The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-10-10
EXCEEDING GOOD ADVICE.
Or. TALMAGE breaches A SERMON
ON THE WORLDS FAIR.
Let Rival Cities. Cease FItngipg Mud at
Iach Other, He says-shan the Fair BE
Blessing or q Curse?

"a Blessing or q Curse?
BROOKLYN, Oct. e.-The Rev. I. De
Witt Talmage. D. D., preached in the
tabernacle this morning on the sub
lect, The Coming Worlds Fair, Shall
u Be Made Blessing or Cursea"
His text was Ezekiel xvii, 12: 'aThey
traded IN thy fairs" He said.
Fairs may be for the sale of goods
or for the exhibition of goods ON O
small scate or large scale, FOR county
or city. Tor one nation or for ell ma
tons. Ny text brings US to the fairs
of ancient Tyre, city that is now ex-
tlnct.. Part of the city was on an
island, and part on the mainland.
Alexander, the conquerer, was much
embarrassed when he found 50 much
OF the city was on an island, for he had
no ships But his military genius
was not TO be balked. Having march
ed his army to the beach, he ordered
them to tear up the city ON the main
land and throw it into the water and
build a causeway two hundred feet
wide to the island. SO they took that
part of the city which was on the
mainland and with it built a callseway
OF timber and brick and stone, on
which his army marched to the cap
ture of that part of the city which was
on the island, as though hostile
army should put Brooklyn into the
East river, and over it march to the
capture of New York. That Ty-
rian causeway of ruins which Alex
ander's army built, is still there, and
by alluvial deposits has permanently
united the island to the mainland, SO
that it is no longer an island but d
promontory The sand, the greatest
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 grad
ually giving rites of sepulture to what
was left of Tyre. But, Oh, what mag
nificent city it once wasl Mistress Of
the seal Queen of international COM
mercel All nations casting their
crowns at her feet 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.
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 a horse fair. Under fed and over
driven for ages, the horses of today
give you no idea of the splendid ami
mails 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 min
lister of religion and not supposed to
know much about horses, cried out in
admiration: 'grhey of the house Of
Togarmah traded in thy 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 petrilied 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 inhale2 1t Is from chests of cedar
which we open, and find them filed
with all styles of fabric. But the aro-
MATES increase as we pass down this
lane of enchantment, and here are
cassia and frankincense and balm.
Led on by Ezekiel the prophet, we
,soome to an agricultural fair with u
display of wheat from Minnith and
Paonag. rich as that of our modern Da
Ikota or Michigan. And here is a min
eiralogical fair, with specimens of iron
and silver and tin and lead and gold.
YOt hall, for here is purple, Tyrian
rple, all tints and shades, deep al
p unto the black and bright almost
1t the blue; waiting for kings and
80, 49, Ia order it made into robes fot
,io,onat, Non day; purple not like that
,'h;nL Ss uow made from the Orchilla
col hnt the extinct purple, the lost
,',.,,ia Viii eg3 the ancients knew how
tni.,l5o ont q tthc ga:steropod mollusks
~ ,no Medite vfauean. Oh, look u.
u,osn ~ casks of :, rine from Helbonl See
,Ios, snoyv han, u of wool from the
hacT Of sheen tn VI once pastured in
G;Ioad pSI on the .Sewildering riches
onS - warietv Of thai worlds fair at
Tyre ~
THE FAIRS OF TIE WORLD.
Rut the world has copied these Bible
mentioned fairs IN az succeeol1lg ages,
and it has had its Loulsthe S2lNth l'alr az
Dagobert, and Henry the FIRST lalr on
st. Barholomew's day, ana t1unga
rian fairs at Pesth, and Easter talrs az
Ioipsic, 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 fork
worlds fair, and the Vienna world
fair. and the Partisan worlds talr, ano
il has been decided that, IN commemo
ration of the discovery OF America IL
1902. there shall be held IN this coun
try in 1892 worlds fair that, shall
eclipse all preceding national exposi
tions. | say, God speed the move
mentl Surely the event commemorat
ed is worthy of all the archltec
ture and music and pyrotechnic'
and eloquent and stupendous plan
ming and monetary expenditure
and congressional appropriation
which the most sangulne Chrisnai
patriot has ever dreamed of. Wa
any voyage that the world ever hear'
of crowned with such an arrival a
that of Columbus and his menY Atte
they had been encouraged for the las
few DAYS by flight of land birds AM
floating branches of red berries, ant
while Columbus was down IN tn
cabin studying the sea chart, Mertil
Pinzon, standing ON deck and looking
20 the southwest, cried: Land Land
Iandp And Gloria in Excelsis" wa
sung in raining tears on all the thre
ships of the expedition. Most apprt
pirate and patriotic and Christian
will be commemorative world
fair in America in 1892. Leavin
10 others the discussion as to To
site of such exposition-and won
der not that some five or SIX OF on
cities are struggling to have 1t, for
will give to any city to which 1t is a:
, igned an impulse of prosperity for
h undred years. say, leaving I
-, hers the selection OF the particular Il
20, ity TO be thus honored, Iwant to sa
sor ,e things from the point of Chris
s;sn patriotism which ought TO be sale
~ the earlier the better, that W
.sot Il 'ouSands of people talking i'll th
ss;oart direction, and that will mab
beaHln 'ul public opinion. ! beg yo
10 oens ider prayerfullt what / fe'
called u pom OF God as an America
.cit;zen al I'd as preacher of righteou
ness 10 nj, ter.
gI or THROWING MUD.
Nv ffrsA suggestion is that it is M
u;;se as Ger tainly il is not Christian
40 continue this wide and persistel
attempt OF Ar. lerican cities To belitt
~ deureciate other cities. 1t h
- -, ~, ., 1r wears but now II