The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-10-16
Is GOING TO PALESTINE.
DR.. TALMAes SURPRISES HIS PEOPLE.
An Extensive Trip To BE Taken Through
the Holy Land-A Sermon On the
Coming Worlds Fair-Many In
teresuDg Ideas Suggested.

Shall 1t Be Made Blessing or Curse ?"
After announcing his subject, DR.. Tai
mage said:
with the hearty consent of the elders
and trustees of this church l leave Wednes-
day morning, Oct so, on the City of Paris
for the holy land, Palestine, to be gone
about two months. | am sure all my con-
gregation will unite with the officers in
giving their consent when 1 tell you why
] go H. NV object is educational to my
self and congregation. 1 want to see the
places associated with our Lords life and
death. l believe I can make my pulpit
work far more efficient when 1 have
seen with my own eyes Bethlehem,
and Nazareth. and Jerusalem, and
Calvary, and all the other places
connected with the Savior's min
istry. Those places can not be visited
beautifully in the summer and in time of
usual vacation. What l learn and see
You will 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 l have
been an eyewitness of the sacred place.
This pulpit Will be supplied during my
absence by some OF the most brilliant and
edifying preachers of America. The Rev.
Byron Sunderland, d. D., of Washington;
the Rev. Moses ID. Hoge, d. D., OF Rich
Inond; Bishop Newman, d. L. Moody, the
Rev. Dr. Grifis of Boston, the Rev. DR..
Beale of JohnstOwn, Pa, an eyewitness
OF the great disaster; the Rev. DR.. Mil
burn, chaplain of congress and the Rev.
nv ,f NJ GO.
opportunity OF hearing consecutively an
array OF the great preachers of America
has never been afforded any church, and
/ am sure this building will be thronged
every Sabbath, morning and night.
''kairs 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,
or one nation or for all nations. Ny text
brings Us to the fairs of ancient Tyre,
city that is now extinct. Part of the city
was on an island and part on the main
land. 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
to the beach, he ordered them TO tear
up the city on the mainland and
throw it into the water and build a cause
way 200 feet wide TO the island. So they
took that part of the city which was on the
mainland and with it built causewav 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 hostile army should put Brook
lyn into the East river and over it march
TO the capture OF New York. That Tyrian
causeWay OF ruins which Alexander's
army built is still there, and by alluvial
deposits has permanently united the
island to the mainland, so that 1t 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 Baalbec, and Palmyra, and
Thebes, and Memphis, aud Carthage, and
Babylon and Luxor, and Jericho, the
sand. so small and yet so mighty, is now
gradually giving rites of sepulture TO what
was LETT of Tyre. But, oh, what a
magnificent city it once was! Mistress of
the sea, Queen of international COM
Inerce. 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 our
inasts of ships sails of coarse canvas, she
had sails of richest embroidery.
''The chapter from which my text is
taken after enumerating the richest coun-
tries in all the world says of Tyr: They
traded in thy fairs Look in upon a
worlds fair at Tyre. Ezekiel leads us
through one department and it is horse
fair. Underfed and overdriven for ages.
the horses of to-day give YOU no idea of
the splendid animals which, rearing and
plunging and snOrting and neighing, were
brought down over the plank of the ship
ana led into the worlds fair at Tyre until
Ezekiel, who was a minister of religion
and not supposed to know much about
horses, cried out in admiration: They of
the house OF Togarmah traded in thy
fairs with horses Here in another de-
partment OF that worlds fair at Tyre, led
on by by Ezekiel the prophet, we find
everything all ablaze with prec Gus stones.
Like petrihed snow are the corals; like
fragments of fallen sky are the sap
phires; and here is agate ablush
with all colors. What is that aroma
we inhale? 1t is from chests of cedar
which we open, and find them filed with
all styles OF fabric. But the aromatics in
crease as we pass down this lane of en-
chantment, and here are cassia, and frank
incense, and balm. Led on by Ezekiel,
the prophet, we come to an agricultural
lair with a display OF wheat from Minnith
and Pannag rich as that of our modern
Dakota or Michigan. And here is min
eralogical fair, with specimens of iron,
and silver, and tin, and lead and gold.
But halt. for here is purple, Tyrian pur.
pie, all tints and shades, deep almost unto
the black and bright almost unto the blue
waiting for kings and queens to order il
made into robes for coronation day; pur-
pie 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 gastrOpod mol
lusks of the Mediterranean. Oh look al
those casks of wine from Helboni See
those snoW-banks of wool from the bach
OF sheep that once pastured il
Gilead. Oh. the bewildering riches
and variety Of that worlds fair at Tyre
''But the world has copied these bibIc
mentioned fairs in all succeeding ages, anC
it has had its Louis VI fair at Dagobert
and Henry | fair on st. Bartholomew
day, and Hungarian fairs at Pesth, anC
Easter fairs at Leipsic, and the Scotch fair
at Perth bright was the day when was a
one of them and afterward came the Lon
don worlds fair, and the Vienna world
fair, and the Partisan worlds fair, and i
has been decided that in commemorative
OF the discovery of America in 1402 there
shall be held in this country in 1892
worlds fair that shall eclipse all preceding
national expositions. | say God speed the
movement Surely the event commemo
rated is worthy of all the architecture
and music, and pyrotechnics, and eloquen
and stupendous planning, and monetary