Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-18
THE VICTORY.
DIR. TALNAGB ANTICIPATES THE REVOLT
HONIZING OPTHE WORLD,
When Our Cites Shall Be Purified by the Gospel and
All the Darkness i SIN and Trouble and Crime
and Suffering Shall Be GOns-A
Brilliant Victory.
Special TtIsmnm 10 The Reniser.

the opening hymn, which begins:
The mOrniug light is breaking.
The darkness disappears"
Vast numbers Of people could not get
inside the building The multitudes of
such persons on ordinary Sabbath morning
and night, are constantly increasing
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, d. D.,
took for his subject THE Victory" and
for his text, Zecharia, Ch. viii, v 5: And
the streets of the city shall be full of boys
and girls playiugin the street thereof"
| He said
GLIMPSE OF OUR CITIES REDEEMED.
Now boys and girls who play in the streets
run such risks that multitudes OF them
end in ruin. But in the coming time spo-
ken of our cities will be so moral that
lads and lasSes shall be as safe in the pub
lie thOroughfare as in the nursery.
For purpose Of rousing the people to the
work to be done have preached some ser
mons about the dark shadows Of the city.
Pulpit and printing press for the most part
in our day are busy in discussing the con-
ditiOn Of the cities at this time; but would
| it not he healthfully encouraging to all
| Christian workers and TO all who are toll
! ing to make the world better, if we should
| this morning, for q little while, look for
ward to the time when our cities will be
revolutiOnized by the Gospel Of the Son of
God and all the darkness of sin and
trouble and crime and suffering, shall be
gone from the sky.
| Every man has pride in the city of his
nativity or residence, if it be a city distin-
| guished for any digriIy or prowess. Cae-
sar bOaSted Of his native Rome, Virgil OF
Mantua, Lycurgus ofSparta. DemOsthe-
mes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse,
and Paul of Tarsus. | should have suspi-
ciOn OF baseheartedneSs in q man who had
no especial interest in the city of his birth
or residence-nO eXhilaration at the eyi-
dence of its prosperity, or it's artistic en-
/ beZzlements, or its scientific advancement.
have noticed that 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 free ride in the prison van never
like that city that furnishes the vehicle.
! When i find Argos, and Rhodes, and |
: nyrn0 trying to prove themselves the
birthplace of Homer, conclude right away
that Homer behaved we'll. Heliked them |
and they liked hun. We must not war
on laudible city pride, or with the idea
of building ourselves up, at any time try |
to pull others down. Boston must eOntin- |
ue TO point to its Fineuil Hall and to its
Common, and to its superior educational |
advantages. Philadelphia must continue
to point to its independence Hall, and its !
Mint, and its Girard College.
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 residence, |
would feel like asking him right away;
| What mean thing have you been doing |
there? what outrageous thing have you
been guilty of that you do not like the
place.
New York is a goodly city. 1t is
on both sides of the river, the East River
only the main artery of
its great throbbing. We, or our children,
will live to see two OF three bridges span
ming that river, and more and more rs the !
wears 90 by, we will be one; so when | say |
in my sermon New York, l mean well on
two millions population, and everything
from Spuyten Duyvil Creek to GOwanuS. |
That which helps one city, will help the
other; that which blasts one city, will |
blast the other. Sin is q giant, and when !
| il comes to the Hudson or the Fast River |
it steps across it rs easily rs you step
across figure in a carpet. Gods angel OF
| blessing has two wings and one wing |,
hoycrs over that city and and the other !
wing hoverS over this city.
In infancy
OUR METROPOLIS
was put down by the banks of the Hudson. |
| 1t was as feeble as MOres in tn ark OF bull |
rushes by the Nile, and like Miriam, there |
our fathers stood and watched it. The |
royal spirit of American commerce came |
down to bathe She took 1t up in her
arms and it waxed strong, and foreign
ships brought silver and gold to its feet,
| and has stretched itselfup 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 charac-
ter of the men who founded it. Romulus
! impressed his life upon Rome. The Phi !
grim Fathers will never relax their grasp
| from New England. William Penn left
| 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 wite's
bonnet, and his meeting house. SO the
Hollanders, founding New York, LETT their
impression on all the following genera
tionS..
What southern thOrOughfare was ever
smitten by pestlience, and our physicians
did not thow themselves on the sacrifice?
What foreign nation was ever struck with |
famine, and our ships did not put out laden
| with breadstufis? What natiOnalstruggle,
and our citizens did not pour their blood |
! into the trenches? What street of Damas-
ems. or Beyrout, OF Madras has not re- |
sounded with the step of our missionaries:
What gallery of art, and our painters have
not hung in it their pictures? What de- !
partment of science of literature, and our
scholars have not made to it contributions:
I need not talk to you of our public |
schools, where the children of the cord
waiusr and 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 tombs, come
forth clothed in their night mind. Nor
need I tell you of the asylums for the
blind, the deaf and the dumb, and the
orphans, the widows, the outcast.
/ thank God for the place Of our resi- |
dence. 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, ! look for
ward this morning to
A GLORIOUS FUTURE
| I think we ought-and take it for grant |
ed you are all interested in this great work |
OF eyangelizing the cities and saving the
world-Awe ought TO toll with the sunlight |
| in our faces We are not frightened in n /
miserable Bull Run of defeat. We are on
onr xkray IN final yieforv We are not fol- |