Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-07
THE WONDROUS FAIR.
DR.. Talmage Announces a Trip to
Palestine and DiscOurseS
IBOUT TIE NORLD'S EXPOSITION.
The Fairs Of Tyre Text for Presenting
Americas Opportunity.
MUNICIPAL DETRACTORs ALL WRONG

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
. BROOKLYN, October 6.-The Rev. 7. De
Witt Talmage, d. D., preached in the Tab
ernacle this morning on the subject 1.-The
Coming Worlds Fair; Shall it be Made a
Blessing or a Curse?"
After announcing his subject DR.. Tai
mage said: "With the hearty consent of
the elders and trustees of this church I
leave on Wednesday, October 80, on the
City of Paris for the Holy Land, Pales-
tine, to be gone about two months. am
sure all my congregation will unite with
the officers in giving their consent
when L tell you why I go. First, nv
object is educational to myself and
congregation. 1 want to see the places as
soeiated with our Lords life and death. /
believe 1 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 Savior's ministry.
Those places cannot be visited healthfully
in the summer and in time of usual vsca-
tion. What learn and see, you will learn
and see when / come back. My
second reason for going is that I am writing
the life of Christ and can be more accu-
rate and graphic when have been an eye
witness of the sacred place"
THE FAIRS OF OLD TYRE.
DR.. Talmage's text was Ezekiel xvii,
u: "They traded in thy fairs" He said:
Fairs may be for the sale of goods or for the
exhibition of goods on a small scale or
large scale, for county or city, for one ma
tion or for all nations. My 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 mainland. Alexan-
derer, the conqueror, was much embar-
raised when he found so much of the city
was on an island, for he had 20 ships. But
his military genius was not to be baked
Having marched his army to the beach, ne
ordered them to tear up the city on the
mainland and throw 1t into the water and
build causeway 200 feet wide 10 the ISL
and. 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 cap
ture of that part of the city which was on
the island. as though hostile army should
put Brooklyn into the East river, and over
1t march to the capture of New York That
lNfldO GdQsSWdy Ol Tulus WHICH AlSAd0O6I
army built, is still there, and by alluvial
deposits has permanently united the island
to the mainland so that it is no longer an
island but promoutory. The sand, the
greatest OF all undertakers for burying cities,
having covered up for the most part Baalbec
and Palmyra and Tnebes and Memphis and
Carthage and Babylon and Luxor and Jeri-
cho, the sand, so small and yet so mighty, is
now gradually giving rites of sepulture to
what was left of Tyre. Bnt, oh, what a
magnificent city it once wasl Mistress of
the sea! Queen of international commerce!
All nations casting their crowns at her feet!
Where we have in our sailing vessels benches
of wood she had benches of ivory. Where
we have for our masts of ships sails Of coarse
canvas, she had sails of richest embroidery.
RARE BEASTS AND JEWELS.
The chapter from which nv text is taken
after enumerating the richest countries in
all the world says of Tyre: "They traded in
thy fairs" Look in upon a worlds fair at
Tyre. Ezekiel leads US through one depart
ment 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 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 in admiration: |
''They of the house of Togarmah traded in |
thy fairs with horses.
Here in another department of that |
Worlds Fair at Tyre, led on by Ezekiel the |
prophet, We find everything all ablaze with |
precious stones. Like petrifed snow are |
the corals: like fragments OF fallen sky are |
ihe sapphires; and here is agate a-blush
with all colors. What is that aroma |
ho1a ic from chassis IF l
which we open, and find them filled with |
all styles of fabric. But the aromatics in
crease as we pass down this lane of enchant-
ment, and here are cassia and frankincense |
and balm. Led on by Ezekiel the prophet.
we come to an agricultural fair with a dis
play of wheat from Minnith and Pannag,
rich as that of our modern Dakota or Mich1-
gan. And here is a neurological fair, with
specimens of iron and silver and tin and
lead and gold.
Z But halt, for here is purple Ty-
rian 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 for coronation day; purple not like
that which is now made from the OrchiIla
weed, but the extinct purple, the lost pur-
lple, which the ancients knew how 10 make
put OF the gasteropod moliusks of the Medi-
kerranean.
| EVERYTHING A LUXURY.
Oh, look at those casks of wine from Hell
bonl See those snow banks of wool from
the back of sheep that once pastured in
Gilead. Oh, the bewildering riches and
variety of that Worlds Fair at Tyrel
But the world has copied these Bible men,
fioned fairs in all succeeding ages, and it
has had its Louis the Sixth fair at Dagobert,
bnd Henry the First fair on ST. Bartholo- (
mew's day, and Hungarian fairs at Pesth.
hnd Easter fairs at Leipsic, and the Scotch |
fairs at Perth (bright was the day when 1
Was at one of them), and afterward came the
London worlds fair, and the New York
worlds fair, and the Vienna worlds fair
and the Partisan worlds fair, and it has
been decided that, in commemoration of the
discovery of America in 1892, there shall be
held in this country in 1892 a Worlds Fair
that shall eclipse all preceding national ex-
positions. 1 say, God speed the movement
Surely the event commemorated is worthy
OF all the architecture, and music, and pyro-
technics, and eloquent and stupendous plan
ming, and monetary expenditure and Con-
gressiOnal appropriations which the most
sanguine Christian patriot has ever dream
ed Of
Was any voyage that the world ever heard
of crowned with such an arrival as that of
Columbus and his men? After they had
been encouraged for the last few days by
flight of land birds and floating branches of
red berries, and while Columbus was down
in the cabin studying the sea chart, Martin
Pinzon, standing on deck and looking to
the Southwest, cried: 'Landl Landl Landp'
And "Gloria in Excelsis' was sung in rain