The Penn's Grove record., 1889-10-19
DR. TALMAGE's SERMON:
Subject: "The Coming Worlds Fair
Shall 1T be Made a Messing or
Curse 2"

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kiel xvii. IL.
Fairs may be for tho sale Of goods or for the
exhibition Of goods on . small scale or . large
scale, for county or city, for one nation Or fof
all nations. My text brings NJ to the fairs OF
ancient Tyre, q city that r. now extncc.
Part Of the city was on an island, and part
on the mainland. Alexander, the conqueer,
was much embarrassed WHOM be- found Q
much of the city was on an slAnd, ior
he had no ships. But his military genius
was not to be baked Having marched
his army to the beach, he ordered them %
tear up the city on the mainland and throw
it into the water md build . causeway two
hundred feet wide to tho islAnd- 30 they
took that part Of the city which was on the
mainland and with 1t built . causeway OF
timber and brick and STONE, on which his
army marched to the capture Of that part OF
the city which wal on tie island, ~ though
a hostile army should put Brooklyn into the
East River, and over 1t march to thu capture
of New York. That Tyrian caussway
Of ruins which Als1Andsr's army
luvial deposits has permanently united
the island to the mainland, - that II
is no longer an island but I prousuntory.
The sand, the greatest of all undertskers for
burying cities, having covered up for the
most part Baalbec and Palmyra and Thebes
and Memphis and Carthage and Babylon and
LuAor Anu SeIicno, eno .@nuy ~ s.A-n
of sepulture to what was left OF Tyre. But
oh, what . magnificent city 1t once wasi
Mistress of the seal Queen OF international
commerce. All nations casting their crowns
\ at her feetl Where ne have In our sailing
vessels benches Of wood, shs has benches Of
ivory. Where we nave for q mAsn q
ships sails Of coarse canvas she had Nis Of
The CHAPTER from which INV taxi 4 taken
after enumerating b nchest countziee m
all the world says Of Tyre: They traded In
thy fairs" Look In upon . worlds fair 1t
Tyre. Ezekiel leads US through ons depart
ment and it Is a horse fair. Under fed and
give you NO idea Of the splendid animals
which, rearing and plungings and morting
and neighing, were brought down over The
plank Of the ships and led into the worlds
fair at Tyre until Ezekiel, who was . min
lister of religion and not supposed to
know much about ahorss4 cried out fn
NAH traded in thy fairs with horses.n Here
in another department ofsthat worlds fair
at Tyre, led on by Ezekiel the prophet we
| find everything all ab1AEo with precious
stones. Like petrified snow arc the corals:
like fragments Of fallen sky are ths sapphires;
and here is agate a-blush with al colorsl
What is that aroma we inhaler It IL from
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them filed with all styles Of flhe5cL But the
aromatics increase a. we pas DOWN this lane
of enchantment, and here are cessis and
frankincense and balm. Led on by
Ezekiel the prophet 10 come to an
agricultural fair with display
Of wheat from Minnith amp
Pannag, rich a that Of q modern Da-
kota or Michigan. And here b . mineral
ogicalfair, with specimens Of iron and oliver
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 IL made into robes
which is now made from The Orchilia weed,
but the extinct purple. the lost purple, which
| the ~ancients knew howl to make out Of the gas
tsropod mollusks Of the Mediterranean. Oh
look at those casks Of wine from Helboni
See those snow banks OF o from the back
of sheep that once pastured in Gilead. Oh,
the bewildering riches and variety Of that
But the world has copied these Bibls
mentioned fairs In all succeeding ages,
and it has had its Louis the Sixth fair at
Dagobert, and Henry the First fair on
st. Bartholomew's Day, and Hungarian
fairs at Pesth, and Easter fairs at
Leipsic, and the Scotch fairs At Perth
Of them, and afterward came the LON
worlds fair, and the Vienna worlds
fair, and the Parisan worlds fair, and
II has been decided that In comnemo-
ration of. the discovery OF America in
1892, there shall BE- held TN this coun-
try in 1899 Q worlds fair that shall eclipse
all preceding national ~expoGitiona. say,
God speed the movements Surely the event
COMMUNICATED Is worthy Of al the architec-
ture and music and pyrotechnics and elo-
quent and stupendous planning and none
tAry expenditure and congressional appro-
priations which the most sanguine Christian
patriot has ever dreamed Of. Was any voy-
age that the world sver heard Of crowned
| with such m arrival a. that Of Columbus
and his mens After they hid been encouraged
for the last few days BY tight Of land birds and
| floating branches Of red berrfeA and while
Columbus was down In the cabin studying
| the sea chart, Martin Pinson, standing on
deck and looking to the scuthvsst cEisd:
E1celsis' was sung in raining tesrs en AL the
three ships Of expedition. Host appro-
pirate and patriotic and Christian viii
b . commemorative worlds fair In
1892. Leaving 10 others The discuaion -
to the site Of such s-xpodton-and ! won.
der not that some I've or Il g q cities are
city to which II 10 q Egnsd m impulse Of
prosperity for Q hundred years-Isay, leav-
mo 70 others the selection Of the particular
locality to b thus honorsd, ] want to say
some things from the point Of Christian
pstriotim which ought to Be- said, and the
earlier the bsttsr. that ws .gst Thousands Of
KAT viii make heaithful public opinion. /
bee YOU to consider prAysrfuily what ! feel
| csied upon Of God a an American citizen
| and As spreacher Of righteousness to uttsr.
NV first suggestion u that II b mot visa