The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-10-28
1.-THE VICTORY"
Eloquent Sermon by Rev. T De
Witt Talmage, D. D.
A Glowing Picture of What Is YE4 to
Be-The Coming Triumph of tie
Glorious Gospel of tho
Son of God

D. D., took for his subject "The Victory
and for his text, Zechariah, viii, 8: 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 in the streets rur
such risks that multitudes of them end in
ruin. But in the time spoken of our cities
will be so moral that lads and lasses shs1
be as safe in the public thoroughfare as in
the nursery.
Every man has pride in the city of his ma
tivity or residence, if it be city distin.
guished for any dignity or prowess. CezaI
bOasted of his native Rome, Virgil, of Man
tua, Lycurgus, Of Sparta, DemOsthenes, OF
Athens, Archimedes, of Syracuse, and Paul
Of Tarsus. l should have suspicion of base
eartedness in a man who had no especial
interest in the city of his birth or residence
no exhilaration at the evidence of it's pros
perity, or its artistic embellishments, or its
scientific advancement.
If l 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 of his residence, |
would feel like asking him right away;
"What mean thing have you been doing
therel What outrageous thing have you
been guilty of that you do not like the
placew
New York is goodly city. 1t is on both
sides of the river, the East river only the
main artery of its great throbbng 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 l say in my sermon New York, l
mean well on two million population, and
every thing from Spuyten Duyvel 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 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 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 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
itself up into great metropolis, looking up
to the mountains and off 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 to 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 i'm
preston on all the following generations.
What Southern thoroughfare was ever
smitten by pestilenCe, and our physicians
did not throw themselves ON the sacrificed
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 trenchesl 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 it their pictures3 What de-
partment of science or literature, and our
scholars have not made to it contributions q
/ need not talk to you of our public
schools, where the children Of the cord
wainer and tie 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 asylums for the
insane on these islands, where those who
cut themselves among the tOmbstones come
forth clothed in their right mind. Nor
need 1 tell you of the asylums for the blind,
the deaf and the dumb, and the orphans,
the widows, the outeasts.
l thank God for the place of our residence,
and while there are thousand things that
ought to be corrected, and many wrongs
that ought to be overthrown, while thank
God for the past, l look forward this morn
ing to a glorious future. think we ought
and 1 take it for granted that you are all
Interested in this great work of evangeliz-
ing the cities and saving the world-we
ought to toll with the sunlight in our faces.
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
thumbs from freezing, we think of the
warm spring day that will after awhile
come, or in the dark winter night we look
up and see the northern lights, the win
dows Of Heaven illuminated by some great
victory, just as we look from the night of
suffering and sorrow and wretchedness in
our cities, and we see a light streaming
through from the other side and we know
we are on the way to morning, more than
that, on the way to "a morning without
clouds"
l want you to understand, all you who
are toiling for Christ, that the castles Of
sin are all going to be captured. The
victory for Christ in these great towns is
going to be so complete that not man on
earth, or an angel in Heaven, or a devil in
hell will dispute it. How do know9 l know
Just as certainly as God lives and that this
is holy truth The old Bible is full of it.
If the nation is to be saved, of course, all
the cities are to be saved. 1t makes a
great difference with you and with me
whether we are toiling on toward defeat
or toiling on toward a victory.
Now, in this municipal elevation Of which
/ speak, have to remark there will be
greater financial prosperity than our cities
have ever seen. Some people have NOR
bid idea of the millennium, and they think
when the better time comes to our cities
and the world, people will give up their
time to psalm singing and the relating OF
their religious experience, and as all social
life will be purified there will be no hilarity
and as all business will be purified there
will be no enterprise. There is no ground
for such an absurd anticipation. In the time
OF which speak, where now one fortune is
made there will be one hundred fortunes
made. We all know business prosperity de-
ponds upon confidence between man and
man Norr ruhnn th at tina cnrnes of which