Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-18
PICTURES OF PARADISE.
TAIiAaAGE DRAWS ASIDE THE
CURTAINS OF HEAVEN.

Other.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Oct. 1.-THE con-
gregational singing at the Tabernacle
this morning was led by Prof. Browne.
sorganist, and Prot. All, cornet precentor.
Six thousand voices joined in singing the
opening hymn, which begins:
The morning light II breaking,
The darkness disappears.
Vast numbers Of people could not get
inside the building. The multitudes OF
such persons on ordinary Sabbathe, morn
ing and night, are constantly increasing.
The Rev, I. Dewitt Talmage, d. D.,
took for his subject "Fhe Victory" and
for his text Zeohariah viii, 5: "And the
streets of the city shall be full OF boys
and girls playing in the streets thereof"
He said.
Glimpse OF our cities redeemed. Now,
boys and girls who play in the streets
run such risks that multltudes OF them
end in ruin. But In the coming time
spoken of our cities will be SO moral that
aads and lasses shall be as safe In the
public thoroughtare as in the nursery.
For purpose of rousing the people to
the work TO be done have preached some
sermons about the dark shadows of the
city. Pulpit and printing press for the
most part in our day are busy in discuss
ing the condition Of the cities at this
kline; bat would it not be healthiully
sncouraging to all Christian workers and
30 all who are toiling to make the world
better If we should this morning, for a
little while, look forward to the time
when our citieetoe revolutiOnized by the
Gospel of the Son OF God. and all the
narkDess Of sin aud trouble and crime
and suffering shall be gone from the sky.
Every man has pride in the city of his
pativity or residence, If it be city dis
tinguisbed for any dignity or prowess.
Caesar boosted of his native Rome, Virgil
Of Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demos
themes OF Athens. Arehimedes of SYRIA
cuse, and Paul Of Tarsus. | should have
suspicion OF base heartedness in a man
who had no especial interest in the city
OF his birth or residence-no exhilaration
at the evidence of its prosperity, or its
artistic embellishments, or its scientific
advancement.
| have noticed that a man never likes
city where be has not behaved Welt
SwaTtout did not like New York, nor did
Parkman like Boston, and people who
have a free ride in the prison van never
like that city that furnishes the vehicle.
When l find Argos, and Rhodes and
Smyrna trying to prove themselves the
birthplace OF Homer, L conclude right
away that Homer behaved we'll. He liked
them and they liked him. We must not
war on laudable city pride, or, with the
idea of building ourselves up, at any time
try to pull others down. Boston must
continue to point to its Faneuil Hall and
20 its Common. and to its superior educa-
tional advantages. Philadelphia must
continue TO point to its Independence
Hall, and it's Mint, and it's Girard College.
Ii 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 beng the place of his residence,
would feel like asking him right away:
''What mean thing have you been doing
theref What utrage0us thing have you
been guilty OF that you do not like the
placer
New York is a goodly city. 1t is on
both sides of the river. the East river only
the main artery of its great throbbing life.
We, or our children, will live to see 1--WE
or three bridges spanning that river, and
more and more, as the years go by, we will
be one; so when | say in my sermon New
York, / mean well on two millions popu-
IatiOn, and everything from Spuyten
Duyvil creek to Gowanus. That which
helps one city will help the other; that
which blasts one city will blast the other.
Sin is q giant, and when it comes TO the
Hudson or the East river, it steps across
it as easily as you step across figure In
carpet. Gods angel of blessing has two
wings. and one wing hOvers over that city
In infancy our metropolis " as put down
by the banks OF the Hudson. 1t was as
feeble as Moses in the ark OF bulirushes
by the Nile, and like Miriam. there our
fathers stood and watched it. The royal
spirit of American commerce came down
10 battle. She took 1t 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 me-
tropolis. looking up to the mountains and
of upon the sea. the mightiest energy in
American civilization.
Every city is influenced by the charac-
ter OF the men who founded it. Romulus
Impressed his life upon Rome. The PHI
grim Fathers Will never relax their grasp
from New England. William Penn left
legacy OF fair dealing and integrity to
Philadelphia, and you can now, any day,
on the streets of that city, see his GUS
toms, his manners, his morals, his hat,
his wife's bonnet aud his meeting house.
SO the HOllanders, founding New York,
left their impression on all the following
generations.
What Southern thoroughfare was ever
smitten by pestilence, and our physicians
did not throw themselves on the sacrifice
WHAT foreign nation was ever struck with
famine, ana our ships did not put out
laden with breadstuhs? What national
struggle, and our citizens did not pour
street ~ Damascus, or Beyrout. or Madras
nas DOT resounded with the step OF our
Inission aries? What gallery OF art, and
GU, painters have not bungin 1t their PIC
tuTs What department Of science or
literature, and our scholars have not
mad 10 it contributions?
7 reed not talk to you of our public
SCOOP =, where the children OF the cord.
0ainer and the mechanic and the glass
blower sit side by side with the favored
sons OF millionaire and merchant
princes. Nor need l tell you OF the asy.
iums for the insane on these islands
wnere those who cut themselves anon g
the tombs, come forth clothed in theil
right mind. Nor need / tell you OF tht
asylums tor the blind, the deaf, and this
sumb. and the orphans, the widows, the
DHscast.
| thank God for the place OF our resi-
lence, aud while there are a thousand
Things that ought to be corrected, aud
many wrongs that Ought 10 be over
thrown, while thank God for the past,
look forward this morning to glorious
future. think we ought-anA | lake Il
TOT granted you are ALI interested in thiI
great work Of evsngelizing the cities apC
saving the world-we ought to toll viii
The sunlight ia our faces. We are no
fighting in a miserable Bull Run OF de
feat. We are on our way 10 final victory