West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-10-17
THE WORLDS FAIR.
SOME PERTINENT SUGGESTIONS.
DR.. Talmagc Tolls How It May 30
Made n National blessing.

Fairs may be for the sale OF goods or for the
exhibition Of goods on a small scale or a large
scale, for county or city, for one nation or for
all nations. My text brings us to the fairs Of
ancient Tyre, a 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 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 10 the beach, he ordered them TO
tear up the city ON the mainland and throw
1t into the water and build a causeway two
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
tmber and brick and stone, on which his
army marched 10 tho capture OF tina part of
the city which was on the island, as though
a hostile army should put Brooklyn into the
of New York. That Tyrian causeway
of ruins which Alexander's army
built, is still there, and by al
luvia deposits has permanently united
the island to the mainland, so that it
Is no longer IN island but a 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 and Jericho, the sand, so small and
yet so mighty, is now gradually giving rites
OF sepulture 10 what was left of Tyre. But.
oh, what a magnificent city it once wasl
Mistress OF the seal Queen of international
commercel All nations casting their crowns
Mt her feetl Where we have in our sailing
vessels benches of wood, she has benches of
ivory Where we have for our masts of
hip 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 I'm
thy fairs" Look in upon n worlds fair ut
Tyre. Ezekiel leads us through one depart
ment and 1t is a horse fair. Unde fed and
over driven for ages, the horses of to-day
give you no idea of the splendid animals
which, rearing and plunging aud snorting
and neighing, were brought down over the
plank of the ships and led into the worlds
fair at Tyre until Ezekiel, who was a min
lister of religion and not supposed 10
know much about horses, cried out i'm
admiration: They of the house of Togar-
man traded in thy fairs with horses.n Here
In another department OF that worlds fair
at Tyre, led on by Ezekiel the prophet, we
lind everything all ablaze with precious
stones. Like petrified snow are the corals:
like fragments of fallen sky are the sapphires:
aud here Is agate a-blush with all colors.
What Is that aroma we inhaler 1t is from
chests of cedar which we open, and find
them filled with all styles of fabric. But the
aromatics increase as we pass down this lane
or enchentment, and here are cassia and
frankincense and balm. Led on by
Ezekle, the prophet we come to an
Avn hn.DldN
OF wheat from Minnith ann
Pannag, rich as hat of our modern Da-
kota or Michigan. And here is a mineral
ogicalfair, 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
Tor coronation days. 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 Helboni
Bee those snow banks of wool from the back
or sheep that once pastured in Gilead. Oh.
The bewildering riches and variety of that
worlds fair at Tvrel
But the world has copied these Bible
mentioned fairs i'm all succeeding ages.
and it has had its Louis the Sixth fair at
Dagobert, and Henry the First fair on
fairs at Pesth, and Easter fairs at
Leipsic, and the Scotch fairs at Perth
tbright was the day when l was at one
of them), and afterward came the Lon
don worlds fair and the New York
fair, aud the Partisan worlds fair. and
IL has been decided that, ia commemo-
ration of the discovery of America in
14g2, there shall be held in this coun-
try in 1892 a worlds fair that shall ecIipse
AAANAAA 0AHOoAAAOLN. II E1N.
God speed the movement Surely the event
eo~mmemornted is worthy of all the architec-
ture and music and pyr~otechnics and elo-
quent and s~tupendous planning and none
tary expenditure and congressional appro-
priations which the most sanguine Christian
patriot has ever dreamed of. Was anv vow
age that the world ever heard of crowned
with such an arrival as that of Columbus
and ms mem After they had been encouraged
Tor the last few days by fight OF land birds and
boating branches of red berries and yyhile
columbus was down in the cabin studying
the sea chart, Martin Pinzon, standing on
deck and looking 10 the southwest. cried:
"Landi Land Land p And GLORIA in
ExceiSis' was sung in raining tears on all the
three ships Of expedition. Most appro-
pirate and patriotic and Christian will
DO a commemorative worlds fair in
lSS2 Leaving TO others the discussion as
10 the site OF such exposition-and / won
der not that some five or six of our cities are
struggling TO have it, for it win Civ TO anv
city 70 which it is as signed ah impulse OF
prosperity for a hundred years-I say. Ieav-
ing 70 others the selection OF the particular
ocalty TO be thus honored, ] want 20 saw
some things from the point Of Christian
patriotism which ought 70 Oe said and the
earlier the better, that we get thousands of
people talking in the right direction. and
that viii make healthful public opiuion
beg you 70 consider praverfully what I feel
oiled upon OF God as an American citizen
ana as a preacher OF righteousness 20 utter
ny hrst suggestion Is that 10 is not wise
as certainly u Is not Christian. TO continue
this vide and persistent attempt of Ameri-
can cities 70 belittle and deprecate other
clties IL has been going on for wears lint
now the spirit seems 70 cullniuofo Ia this die
eussion as 70 where the Worlds Fair shall be
heid. astyie Of discussion which has a tanden-
cy 10 inJure the success OF the fair as n greot
moral and patriotic ENTERPRISE. after t6e to-
caiity has been decided upon. Tbcro
y n thing as healthful rivai.v
between cities. but you viii bear mo ont in
saying that there can be no good tn como
rom the uncanny things said about eacb
other ~ New York and Chicago. by Chicago
and StLouiA by Sc Paul and Minneapolis ~
Tacoma and Seattle. and an throuuh rs.
plaues by almost every two Urorfmafo oifieg
All cities hke individuals. have their virtue
ana their vices. An our American 49,
ia should De our exuItati0n. Wbot
churchesl What public Mbrariesi Wbst
ssylurns u mercy What academies
ot musici What mighty men ip
taH and medicine and art and echolarsbipf
wnat schools and colleges and univerrities'
What women radiant and gracious. and ara
Improvement On all the generations of women
since Evei What philanthropists who d.
not feel satisfied with their own charitis-
untu they get into the hundreds Of thousands
nno the Millions What Coils acrosn Tor
tho dead gardens Of beauty and ualaces OF
h4efnie Tor those who sleep tho fast eleoDf
now stop your Islander Of America wffl