The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-12-20
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVTNE's sun
DAY SERMON.
Subject. HThe Coming Worlds Fairi
Shall it be Made a Blessing or
a Cursor
-: W. lradsl u tly -

TEXT: "They traded in thy Jairs."-Eze-
kiel xvii. u.
Fairs may be for the sale Of goods or for the
exhibition Of goods on a small scale or a large
scale, for county or city, for one nation or for
all nations. Ny text brings us to the fairs of
ancient Tyre, a 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 50
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 TO
tear up the city on the mainland and throw
4 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 causeway OF
timber and brick and stone, on which his
army marched TO the capture of that 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 al
luvial deposits has permanently united
| the island to the mainland, so that II
is no longer an island but promontory.
/ The sand. the greatest of all undertakers for
burying cities. having covered up for the
most part Baalbec and Palmyra and .IhebS
and Memphis and Carthage and Babylon ana
Luxor and Jericho, the sand, so small and
vet so mighty, is now gradually giving rites
| Of sculpture to what was left OF Tyre but
oh what a magnificent city it once wasl
Mistress Of the seal Queen OF international
conmerceg All nations casting their crowns
at her feeti Where we have in cur sailing
vessels benches of wood, she has 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; lhey uaded IL
thv fairs Look in upon worlds talr al
Tyre. Ezekiel leads Us through one depart
ment and it is horse fair. Under Ted anc
ove1. driven for ages, the horses OF to-day
ziva Won no idea of the splendid animals
which rearing and plunging and snoring
and neighing, were brought down over tls
plank OF the ships and led into the Worldi
fair at Tyre until Ezekiel, VINO was M. II
ister of religion and not supposed Z
know much about horses, cried out Il
admiration: They of the house OF Iogar
nah traded in thy fairs with horses her
I in another DEPARTMENT of that worlds fal
, at Tyre. led on by Ezekiel the prophet, W
find everything all abiaze with preclou
stones. Like petrited snow are the coIals
IKE fragments of fallen sky are the sapphlres
and here is agate a-blush with al coiois
What is that aroma we inhaler IL Is iron
chests of cedar which we open, and mn
' them filed with all styles of fabric. But IN
| aromatics increase as we pass down TINS On
. IF enchantment, and here are cassla an
; frankincense and balm Led on b
S Ezekiel the prophet, we come 70 a
e agricultural fair with dlspla
III wheat from Minnith an
Pannag. rich as that Of our modern Ds
n kota or Michigan. And here is minsra
= ogical fair, with specimens of iron and slive
md tin and lead and gold. But halt to
, mere is purple, Tyrian purple, all tints an
L shades. deep almost unto the black an
:. bright almost unto the bluei waiting &c
q, KINGS and queens TO order it made into rob-
? for coronation day; purple not ike tha
i which Is now made from the Orchllla wee
/ out the extinct purple, the lost purple who
: he ancients knew how to make out of the "a
ieropod u1olluslzs Of the Mediterranea3- VI
- look at those casks of wine from Helbol
l. See those snow banks of wool from the baS
II Of sheep that once pastured IN Gilead. "
he bewildei1ng riches and variety OF tn
ie worlds fair at Tyrel
70 But the world has copied these BIB
re mentioned fairs in all succeeding age
,f and it has had its Louis the Sixth fair
- Dagobert, and Henry the First falr
le St Bartholomew's Day, and Hungarn
Of fairs at Pesth, and Easter fairs
g Leipsic, and the Scotch fairs at Fer
e bright was the day when l was at o.
u Of them, and afterward came the 10
a. don worlds fair, and the New He
" worlds fair, and the Vienna
fai- A.