Milford chronicle., 1893-11-17
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAGE's SUBJECT WAS "oR-
LlWloN AND ITS DEFEATs.n

LNloN AND ITS DEFEATS"
Temples Built In the sky WIN Outla
the crumbline Centuries-The Fatal E,
idemic Of Books-How to Be Remep
bered a ouintiilion Years From Now.
BROOKLYN, Nov i2.-Rev. DR. Talnas
today preached sermon. Of unusual an
marvellous consolation to eae usual thronq,
after they had sung:
There is no sorrow that heaven cannot ours
The subject was "Oblivion and Its DE-
Ieats The texts selected were job xxiv
~ He shall be no more remembered
and Psalms cxii, C, 1.-THE righteous shall h,
In everlasting remembrance
oblivion and Its Defeats" is my subject
today. There Is an old monster that syyal
lows down everything. 1t orunches indi.
81 .luuals families, communities, states, ma
lions, continents. hemispheres. worlds Tts
diet is made up Of years, Of centuries of
ages, OF cycles, of millenniums, Of cons.
That monster is called by Noah Webster
2, and all the other dietionarians oblivion. II
Y is steep down which everything rolls. II
+: Is a conilagration in which everything is
I consumed It is dirge in which an or
e chestras play and a period at which every
t thing stops. 1t is the cemetery Of the bn-
I. man race. IL is the domain of forgetfulness
g Oblivionl At times it throws a shadow
I over an OF us, and would not pronounce
i 1t today If / did not come armed in fine
( strength of the eternal God on your bebalf
1 to attack 1t, to rout it, to demolish it
Why, just look at the way the families
| OF the earth disappear. For awhile thev
are together, lnseparable and to each other
indispensable, and then they part. soma
by marriage going toestablish otherbomes
and some leave this life, and q century is
long enough to plant a family. develop f.
prosper 1t and obliterate il. So the genera |
tions vanish.
OLD oBLIvION's CHIsEI.
Walk up Broadway, New York. State
street, Boston; Chestnut street. PbiladeI-
phia; the Strand, London; Princess street.
Edlnourgh; Champs Elysees, Paris; Unter
den Linden Berlin, and you will meetin this
| year 1928 not one person who walked there
IN the year 1893 What engulfmentl All
the ordinary efforts at perpetuation are
dead failures. Walter Scott's "Old Nor
tality' may go round with his ehisel to re-
cut the faded epitaphs on tombstones, but
Ola oblivion has a quicker chisel with I
"hlch ne can cut out thousand epitaphs {
while "Old Mortality" is cutting ip one {
epitapn. Whole libraries of biograpbias I
deVoured or bookworms or unread 9f the ]
rising generations
All the signs of the stores and vareborsee O
OF great firms have changed, unless the &
grandsons think that it is an ADVANTAGE 10 u
Keep the old sign up, because the name of T,
the ancestor was more commendatorv than Il
the name Of the descendant The city of n
home stands today but dig down deem 81
enough, and you come to another Rome. Il
buried ana 60 down still farther and you
Will ind a third Rome. Jerusalem stands bl
tO0HV. III r r,r
viii lind Jerusalem underneath. and go XII
on and deeper down a third Jerusalem. m
alexandria on the top of an Alexandria fa
ind the second on the top Of the third. fu
MANY OF the ancient cities are buried 30 u
eeU deep, or 90 feet deep, OF 100 feet deep. sli
nat was the matter? Any special calam- Di
tyf NO. The winds and waves and sands 70
M hying dust are all undertakers and I
rave diggers, and if the world stands long up
nough the present Brooklyn and New sti
,ork and London viii have on ton of them hu
ther BroOklyns and New Yorks and Lon SUI
ons, and only after digging and boring ger
nd blasting will the archaologist of far wo
lstant centuries come down as far as the
lghest spires and domes and turrets Of our int
resent American and European cities. saiC
ARMIES SWEPT AWAY. go
Call the roll of the armies of Baldwin clef
or OF Charles Martel, or of Marlborough. hop
OF Althridates, or of Prince Freder- was
K, or OF Cortes, and not one answer viii and
VI hear Stand them in line and cali mig
e roll of the LOCO, 600 men in the army of
lebes. Not one answer. Stand them in "
lie, the 100000 infantry and the 2OOOOO are
valry of the Assyrian army under Ninns bres
ID call the roll. Not one answer. Stand biog
lne the liUOOO00 men of Sesostris the com
OOOOO men Of Artaxerxes at Cunaxa. the you
q wv men under AerXes at Thermopyla. of I'll
q call the long roll. Not one answer. Forg
At the opening Of our civil war the men Notl
the northern and southern armies were dor,
that II they fell in battle their names heav
uid never be forgotten by their country. They
{ Of the million men who fell in battle or done
in military hospitals, you cannot cali cable
names of 1000, nor the names of BOO obliv
the names of 100, nor the names of 5O Ha
llvlon! Are the feet Of the dancers who Malt
re at the ball Of the Duchess Of Ricbmond when
Brussels the night before Waterloo an ed to
II All STILL Are all the ears that heard the 81
guns OF Bunker Hill all deaf? All deaf wayn
Uhe eyes that saw the coronation of the
rye III all closed? All closed Oblivionl oil an
undred years from now there will not Have
being on this earth thatlknew we ever God
d. ten F
EVEN THE PYRAMIDS ARE DYING. Thr
some old family record a descendant and s.
lying up the ancestral line NAV spell and S
our name, and from the nearly faded the d
with great effort, find that some per awful
OF our name was born somewhere and
7een 1910 and 1890, but they will know every
lore about us than we know about the pital,
OF a ehild's eyes born last night in a and th
ge IN Patagonia. Tell me something the Sa
t your grandfather. What were nesses
featuresG What did he dor What IN the
was he born? What year did he dies HEAVIER
your great-grandmotherP SWiu Won Mansi,
'ibe the style Of the hat she wore and Of God
did she and your great grandfather
n In each others companiOnshipf Was Anot
lrch weather or June9 in the
llyionl That mountain surge rolls uplift
everything. Even the pyramids are pose by
!. Not a day passes but there Is ohis- formin
III chip of that granite. The sea is orous u
lphlng over the land, and what Is 90 man I'M
N at Coney Island is going on ali that v
I'd the world, and the continents are There
bling into the waves, and while this q news
Inspiring on the outside of the world tongue
ot chisel of the internal fire is digging ear but
the foundation of the earth and cut work n
It's way out toward the surface. It rises yol
ses me to hear people say they do not as that
the world will finally be burned up, last.
aJl scientists will tell you that it has Do 70
es been on fire. Why, there is only a an idiot
between us and the furnaces inside in heave
70 get Out. vited hi
Vionl Inc world itself will roll into gospel v
aslly as sehooiboy's india rubber wrong v
lis down hill, and when our world sanity "
is so interlocked by the law Of gray It is not
with other worlds that they win 60, Christor
ID so far from having our memory Paul's a
uated by a monument Of Aberdeen that yon
2 in this world there is no world in ing a tel
1 our strongest telescope that will be We tel
pediment for any slab Of commemo- tian trac
Of the fact thah We a.-ar Ii.-al ~. LII tif ~.