The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1886-10-21
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
1.-THE VICTORY" IS THE FAMOUS
DIvINE'S SUBJECT.

Six Thousand Voices Sing the openin,
Hymn-The Legions of Christ viii Cap
ture Every Stronghold of sin-HIor,
Churches and SIyriads of wOrshipers
BROOKLYN. Oct. 17.-The congrega
tionnl singing at the Tabernacle this morn
ing was led by Professor Browne, organist
and Professor Ali, cornet precentor. Sr
thousand voices joined in singing the opening
hymn, which begins:
The morning light is breaking,
| The darkness disappears
Vast numbers of people could not get insid,
the building. The multitudes of such per
sons on ordinary Sabbaths, morning and
night, are constantly increasing.
The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D., took
for his SUBJECT ''The Victory" and for hi:
text, zechariah, viii, 8: "And the streets OF
| the city shall be full of boys and girls play
ing in the streets thereof" He said:
| Glimpse of our cities redeemed. Now boys
and girls who play in the streets run such
risks that mulitudes of them end in ruin But
in the time spoken of our cities viii be so
moral that lads and lasses shall be safe in
the public thoroughfare as in the nursery.
| fOE purpose Ol IOuSlIS bllG DCOpAC W bnC
work to be done 1 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 condi-
| ton of the cities at this time; but would it
not be healthfully encouraging to all Chris
| tim workers and to all who are toiling to
make the world better, if we should this
morning, for a little while, look forward to
| the time when our cities 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 city distin-
guished for any dignity or prowess. Caesar
boasted of his native Rome, Virgil Of Mantua,
Lycurgus of Sparta, DemoSthenes OF Athens,
Archimedes of Syracuse and Paul of Tarsus.
l should have suspicion of base heartedneSs IN
man who had no especial interest IN the city
of his birth or residence-no exhilaration at
the evidence of its prosperity, or its artistic
embellishments, or its scientific advance
ment
have noticed that a man never likes city
where he has not behaved WE'LL Swartout
did not like New York nor did Parltman like
Boston. and people who have a free ride in
the prison van never like that city that fur
nishes the vehicle When l find Argos and
Rhodes and Smyrna trying to prove them
selves the birthplace of Homer, conclude
right away that Homer behaved well He
liked them and they liked him. We must not
war on laudable city pride, or, with the idea
of building ourselves up, at any time try to
pull others down, Boston must continue to
point to its Faneuil hail and TO its Common
and to its superior educational advantages
Philadelphia must continue to point TO Its IN
dependence hall and its Mint and its Girard
college.
If / 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 theref What
outrageous thing have you been guilty OF
that YOU do not like the placer
New York is q goodly city. 1t Is ON both
sides the river, the East river only the main
artery of its great throbbing he: 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, l mean
well on 1000, 900 population, and every ching
from Spuyten Duyvel creek to Gowanus.
That which helps one city viii help the
other; that which blasts one city viii blast
the other Sin is giant, and when IL comes
TO the Hudson or the East river 1t steps
across it as easily as you step across figure
in a carpet. Gods angel of blessing has two
wings. and one wing hovers over that Guy
a@d the other wing hoyers over this city
Tn infancy our metropolis was put down
nv, the hanks of the Hudson. 1t was as feeble
as Mo es in the ark of bullrushes 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 it I'D in her arms and 1T waxed
strong, ard foreign ships brought silver and
gold to its feet, and it has stretched ltselt up
into a great metropolis, looking up 70 fhe
mountains and off upon the sea, the mlghtlest
energy in American civilization
Every city Is influenced by the efaPacter OF
tbe men who founded It, Romulus impressed
his life upon Rome. The pilgrim fathers will
never relax their grasp from New England
William Penn left q legacy of fair dealing
and integrity to Philadelphia, and you can
now. any day, on the streets OF that cltyt see
his customs. his manners, his morals, MS hab'
his wife's bonnet and his meeting house. 50
the HoliandeFs, founding New York, left
their impression on all the following genera
tions,
What southern thoroughfare was ever sInit-
ten by pestilence, and oCr physicians dld not
throw themselves on the sacrifice What
foreign nation was ever struck with famine,
and ships fllu uOb pun OuD 4siASA UANAt
bpeadstuffs What national struggle, and
our citizens did not pour their blood into the
trenches? What street Of Damascus, or Bey-
rout. or Madras has not resounded With the
step of our missionaries What gallery ef
art. and our painters have not hung IN 1t
their pictures What department of science
or 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 cordwainer and the
mechanic and the glassblower sit side by side
with the favored sons of millionaires and
merchant princes. Nor need l tell you of the
asvlums for the insane on these islands, where
those who cut themselves among the tombs
come forth clothed in their right mind Nor
need tell you of the asylHrns for the blind,
the deaf, and the dumb, and the orphans, the
widows, the outcasts.
/ thank God for the place of our residence,
and while there are a thousand things that
ought TO be corrected, and many wrongs that
ought to be oxePthrown, while shanK 1ou
for the past 1 look forward this morning to
glorious future. I think we eRght-and
take it for granted that you are all fnterestea
IN this great work of evangelizing the cities
and saving the Werld-we ought to toll with
the sunlight in our faces. We are not fight
ing i'm miserable Bull Run Of defeat We
ara ON our way to final victory. We are not
following the rider on the black horse, lead
ipr, ms 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, halt
/ knoy there are sorrows, and there a-e
sins. and there ere sufferings all around about
us. but as in some bitter, cold winter oay'
when we are threshing our arms around us to
keep our thumbs from freezing, we think Of
the warm spring day that will after while
come, or in the dark winter night we look up
and see the northern lights the windows Of
heaven illuminated by some great victory,
Just SO we look up from the night of suffering
and sorrow ard wretchedness in our cities,
and we see a light streaming through from
the other side and we know we are on the