The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-10-24
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
He breaches About the Oppor-
tunities Of the Worlds Fair.
"Shar 1t be Made Blessing or n Curse?"
1T May be the Means of Gospel
izing Every Nation on Earth
What Should be Done.


"With the hearty consent of the elders
and 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
congregation will unite with the officers in
giving their consent when l tell you why l
go. First, my object is educational to my
self and congregation. l want to see the
places associated with our Lords life and
death. | 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
healthfully in the summer and in time Of
usual vacation. What learn and see, you
will learn and see when l come back My
second reason for goingis that am writing
the life of Christ, and can be more accur-
ate and graphic when l have been an eye
witness of the sacred place"
DR.. Talmage's text was Ezekiel xvii, II,
"They traded in thy fairs" He said:
Fairs may be for the sale of goods or for
the exhibition Of goods on small scale on
large scale, for county or city, for one ma
tion or for all nations Nv 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. AlcXan-
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 it into the water and build
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 a 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 a hostile army
should put Brooklyn into the East river,
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 pcrma-
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 burning cities, having covered up
for the most part Baalbec and Palymra and
Thebes and Memphis and Carthage ana
Babylon and Luxor and Jericho, the sand, so
small and yet so mighty. is now gradually
giving rites OF sepulture owhat was leftof
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 enumeratiug 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 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:
s.They of the house CT Togarmah traded in
thv 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
petrifed 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 ave inhale! 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
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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 the
ancients knew how to make out of the gas
teropod mollusk of the Mediterranean. o,
look at these casks of wine from the Hell
bon! See those snow banks of wool from
the back of sheep that once pastured in
Gilead. o. the bewildering riches and va
riety at that worlds fair at Tyre!
But the world has copied these Bibl> men,
toned fairs in all succeeding ages, and it
has its Louis the Sixth fair at Dagobert, and
Henry the First fair on st. Bartholomew's
day, and Hungarian fairs at Pesth, and
Easter fairs at Leipsic, and the Scotch fairs
at Perth (bright was the day when l was at
one of them) and afterwards came the Lon
don worlds fair, and the New York worlds
fair, and the Vienna worlds fair, and the
Parisians worlds fair, and it has been dc.
cided that, in commemoratlon of the dis
oovery of America in 1892, there shall be
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that shall eclipse all preceding national eX-
positions. 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 dreamed
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 fight 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 look
ing to the southwest, cried: Land! Land
Landw and "Gloria in EXcelsis'' was sung
IN RAINING tears on all The three SHIPS OF the
expedition. Most appropriate and patriot,
and Christian will be commemorative
worlds fair in America in 1892. Leaving t.
others the discussion as to the site OF such
exposition-and l wonder not that some hvf
or six of our cities are struggling to havt
1t. for it will give to any city to which it is
assigned an impulse Of prosperity for ;
hundred years. say, leaving to others thu
selection of the particular location to b'
thus honored, want to say something from
the standpoint Of Christian patriotism
,rbicb onght IN he said and the earlier tht