The Progress., 1893-11-11

Aperiea'
..r YORK. Nov. Rev. Thomas
Ir began new series of SER
p,U in Association hall this morning.
pODs s,b;ect of the new series he gives as
.T5e n Prophecies of the Worlds Fair
~ Iii discuss in this the bearing of the
p..at exposition upon the questions of
g Sunremacv of the West" The
.iE5on ~ of the Future" The Future
S'4 , me Sabbath In America and The
New Religion of Industry among other
things
u;s theme for this mornings discourse
90 Western Supremacy" He de-
"a that the location of the fair at
os. .S.,.aro and its triumphant management
,-.het citv was one of the most signif-
p. events in our national history and
20. .~ nrophetic of new era in our ma
III life. The reasons for this success,
nd were due to the youth, strength,
~.trbless enterprise and exhaustless re-
'.-rceS of the great west. He predicted
~, the west in the near future would
~ dominate American life, political,
al and economic. He urged the
t.,adest patriotism in meeting this stu
'son IN anticipating the threatened
HANGERS of sectionalism. materialism and
.,bsisrn. The text chosen was from Rev
J,tiop xxi. |. And l saw new earth"
The location of the great Columbian
,,Dosition at Chicago and its triumphant
.lspuiur and management by her people
zone Of the most significant events in
tbs history Of America.
Three years ago | spent the summerin
chicago and smiled with incredulity as
Law them fling across one of the great
,hO-onghfares banner on which WAS in
.rnbed the audaciOus words, ''Headquar-
prs Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chi
ego 1892" | had just moved to New
York. 1t seemed to Inc preposterous that
,ny saue man could believe for a minute
fiat this big, rude western town could
,,t that fair, if New York, with her
100000 people, the metropolis of the
new world and gateway of two worlds,
dould but nod her majestic head and
Indicate a willingness to take it and
manage II.
SHE CAME, SAW AND CONQUERED.
Ididnot know New York as well then
mI know it now. While poor old Father
Enickerbocker was rubbing his rheu-
matte legs and powdering his wig and
sdjusting his spectacles to see what all
the fuss was about. the young giantess
Of the west gathered Washington in her
sms She came, she saw, she conquered!
And old Knickerbocker is still rubbing
hslegs and wondering how it happened.
The plain truth is the location of the ex-
POSITION at Chicago and its marvellous
success is the sure prophecy of new
America whose center of power can only
Be the west. And the reasons which
make this prophecy practical certainty
are the same reasons that made its loca-
hon foregone conclusion from the day
the lines of battle were first drawn.
First-Youth. 1t is the old story of
triumphant young manhood versus de-
uspid traditions. America is young
0untry, and yet, strange to say, the At
hntc states are actually today bedridden
with old world rheumatism. On all save
the forms Of government we not only
make ourselves ridiculous in the effort
| Dape the life of the old world, but we
% more. In the effort to hitch on some
how, somewhere to the past, we make
our life the junkshop of the old world,
and treasure as a priceless inheritance
heas and traditions long ago cast off by
| TIE better part of the old world as worse
! than useless.
The young west carries no such bag
age
Here is growing the real spirit of the
American nation. Here we find our
Fal weakness and real strength.
The west is peopled with young men.
hls managed by young men.
All her men are young.
They never grow old. They die young.
Men with silvered hair move with the
nundless vitality of youth.
Traditions as traditions do not bind.
Men do not ask what the fathers die
ihey SIMPLY ask, Is the thing possib
nnan achievement?
THE STRENGTH OF YOUTH.
They 60 at it. It's done.
for the first time in the history of the
'o'la great people in great country,
1'in laws incarnating their aspirations
.aa flexible to their expansion, have
ams themselves into the gigantic strug-
~ o. the race. The battles of the
.0'd have all been fought by the
Isngth Of youth. We behold in this
ssns power youth in all its audacity,
y enthusiasm, its faiths, its power,
rnge with defiant spirit into the thick
= a the worlds battle with nature. 1t
s tms force with which the older Sec
sns OF the nation collided in the strug-
T'or the exposition. The manner in
acn It was taken and handled after
~4sn gives some idea as to the center of
sAn'y Of national life. And the fact is
ea'er Importance for what it prom
Tan what it is now.
second i Strength. Youth implies
-asth. 1t may be in the promise. 1t
~ % In the actual attainment. In