The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-10-10
! WORLDS FAIR.
|prurrNENr suGGEs rIoSs.
400 Tells How rt May 30
.ae a National Blessing.
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,is si,,ar p, n goods on small scale or large
~ s,r county or city, tor one naLlonor at s ios
.,ors l@ My text brings US 70 tne lairs OF
(asnt lyrel. was ON an island, and part
h Of tne d Alexander, the conquerer,
! he niaii'iuajbo Nv, ,jborrassed when he found so
3 mucn city was ON an island, for
b. o. Wy 'bins But his military genius
! bad ~ hs balked. Having marched
b mol ,be beach, he ordered them to
arm! /" ';,v . an the mainland and throw
|G W Wv 'h.tsr and build csuseway two
\ nio ins vide 20 the island. So they
|rnired w., -, Of the city which was on the
b. ina, ~ With IL built causewey of
|anianu 4 brick and stone, on which his
knier alg u to the capture of that part OF
by HaIsu,b ~ was on tho island, as though
j ciy "n,N .,,y should put Brooklyn into the
bosue m'J nrJ over It march 10 the capture
Cs; h''' work That Tyrian causeway
y New which Alexander's army
raAs stHl there, and by al
ft Its has permanently united
tNh en- the mainland, so that it
p t,,n. tn..r an island but promontory.
o. H., greatest of all undertakers for
p Sr@ .',iss having covered up for the
Irns p,olbec and Palmyra and Thebes
- al..,is and Carthage and Babylon and
M.J Jericho. the sand, so small and
EfN '.s,y is now gradually giving rites
. 9..,,'tt .,... to what was left Of Tyre. But,
sftl. magnificent city IL once was
Nn'' sssai Queen Of international
81 ~ An nations casting their crowns
Where we have in our sailing
t...,,ts. of wood, she has benches of
80 tvbsre we have for our masts OF
70 A. af r,,rse canyas, she had sails of
| =, embroidery. ..,
~ srumerating the richest countries IN
mi avs of Tyre: They traded in
W Tcok i'm upon a worlds fair at
r,.,,sl lends us through one depart
Iiti h a horse fair. Under fed and
i.',.n n1 for ages. the horses of to-day
81. r, idea Of the splendid animals
M rearing and plunging, ana snortlng
ching we're brought down over the
~ tSe ,hips and led into the worlds
>. Tyr, until Ezekiel, who was n min
4 Of religion and not supposed TO
much about horses, cried out in
nr,tion They of the house or Iogar-
l.-sl.l IN thy fairs with horses Here
another department ~ Nhut "Niiu hih
Tyre lei ON 10y Ezekiel the prophet, We
everything all ablaze with precious
- like petrifed snow are the corals:
fragments Of fallen sky are the sapphlres;
no il agate a-bluSh with all colors.
hst { that aroma we inha'e! III Is from
ID. M cedar which We open, and find
m fIled with all styles Of fabric. But the
kratic, Increase as we pass down this lane
n.H.st. sssI
rkucerse and balm. Led on by
hd the prophet, we come 70 an
rultural fair with display
wheat from Minnith amp
trqg rich as that of our modern Da-
or Michigan. And here is "a mineral
la fair with specimens OF iron and silver
Tin and lead and gold. But halt, for
purple Tyrian purple, all tints and
ps, deep almost unto the black and
rht almost unto the blue; waiting for
8 and queens TO order 1t made into robes
coronation day; purple not like that
ch is now made from the Orchilla weed,
the extinct purple, the lost purple. which
ancients knew how to make out of the gas
ppod mollusks Of the Mediterranean. Oh,
az those casks of wine from Helbon
those snow hanks of wool from the back
|heep that once pastured in Gilead. Oh,
beWildering riches and variety Of that
pas fair at Tyre!
Gt the world has copied these Bible
btonei fairs in all succeeding ages,
il has hal its Louis the Sixth fair at
fobert and Henry the First fair on
Bartholomew's Day, and Hungarian
at Pesth, and Easter fairs at
Sc, and the Scotch fairs at Perth
Eht was the day when | was at one
them and alterward came the Lon
worlds fair, and the New York
flrs fair and the Vienna worlds
and the Partisan worlds fair, and
fas been decided that, in commemo-
tn Of the discovery of America in
there shall be held in this coun-
IN 1872! worlds fair that shall eclipse
preceding national expositions. ! say,
speed the movement Surely the event
memorated is worthy of all the architec-
and music and pyrotechnics and elo-
and stupendous planning and none
expenditure and congressional appro-
hons which the most sanguine Christian
oi has ever dreamed of. Was any voy-
ihat the world ever heard of crowned
such an arrival as that of Columbus
hSmen' After they had been encouraged
elast few days by flight OF land birds and
ng branches of red berries, and while
nbus was down III the cabin studying
pea chart, Martin Pinzon, standing on
and looking to the southwest, cried
Land Land - And "Gloria in
ISIS was sung in raining tears on all the
ships Of expedition. Most appro-
and patriotic and Christian will
commemorative worlds fair in
leaving TO others the discussion q,
sive OF such eXposition-hnd [ won.
'hat some hive or six of our cities are
suhs TO hayeit, for it will give to any
mu'Ch IL IS rs signed an impulse Of
ior hundred years-I say. leay-
o.ngrS the selection of the particular
20 oe mus honored, | want TO saw
a'uSs from the point of Christian
',lu Wnlch ought 10 be said, and the
III ~ ueVVer, that we get thousands of
'1n1AilS IN the right direction, and
:" MAKE healthful public opinion. |
=" , 70 consider praverfully what | feel
'''n OF Tod as an American citizen
preacher Of righteousness to utter
10y suggestion Is that il is not wise
ianly il is not Christian. 10 continue
NJ anl persistent attempt of Ameri-
D. N'''tAN anu utllttAIb Oillpr
~ mas been going ON For years, but
sp'llt seems 10 culminate IN this dis
az 70 where the Worlds Fair shall be
S,y.e wye OF discussion which has "a tenden-
alufe the success of the fair as a great
anu patriotic enterprise, after the To-
LAS been decided upon. There
y thlng as healthful rivalry
q .C CClues but you will bear ms ont in
,'at lhere can be no good TO come
Ire vunc9nny things said about each
Ne" York and Chicago, by Chicago
NouS By st. Paul and Minneapolis. by
aug seattle, aud all through tie
almost Almost every two proximate cities.
HAe individuals, have their virtues
su ,,I wees. All our American cit.
Ita be our exultation. What
o. what public libraries! What
OK mercy What academies
'Ilc, m5, What mighty men in
rbaoilns bilolns and art and scholarship /
wo0,as, aools and colleges and universities !
.wa,e. sUalen radiant and gracious and an
aenl ya, on, on all the generations of women
What philanthropists who do
satisfied with THAR a,,,,, ,ia,i.t,