The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-18
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A Pulpit Disquisition on Fairs and
Expositions.
The Fairs of the Bible and Their Success
sors of Modern Times-Ihe Coming
Worlds Fair It's Import and
It's Opportunities.

They traded in fairs. Ezekiel xvii, II
Fairs may be for the sale of goods or
for the exhibition of goods on a small
scale or a large scale, for county or city,
for one nation or for all nations. My text
brings us to the fairs of ancient Tyre. a
city tibet is now extinct Part of the city
was on an island, and part on the main
land. Alexander, the cOnquerOr, was
much embarrassed when he found SO
much Of the city was on an island, for he
had no ships. But his military genius
was not to be baked. Having marched
his army to the beach, he ordered them
to tear up the city on the mainland and
throw it into the water and build cause
way two hundred feet wide to the island.
So they took that part of the city which
was on the mainland and with it built q
causeway Of timber and brick and stone,
on which his army marched to the capt
ure of that part Of the city which was on
the island, as though a hostile army
should put Brooklyn into the East river
and over it march to the capture of New
York. That Tyrian causeway of ruins
which Alexander's army built is still
there, and by alluvial deposits has per-
manently united the island to the main
land, so that it is no longer an island,
but q promontory. The sand, the great
est Of all undertakers for burying cities,
having covered up for the most part
Baalbec and Palmyra and Thebes and
Memphis and Carthage land Babylon
and Luxor and Jericho, the sand, so
small and yet SO mighty, is now gradual
ly giving rites of sepulcher to what was
left of Tyre. But, oh, what magnificent
city it once was Mistress of the seal
Queen Of international cOmmercei All
nations casting their crowns at her fee IL
Where we have in our sailing vessels
benches of wood, she had benches of
ivory. Where we have for our masts of
ships sails of coarse canvas, she had sails
of richest embroidery.
The chapter from which my text is
taken, after enumerating the richest
countries in all the world, says of Tyre:
'They traded in thy fairs" Look in
upon a worlds fair at Tyre. Ezekiel
leads us through one department., and 1t
is a horse fair. Underfed and Overdriven
Tor ages, the horses Of to-day give you
10 idea of the splendid animals which,
rearing and plunging. and snorting and
neipbi,g, were brought down over the
blanks or the ships and led into the
worlds fair at Tyre until Ezekiel VINO
was a minister of religion and not sup
nosed IA know m0t 4 about horses, cried
oat in admiration: S'They of the house
of Togarmah traded Ia thy FAIRS Win
horses" Here in another der artmen o.
/ that worlds fair at Tyre, Leu On ny
Ezekiel the prophet, we find every - Aus
all ablaze with precious stones. Ltk~
petrified snow are the cOrals; like frag-
ments OF fallen sky are the sapphires;
and here is q date ablush with all cOlOrs.
| What is that aroma we inhaler 1t is
from chests of cedar which we open, aud
find them filled with all styles of fabric.
But the aromatics increase as we pass
down this lane Of enchantment, and here
are cassia and frankincense and balm.
Led on by Ezekiel, the prophet wo
come to an agricultural fair with dis
play of wheat from Minnith aud Pannag,
rich as that of our modern Dakota or
Michigan. And here is a meteorological
fair, with specimens of iron, and silver,
and tin, and lead, and gold. But halt,
for here is purple, Tyrian purple, all
tints and shades, deep almost unto the
black and bright almost unto the blue,
waiting for Kings and Queens to order it
made into robes for coronation day (;
purple not like that which is now made
from the Orchilla weed, but the extinct
purple, the lost purple. which the an
clients knew how to make out of the gas
teropod mOllusks Of the Mediterranean.
| Oh, look at those casks of wine from
| Helbonl See those snow banks of wool
/ from the back of sheep that once past
| ured in Gilead On, the bewildering
riches and variety of that worlds fair at
| Tyrel
But the world has copied these Bible-
mentioned fairs in all succeeding ages,
and it has had its Louis the Sixth fair at
| Dagobert, and Henry the First fair on st.
| Bartholomew Day, and Hungarian fairs
at Pesth, and Easter fairs at Leipsic, and
| the Scotch fairs at Perth (bright was the
/ day when 1 was at one of theml, and
| afterward came the London Worlds
Fair, and the New York Worlds Fair,
and the Vienna Worlds Fair, and the
| Partisan Worlds Fair, and it has been
! de cided that in cOmmemOratiOn of the
discovery of America in 1892, there shall
be held in this country in 1892 a Worlds
Fair that shall eclipse all preceding ma
| tional expOsitions. / say, God speed the
movement Surely the event commem-
grated is worthy of al the architecture
and music and pyrotechnics and elo-
| quent and stupendOus planning and
| monetary expenditure and Congressional
appropriations which the most sanguine
Christian patriot has ever dreamed of.
| Was any voyage that the world ever
heard of crowned with such an arrival as
! that of Columbus aud his men?
| After they had been encO uraged for
the last few days by q ght of land birds
| and floating branches Of red berries, and
while Columbus was down in the cabin
studying the sea chart Martin Pinzon,
| standing on deck and looking to the
southwest, cried: Land Landl Land 70
| And GLORIA in Excelsis" was sung in
raining tears on all the three ships of
tho expedition. Most appropriate and
patriotic, and Christian will be a COM
memorative Worlds Fair in America in
1892. Leaving to others the discussion
as to the site of such expOsition-and ]
wonder not that some five or six of our
cities are struggling 10 have it for il
viii give to any city to which it is as.
signed an impulse of prosperity for q
hundred years. say, leaving to others
the selection Of the particular locality to
be thus honOred, / want to say some
things from the point of Christian pa
triotism which ought to be said, and the
earlier the better, that we get thousands
Of people talking in the right direction,
and that will make healthful public
opinion. beg you to consider prayer
fully what 1 feel called upon of God ai
an American citizen and as preacher
/ Of righteousness to utter.
Ny first suggestion is that it is not wise
as certainly it is not Christian, to con
tinue this wide and persistent attempt o.
American cities to belittle and depreciat'
other cities. 1t has been going on FOL
years, but now the spirit seems to cul
inmate in this discussion as to where the
Worlds Fair shall be held, style of dis
cussion which has a tendency to injur,
the success Of the fair as a great moral ant