The Red Cloud chief., 1889-10-11
TIMELY ADVICE
Dr. Talmage Discourses on the
Proposed Worlds Fair.

Its Moral and Religious Importanee-En-
vious Rivalry Of Cities Rebsked-AG Great
Peace Congress SuE$ested-war's
Glory Observation-Disclosures.
In q recent sermon at Brooklyn Rev. 7.
De Witt Talmags too for his subject
The Coming Worlds Fair: Shall 1t Be
Made q Blessing OF a Curse:" His tex
was Ezekiel xvii. u: They traded in
thy fairs" After announcing that he
would soon visit the Holy Land ON a two
month"; leave Of absence in order to gain
a personal knowledge of thu places sacred
to all Christians. Dr.. Talmage said:
Fairs may be for the sale of goods or for
the exhibition of goods on q small scale
or q large scale. for county or city. for
one nation or for all nations. Ny text
brings US to the fairs OF ancient Tyre. a
city that is now extinct. Part Of the city
was on an island. und par; on the MAIN.
land. Alexander, the conqueror. was
much embarrassed when he found SC
much of the city on an island. for he had
no ships. But his military genius was
not to be baked. Having marched his
army to the beach. ne ordered them to
tear up the city on the mainland and
throw it INTO the water and build a cause.
way go feet wide to the island. So they
took that part of the city which was OF
the mainland and with it built q cause.
way of timber and brick and stone, on
which his army marched to the capture Of
that part OF the city which was on the
island. as though q hostile army should
put Brooklyn into the East river, and yer
it march to the capture of New York.
That Tyrien causeway of ruins which
Alexander's army built is still there. and
by alluvial deposits has permanently unit.
ed the island to the mainland, SO hat it is
no longer an island, but a prOmontory.
The sand, the greatest Of all undertakers
for buryinR cities. having covered up for
the most part Baalbec and Palmyra and
Thebes and Memphis and Carthage and
Babylon and Luxor and Jericho. the
sand, SO small and yet SO mighty, is now
gradually giving rites Of sspalture to
what was left Of Tyre. But, q. what .
magnificent city it once was! Mistress Of
The sea! Queen of international com
merce! All Nations casting their crowns
at her feet! Where We have in our sail.
ing 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 tho 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 it is q horse
PaSe vVnAopfoA and nvor6riuou for n OAa
the hor Sos of to-day give you no idea Of
plunging and snorting and neighing. were
brought down over the p'ank OF the ships
and led into the Worlds Fair at Tyre
until Ezekiel, who was q minister OF re.
ligion and not supposed to know much
about horses, cried cut in admiration:
''They of the house of Toaarmah traded
in the fairs with horses"
But the world has copied these Bible
mentioned fairs In all succeeding ages.
and It has had it's Louis the VI fair at
Dagoberf, and Henry b L 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 whom I was at one OF them). and
afterward came the London Worlds Fair.
and the New York Worlds Fair, and the
Vienna Worlds Fair. and Partisan Worlds
Fair, and it has been decided that in com.
memoration Of the discovery Of America
| in 149s. there shall be held in this country
in 1892 q Worlds Fair that shall eclip.e
all preceding National Expeditions. 1
say, God speed the movement! Surely
| the event commemorated is worthy Of all
the architecture and music and pyrotech.
| MICS and eloquent and stupenduous plan.
ming and mOmentaIy expenditure and
CO .ressional appropriations which the
most sanguine Christian patriot has ever
dreamed OF. Wa any voyage that the
world ever heard OF crowned with such
an arrival "a that OF Columbus and his
! men? After they had been encouraged
for the lat few days by flight OF land
birds and floating branches of red terries.
and while Columbus was down in the
cabin studying the sea chart, Martin
Pinxon. standing On the deck, and looking
to the southwest, cried: Land! Land!
Lard!" And 'Gloria in Exce.sis" was
sung in raining tears on all the three
ships Of the expedition. Most approp- late
and patriotic and Christian will be q com.
memOrative Worlds Fair in America in
1892 Leaving to others the discussion a.
to the site Of such ExpOsitiOE-and l won
der not that some five or six of our cities
are struggling to have il, for it will give
to any city to which it is assigned q n i'm
pulse of prosperity for a hundred years.
say, leaving to others the selection OF the
particular locality to be thus hOnored.
want to say something from the point o;
Christian patriotism which ought to be
said, and the earlier the better. that we
may get thousands If people talking in the
right direction, and that will makeh health
full public opinion. I beg to consider
prayerfully what l feel called upon Of
God as an American citix,n and 40 q
preacher Of righteousness to utter.
My first suggestion 10 that it is not wise,
as certainly it is not Christian, to con
iinue his wide and persistent attempt OF
American cities to belittle and depreciate
other cities 1t has been gong on for
years, but now the spirit seems to Gull
inmate in this discussion as to whers the
Worlds Fair shall be held. . sly le OF dis
cussion which has a tendency to injure
The succss o. of the fair as q great moral
and patriotic enterprise after the IL cality
has been decided upon. There Is such q
thing 40 healthful rivalry between cities,