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A glimpse OF our cities, redeemed Now
boys and girls who play in the streets ryn
such riaks that Inpltitudes OF them end in
ruin, But ~ the time spoken Of our cities
will be no moral that lads and lasses shall
be As safe iifthe public th6rough4sre as ~
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Every man has pride ip the city OF his ma
tivity or residence, If II be q city idistlnf
guished for any dignity or prowess. CHzar
boasted Of his natyei Rome, Virgil, Of Man
tua, Lycurgus,- of Sparta, Demosthenes1 OF
Athens, Archimedes. of Syi acuse, and Paul,
OF TarsuA should hdHe suspicion OF base
/ eartednBss in q uiali vino had no especial
interest ~ the city OF his birth or reslaepce
no exhilarationat the evidence OF its pros,
pel1ty,, or It's artistic embellishments or IT'S
scientific ARRANGEMENT. ,yi.sA7
III 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 pOf his .reAdence, !
would feel like. ASKING him right away 4
''What mean thing have you been doing
thcrea What outrageous thing have you
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placch
New York is goodly city tits 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 two or three
bridges spanning that river, and moro and
more, as the years go by, we will be one; 50
when ] say in my sermon New York, i
mean wen On two million population, and
every thing from Spnyten sDuyvel creek to
,Gowsnus. That which helps, one city will
help the other; that which blasts one city
will blast the other. Sin ID giant, and
when II comes to the Hudson or the East
river II steps across it as easily as you step
across figure in carpet. Gods angel of
blessing has two wings, and one wing HOY
ers' over that city and one wing hOvers over
this city. .5.... .,.,,.,..,, ~, ..,. s'92"
In infancy our metropolis was put down
by the banks Of the Hudson. 1t was as
feeble - Moses in the ark Of the bull
PUSHES BY the Nile, and, like Miriam, there
our fstheD 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 40 gold to its feet, and it stretched
itself up INTO great metropolis, looking up
to the mountains ana on upon the sea, the
migh0cst energy IN American civilization.
Every CITY IS influenced by tho character
OF the men who founded it, komulus i'm
pressed ms life upon Rome. The pilgrim
fathers Wall never relax their grasp from
New England. William Penn left legacy
OF iair sealing and integrity TO Phila-
dciphia, ana you can now, any day, on the
streets OF that city, see his customs, his
manners, his morals, his hat, his wffe's
Donnet ana ms meetins-nopse, 80 inc hol-
i1nuclts NqnHins NeW- aora, ICY -Ias'E- In
preston On III INC ioiioWipR Reneracons.
Wnat Soutnern thoroughfare was ever
smitten py pestllence. and our physicians
dld not throw themselves. ON the sacr1nces
what Dfelgn Nation was ever struck with
famine, and our ships did not put out laden
with breadstufsf What national struggle
and our citizens did not pour their blood
INTO the trenchesE What street Of Damas-
O. OF beyrout, or Madras, has not resopnd-
81 WIN the step OF our missionariess
what gallery OF art, and our painters have
not hung In n their Pieturesi What de-
ParIment OIL science Or literature, and our
scholars nave not made to it contributions
need not talk to you OF our public
schools, where the children Of the cord
waincr aAd the mechanic and the glass
blower sit side by side with the favored
sons Of millionaires and merchant princes.
Nor need ] tell you of the asylums for the
insane on these islands, where those who
cut themselves among the COMMISSIONERS come
forth clothed in thor right mind. Nor
need tell you OF the asylums for the blind,
the deaf and the dumb, aud the orphans,
the widows, the outcasts B 7
THANK God for the place IL our residence,
and while there are thousand things that
ought 10 be corrected, aud many wrongs
that ought to be overthrown, while l thank
God for the past, Hook forward this morn
ing to glorious future. think we ought
and take it for granted that you are all
interested In this great work of evangeliz-
ing the cities and saving the world--we
ought 70 Toll with inc sunlight in our fseos.
We are not fighting in miserable Bull Run
of defeat We are on our way to final vic
tory. We are not following the rider on
the black horse, leading us down to death
and darkness and doom, but the rider on
the white horse with the moon under His
feet and the stars of Heaven for his tiara.
Hail, conqueror, hail!
know there are sorrows, and there are
sins, and there are sufferings all
around about us, but as in some bit
ter, cold winter day, when we are
threshing our arms around US to keep our