The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-10-09
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
He breaches About the Oppor-
tunities of the Worlds Fair.
"shaIl It be Made Blessing or a Curse?"
1t May be the Means of Gospel
izlng Every Nation on Earth
What Should be Done.

lyn Tabernacle After announcing his ser.
mon DR.. Talmage said:
"With the hearty consent of the elders
and trustees OF this church, leave on We'd
nesday morning, October go 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
60. First, my object is educational to my
self and congregation. / 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-
ate and graphic when have been an eye
witness Of the sacred place."
DR.. Talmage's text was Ezekiel xvii, 10,
"They traded in thy fairs" He said:
Fairs may be for the sale Of goods or for
the exhibition Of goods on small scale or
large scale, for county or city, for one ma
tion or for all nations. NY 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. 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 baked, Having
marched his army TO the beach, he ordered
them to tear up the city on the mainland
and throw IL into the water and build q
causeway two hundred feet wide TO the
island So 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 was
on the island, as though hostile army
should put Brooklyn into the East river,
and over II march to the capture OF New
York. That Tyrian causeway OF ruins
which Alexander's army built, is still
Ihere, 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 towhat was leftof
Tyre. But, o, what magnificent city II
once was Mistress Of the seal Queen OF
International commercel All nations cast
ing their crowns at her feetl 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 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 q 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
petrided 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 II Is from chest,
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 cassla and frank
incense and balm. Led on by Ezekiel the
prophet, we come TO an agricultural faii
with display of wheat from Minnith, and
Pannag, rich as that Of our modern Doltota
or Michigan. And here is mineralogica
fair, with specimens Of iron and silver anc
tin and lead and gold. But halt, for here Il
purple, Tyrian purple, all tints and shades
deep almost unto the black and bright al
most unto the blue: waiting for kings ant
queens TO order II made into robes for coro
nation day; purple not ike that which Il
now made from the Orchilla weed, but th,
extinct purple, the lost purple, which th,
ancients know how TO make out Of the gas
teropod mollusk Of the Mediterranean. @
look at these casks Of wine from the Hell
bon& Bee those snow banks OF wool from
the back OF sheep that once pastured II
Gilead. o. the bewildering riches and va
riety at that worlds fair at Tyrel
. But the world has copied these Bible men
toned fairs In all succeeding ages, and
has It's Louis the Sixth fair at Dagobert, an,
Henry the First fair on St. Bartholomew
day, and Hungarian fairs at Pesth, ant
Easter fairs at Leipsic, and the Scotch fair
ut Perth Cbright was the day when was q
one Of them) and afterwards came the Lon
don worlds fair, and the New York world
fair, and the Vienna worlds fair, and tn
Parisians worlds fair, and II has been de
cided that, In commemoration Of the dis
coyery Of America in 1892, there shall b
held in this country in ls92 worlds fai
that shalt eclipse all preceding national eI
positions. Isay, God speed the movement
Surely the event oommemorated is worth.
Of all the architecture and music and pyrc
technics and eloquent and stupendous plan
ming and monetary expenditure and Con
gressional appropriations which the mos
sanguine Christian patriot has ever dreame
Of. Was any voyage that the world eve
heard Of crowned with such an arrival a
that Of Columbus and his meni After the
had been encouraged for the last few day
by fight Of land birds and floating branche
OF red berries, and while Columbus wa
down In the cabin studying the sea chart
Martin Pinzon, standing on deck and look
ing 10 the southwest, cried: "Land Land
Landtr and "Gloria In Excelsis" was sun
in raining tears on all the three ships OF th
expedition. Most appropriate and patriot
and Christian will be q commemorativ
worlds fair In America in 1892. Leaving
othera the discuasion as 10 the alto OF suc