The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-10-12
TIMELY ADVICE.
Ii. Talmage Discourses on the
Proposed Worlds Fair.
~ moral and Religious Importance-En-
'ious Rivalry of Cities Rebuked-A Great
feaee Congress Suggested-War,s
Glory Observation-Disclosures.

VNS uEReAteu- ariR
Glory Departed-ConoIuslons.
In a recent sermon at Brooklyn Rev. I
~ WIZ lhlmage took for his subjec
me coming Worlds Fair: Shall 1t B,
MADE a Blessing or n Curse?n His tex
was Ezekiel xvii, u: "They traded II
NY ialrs'" After announcing that h,
would soon visit the Holy Land on a tw,
nohtns leave OF absence in order to gair
personal knowledge of the places sacred
TO all Christians. DIR. Talmage said:
fairs may be for the sale of goods or fol
'ne exhibition of goods on a small seal,
or a large scale, for county or city. fol
one nation or for all nations. NV tex
brings us to the fairs OF ancient Tyre. q
city That Is now extinct. Part of the city
was on an island, and par On the main.
iand. Alexander, the cpndueror, wa:
much embarrassed when he found &c
mucn or the city on an island, for he had
no shlps. But his military genius wa:
not TO be baked. Having march ed his
army 10 the beach, he ordered them &c
Tear up the city on tho mainland and
throw II into the water and build a cause.
way zOO ieet wide to the island. So thew
took mat part of the city which was on
sne and with IL luilt a cause
way OF timber and brick and stone, on
mhicn MS army marched to the capture OF
tnat part OF the city which was on the
island, as though a hostile army should
put Brooklyn into the East river, and over
u march to the capture of New York.
Ihat Tyrian causeway of ruins which
Aiexander's army built is still there. and
oy alluvial deposits has permanently unit
ed the island TO the mainland, so that IL ia
no longer an island, but a promontory
The sand, the greatest of all undertakers
Tor 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
giving rites of sepulture to
what was left of Tyre. But, o, what a
magnificent city it once wasl Mistress of
the seal Queen of International COM
mercel All Nations casting their crowns
az 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 ia
taken, after snumerating the richest
in all the world, saws 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. Underfed and overdriven for ages.
the horses of to-day give you no idea of
the splendid animals which, rearing and
piunging and snorting and neighing, were
brought down over the p ank Of the shiAs
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" .
But the world has copied these Bible
fairs in all succeeding ages. |
1t has had its Louis the vi. fair at |
Dagobert, and Henry the l. fair on st.
5a~rtholomew's day, and Hungarian fairs
Pesth and Easter fairs at Leipsic. and
he Scotch fairs at Perth, bright was the
lay when l was at one of them), and
came the London Worlds Fail. |
md the New York Worlds Fair, and the
1ienna Worlds Fair, and Partisan Worlds
fair, and 1t has been decided that in COM
.emoration' of the discovery of America
n 1892, there shall be held in this country
a le92 a Worlds Fair that shall eclip Sc
preceding National Expeditions.
God speed the movement! Surely
he event commemorated Is worthy of all
architecture and music and pyrotech-
les and eloquent and s~tupenduous plan
ing and momentaiy expenditure and
congressional appropriations which the
nost sanguine Christian patriot has ever
Ireamed OF. Was any voyage that the
Forid ever heard of crowned with such
n arrival as that of Columbus and his
~ AhAwr -
or the last few days by flight of land
irds and floating branches of red lerries.
nd while Columbus was down in the
abin studying the sea chart, Martin
'nzon, standing on the deck, and looking
, the southwest. cried: 'Landl Landl
'apdW And 'Gloria in Excelsisn was
nng In raining tears on all the three
lips of the expedition. Most approp late
patriotic and Christian will be a COM
Worlds Fair in America In
Sv2. Leaving to others the discussion a..
} the site of such Exposition-and 1 won
or not that some five or six of our cities
re struggling to a II, for it will i've
, any city 10 which IL is assigned an i'm
ulse OF prosperity for a hundred years.
~, leaving to others the selection of the
locality to be thus honored.
ant to say something from the point oil
hristian patriotism which ought to be
and the earlier the better, that we
Iay ~getthousands # people talking in the
Rht direction, and that will make health
public opinion. l beg to consider
what l feel called upon of
cd rs an American citizen and as a
reacher Of Righteousness to utter.
Ny first suggestion Is that it is not wise.
certainly 1t Is not Christian, to con.
.us this wide and persistent attempt of ,
merican cities to belittle and depreciate :
her cities. 1t has been gong on for
'ars, but now the spirit seems to cul.
In this discussion as to where the J
'crld's Fair shall be held, a sly lie of dis
salon which has a tendency to injure =
. <rreffy OF the fair as a great moral ,
n c1z&|ofIc enterprise after the locality :
. uetr decided upon. There is such a :
ing - healthful rivalry between cities. .
you will bear me out in saying =
there can be no good to come =
pm the uncanny things said about
oh other by New York and Chicago.
chicago and ST. Louis, by st. Paul .
Minneapolis, by Tacoma and Seattle '
q all through the States by almost every >
70 proximate cities. All cities. like in =
yiduais, rave their virtues and their !
Vs. All Jul ALuC iChn CLUES SnOul0 he
r exultation. . . Z
Another suggestion concerning the COM !
Exposition; Let not the materialistic l
d monetary ilea the moral
d religious. During that Exposition,
first time in all their lives. there will :
thousands of people from other lands :
10 will see a country without a State re- ;
ion. Let US by an increased harmony !
Iong all denominations of religion i'm =
sss other nationalities as they come :
o that year with the superior advan- =
OF having all denominations equal In g.,
sight OF Government. All the rulers
d chief men of Europe belong to the !
,te religion Whatever il NAV be. AL l
)ugh our last two Presidents rave been c
the previous one was an !
and the two previous c
thodists, and going further back in that a
Q Of Presidents we find Martin Van
q Dutch Reformed and John Quincy |
ANS a Unitarian, and a mans religion I
country is neither hindrance nor i
vantage in the matter of pol ical ele- !
ton. All Europe needs that. All the /
rid needs that. A mans religion is ,
ne hing between Ii imself and his God, I
d it must not, directly or indirectly, be {
with. a
furthermore, during that Exposition, n
civil z ition will confront bar n
We shall, as a Nation, have a &
'ater opportunity to make an evangeliz. y
impression upon foreign nationalities g
in would otherwise not be afforded us in q
of a century. Let the churches "
the Oh where the Exposition is held be a
IN every day and prayers be offered Il
4 ermon preached and doxologies
~ In the less than three years be- a
this md that worlds co~nvocation "
MS get a baptism of the Holy Ghost, so Il
the six months Of nat Worlds Fair 2
III be fifty Penteco is in one, aud in b
ud of thraa cnnuarIad "a In Tho Inrmar M