Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-10-30
TALMAGE'S PROPHECIES.
The Safety of Our Cities in The Good
Time Coming"
Every City Influenced by the Character of
its Founders.
Moral Regeneration to be Accompanied by
Financial Prosperity.
''THE VICTORY.

his text, Iechariah, CHI. viii, ". D:
"And the streets of the city shall be full Of
boys and girls playing In the streets thereof.
He said: Glimpse of our cities re-
deemed. Now boys and girls who play
in the streets, run such risks that null
titudes end in ruin. But in the coming
time apoken of u cities will be SO
moral that lads and lasses shall be as
safe in the public thoroughfare 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 discussing the condition of the cities
at this time; but would it not be health
fully encouraging to all Christian
workers who are toiling to make the
world better, if we should this morn
ing, for "a little while, look forward 10
the time when our cities shall be
REyoLUTIoNIZED BY II GOSPEL or
THE ~ OF GOD,
and all the darkness OF sin and trouble
and crime and suffering, shall be gone
from the sky.
l have noticed that n man never likes
a city where he has not behaved well!
Swartout did not like New York, nor
did Parkman like Boston, and people
who have n free ride in the prison "a
never like that city tnat furnishes the
vehicle. When | find Argos, and
Rhodes, and Smyrna trying to prove
themselves the birthplace of Homer,
4 conclude right away that Homer be-
havcd well. He liked them and they
liked him. We must not war on laud-
able city pride, or with the idea of
building ourselves up, ut any time try
ing TO pull others down. Boston must
continue to point to its Faneuil Hall
and TO its Common, and to its superior
educational advantages. Philadelphia
must continue TO point to its Iudepend-
encc Hall, and its Mint, and its Girard
College.
New York is a goodly city. 1t is
on both sides of the river, the
Fast river only the main artery OF
its great throbbing life. We, or our
children will live to see two or three
bridges spanning that river, and more
and more as the years 90 by, we will
be one; SO when / say in my sermon
New York, l mean well on two millions
population. and everything from Spuy-
ten Duyv.l Creek TO Gowanus. That
which helps one city, will help the
other; that which blasts one city will
blast the other. Sin is a giant, and
when il comes to the Hudson or the
Hast river, it steps across it as easily
as you step across a figure in a carpet.
Gods angel of blessing has two wings,
and one wing hovers over that city and
ae other wing hovers over this city.
In infancy our metropolis was put
down BY the banks of the Hudson 1t
was rs feeble as Moses ia the ark of
kullrushes oy the Nile, and like Miriam
there our fathers stood and watched it.
TuE RoYAL SPIRIT OF AMERICAN COM
MERGE
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 il has stretched itself up
INTO a great metropolis, looking up to
the mountains and off upon the sea, the
mightiest energy in American civiliza-
Won.
Every city is influenced by the char
acter of the men who founded it. ROM
illus impressed his life upon Rome. The
Pilgrim Fathers will never relax their
grasp upon 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, and
his meeting house. So the Hollanders,
founding New York, left their impress
sion IN all the following generations.
WHAT southern thoroughfare was ever
smitten by pestilencc, and our physi-
clans did not throw themselves on the
sacrificeP What foreign nation was
ever struck with famine, and our
ships did not put out laden with
breadstullsP What national struggle,
and our citizens did not pour their
blood into the trcnchesp What street
OF Damascus, or Beyrout, or Madras
has not rcsounded with the step of our
missionaries What gallery of art.
and IL painters have not hung in il
their pictures? What department of
science or literature, and our scholars
have not made to it contributions?
need not talk to you of our public
schools, where the children of the
~cordwainer and the mechanic
and the gl%assblower sit side by
side with the favored sc rs of million
aires and merchant princes. Nor need
! tell you of the asylums for the insane
on these islands, where those who cut
among the tombs, come