The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-10-22
"THE VICTORY. . .
Eloquent Sermon by Rev, T. De,
Witt Talmage, d. d.
a Glowing Picture OF What Is Yet q
Be-The Coming Triumph of the
Glorious Gospel Of the
Son Of God.

Gle this morning. Rev. II. De Witt Talmage,
ID. d.. took for his subject "The Victory"
and for his text, Zechariah, viii, 5: And
the streets OF the city shall be full OF boys
and girls playing in the streets thereof"
He said:
"A glimpse Of our cities redeemed Now
boys and girls who play iu the streets run
such risks that multitudes Of them end in
ruin. But in the time spoken of our cities
viii be so moral that lads and iasses shall
be as safe in the public thoroughfare rs in
the nursery.
Every man has pride in the city Of his ma
tivity or residence, if it be a city disfin-
guished for any dignity or prowess. Caezar
boosted Of his native Rome, Virgil, Of Man
tua, Lycurgus, Of Sparta, Demosthenes, OF
Athens, Archimedes, OF Syracuse, and Paul,
Of Tarsus / should have suspicion OF base
eartedness in man who had no especial
interest in the city Of his birth or residence
mo exhilaration at the evidence Of its pros
perity, or its artistic embellishments, or It's
scientific advancement.
If / 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 being the place Of his Resldence,
would feel like asking him TfRhG away
"What mean thing have you been doing
therel What outrageous thing have you
been guilty Of that you do not like the
placer"
New York is a goodly city. II 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 two 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 million population, and
every thing from Spuyten Duyvel creek to
GOwanus. That which helps one city viii
help the other; that which blasts one city
will blast the other. SIN is giant and
when 10 comes TO the Hudson or the East
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 how
ers over that city and one wing hovers over
this city
In infancy our metropolis was put down
by the banks of the Hudson. 1t was as
feeble as Moses in the ark Of the bull
rushes by the Nile, and, like Miriam, there
our fathers stood and watched il. 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 stretched
itself up into a great metropolis, looking up
20 the mountains and of upon the sea, the
mightiest energy in American civilization.
Every city Is influenced by the character
of the men who founded it. ROmulus i'm
pressed his life upon Rome. The pilgrim
fathers will never relax their grasp from
New England. William Penn left legacy
OF fair dealing and integrity 70 Phila-
delphia, 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 Westinghouse So the HOl-
landers, founding New York, left their inn
preston 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, and our ships did not put out laden
with breadstuffsl What national struggle,
and our citizens did not pour their blood
into the trenehesi What street Of Damas-
Gus, or Beyrout, or Madras, has not resound-
ed with the step of our missionaries
What gallery of art, and our painters have
not hung in il their pictures9 What de-
partment Of science or literature, and our
scholars have not made to il contributions
/ need not talk TO you Of our public
schools, where the children Of the cord.
wainer and the mechanic and the glass
blower sit side by side with the favored
sons Of millionaires and merchant princes
Nor need l tell you of the Hsylums for the
insane on these islands, where those who
cut themselves among the tombstOnes come
forth clothed in their right mind. MOI
need I tell you of the asylums for the blind
the deaf and the dumb, and the orphans
the widows, the Outcasts.
thank God forthe place Of our residence
aud while there are thousand things thai
ought 10 be corrected, and many wrong'
that ought TO be overthrow, while ! thanl
God for the past ] look forward this morn
ing TO q glorious future. / think we ough
and / take II for granted that you are al
interested in this great work Of evangeliz
ing the cities and saving the world-w
ought 20 toll with the sunlight in our faces
We are not fighting IN "a miserable Bull Rul
of defeat We are on our way to final vic
tory We are not following the rider o.
She black horse, leading us down TO deaf
and darkness and doom, but the rider o
the white horse with the moon under Hi
feet and the stars of Heaven for his tiarg
Hail, conQueror, hail
j know there are sOrrOWs, and there an
SINS and there are sutferings a
around about us, but as in some bi
ter. cold winter day, when we ar
threshing our arms around us to keep on
thumbs from freeeZng, we think of IA
warm spring day that Will after awhil
come, or in the dark winter night we loo
up and see the northern lights, the wiz
dows of Heaven illuminated by some gres
victory just as we look from the night q
suffering and sorrow and wretchedness
our cities, and we see a light streamin
through from the other side and we lno'
we are on the way 10 morning, more tina
that on the way TO - morning withoJ
clouds"
want you 20 understand ali you WI
are toling for Christ, that the castles
sin are all going 20 be captured tt
victory for Christ in these great towns
going 10 be SO complete that not "a man c
earth, or an angel in Heaven, or a devil
hell will dispute it. How do know knO
Just as certainly as God lives and that IN
is holy truth The old Bible is full Of
If the nation is TO be saved, Of course, G
the cities are to be saved. IL makes
great difference with You and with 4
whether we are tOiling on toward defe
or toiling on toward victory.
Now, in this municipal elevation Of viii,
I speak / have TO remark there will
greater financial prosperity than our citil
have ever seen. Some people have a mo
bid idea Of the millennium, and they thin
when the better time comes 70 our citi
and the world, people will give up the
time 20 psalm singing and the relating
their religious experience, and as all soci
life win be purified there will be no hilarit
and as all business viii be purified the
will be no enterprise. There is no grOuI
for such an absurd anticipation. In the TIN
of which 4 speak. where now one fortune
made there win be one hundred forum
made We all know business prosperity q
ponds upon confidence between man al
man. Now, when that time comes Of which
speak, and all double dealing, all dishOnes
and all fraud are gone out of commerce.
circles, thorough confidence will be esta
lshed, and there will be better busine
done, and larger fortunes gathered al
mightier successes achieved.
The great business disasters Of this cou
try have come from the work of gOdle
spectators and Infamous stocks gal
hlers. The great foe TO business in Ne
York and Brooklyn is crime When u
right shall have. hurled back the wron
and shall have purified the commerce.
code. and shall have Numbered down q
Frnndulant estnblighmentR and shall IN,