The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-17
TALMAGES SERMON.
Weekly Discourse Of tho Great
BROOKLYN Preacher.
Snbl"ct, s''shc Coming Worlds
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Blessirg or ~ Cursr:"

falfS may Do pE lile ssllc VI eoOuS OF LOT lft
exhibition Of goods on small scale or larg,
all nations. My text brings us to the fairs OF
ancient Tyre, city that is now extinct
Part OF the city was ON an island, and part
on the mainland. Alexander, the conquerer
was much embarrassed when he found b
much OF the city was on an island fol
he had no ships. But his military geniu,
was not TO be- baked, Having marched
his army to the beach, he ordered them te
tear up the city ON the mainland and throw
il into the water and build causeway tive
hundred feet wide TO the island. So they
took that part of the city which was on the
mainland and with it built a causeway OF
timber and brick and stone, on which his
army marched TO the capture of thai part OF
the citv which was on the island, as though
a hostile army should put Brooklyn into the
East River, and over Il march to the capture
of Now York. That Tyrian causeway
Of ruins which Alexander's army
built, is still there, and by al.
luvial deposits has permanently united
tho island to the mainland. so that II
is no longer an island but promontory,
The sand, the greatest of all undertakers for
burying cities, having covered up for the
most part Baalbec and Palmyra and Thebes
and Memphis and Carthage and Babylon and
Luxor aud Jericho, the sand. SO small and
yet so mighty, is now gradually giving rites
of sepulture TO what was left OF Tyre. But,
oh, what a magnificent city 1t once was
Mistress of the sea Queen of international
commerce; All nations casting their crowns
at her feet. Where we have in our sailing
vessels benches Of wood, she has 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 worlds fair at
Tyre. Ezekiel leads us through one depart
ment and it is horse fair. Under fed and
over driven for ages, the horses of to-day
give you no idea of the splendid animals
which, rearing and plunging and snorting
and neighing, were brought down over the
plank OF the ships and led into the worlds
fair at Tyre until Ezekiel, who was min
lister Of religion and not supposed to
know much about horses, cried out in
admiration: They of the house of Togar
nah traded in thy fairs with horses" Here
In another department Of that worlds fair
at Tyre, led ON by Ezekiel the prophet we
find everything all ablaze with precious
stones. Like petrified snow are the corals:
like fragments OF fallen sky are the sapphires;
and here is agate a-blush with all colors.
What is that aroma we inhale? 1t is from
chests of cedar which we open, and find
them filled with all styles of feoric. But the
aromatics increase as we pass down this lane
Of enchantment, AMI here are cassa and
tranliincense and balm. Led on by
Ezekiel the prophet we come to an
agricultural fair with display
of wheat from Minnith amp
Pannag, rich as that of our modern Da-
kota or Michigan. And here is a mineral
ogcal 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 ancientS 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 Tat once pastured in Gilsad. Oh,
the bewildering riches and variety Of that
worlds fair at Tyre!
But the world has copied these Bible
mentioned fairs in all succeeding ages,
and it has had its Louis the Sixth fair at
DagoDert, and Henry the First fair on
St Bartholomew's Day, and Hungarian
fairs at Pesth, and Easter fairs at
Leipsic, and the Scotch fairs at Perth
bright was the day when | was at ole
Of them. and afterward came the Lon.
don worlds fair, and the New York
worlds fair, and the Vienna worlds
fair, and the Partisan worlds fair, AMI
It has been decided that, in commence
ration O. the discovery of America in
try in 1892 a worlds fair that eshall eclipse
all preceding national expositions. l say,
God speed the movement Surely the event
commemorated is worthy of all the architec-
ture and music and pyrotecnnics and elo-
4uent and stupendous planning and none
tary expenditure and congressional appro-
priations which the most sanguine Christian
patriot has ever dreamed of. Was any voy-
age nat the world ever heard of crowned
with such an arrival az that Of Columbus
and his men? After they had been encouraged
tor the last few days by flight Of land birds and
boating branches of red berries and while
Columbus was down in the cabin studying
the sea cnart, Martin Pinzon, standing on
1eck and looking to the southwest, cried:
''Land Land Land y And ''Gloria in
E1ceisis'' was sung in raining tears on all the
three ships of expedition. Most appro-
pirate and patriotic and Oh istian will
-. 70. co.,-.,o'.,nratiys e., worlds fair in in
to the site Of such exposition-and | won
der not that some five or six of our cities are
struggling to have it, for it will give to any
sity to which it is as signed an impulse Of
prosperity for hundred years-1 say, leav-
Ing to others the selection OF the particular
locality to be thus honored, I 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
he .t,,t~,
be-, you to consider praYerfully what l feel
called upon of God as an. American citizen
and as preacher OF Righteousness to utter.
My 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 spirit seems to eliminate in this dis.
cussion as to where the Worlds Fair shall be
held style Of discussion which has tenden.
cy to injure the success of the fair as great
moral and patriotic enterprise, after the 10.
cality has been decided upon. There
Is such thing as healthful rivalry
between cities but you will bear me out in
saying that there can be no good to come
from the uncar ~ thing said about each
,tner 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 libraries! What
asylums OF mercyl What academies
of music! What mighty men in
law and medicine and art and scholarship
What schools and colleges and universities
What women radiant and gracious, and al
improvement on all the generations of womsl
since Eve! What philanthropists who III
not feel satisfied with their own chariti,
until they get into the hundreds of thousand
and the millions What Goods acres TO
ths dead, gardens of beauty and palaces o
marble for those who sleep the last sleep
Now stop your SANDER of American cities
Do you say they are the centres of Grim
and political corruptionf Please ad
init the fact that they are centers of intelli
gence and generosity and the mightiest pa
irons of architecture and sculpture and paint
ing and music and reservoirs Of religious in
duence for all the continent. 1t will be wei
for the country districts to cease talkin
against the cities, and it will be well for th
city of one locality to stop talking agains
the cities of other localities New York wi
not get the Worlds Fair by depreciatin
Chicago. and Chicago will not get th
Worlds Fair by bombarding New York.
Another suggestion concerning the comm
exposition: let not the materialistic an
monetary idea overpower the IN raj and rel
gious. During that exposition, the first tim
in all their lives, there will be thousands {
people from other lands who will see coun
try without state religion. Let us, by a
increased harmony among all denomination
OF religion, impress other nationalities a