Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-10-17
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
1.-THE COMING WORLDS FAIR, SHALL
1T BE MADE A BLESSING OR
CURsE!"
DR.. Talmage's Discourse October 6

The Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, d. d.,
preached in the Tabernacle this morning on
the subject. 1.-THE Coming Worlds FAR.
Shall II BE Made Blessing or Curse?
His text was Ezekiel xvii, -: "Ihey traded
in thy fairs"
fAfter announcing his subject DIR. Talmage
said: .sWith the hearty consent of the elders
and trustees of this church, | leave on We'd
nosday morning. Oct. goth, on the City OF
Paris, for the Holy Land, Palestine, TO be
gone about two months. | am sure ali my
congregation will unite with the officers lil
giving their consent when i tell YOU why
70. First. my object is educational TO myself
and congregation. ] want TO see the places
associated with our Lords life and death.
believe | can make my pulpit work far more
efficient when ] have seen, with mine own
ewes, Bethlehem and Nazareth and Jerusalem
and Calvary, and all the other places con-
nected with the saviour's ministry. Those
places cannot be visited BEAUTIFULLY in the
summer and in time of usual vacation. what
learn and see, YOU viii learn and see when
/ come back. My second reason for going IS.
that am writing the Life of Christ, and
can be more accurate and graphic when !
have been an eyewitness of the sacred
placer
Fairs may be for the sale Of goods or for
the exhibition of goods on small scale or a
large scale, for county or city, for one nation
or for all nations. NV text brings us to the
fairs of ancient Tyre, city that is now eX-
tinct. Part of the city was on an island, and
part on the mainland. Alexander, the con-
queror 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 be baked. Having marched his
army to the beach, he ordered them to tear
up the city on the mainland and throw II III
to the water and build a causeway two hun
bred feet wide to the island. So they took
that part of the city which was on the main
land and with 1t built causeway Of timber
aud brick and stone, on which his army
marched to the capture OF that part OF the
city which was on the island, rs though
hostile army should put Brooklyn INTO tile
East river and over ii march to the capture
of New York. That Tyrian causeway OF
ruins which Alexander's army built, is still
there. and by alluYinl deposits has pcrma-
nentle united the island TO the mainland, so
that it Is no longer an island but a
promontory. The sand, the greatest
of all undertakes for burying cities,
having covered up for the most part Baalhec
aud Palmyra aud Thehes and Memphis aud
Carthage and Babylon and Luxor ana Jeri-
cho, the sand. so small and yet 50 mighty i
now gradually giving rites of sepulture 10
what was left Of Tyre. But. oh, what
magnificent city Il once wasl Mistress OF inc
seal Queen of international commerce All
nations casting their crowns at her feet!
Where we have in our sailing 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 enumeratug the richest countries IN AL
the world SAYS of Tyre: "They traded IN thy
fairs" Look In upon Il worlds fair at Tyre.
Ezekiel leads us through one department aud
il is horse fair. Under fed and over driven
for ayes. the horses Of today give you no idea
Of the splendid animals which, rearing and
plunging and snoriing and neehing, were
brought down over the plank Of the ships and
led into the worlds fair no Tyre until Ezekiel,
who was minister of religion and not sup
posed to know much about horses, cried out IN
admiration "They OF the house Of Togarmah
traded in Thy fairs with horses" Here In
another DEPARTMENT OF that worlds fair ~
Tyre. led Oh by Ezekiel the prophet, VIC find
everything al ablazc with precious stones.
Like petrilied snow are the cOrals; like frug-
ments of fallen sky are the sapphiJcs; aud
here is agate a-blHsh with all c0iors. What
Is that aroma we inhaleg It's from chests OF
cedar which we Open. and find them illed
with all styles OF fabric. But the aromaiics
increase as we pass down this lame Of en-
chantment, and here are cassia and frnkn-
cense aud balm. Led on by Ezekiel the
prophet. we come TO an agricultural fair with
u display of wheat from Minuith and Pam
nag, rich ms that OF our modern Dakota or
Michigan. Aud here is meteorological fair,
with specimens OF iron and silver and tin
and lead and gold But halt, FOR mere is
purple. Tyrian purple al tints aud shades,
deep almost unto the black and bright almost /
unto the blue; waiting for kings and queens
20 order IL made into robes for coronation
day: purple not ike that which Is now made /
from the Orchila weed, but the extinct pug- /
pie, the lost purple, which the ancicnts knew
how 60 make out Of the gastcropod mol- /
lusks of the Mediterranean. Oh. look at I
those casks of wine from Heihon! See /
those snow banks OF wool from The back of /
sheep that once pastured IN Giload. Oh, the /
bewildering riches and variety Of that worlds |
fair 1T Tyrel
But The world has copied these Bible mem 1
toned fairs in all succeeding ages. and il has /
had its Louis the Sixth fair az Dagohert, aud +
Henry the First fair on st. Barlh0lomew's
day, and Hungarian fairs ~ Pesth. and
Easter fairs at Leipsic, and the Scotch fairs
ut Perth, bright was the DAY when ] was 1T
one of them). and aftcrward came tie Lon
don worlds fair, and the New York worlds
fair, and the Vienna worlds fair, and the
Partisan worlds fair, and il has been decided
that, in commCm0ratiOn Of the discovery NJ
America IN 1882. there shall be held Ia this
country in 1892 a worlds fair, that, shah
eclipse al preceding national CNpoSiloIs. /
say, God speed the movement! Surely the
event commemoratcd Is worthy Of
all the architecture and music and
pyroicchnics and eloquent aud stupen-
dous planning and monetary expendi-
ture and congressional appropriations
which the most sanguine Christian patriot
has ever dreamed Of. Was any voyage that
the word ever heard Of crowned with such
an arrival as that Of Columbus and his men
After they had been encouraged for tie hist
few days by fight Of land birds and floating
branches Of rsd berries. ard while Columbus
was down in the cabin studying the sea chart.
Martin PiHzon. standing OF deck and looking
% the southwest. cried: "lhnd! Land!
Land" And 'Gioria IN Excclssr was surg
10 raining tears on al the three ships Of Tie
expedition. Most appropriate and patriotic
md Christian viii be Z commemorative
worlds fair IN America in 1892. Leaving I
@ others the discussion rs 20 tho site OF such I
,Xposiiion-and I wondered not that some /
i've or siN Of our cities arc struggling 10 have
{, for il viii give TO ary city 70 which il Is |
assigned an impulse OF prosperity FOR hum |
ired years-i say, leaving 10 others the se'cc-
ion Of the particular locality 10 be thus hon
rcd, | want % say some things from tie | /
luirf Of Christian fs-I.i,f rtlaf.f