Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-10-04
TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Or. TaImsge's Proposition Concerning
Its Birth.
subliue and stupendous Beyont All Esti-
mate WIN Be the Death of Ons Gen.
fury and Birth OF Another.

fury and Birth OF Another.
At the Brooklyn tabernacle Sunday
forenoon Rev. DIR. Talmage preached n
sermon of unusual interest TO vast
audience, the subject being THE Nine
teen Hundredth Anniversary; A Propo-
sition Concerning It." The text was
taken from Isaiah TX, o: ITO us a child
is born"
That is a tremendous hour in the his
tory of any family when an immortal
spirit is incarnated. Out of very dark
cloud there descends very bright
morning. One life spared and another
given. All the bells of gladness ring
over the cradle. know not why any
one should doubt that of old star
pointed down TO the Saviours birth
place for star OF joy points down TO
every honorable nativity.
y new eternity dates from that hour,
that minute. Beautiful and appropriate
is the custom Of celebrating the ami
versary OF such an event and clear on
into the eighties and the nineties the
recurrence OF that day OF the year in an
old mans life causes recognition and
hore or less congratulation. So, also,
nANA0AAN AAt ufGANANAAAttu W tGAtblatt Inc
anniversary of the birth OF their great
heroes. or deliverers, or benefactors.
The 22d of February and the 4th of
July are never allowed 70 pass in our
land without banquet and grafton, and
bell ringing and cannonade. But all
other birthday anniversaries arc tame
compared with the Christmas festivity,
which celebrates the birthday described
in my text Protestant and Catholic
and Greek churches with all the power
OF music, and garland, and procession.
and doNofugy, put the words of my text
into national, and continental and hem
ispheric chorus: "To us a child is
born"
on the 25th of December each year
that is the theme in St Paul's and ST.
Peters and st. Marks and St Isaac's
and all the dedicated cathedrals, chap
els, meeting-houscs and churches clear
round the world We shall soon reach
the nineteen hundredth anniversary OF
that happiest event OF all time. This
century is dying. Only seven more
pulsations and its heart will cease to
hcut. The fingers of many of you will
write at the head OF your letters and
the foot of your important documents
1000" 1t will bc "A physical and moral
sensation unlike anything else YOU
have ever before experienced. Not one
hand that wrote 1851" at the Undue
tion OF this century will have cunning
left To write 1901" at tho induction OF
another.
The death of one century and the
birth OF another century will be sub
lime and suggestive and stupendous be-
yonH all estimate. To stand by the
81 ave OF one century and by the cradle
81 another will bc an opportunity such
as whole generations Of the worlds in
habitants never experienced / pray
God that there may be no sickness or
casuaitv - hinder your arrival ut that
goal, or to hinder your taking part i'm
the valedictory of the departing CEN
fury or the salutation of the new. But
Is that season win be the nineteen
hundrcdth anniversary OF "A Saviour's
birth, now nominate that n great in
ternational jubilee or exposition be
opened in this cluster of cities by the
sea coast on Christmas day, the 25th OF
December, 1900, TO be continued for at
least one month into the year 1901
This century, closing December 81,
1900, and the new century, beginning
January 1, 1901, win IL not be time for
all nations TO turn aside for a few
weeks or months from everything else
and emphasize the birth OF the greatest
Being who ever touched our planet.
and could there be more appropriate
time for such commemoration than this
elimination OF the centuries which are
dated from his nativity? You know
that all history dates either from be.
fore Christ or after Christ, from b. c.
or a. ID. II will be the year of our
Lord 1900, passing into the year 1901.
We have had the centennial at Phila-
delphia, cclcbrative of the one hun
dredth anniversary OF our nations
birth. We have had the MAGNIFICENT
eNpositions at New Orleans and At
lanta and Augusta and St Louis
We have the present Worlds
exposition at Chicago, ccic Drative of
the four hundredth anniversary of this
continents cmcrgcnce, and there are at
least two other great celebrations
promised for this country, and other
countries will have their historic events
90 commemorate. but the one event that
has most 20 do with the welfare OF all
nations is the arrival OF Jesus Christ on
this planet, and all the enthusiasm
ever witnessed at London or Vienna or
Paris or any OF our American cities
would be cclipsed by the enthusiasm
that would celebrate the ransom OF all
nations. the first step toward the nc
complishncnt of il being taken by an
iniautiic foot ono winters night, about
five miles from Jerusalem, when the
clouds dropped tho angelic cantata:
GLORY 90 God i'm the highest, and on
earth. peace, goodwill 20 men.
Three or four questions that would
be asked me concerning this nomina-
tioa of time and place proceed 20 an
swer What practical use would come
oi such international celebration? An
swer. the biggest stride the world ever
took totvnri Che evangelization OF an
nations That is grand and wonder
ful convocation. the religions congress
ut Chicago. 10 viii put intclliQently
before the world the nature 81 false
religions which havc been brutnlizinV
the nations trampiug womanhood
into the dust euacting the horrors Of
.nfanticide. kndliug funeral pvrcs FOR
shricAing victims. and rolling jugrcr-
nauts across the mlnglcd bodies Of
their wcrshipors But no one sup