The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-10-18
TIMELY ADVICE
Dr. TalmaRe Discourses on the
Proposed Worlds Fair.
its Moral and Religious Importancs-En-
vious Rivalry of Cities Rebuked-A Great
Peace Congress Suggested-war's
Glory Departed-ConclusIons.

In recent sermon at Brooklyn Rev. T.
De Witt Talmage took for his subject
THE Coming Worlds Fair: Shall 1t Be
Made Blessing or a Cursep His text
was Ezekiel xvii. ~: They traded in
tsthy fairs" After announcing that he
would soon visit the Holy Land on a two
months leave Of absence in order to gain
personal knowledge of the places sacred
- all Christians. DR.. Talmage 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 nation or for all nations. My 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 main.
land. Alexander, the conqueror. was
much embarrassed when he found so
much of the city on an 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 Ii into the water and build a cause.
way 200 feet wide to the island. So they
took that part of the city which was on
the mainland and with it built q cause.
way 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 q hostile army should
put Brooklyn into the East river, and over
1t march to the capture of New York
That TyriRn causeway Of ruins which
Alexanderss army built is still there, and
by alluvial deposits has permanently unit.
ed the island to the mainland, SO that il is
no longer an island, but a promontory.
The sand the greatest Of all undertakers
for buryihg 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 sculpture to
what was left Of Tyre. But, o, what q
magnificent city 1t once was! Mistress of
the sea! Queen of international com.
merce! All Notions casting their crowns
at her feet! Where we have in our sail.
ing 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 horse
fair. Underfed and overdriven 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 minister of re.
ligion and not supposed to know much
about horses, cried out in admiration:
''They of the house of Togarmah traded
in the fairs with horses" Here in
another department of that Worlds Fair
at Tyre, led on by Ezekiel. the prophet.
we find every thing all ablaze with
precious stones. Like petrified snow are
the corals; like fragments of fallen sky
are the sapphires; and here is agate
a-blush with all colors. What is that
aroma we inhale! 1t is from the 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 enchantment, and here are cassia
and frankincense and balm. Led on by
Ezekiel the prophet We come to an agri.
cultural fair with a display of wheat from
Minnith and Pannag. rich as that of our
modern Dakota or Michigan. And here is
a meteorological 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
black and bright almost unto blue; wait.
ing for Kings and Queens TO order it 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 knew how
to make out of the gasteropod mollusks of
the Mediterranean. Oh, look at those
casks of wine from Helbon! 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 Tyre!
But the world has copied these Bible
mentioned fairs in all succeeding ages,
and it has had its Louis the vi. fair at
Dagobert, and Henry the L 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 / was at one of them). and
afterward came the London Worlds Fair,
and the New York Worlds Fair, and the
Vienna Worlds Fair, and Partisan Worlds
Fair, and it has been decided that in com.
memoration Of the discovery Of America
in 1872, there shall be held in this country
in 1892 a Worlds Fair that shall eclipse
all preceding National Expeditions 1
say, God speed the movement! Surely
the event concentrated is worthy of all
the architecture and music and pyrotech.
mics and eloquent and stupenduous PLAN
ming and momentary expenditure and
Congressional 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 terries, |
and while Columbus was down in the |
cabin studying the sea chart Martin |
Pinzon, standing on the deck, and looking |
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 patriotic and Christian will be a COM
Worlds Fair in America in
1892 Leaving to others the discussion as
to the site of such ExpositioI-and won
der not that some five or six of our cities
are struggling to have it for it will give
to any city to which it is assigned an i'm
pulse Of prosperity for a hundred years-I |
say, leaving to others the selection OF the
particular locality to be thus honored, l
want to say something from the point of
Christian patriotism which ought to be
said, and the earlier the better. that we
may gettbousands Of people taking in the
right direction, and that will make health.
tul public opinion. I beg to consider
what I feel called upon of
Sod as an American citizen and as q
preacher of Righteousness to utter.
Ny first suggestion is that it is not wise,
as certainly it is not Christian, to con.