Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-10-19
THE WORLDS FAIR
"ShaIl 1t Be Made a Blessing or a
Curse2"
nent Divine Leaves Wednesday,
October 80, for the Holy
Land, Palestine.

1t 30 Made a Blessing or a Curse?"
Aftor announcing his subject DIR. Tai
mage said: "HWith the hearty consent
of the elders and trustees of this church,
i leave on Wednesday morning, October
80, on the City of Paris for the Holy
Land, Palestine, TO be gone about two
months. ! am sure ell my congregation
will unite with the officers in giving
their consent when / tell you why | go.
First, my object is educational TO my
self and congregation. l want TO sec
the places associated with our Lords
life and death. / believe / a make
my pulpit work far more efficient when
I have seen with my own eyes,, Bethle-
hem and Nazareth and Jerusalem and
Calvary and all the other places con-
nected with the Saviour's ministry.
Those places cannot be visited health
fully in the summer and in time OF
usual vacation. What / learn and see,
you will learn and sec when I como
back. My second reason for going is,
that l am writing the Life OF Christ,
and / can be more accurate and graphic
when l have been an eyewitness Of the
sacred pia. D."
His text was Ezekiel xvii, IL: "They
traded in thy fairs" He said:
Fairs may be for the sale of goods or
for tho exhibition of goods on q small
scale or a large scale, for county or
city, for one nation or for all nations.
My text brings US to the fairs of ancient
Tyre, q city that is now extinct. Part
of the city was on an island, and part on
the mainland. Alexander, the con-
querer, was much embarrassed when he
founo so much of the city was on al
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 aud build a causeway 200 feet
wide TO the island. So they took that
part of tho city which was en- the main
land and with 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 wa on the island,
IS though q hostile army should put
looklyn into the East river, and over
march to the capture of New York.
hat Tyrian causeway OF ruins which
{lexander's army built, is still there,
aud by ~alluyial deposits has perma-
nently united he island to the main
land. so that it Is no longer an island
but a p~romontory. The sand, the great
est of all undertakers for burying cities,
having covered up for the most part
Baalbec and Palmyra 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, oh, what q magnifi-
cen city it once was! Mistress of the
sea! Queen of international commerce.!
AL nations casting their crowns at her
feetl 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.
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 a worlds fair at Tyre. Ezekiel
leads US through one department. and it
is q horse fair. Under fed and over
driven for ages, the horses OF today give
you no idea of the splendid animals
which, rearing and plunging and snort
ing and neighing,, were brought down
over the plank of the ships and led into
the worlds fair at Tyre until Ezekiel,
- .x.. d. rAsntnfar - rn1t~far cd -zA
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 depart
ment OF that worlds fair at Tyre, led on
Fby Ezsriei, the prophet, we find every
thing all ablaze with precious stones.
Like petriied snow are the %corals; like
fragments Of fallen sky are the sap
sphires; and here is agate, ablush with
all colcrs. What Is that aroma we in
hale? Il Is from chests of cedar which
we open, and find them filed with all
styles of fabric. But the aromatfcs in
crease Is we pass down the lane of en-
hhantmant, ald here are cassia and
1kanhincsnse AID balm. Led on by
Ezekiel, the prophet. we come to an ag-
ricuiturl fair with p display of wheat
from Minnith and Psnnag, rich as that
OF our modern Dakota or Michigan.
And here IL . meteorological fair, with
specimens Of iron and silver aud 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 Queons to order 1t made into
robes for coronation day; purple not
like that which is now made from the
orchilla weed, but the extinct purple,
the lost purple, which the ancients
know how to make out Of the gastsrpod
monusks Of the Mediterranean. Oh,
look at those casks Of wine from Hclbon!
Sec those sno banks of wool from the
back Of sheop that once pastured in
Gilead. Oh, the bcwildering riches and
variety Of that worlds fair at Tyre!
But the world has copied these Bible
mentioned fairs in all succeeding ages,
and 1t has had its Louis the WI. fair ut
Dagobcrt, and Henry the I. fair on
st. Bartholomew day, and Hungarian
fai.s ut Pesth, and Easter fairs at
Loipsic, and the scotch fairs at Perth,
(hright was the day when l was at one
OF them), and afterward came the Lon
don worlds fair, and the New York
worlds fair, and the Vienna worlds fair,
and the Partisan worlds fair, and It has
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