The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-30
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
He breaches About the Oppor-
tunities Of the Worlds Fair.
s'ghall Il be Made . blessing or Curse?"
1T May be the Means Of Gospel
ising Every Nation ON Earth
-SF What Should be Done

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1.-THE Coming Worlds Fair-shall 1t be q
Blessing or Cursel" was the subject OF
DR.. Talmage's recent sermon at the Brook
Ign Tabernacle. After announcing his SER
mon DR.. Talmage said: -.l. II
"With the hearty consent Of the elders
md trustees of this church, leave on We'd
nesday morning, October 30. on the City Of
Paris for the Holy Land, Palestine, to be
gone about two months. / am sure all my
will unite with the officers in
giving their consent when tell you why l
70. First, my object is educational to my
self and congregation j want to see the
places associated with our Lords life and
death. l believe can make my pulpit
work FAR more efficient when have seen
with my own eyes Bethlehem and Nazareth,
and Jerusalem, and Calvary and all the
other places connected with the Saviour's
ministry. Those places can not be visited
BEAUTIFULLY in the summer and in time OF
usual vacation What learn and see, you
will learn and see when come back. My
second reason for goingis that am writing
the life of Christ, and can be more accur-
ste and graphic when have been an eye
witness Of the sacred place."
DIR. Talmage's text was Ezekiel xviii IL,
''They traded in thy fairs" He said:
Fairs may be for the sale Of goods or Tor
the exhibition of goods on small scale or
large scale, for county or city, for one ma
ton or for all nations'- NY text brings US
to the fairs of ancient Tyre, sity that is
now extinct. Part d the city was on an
island, and part on the mainland. Alexan-
der, the conqueror, was much embarrassed
when he found so much Of the city was on
an island, for he had no ships. But his mil
itary genius was not to be balked, Having
naeched his army to the beach, he ordered
them to. tear up the city on themainlapd
ana throw it into the water ana build q
cahseway two hundred feet wide tosthe
island SO they took that part Of the city
which was on the mainland and with it
built 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 islsna, asMthough ~ hostile. army
should put Brooklyn into the East rivers
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 perma-
nently united the island to the mainland, so
that it is no longer an island but prOmon-
tory. The sand, the greatest Of all under
takers for burying cities, having covered up
for the most part Baalbec and Palymra 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 to what was left OF
Tyre. But, o, what magnificent city it
once was! Mistress of the sea! Queen Of
international commerce! All nations cast
ing their crowns at her feet! Where we
have in our sailing vessels benches of wood,
she has benches of ivory. Where we have
for our masts of ship 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
in thy fairs" Look in upon worlds fair
at Tyre. Ezekiel leads us through one de-
partment and it is 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 plunging and snOrting
and neighing, were brought down over the
plank of the ship and led into the worlds
fair at Tyre uutil Ezekiel, who was minis.
ter 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 Ezekiel the prophet, we find every
thing ablaze with precious stones Like
petrited snow are the corals; like frag.
ments of fallen sky are the sapphires; and
here Is agate a-blush with all colors. What
is that aroma we inhalel 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 of en-.
chantment, and here are cassia and frank
incense and balm. Led on by Ezekiel the
prophet, we come to an agricultural fair
with display of wheat from Minnith, and
Pannag, rich as that of our modern Dokota
or Michigan. And here is meteorological
fair, 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 al
most unto the blue: waiting for kings and
queens to order it made into robes for coro
nation day; purple not like that which Is
now made from the Orchilla weed, but the
extinct purple, the lost purple, which thu
ancients knew how to make out of the gas
teropod mollusk of the Mediterranean. o
look at these casks Of wine from the Hell
bonl See those snow banks of wool from
the back of sheep that once pastured il
Gilead. o. the bewildering riches and va
riety at that worlds fair at Tyre!
But the world has copied these Bible men
honed fairs in all succeeding ages, and /
has its Louis the Sixth fair at Dagobert, ant
Henry the First fair ON st. Bartholomew,
| day, and Hungarian fairs at Pesth, ant
Easter fairs at Leipsic, and the Scotch fair
ct Perth bright was the day when was q
Sne of them) and afterwards came the Lon
aon worlds fair, and the New York world
lair, and the Vienna worlds fair, and tn
Parisians worlds fair, and it has been de
cided that, in commemoratiop Of the dis
covery of America in 1872, there shall b
held In this country in 1892 worlds fai
that shall eclipse all preceding national ex
positions. say, God speed the movement
Surely the event cOmmemorated is worth
of all the architecture and music and pyrc
technics and eloquent and stupendous plan
ming and monetary expenditure and Con
gressionA appropriations which the mos
sangnine Christian patriot has ever dreame
Of. Wis any voyage that the world eve
heard Of crowned with such an arrival q
that Of Columbus and his menl After the
had been encouraged for the last few day
BY flight Of land birds and floating branche
of red berries, and while Columbus wa
down in the cabin studying the sea char
Martin Pinzon, standing on deck and looh
ing to the southwest cried: Land Land
Land ~ and ''Gloria in Excelsis" was sun
/ in raining tears on all the three ships of tn
expedition. Most appropriate and patriot
and Christian will be commemorative
worlds fsir in America in 1892. Leaving {
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