The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-12-20


nv in 1s92 a worlds fair that shall eciilse
III -1recedinp national expositions. say
God sneed the movement Surely the even
COMMUNICATED is worthy Ct all the arcn'e ~
t,,re and music and pyrOtechnlcs ano ~
,,,ar,t and stlrpendous planning and nione
farv expenditure and congressional sP -,
nristious which the most sangdane IN
oatriot has ever dreamed Of We - e l-55,,,e5SJ
Age tua1 'no ".1-tTal as that of Columbus
WIN SUI after they had been encouraged
anu nis new DAYS by fight Of land birds and
u - branches Of red berries, and while
1Ilul.:dnbus was down in the cabin studying
che sea chart. Martin Pinzon, standing on
ieck and looking to the southwest, cried:
~ andf Land Land p And GLORIA in
Excelsisn was sung in raining tears on all the
three ships of expedition. Most appro-
pirate and patriotic and Christian will
he = commemorative worlds fair in
1892. Leaving to others the discussion as
to the site of such exposluon-and Won
der not that some five or SIX OF our cities are
struggling to have it, for it viii give to any
city TO which it IS as signed an impulse Oh
Drosperity Tor q hundred years. say, Ieav-
ing to others the selection of the particular
locality to be thus honored, 1 want TO say
some things from the point of Christian
patriotism 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 praYerfully what feel
called up0n of God as an American citizen
and as a preacher Of righteousness TO utter.
NY first suggestion is that it Is not wise,
as certainly it is not Christian, to continue
this wide and persistent attempt Of Ameri-
can cities TO belittle and deprecate other
cities. 1t has been going on for years, but
now the shirt seems to eliminate in this dis
s1,,N l1e Tel hall 1,a
held. a style of discussion which has a tenden-
CIV to iniure the success of the fair as great
moral and patriotic enterprise, after the 10
caifty has been decided upon. There
is such n thing as healthful rivalry
between cities but YOU will bear me out in
saving that there can be no good TO come
from the uncsnnv things said about each
other by New York and Chicago by Chicago
and ST. Louis. by St Paul and Minneapolis by
Tacoma and Seattle, and all through the
States by almost every two proximate cities
All cities, like individuals, have their virtues
and their vices. All our American cit
les should be our exultation. What
churchesl What public hbrariesl What
asylums OF mercy what academies
of musici Whist mighty men in
law and medicine and art and scholarship
What schools and colleges and universities
What women radiant and gracious, and an
improvement on all the generations Of women
since Evel What philanthropists who dc
not feel satisfied with their own charities
until they get into the hundreds OF thousands
and the millionsl What Gods acres fol-
the dead, gardens of beauty and palaces OF
marble for those who sleep the last sleep
Now stop your SANDER of American cities.
Do YOU say they are the centres of crime
and political corruption? Please ad-
NIT the fact that they are centers of intelh-
gence and generosity and the mightiest pa
irons of architecture and sculpture and paint
ing and music and reservoirs of religious in
huence for all the continent. II will be wei
for the country districts to cease talking
against the cities, and it viii be well for the
city of one locality to stop talking against
the cities Of other localities. New York VIII
not get the Worlds Fair by depreciating
Chicago, and Chicago will not get the
Worlds Fair by bombarding New York.
Another suggestion concerning the coming
exposition: let not the materialistic and
monetary idea overpower the moral and reli-
gious. During that exposition, the first tune
in all their lives there viii be thousands OF
people from other lands who will see a coun-
try without a state religion. Let us, oy an
increased harmony among all denominations
of religion, impress other nauonahtles' as
they come here that year, with the superior
advantage of having all denominations
equal in the sight of government. All the
rulers and chief men .oI EUROPE Deiohe
to the state religion, whatever 1t may
oe. Although our last two Presidents have
been Presbyterians, the previous one was an
Episcopalian; and the two previous Metno-
dists; and going further back in that line oil
Presidents, we find Martin Van Buren,, a
Dutch Reformed; and John Quincy Adams
a Unitarian; and \ mans religion IN tins
country is neither hindrance nor advantage
in the matter Of political elevation. All
Europe needs that All the world needs that
A mans religion Is something between him
self and his God, and it must not directly or
indirectly be interfered with.
Furthermore. during that exposition,
Christian civilization will confront bar
barism We shall as a nation have q
greater opportunity 10 make an evange
| lizing impression upon foreign nation
! aiities, than would otherwise be afforded
us in quarter OF century Le
tie churches Of the city where Tie