The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-10-20
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
THE VICTORY IS THE FAMOUS
DlVlNE'S SUBJECT.


Churches and Myriads of Worshipers.
BRooKLYS. Oct H. The congreQa-
tional singing at the Tabernacle this morn
ing was led By Professor Browne, organist,
and Professor Ali, cornet precentor. Six
thousand voices joined in singing the opening
hymn, which begins:
The morning light is breaking.
THE darkness disappears.
Vast numbers Of people could not get inside
the building The muItitudes Of such per-
sons on ordinary sabbaths morning and
night, are constantly increasing.
The Rev r. Dewitt Talmage. D. D., took
for his subject The Victory and for his
text. Zcehariah, viii, .: aAnd the streets of
the City shall De fun Of boys and girls play
ing Ia che streets thereof He said:
Glimpe Of our cities redeemed. Now boys
and girls who play in the streets run such
risks thut mg.itudes o. them end in ruin. But
in the tirne spoken Of our cities viii be 50
moral that lads and l1sscs shall be as safe in
the public thorJuehfare as in the nursery.
For parpose Of rousing the people 10 the
work % b. done ! have preached some ser
mons about the dark shadows Of the city.
Pulpit and printing press for the most part
in our day are busy in discussing the condi-
ton of the cities at this time; but would it
not b. BEAUTIFULLY encouraging to all Chris
tian workers. and 20 all who are toiling to
make the world better, il we should this
morning for a little while, look forward to
the time when our cities be revolutionized by
the gospel ~ the Son OF God, and all the
darkness II sin and trouble and crime and
suffering snail be gone from the sky.
Every man has pride in the city Of his
nativity or residence if il be a city distin-
guished for any dignity or proves. Cesar
bOasteI Of his native Rome, Virgil OF Mantua,
Lvcurgus Of Sparta Demosthenes Of Athens,
Archimcdes OF Syracuse and Paul of Tarsus.
should have suspicion VI base heartedness in
man who hadTo especial interest in the city
Of his birth or resideHce-no collaboration at
the evidence Of its prosperity, or It's artistic
Embellishments or Us scientific advance
ment
have noticed that man never likes city
where he bas not behaved WE'LL Swartout
did not like New York, nor did Parlman like
Boston. aud people who have "a free ride in
the prison van never like that city that fur
nisbes tlle vehicle when / find Argos and
Rhodes and Smyrna trying TO prove them
selves the birthplace Of Homer conclude
right away that Homer behaved well. He
liked them and they liked him We must not
war on laudQble city pride, or, with the idea
of building ourselves mp, at any time try to
pull others down. Boston must continue to
point to its Faucdl hall and to its Common
and 20 its superior educational advantages.
Philadelphia must continue to point to its In
dependence hall and its Mint and its Girard
college
If / should find 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, / 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 placer
New York is a goodly city. 1t is on both
sides the river, the East river only the main
artery Of its great throbbing life We or
our children win live 10 see two or three
bridge spanning that river, and more and
more, as the years go by, we viii he one; 50
when / say in my sermon New York, mean
well on 100000 population, and everything
from Spuyten Duyvel creek to Gowanus
That which helps one city will help the
other that which blasts one city viii blast
the other Sin is a giant, and when 1t comes
to the Hudson or the East river it steps
across it as easily as you step across figure
in a carpet Gods angel Of blessing has two
wings, and one wing hogers over that city
and the other wing hovers over this city.
In INFANCY our lletIpIoits WIS pun AloNAA
bv the banks Of the Hudson. 1t was as feeble
as No es in the ark of bullrushes by the
Nile, and, like Miriam, there our fathers
stood and watched it, The royal spirit of
American commerce came down to battle.
She took it up in her arms and it waxed
strong, and foreign ships brought silver and
gold to its feet and it has stretched itself up
into a great metropolis, looking up to the
mountains and off upon the sea, the mightiest
energy in American civilization.
Every city is influenced by the character of
the men who founded it. Romulus impressed
his life upon Rome The pilgrim fathers will
mover relax their grasp from New England.
William Penn left a legacy of fair dealing
and integrity to Philadelphia, and you can
now, any day, ON the streets of that city, see
his customs, his manners, his morals, his hat
his wife's bonnet aud his meeting house. Sc
tho Hollanders, founding New York, left
their impression ON all the following genera
tons
What southern thoroughfare was ever snit
ten by pestilcnce, and our physicians did no
throw themselves ON the sacrifice Wha
foreign nation was ever struck with famine
and our ships did not put out laden Will
breadstulfs What national struggle, anC
our citizens did not pour their blood into tn
trenches What street of Damascus, or Bey
rout, or Madras has not resounded with th'
step of our missionaries What gallery o
art, and our painters have not hung in i
their pictures What department of scienc
or literature and our scholars have not mad
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need not talk to YOU of our public schools
where the children of the cordwainer and th
mechanic and the glassbower sit side by sid
with the favored sons of inillonaires ans
merchant princes. Nor need tell You of tn
A.. -. a
those who cut themselves among the tomb
come forth clothed in their right mind No
need / tell You Of the asylums for the blind
the deaf, and the damb, and the orphans, th
widows, the outeasts
/ thank God for the place OF our residence
and while there are thousand things tina
ought to be corrected. and many wrongs tina
ought 70 lse overthrown, while thank Go
for the past. look forward this morning to
glorious future | think we ought-and
take it for granted that you are all interests
in this great work of evangelizing the cite
and saving the world--we ought to toll wit
the sunlight in our faces. We are not fight
ing in a miserable Bun Run of defeat W
are on our way to final victory. We are nc
following the rider on the black horse, lead
ing us down to death and darkness and doom
but the rider on the white horse with th
moon under his feet and the stars of heaye
for his tiara. Hail. conqueror, hail
] know there are SORROWS, and there ar
sins, and there are sufrerings all around abou
US but as in some bitter, cold winter day
when We are threshing our arms around US
keep our thumbs from freezing, we think c
the warm sprin. day that will after a viii.
come, or in the dark winter night we look u
and see the northern lights, the windows 0
heaven illuminated by some great victory
Just so we look up from the night Of sufferin
and sorrow and wretchedness in our cities
and we see a light streaming through fror
the other side and we know we are ON tn
way TO morning, more than that, on the wa
20 "a morning without Clouds
/ want you to understand all you who ar
toiling for Christ, that the castles Of sin al
all going 10 be captured. The victory fo
Christ in these great towns is going to be $
complete that not a man on earth, or a
angel in heaven or a devil in hell will .iispui
it. How do | knowl | know Just as cel
tainly as God lives and that this is holy trutl
The old Bible is full OF it. II the nation is I
be saved, of course all the cities are TO [
saved. 1t makesa great difference with yo
and with me whether we are toiling O
toward a defeat or toiling ON toward vi
tory.
Now, in this municipal elevation of whic
/ speak, have TO remark there will /
greater financial prosperity than our citi.
have ever seen. Some people seem TO have
morbid idea of the millennium, and they thin
when the better time comes to our cities an
the world, people win give up their time ,
psalm singing and the relating of their n
hgious experience, and as all social life wi
be purified there viii be no hilarity, and
all business viii be purified there win be I
enterprise. There is no ground for such a
absurd anticipation. In the time of which
sneak where now one fortune Il .nada the,