Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-07
IN THE WORLDS FAIR.
THR PREACHER FINDS GLORIOUS OPP0R-
TUNITlBS FOR GOOD.
Talmage 10 Visit the Holy Laud-His Sermon Yes
tsrday-S9ms Of the Benefits Which
Nay Come out Of the Great Exposition
"A Peace Congress.
Special Telegram to the Register.

Made Blessing or a Corst?" His text
was Ezekiel xvii, -: They trsded in
thy fairs"
After announcing his subject Dr.. Tai
mage said: with the hearty consent OF
the elders and trustees of this church,
leave on Wednesday morning, October
Both, on the City of Paris, for the Holy
Land, Palestine, to be gone about two
months. am sure all my congregation
will mite with the officers in giving their
consent when tell you why 90. First
my object is educational TO myself and
congregation. I want to see the places as
sociated with our Lords life and death
1 belive I can make my pulpit work far
more efficient when 1 have seen with my
own eyes, Bethlehem and Nazareth and
Jerusalem and Calvary and all other places
connected with the Savior ministry Those
places cannot be visited healthfully in
the summer and in time of usual vacation.
What learn and see, you will learn and
see when I come back. My second reason
for going Is, that l am writing the Life OF
Christ and l can be more accurate and
graphic when have bseR an eyewitness
Of the sacred place"
THE WORLDS FAIRS.
The chapter from which my text is
taken after cnumeratiDg the richest coun-
tries of the world says of Tyre: They
traded in thy fairs" Look in upon a
worlds fair at Tyre. Ezekiel leads US
through one department. 1t is horse
fair. Under led aud over driven 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
aud led into the wo'ld's fair at Tyre until
Ezekiel, who was a minister Of religion
and not supposed to know much about
h0rses, cried out ia admiration: They
of the house Of Togarmah traded IN thy
fairs with horses"
But the world has copied these Bible
mentioned fairs in all succeeding sges, and
It has had it's Louis the Sixth fair at Dag
ebert and Henry the First fair on st. Bar
tholomew's day, and Hungarian fairs a.
Pssth, and Easter fairs at Leipsic, and the
Scotch fairs at Perth, bright was the day |
| when I was at one of them), and after
ward came the London worlds fair, and |
the Nav York worlds fair, and the Paris |
ian worlds fair, and the Vienna worlds |
/ lair. and it has been decided that, ia COM
memoration OF the discovery OF America in |
/ 1892. there shall bs held in this cOustry IN |
| 1892 a worlds fair that shall eclipse all
pfeceding national expOsitiOns l say,
GOD SPEED THE MOMENT
Surely lhe event commemorated is worthy
of all the architecture and music and py-
rotechnics and eloquent and stupendous
planning and monetary expenditure and
congressional appropriations which the
most ssneuine Christian patriot has ever
dreamed Of Was any voyage that the
world ever heard Of crowned with such an
arrival rs that OF Columbus and his men!
After they had been encouraged for the
last few days by fight Of land birds and
A,atipg branches of red berries, and while
Columbus was down in the cabin study
ING the sea chart Martin Pinzon, stand
ing on deck and looking to the south vest,
cried: Land Land Land" And Clio
ria in Excesis" sung in raining
tears on sll the three
ships of the expedition. Most appropriate
and patriotic and Christian will be a COM
memorative worlds fair 10 Ameri-
lea in 1892 Leaving to Others the discus
sion as TO the site of such exposition-and
wonder not that some five or six OF our
cities are struggling to have 1t, for 1t Will
give to any city to which 1t IS assigned an
impulse Of prosperity for hundred years
II say. leaving to others the selection OF
the particular locality to he thus honored,
I want to say some things from the point
Of Christian patriotism which ought to be
said. and the earlier the better, that we
yet thousands OF psople talking IN the
Tisht direction, and that will make health
ful public opinion. I beg you to consider
prsyerfully what feel called upon OF God
as an American citizen and as preacher oi
Righteousness to utter.
RIVALRY BETWEEN CITIES.
NV first suggestion is that il is not wise,
AZ certainly it is not Christian, TO continue
this wide and persistent attempt OF Amen-
can cities. 1t has been going ON Tor years
but now the spirit seems to culmina'e IN
this discussion as to where the Wofld's
fair shall be held, style OF discussion
, which has a tendency to iDjure the sue
cess of the fair as a great moral and pstri-
otic enterprise, after the locality has been
decided upOn. There is such thing as
l. health(ul rivalry between cities, bat you
will bear me out in saying that there can
ba no eood TO come from the uncanny
things said about each other by New York
6 and Chicago. by Chicago and ST. Louis,
# nv st. Paul and Minneapolis, By Tacoma
and Seattle and all through the States by
almost every two prOximste cities. All
cities. like individuals, have their virtues
e and their yicss. All our American cities
= should be our eXultaton. What
y cburches What public Libraries! What
J.; asvlums OF mercy! What acAde-
b mics of music! What mighty men in
= law snd.medicine and art and scholarship!
+ What schools and colleges and univer-
o stiesl What women radient and gracious
e and an Improvement OH all the genera
l. tious of women, since Eve. What phi!an-
< thropists who do not feel satisfied with
their own charities until they got into the
hundreds Of thousands and millions! What
Goods acres for the dead, gardens OF
heauty and palaces Of marble for those
- who sleep the last sleep! Now stop your
slsnder of American cities. Do you say
thew are the centres Of crime and political
c,rInn,iop9 Please admit the fact that
thew are centres of intelligence and gener-
ositv and the mightiest patrons OF srchl-
q tsctnre and sculpture and painting and
nnsic nd reservoirs of religious influence
s tor ali the continent. II will be well for
. ,he country districts 20 cease talking
, sssinst the cities, and it will be well flr
= the ci,v of one locality 20 stop talking
sssinst the cities Of other localities. New
, YORK will not get the worlds fair by de-
nrsriatipg Chicago, and Chicago will not
: sat the worlds fair by 5ombarding New
York.
THE RELIGIOUS INFLUENCE
= Another suggestion concerning the com
ing exposition let not the materialistG
and monetary idea overpower the moral
and religious. During that exposition,
the first time in all their lives, there VIII
he thousands of people from ether lands
, who will see a country without State re-
hgion. Let us by al increased harmony
G among all denominations of religion, im'
n press othvr nstiOnslities, as they cone
here thst year, with the superior advan'
. tsse of having all denominations equal IA
o the sight OF government. All the rulers
q and chic men OF EIrOpa belOng to the
e State religion, whatever it may be. Al