Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-10-13
EXCEEDING GOOD ADVICE.
Or. TAlMAGE breaches A SERMON
ON THE WORLDS FAIR.


Witt Talmage, ID. d., preached in the
Tabernacle this morning on the sub
ject, THE Coming Worlds Fair, Shall
Ii Be Made a Blessing or a Cursef'
His text was Ezekiel xvii, IL: 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 a large scale, for county
or city, for one nation or for all ma.
tons. My text brings us 10 the fairs
of ancient Tyre, 4 city that is now ex-
tnct. Part OF the city was on an
island, and part on the mainland.
Alexander, the conquerer, was much
embarrassed when he found 80 much
of the city was on an island, for he had
no ships. But his military genius
was not 20 BE- balked. Having march
ed his army 10 the beach, he ordered
them to tear up the city on the main
land and throw II into the water and
build 4 causcway two hundred feet
wide r. The island. So they took that
part Of the city which was on the
mainland and with it built acaEscway
of timber ana bricl; and stone, on
which his arHly marched To- The cap
turc Of that pigtoi tbe city which WAS
on The leland Ms though q hostile
army should put BrOoklyu into the
East river, ind aver il march To- the
capture 0G New EIgk. That "
rian c2Us-gGv of ruins which Alex.
anders army built, j, still tlcre. and
by a.lur,.i deposits has permanently
united the island 10 the mainland. 50
th8l 10 is uo longer an island but y
prunsn.org. The sand. thu creates,
of alI 4uU.gtakcrs Dr burylMg cities,
huvIag covered IA for the most part
RaHlucr .ud Palm sra and ThcheS and
Memphis lll ca Image and Babylon
aud Llsur aud srigho. the sand. SO
small and yet SO mighty, is now grad
ualiy .rng nit $ Of scpulturc 10 what
wa, lvFol TYR. But, Oh, what mag
nilicenl CITY II once was! Mistress Of
the SEA, tEJw "A 81 international COM
merce. Ill nations casting their
crowns 40 lor feet! Where we have
in oGg.tI.iUe vessels benches Of wood.
she lad b-Enles Of ivory. Where we
have for O,T MaSis OF ships sails ol
coarse canvas, She had sails OF richest
embroidery.
The chapter from which my text is
taken uittT UuIrraiiug The richest
countries in az tle world says Of Tyre:
They traded in tAy fairs Look IN
upon q worlds ialr ut Tyre. 'Eakiel
leads AS g-.IuJgh one department and
it is q horse laif. Under fed and over
driven for a-ys, the horses Of today
give you 10 idea OF the splendid ami
mails which, rearing aud plugging
and snoring and noi-himg, were
brought down uyrr the plank Of the
ships aud led into the worlds fair nj
Tyre mill Ezckir., who was a min
lister OF religion aud not supposed To
know much about horses. cried Out i'm
admiration: they Of tie house OF
Togarlnah traded in thy fairs with
horses. Here in another department
of that worlds fair II Tyre, led On by
Ezekiel the prophet, we find every
thing all abiaze with precious stones.
Like petriied nov are the ~cpruls;
like fragments OF fallen sky are the
Sapphircs; and here is agate a-bluSh
with all coiors. What is that aroma
we inhalc. 1t is from chests of cedar
which We open, and find them filed
with all styles Of fabric. Bat the aro-
MATES increase as we pass down this
lane of Cnchantmcut, and here are
cassia and fraukincense and balm.
Led on by Ezekiel the prophet, we
come To an agricultural fair with "A
display Of wheat from Minnith aud
Pannug. rich rs that OF our modcrn Da-
kota or Michigan. And here is a min
eralogical 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 al
most unto the blacIand bright almost
unto the blue; waiting for kings and
queens 10 order il 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 ancienus knew how
10 make out of the gasteropOd mollusks
Of the Mediterranean. Oh, look at
those casks Of wine from Helbon. See
those now banks of wool from the
back of sheep that once pastured in
Gilead. Oh, the bewildering riches
and variety Of that worlds fair at
Tyre
THE FAIRS OF THE WORLD.
But the world has copied these Bible
mentioned fairsin all succeeding ages,
and it has had its Louisthe Sixth fair at
Dagobert, and Henry the First fair on
st. Bartholomew day, and Hunga-
rian fairs at Pesth, and Faster fairs at
LeipSic, and the Scotch fairs at Perth,
(bright was the day when | 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
il has been decided that, in commemo-
ration Of the discovery Of America in
1892, there shall be held in this coun-
try in 1892 a worlds fair that. shall
eclipse all preceding national exposi.
tons. / say, God speed the move
ment! Surely the event commemorate
cd is worthy of all the architec-
ture and music and pyrOtechnics
and eloquent and s]tupendous plan
ming and monetary expenditure
and congressional appropriations
which the most sanguine Christian
patriot has ever dreamed Of. Wns
any voyage that the world ever heard
Of crowned with such am arrival rs
that of Columbus and his meni After
they had been encouraged for the last
few days by flight of land birds and