Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-10-24
DR. TALMAGE'S ADVICE.
N FIJI ACHES A sERMON ON THE
WORLDS FAIR
Let Rival Cities Cease Ringing Mud ut
Each Other, He Says-Shall the Fair Be
Blessing or . Curse?

The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D..
preached in the Tabernacle on the sub.
ject, The Coming Worlds Fair, Shall II
Be Made Blessing or a Curse?" Hi
text was Ezekiel xvii, IL: They traded
in thy fairs" He said:
Fairs may be for the sale of goods OF
for the exhibition of goods on q small
scale or . large scale, for county or city,
for one nation or for all nations. Ny
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. Alexander,the conquerer,
was much embarrassed when he found
so much of the city was on an island, for
he had no ships. But his military ge-
MUS was not to be baked. Having
marched his army to the beach, he Or
dered them to tear up the city onthe
mainland and throw it into the water
brick and stone, on which his army
marched to the capture ofthat 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 permanently
united the leland to the mainland, SO
that it is no longer an island but q
promontory. The sand, the greatest of
all undertakers for burying cities, hav-
ing covered up for the most part Baal-
bee and Palmyra and Thebes and Mem
phis and Carthage and Babylon and
Luxor and Jericho, the sand, SO small
and yet SO mighty, is now gradually Civ
ing rites of sepulture to what was left
of Tyre. But, oh, what a magnificent
city it once was! Mistress of the sea!
Queen of international commerce. 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.
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 department and it
is horse fair. Unde' fed and over
driven for ages, the horses of to- day
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 minister 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
everything all ablaZe with precious
stones. Like petrified snow are the cor
ais; like fragments of fallen sky are the
sapphires; and here is agate a-blush
with all colors. What is that aroma we
inhale? It is from chests of cedar which
We open, a find them filled with all
styles of fabric. But the aromatics in
crease as we pass down this lane of en-
chantment, 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 n neurological fair, with
specimens of iron and silver and tin and
lead and gold. But halt, for here IS
purple, Tyrian pie, all tints and
shades, deep almost unto the black and
bright almost unto the blue; waiting for
kings and queens to order it made into
robes for cornation day; purple not like
that which is now made from the Or
chilla 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 Hell
bon! See those snow banks of wool
from the back of sheep that once pas
tured 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 Sixth fair at
Dagobert, and Henry the First fair on
st. BarthOlomew's day, and Hungarian
fairs at Pesth, and Easter fairs at Leip-
sic, 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
the Partisan worlds fair. and it has been
decided that, lin commemoration of the
discovery of America in 1892, there shall
be held in this country in 1892 worlds
fair that, shall eclipse all preceding
national expositions. I say, God speed
the movement! Surely the event COM
memorated is worthy of all the architec-
ture and music and pyrotechnics and
eloquent and stupendous planning and
monetary 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 flight 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 looking to the
southwest. cried: Land! Landi Land"
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 q COM
memorative worlds fair in America in
1892. Leaving to others the discussion
as to the site of such eXposition-andI
wonder 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 as
signed an impulse of prosperity for
hundred years-I say, leaving to others
the selection of the particular locality
to be thus honored, want to say some
things from the point of Christian
patriotism which ought to be said, and
the earlier the better, that we get thou
sands of people talking in the right
direction, and that will make healthfuI
public opinion. beg you to consider
prayerfully what feel called upon God
as an American citizen and as preacher
of righteousness to utter.
My first suggestion is that it is not
wise, as certainly it is not Christian, to
continue this wide and persistent at
tempt Of American cities to belittle and
depreciate other cities. 1t has been
going on for years, but now the spirit
seems to eliminate in this discussion as
to where the Worlds fair shall be held,
q style of discussion which has tendency
to injure the success of the fair as a
great moral and patriotic enterprise,
after the locality has been decided upon.
There is such Q thing as healthful
rivalry between cities, but you will bear
me out in saying that there can be no
good to come from the uncanry things
said. about each other by New York and
Chicago, by Chicago and St. Louis. by