down to
the water to battle; and there she found
il. She took it in her arms, and the
child grew and waxed strong, and the
ships of foreign lands brought gold and
spices to its feet; and stretching itself
up into the proportions of a metropolis
it has looked up to the mountains and
off upon the sea--One of the mightest of
the energies of American civilization.
The character of the founder of u city
will be seen for many years in its i'll
habitants. ROmulus impressed his life
upon Rome. The pilgrims relax not
their hold upon the cities of New Eng
land. William Penn has left Philadel-
phia an inheritance of integrity and
fair dealing. and on any day in that
city you may see in the manners, GUS
toms and principles of its people his
tastes, his coat, his hat, his wife's bon
net and his plain meeting house. The
HOllanders still WELD an Influence over
New York. Grand OldNew York; What
Southern thOrOugfare was ever smitten
by pestilence when our physicians did
not throw themselves upon the sacrifice!
What distant land has cried out in the
agony of famine, and our ships have not
put out with breadstuffs! What street
of Damascus or BeyrOut or Madras that
has not heard the step of our mission
aries! What struggle for national life
in which our citizens have not poured
their blood into the trenchesl What
gallery of exquisite art in which our
painters have not hung their picturesl
What department of literature or science
to which our schOlOrs have not cOntri-
butedl l need not speak of our public
schools, where the children of the cord
wainer and milkman and glass blower
stand by the sons of flattered million.
airs and merchant princes; or of the in
sane asylums on all these islands, where
they who came out cutting themselves
among the EOmbs now sit clothed and in
theft right minds. l need not speak of
the institutions for the blind, the lame,
The deaf and the dumb, for the incura-
bles, for the widow, the orphan and the
Outcast; or of the thOusand-armed ma
chinery that sends streaming down
from the reservoirs the clear, bright,
sparkling, GOd-given water that rushes
through our aqueductS, and dashes out
of the hydrants, and tOsses up in our
fountains, and Kisses in our steam en-
gines, and showers out the cOnhagra-
tiOn, and sprinkles from the baptismal
fOunt of our churches; and with silver
note and golden sparkle and crystalline
chime says to hundreds of thousands of
our population in the authentic words
of Him who made it: II will; be thou
cleanp'
Although the cities are far now from
being what they ought to be, yet my
Bible compels me to take most en-
chanting view of their future. AS on
some bitter cold night, while threshing
our hands about to keep our thumbs
from freezing, we have looked up and
seen the northern lights blazing along
The sky, the windows of heaven illumed
at the news of some great victory, so
from beyond this bitter night of suffer
ing and crime a brightness strikes
through from the other side. l remark
that this coming time of municipal ele-
vatton will be time of financial pros