The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-07
OUR COMING EXPOSITION
TALMAGE TAKES IT AS THE SUB
JEOT OF HIS SERMON.


His Sermon That he Has Been
Granted Two Months Leave of Alb
sence for a Visit to the Roly Land.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 6.-The Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage, D. D., preached in the Tabernacle
his morning on the subject: "The Coming
Worlds Fair, Shall it be Made a Blessing
or a Curse" His text was Ezekiel xvii,
II: They traded in thy fairs"
LAfter announcing his subject DIR. Tai
mage said: with the hearty consent of
the elders and trustees of this church,
leave on Wednesday morning, Oct. 80, on
the City of Paris for the Holy Land, Pales-
tue, to be g'Un5 about two m )nths. / am
sure all my congregation will unite with
the officers in giving tleir consent when l
tell you why l go. First, my object is edu-
cational to myself and congregation. l
want to see the places associated with our
Lords life and death. l 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
Saviors ministry. Those places cannot
be visited beautifully in the summer and in
time of usual vacation. What learn and
see, you will learn and see when l come
back. Ny second reason for going is that
l amswriting The Life of Christ and can
be more accurate and graphic when have
been an eyewitness of the sacred place.
Among the places at which DIR. Talmage
will probably preach during this extended
trip are Rome, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethle-
hem. Bethany, Samaria, Joppa. Athens and
Corinth. and Mr.. Louis Klopsch, the rever-
end gentleman's press agent, has perfected
such arrangements as will enable HIM to
promptly and regularly report this exceed
ingly interesting series OF discourses for the
columns of this paper.1
After making tue announcement of his
proposed visit to the Holy Land DR..
Talmage proceeded with his sermon, as
follows:
Fairs may be for the sale of goods or for
the exhibition of goods on a small scale or
a large SC lie, for county or city, for one
nation or for all nations. My 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. Alex
ander, the conqueror, was much embar-
rassed when he found SO much of the city
was 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 t. tear up the city on the main
land aud throw it into the water and build
a causeway 200 feet wide to the island, So
they took that part of the city which was
on the mainland, and with 1t built cause
way of timber aud brick and one, on
which his army marched to the capture of
that part of he city which was on the
island, as though hostile army should put
Brooklyn into he East river, and over it
march to the capture of New York. That
Tyrian causeway of ruins which Alex
anders 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 promon-
tory. The sand, the greatest Of all under
takers 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 gradu-
ally giving rites of sepulture to what was left
Of Tyre. But, oh, what mag lifcelt city it
once wasl Mistress of the seal QUEEN of
| international commercei All nations cast
| ing 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 ship sails of C )arse canvass,
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 de-
| partment aud 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 plunglng
| and snorting and neig gaing, were
| brOTUht down 0var the plo nix of fha
ships and led into the worlds fair at
| Tyre until Ezek kiel, who was a minister of
| religi IN, and not supposed to know much
| about horses, cried out in admiration !:
"They of the house of Togarmah traded In
| thy fairs with horses.n Here in another
department of that world fair at Tyre,
| led Oh by Ezekiel the prophet, we find
everything all ablaze with p ecious stones
| Like petrIfied snow are the corals like
| fragmens of fallen sky are the sap
| phires; and here is agate a-blush with
all colors. What is that aroma we
! inhale? 1t is from chefs of cedar
which we open, and find them filed vita
all styles of fabric. But the aromatics in
crease as we pass down this lane of enchant-
ment, and here are cassia and frankincense
and balm. Led on by Ezekiel the prophet,
we come to an agricultural fair with dis
| play of wheat from Minnith and Pannag,
rich as that of our modern DakoCa or Michi-
| gan. And here Is a meteorological fair, with
| specimens of iron and silver and tin and lead
| gold. But halt, for here is purple,
| Tyrian purple, all tints and shades, deep
| al ost unto the black and bright aim st
unto the blue; waiting for kings and queens
to order it made into robes coronation
| day; purple not like taat which is now
made from the Orchilla weed. but the ex-
| tinct purple, tine lost purple, which the
| ancients knew how TO make out of CASTE
| ropod mollu ks Of the Mediterranean. Oh,
| look at those casks Of wine from Helbonl
| See those snow banks Of wool from the back
| of sheep that once pastured in Gilead. Oh,
| the hewilde ing riches and variety Of that
worlds fair at Tyrei
! But he world has copied these Bible men,
| toned fairs in all succeeding ages, and it has
| had it, Louis the Sixth fair at Dagobert,
and Henry the First fair on st. Bartholo-
| NEVIS 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 then), and afterward came
/ the London worlds fair, and the New York
worlds fair, and tne Vienna worlds fair,
| and the Partisan worlds fair, and it mas
/ been decided that, in com nemora-
/ tion of the discovery of America in
! 1492, there shall be held in this country in
! 1899 a worlds fair that shall eclipse all pre-
4 ceding national exposltions. | say, God
| speed the movement Surely the event
commemorated is worthy of all the architect
ure and music and pyrotecnnics and