The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-10-18
TALMAGE ON FAIRS.
After Announcing his Early Departure
to the Holy Land, Mr.. Talmage
breaches on the Coming
Worlds Fair.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Rev, T. Dewitt Talmage
d. d., preached in the Tabernacle on the sub
Ject, "The Coming Worlds Fair, Shall 1t BE
Nude II Blessing or Curse?" His text was
Ezekiel xvii. IL: "They traded in thy
| fairs"
Alter announcing his subject DR.. Talmage
eaid: with the hearty consent of the elders
and trustees of this church, leave on Wed.
nes,iay morning, Oct. 80, on the City OF
Paris, for the Holy Land, Palestine, to bt
gone about two months. am sure all my
congregation will unite with the officers in
giving their consent when tell you why go
First, my object is educational to myself and
congregation. want to see the places as
sociated with our Lords life and DEATH
believe | can make my pulpit work
far more efficient when l have seen with
i my own eyes bethlehem and Nazareth
and Jerusalem ind Calvary and all the
other places connected with the Savior's
ministry. Those plnces cannot be visited
health'ully in the summer and in the time OF
willlrarn and SEQ when come back Ny
second reason for going is, that | am writing
the Life of Christ, aud can be more accurate
and graphic when have been all eyewitness
OF the sacred place"
Returning to the topic of his discourse; he
| said:
Fairs may be for the sale of goods or for
the exhibition OF goods OH small scnle or q
large scale, for county or city, for one na-
ton or for all nations. My text brings us
to the fnirs Of ancient Tyre, II city that il
now extinct. Part of the city was
on an island, md part OH the
mainland. Alexander the conquer.
or 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 he 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 II ca,iscway 200 feet wide to
the island. So they took that part of the
city which was on the mainland aud with it
built Il causrwny of timber and brick and
stone on which Ills army marched to the cap
tufe 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. Tint
Tyrian causrwny of ruins which Alexander u
army built is still there, and by alluvial de
posits hns permanently united the island to
the mainland, so that it in no longer an
island hut n promontory. The sand, the
greatest of all un,lcrtakers for burying cities,
having covered up for the most purt Baal-
nntl Carthage and Babylon an.l Luxor und
Jericho, the sand, no small and yet SO mighty,
| liz now gradually giving rites of Kepulturc TO
| what was lett of Tyre. But, oh. what II
magnificent city il once was! Mistress of the
scn! All nntions cnsting their crowns ut her
feet! Where We have in our smiling vessels
benches Of wood. she had benches of
mnsts Of ships sails OF coarse canvas, she had
sails OF richest embroidery.
The chapter from which my text is taken nf.
| Recommending the richest tries in ull the
world says ofTyre "Thcy traded in thy
iairs.' Look in upon the worlds fair at
partmrnt aud it is n horse fair. Under fed
and over driven for ages. the horses Of today
| give YOU no idea of the splendid animals
! which, rearing and plunging nnl snorting
| aud neighing, were brought down over the
plank of the ships md led into the world y
fair AT Tyre until Ezekiel, who wns minister
! of religion and not supposed to know much
I nhout horses, cried out in admiration:
/ They of the house of Togarmah traded in
| thy fairs with horses" Here is another de-
! part mrnt of thnt worlds fair at Tyre, led on
+, by Ezekiel the prophet. We find everything
! all ablaze with precious stones. Like petri-
: fled snow are the cor,lls; like fragments OF
fallen sky nret lle sapphires: and here is agate
/; n. blush with all rolOrs. What is that aroma
We inhale? IL il from chest of cedar which
we open, and find them filled with all styles
0ffahric. But the nrOmatrs increase as We
pass down this lane of enchantmcnt, md
here are c,issia and frankincclsc and balm.
I'M agricultural fair with II display Of wheat
from Minnith and Pnnna=, rich as that of
cur modern Dakota or Michigan. And here
is Il mnrr;losical fair. withkI,erimens Of iron
and silver and TN and lead and gold. But
halt. for here il purple, Tyrinn purple. all
tints and shades, deep almost unto the black
aud bright almost unto the blue; Whiting for
kings n,id queens to order it made into robes
for coronation day: purple not like that
which in now made from the Orchl weed,
hut llccytinct purple the lost purple, which
the nncents knew how to make out of tho
gastcrpool molluskS OF tho Mediterranean.
oh. look ut those casks of wine from felbOn.
Srr those snow banks of wool from the buck
of sheep that once pastured in Gilead. oh,
the bewdering riches AMI variety of that
wOrd's fair at Tyrci
l5nt the world Inns copied these Bible men.
TONED fairs in all succeeding ugrs. aud It has
had it's Louis the Sixth tnir ut nngohcrt and
Henry til: First fair on st: Bartholomews
day, and Hungarian fairs ut 'osth, aud East.
er fairs at l.cirsic. and the Scotch fnirs at
Perth tbright was the day when | WINS mt one
of thGm). aud nftcrwuri came the London
worlds fair and the New York world's fair,
und the Vienna worlds fair, and tho parisinn
worlds fair and it has been decided that, in
cOrlmcmOrntiOn 0f the discovery of Amer,cn
in 4 hall lu hol. ,tr,,
1892 II worlds fnir TINT sllall eclipse all pre-
cccding national expositiOns. | aay God
speed the movement! Surely the event com
memorat"i is worthy OF all the architecture
and music and pyrotcrllnics and eloquent and
stupcndous planning nnti monetary expen.ii-
ture and congressional approximations which
the most s;ntnine Christian pat riot has ever
dreamed o'. Was any voyage that the world
ever heard of rowncti with such an nrriyal ns
that OF Columbus and his men? After they
had been encouraged for the last few duys by
flight of land birds and iioating branches of
red berries. nnd while Columbus was down In
the cabin studying the sea chart, Martin
I'nlon, standing on derk and looking to the
southwest, cried Land. land! land" And
Gloria in Excelais' was sung in raining tenrs
on all the three ships of theex petition Most
appropriate and patriotic and Christian will
he II commemorative world y fnir in America
in 1892 Leaving to Others I he discussion ns
u NV s''e vi 'N' VA P''S''ioii-ai WonOer
not that some five or six of our cities arc
struggling to have it, for il will give to any
rity to which 1T il assigned m impulse Of
prosperity for II hundred yenrs.l sny,
leaving to others the selection of the
particular locality to be thus honorcd
! want to say some things from the
point of Christian patriotism which ought to
he said. and the earlier the better, that wo
get thonands Of people tHlking in the right
direction aud that will make hpulthful
public opinion, beg you to consider PRAYER.
fully what feel called upon of God as an
American citizen and us preacher of right.
cOusness TO utter.
Ny first suggestion is that it 10 not wise,
as certainty it is not Christian, to continue
this wide and persistent attempt of Amerl-
can cities to beltle and deIrciatc other
cities. 1t has been going on for years, but
now the spirit seems to eliminate in this dis.
cussion ny to where the worlds fair shall be
held, style of discussion which has u ten
denry to iujnrc the s,cess of the fair M n
great moral and patriotic enterprise, after
the locality has been decided upon. There
is such II thing as hcalthfui rivalry bet ween
cities but you will bear me out in saying
that thrr" can he no good to come from he
uncamny things said about euch other by
New York and Chicago, by Chicago and st.
Louis, by st. Paul and Minneapolis, by
states by almost every twn proximate cities.
All cities. like individuals have their virtues
and their vf.cs. All our American cities
should be our exultntiOn. What churches.
What public libraries. What asyiums OF
mercy! What nrulcnies of music! What
mighty men in law and medicine and art and
schulnrsliip. Whnt schools nnd colpppa and