Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-10-16

DRooKLYN, October 6.-The Rev. T. De
ID Witt Talmage, DID,. preached in the
Tabernacle this morning, On the sub
iect, ''The Coming Worlds Fair, Shall it
Be Made Blessing or Curse?' His text
was Ezekiel xvii, 12: "They traded in
thy fairs"
After announcing his subject Or. Talmage
SAID: with hearty consent of. the elders
and trustees of this church. I leave on Wed
nesday morning, October Both, on The City
of Paris, for the Holy Land, Palestine, to
be gone about two months. am sure all
my congregation will unite with the officers
IN giving their consent when tell you why
| go. First, my object is educational to
myself and congregation. l wan; 80 see the
places associated with our Lore = life and
death. l believe l can make my pulpit
work far more efficient when l have seen
with my own eyes Bethlehem ard Nazareth
and Jerusalem and Calvary and all the 9th
er places connected with our Saviour's
ministry. Those places cannot bs visited
BEAUTIFULLY in the summer and time of usual
vacation. What learn and see, you will
learn and see when I come back My Sec
ond reason for going is, that am writing
the life of Christ and I can be more accurate
and graphic when I have been an eye wit
ness of the sacred place
Fairs may be for the eale of gods or for
the exhibition of goods on q small scale or
a large scale, for county or city, for one na-
tion 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. Alex
apder, the conquereT. was much I'm barrass-
ed 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 Hav-
ing marched his army TO the beach, he or
dered TO tear up the city on the mainland
and throw it into the water and build a
canseway two hundred feet wide TO the is
land. So they took that part Of the city
which was on the mainland and eitb it
built a causeway 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 a hostile army
should put Brooklyn into the East river, and
over it march to the capture of New York.
That Tyrian causeway of ruins hich Alex
ander's army built, is still there, and by
alluvial deposits has permanently united the
island to the manlard, SO that it is no long
er an island, but promontory. The sand,
the greatest of all undertakers fer burying
cities, ha giug covered up for the most part
Baalbec and Palmyra and Thebes aud Men,
|phis and Carthage a: d Babylon and Luxor
and Jericho, the sand, so small ard yet so
mighty, is now gradually giving rites of
sepulture to what was left of Tyre. But,
oh, what a magnificent city it once was!
Mistress of the seal Queen of international
com merce! All natiors casting their crowns
at her feet! Where we have in cur sailing
vessels benches of wood, she had benches of
ivory. Where we have for our masts OF
ships sails of coarse canvass, she had sails
of thesrichest embroidery.
The chapter from which my tex; is taken,
after enumeratipg the richest countries in
all the world, says Of Tyre: "They traded
, in thy fairs" Lock in upon worlds fair
at Tyre. Ezekiel leads US through one de
partment end it is a horse fair. Under fed
and over-driven for ages, the horses of to-
day give you no idea of the splendid animals
which, rearing and plungipg and snorting
aud neighipg, were brought down over the
ccllssn.k of the ships and led into the world :