Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-30
THE MILLENNIUM COMING.
DIR. Talmage Describes the Good Time
Which Will BE Here In Sixty Years.

Rev. T. De Witt Talmage told the people
who thronged the To. iacle Sunday
morning what he thought of the millen-
mum which he is sure will come within
the pext sixty years. All the great cities
are to be completely changed. He based
his remarks upon the fifth verse of the
eighth chapter of Zachariah: And the
streets of the city shall be full of boys and
girls playing in the streets thereof"
New York is a beautiful city. 1t lies
on BOTH sides of the East river. In our
time 4nd t. ,e of our children there
will be dozen bridges stretching across
the river and we will be more than ever
one city. When l speak of New York
Gowanus." DIR. Talmage described the
grand growth of the city until it has now
become the greatest energy in the world,
and said Lets thank God for our
residence in so goodly a place. There
were thousands of evils to be over
come, but in the saving grace of God it will
be made city of peace and virtue.
| believe what the Bible says, that all the
cities will be saved. People have morbid
idea about the millennium. They think
that there will be no hilarity, that there
will be no business, no enterprise. That is
wrong. Where there is one fortune made
now there will be thousands made then
All dishonesty will be gone all unfairness
in business, and men will have confidence
in one another. There will be grander
architecture, grander music, more pros
perity. The greatest injury to business in
New York and Brooklyn to-day is crime
individual and official crime. When that
day comes-and l am not dealing in any
abstraction-it is just as true as the Bible
oil toy uriIl ha oh cd
Men are now taxed for everything. Every
where it is taxes, taxes, taxes A business
man is compelled to make small fortune
to pay his taxes. They have to support all
the villains in the prisons, all the orphans
of those who have died from beastly in
dulgences, all the luuatics driven crazy by
vice
II say to you, Republicans and Demo-
Gratis, if you do not lessen taxes and the
expenses of government honest men will
form an anti-excessive taxation, anti-rum,
anti-saloon, anti-abominetion party, and
you who are now feeding at the public crib
will not be left so much as is given to the
street-sweeper. [Applause.] But in this
time of which l tell there will be no more
criminals, no more vice, no more appropri-
ations for improvements which never reach
the Improvements, but are lost in the pock.
eLS CT lUe DOHLiCldHS- IueTe Will De uO
more over and terminer, no expensive i'm
paneling of juries, no Police Courts, no sta
tion-houses Oh, but what prosperity
there will be In that time to come all
the haunts of iniquity will be torn away
There will be no mendicants thrown
from front door steps, no wine shops, nc
lager beer saloons, no dishlleries where
XXX's are made. The grandchildren OF
the woman who now staggers down the
street, followed by the jeers of men and
boys, will be the respected merchants-and
all this will be sixty years from now.
Into the hands of what sensuous
bestial crew city politics have fallen. Look
at them as they stand about our City Hall,
picking their teeth and watching for some
crumb to fall their way What state of
things. We have no mercy for small Grim
inals. If a man steals $40. send him to
Raymond-street Jail. If he steals 5000 600,
let him escape to Canada. We punish
people because they don't steal enough. y
N. Y. Star.