Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1892-09-07
TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Dr.. Talmage's Proposition Concerning
Its Birth.
Sublime and Siupcndous beyond All Esti-
mafc WIN Ise the Death Of One Gem
fury and Birth Of Another.


Sublime and stupcndous beyond All Esti-
mate WIN Be the Death of Ono Gem
fury and Birth Of Another.
At the Brooklyn tabernacle Sunday
forenoon Rev. DIR. Talmage preached a
sermon of unusual interest to a vast
audience. the subject being "Thc Nine
teen llundrcdth Anniversary; \ Fropo-
sition Concerning It." The text was
taken from Isaiah iX., &: ITO ms child
| j. hrrn."
That is a trcmcndou, hour In the his
tory of any family when an immortal
spirit is incirnatrd. out IT IA very dark
| cloud there Icsccnd> very bright
moruinw. Onc lie spared and another
given. MI thu bells of gladnc>S ring
over the .,'.idlc. | know not why any
one should doubt that of old a star
| pointed down Ia III" Saviours birth
! place. for Il star of jos points down tn
| every honorable nativity.
\ ucv eternity dates from that hour.
that minute. beautiful and appropriate
| j. the "a tom oi celebrating the ami
| y,r-ary Of such an event. ma clear ON
! iuin th" ,j,chti,'s ami Ill" ninc'irs the
r,ruifr.c.. al that day a.; the wear IN an
! old mans life causes recognition ana
more ar less cungrituiation. 80, nish.
| nations are accustomed to celebrate the
anniversary of the birth of their great
| heroes. ar drlivcrrra, or hcnrfactors.
| The I'D Of February and the Ath OF
.luly are never allowed to pass in our
| land without banquet and Grafton, and
| bell rin"in.r and cannonadc. l;ut all
other birthday anniversaries are tame
comtarrd with the Christmas festivity,
which celebrate, the birthday described
in nay text. Protestant and Catholic
aud Grcck churches, with all the power
of music. and garland. and procession,
and dnNoluYy, put the word, of my text
into national. and continental and hem
! isphrric chorus: TO us child is
| born"
on the @jth of December each year
that is the theme in -. Pauls and st
Peters and 81. Marks and st lsaac's
and all the dedicated cathcdrals. chap
els. meeting houses and churches clear
round the world. We shall soon reach
the nineteen hundredth anniversary oi
that happicSt event of all time. Thi'
century is dying. Only seven more
p,lsations and its heart will cease Il
beat The fingers of many of you vii
write at the head of Your letters and
the foot of Your Important document.
1880" /, will he a physical and mora
sensation unlike anything else you
have ever before experienced. Not on.
hand that wrote "Is0l" at the Undue
ton of this century will have cunning
left to write 1901" at the induction %
another.
The death of one century and the
birth of another century will be sub
lime and suggestive and stupendous be
yond all estimate. To stand by the
grave of one century and by the cradle
of another will bc an opportunity sucl
as whole generations Of the worlds In
babitants never experienced. pray
God that there may be no sickness o
casualty to hinder your arrival at thai
goal. or To hinder your taking part II
the valcdictory of the departing cen
fury ur the salutation of the new. Blu
as that season will be the nineteeI
hundredth anniversary of Saviour!
birth. now nominate that great In
tcrnational jubilee or exposition bt
opened in this cluster of cities by tn,
sea coast ON Christmas day. the 25th o
December, 1900. to be continued for a
least one month into the year 1901.
This century. closing December 81
1890 and the new century, beginning
January I. 1901. will It not he time To-
all nations to turn aside for few
, weeks or months from everything els,
and cnph iszc the birth of the creates
T. ~ va ever touched our planet
and could there be a more appropriat,
time for such commcmoration than thi
elimination of the centuries which ar,
dated from his nativity? You know
that all history dates either from be
fore Christ or after Christ, from Il. c
or a. ID. II will he the year of on
Lord 1900. passing into the year 1901.
We have had the centennial at Phila
de!phia. celebrative of the one hun
dredth anniversary of our nation
birth. We have had the magnificcn
expositions at New Orleans and At
lanta and Augusta and St Louis
! We have the present World
exposition at Chicago, celebrative o
the bur hundredth anniversary of thi.
continents emergcncc, and there are n
least two other great celebration
promised for this country, and othe
countries will have their historic event
to commemorate, but the one event tina
) has most to do with the welfare OF al
nations is the arrival of Jesus Christ OF
, this planet, and all the enthusiasm
ever witnessed at London or Vienna o
Paris or any of our American citic
would be cclipsed by the enthusiasm
. that would celebrate the ransom of al
nations. the first step toward the nc
complishmcnt of it being taken by al
( infan,ilc foot one winters night, aboil
, five miles from Jerusalem. when tn
: clouds dropped the angelic cantata
"Glory to God in the highest, and Of
, earth. peace, GOODWILL to men.
Three or four questions that woul
. he asked me concerning this nominal
ton of time and place, proceed to an
: swcr. What practical use would com
$ of such international celebration? An
3 swcr: the biggest stride the world eve
|
: nations. That is grand and wonder
: full convocation, the religious congress
, at Chicago. 1t will put intelligent
. before the world the nature of falls
religions which have been brutalizin
[ the nations, trampling womanhoo
I into the dust, enacting the horrors q
. infanticide. kindling funeral pyrcs 70
? shriclIing victims, and rolling juggci
! nauts across the mangled bodies q
e their worshipers. But no one sur
Z poses that any one will be converted {
. Christ by hearing Confucianism q
+. buddhism or any form of heathenisr
eulogizcd. That is to be done after
ward. And how can it SO well be don
, as by celebration of many week
of the birth and character and achiev,
mcnts. of the wondrous and unprt
, ccdcnted Christ? To such an expos
tion the kings and queens of the cart
: would not send their representative.
:. they would come themselves. TIL
story of a Saviour's advent could nc
lie told without telling the story of hi
, mission. All the world would say
! "Why this ado. this universal demon
!, stration?' What a vivid prcsentatio
. il would be, when, at such n convoc;
ton. the physicians of the world shout
+, tell what Christ had done for hospital
| AMI the assuagement of human pair
a and when Christian lawyers dcclar
/. what christ had done for the esta blisl
!, ment If good laws, and Christian col
: querors should tell what Christ ha
: done in the conquest of nations, an
Christian rulers of the earth should tie
a what Christ had done in the govern
! ment of earthly dominions.
. Thirty days of such celebratio
= would do more to tell the world VIII
a Christ is than any thirty years Not
, land on earth but would hear of it an
= discuss it, Not an eye so dimmed b