The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-11
LESSONS OF WHITE CITY,
Dr.. Bowman breaches On the In
lluelCeS Of the Worlds Fair.


Pride in Its Accomplishment The
Lessons it Teaches,
The subject Of DR.. c. E Dowman's
discourse at Wesley Monumental church
yesterday morning was The material
and spiritual contrasted or lessons from
the world fair"
The idea Of DR. Dowman's sermon may
be gained from his texts which where as
follows.
is not this great Babylon have built'
Daniel 30 and For the things which
are seen are temporal but the things
which are not seen are eternal" II. Cor
inthians Ais.
DIR. bowman has recently returned
from a visit TO the worlds fair and he
thought to draw some profitable lessons
from the great exhibit at Chicago for the
benefit of his congretion.
'Nebuchadnezzar may have uttered the
words of my first text" said DR.. Dow
man, las he surveyed the city from the
top of the great Temple of Bel, the grand
est of religious structures of ancient or
modern times. The city, ten miles square,
/ its outer walls three hundred feet in
/ hight and eighty feet wide at top, the
river running through, walled on either
| bank, with gates leading TO the docks,
! spead out before him. The palace grounds,
seven miles around the hanging gardens,
! one of the wonders of the world. four
/ hundred feet high, with forest trees,
! shady hooks, leafy bowers, running
| streams. cascades and foutains, built by
! NebuChadneZZar for his NuDian wife, lay
/ beneath him.
A GLIMPSE OF THE GREAT FAIR.
| As l stood in the great square of the
! White City, said DR.. Bowman, Il thought
! Of human greatness and human vanity.
/ II was 4 scene of grandeur by day and of
| surprising beauty by night Standing on
/ the bridge near the tyle-with back
/ to the lake and face to the administra-
| ton building-and behold Before you
! the basin, alive with graceful craft, out
| OF the water the colossal statue of the
| Republic arising, at opposite end the Co
| lumbar fountains, beyond the admins
! tration building with its beautiful dome
! surrounded with allegorical statuary, to
! your right, the main building covering
/ over 30 -beyond-acrOss the north
! canal the graceful electricity building.
| To your left, the sides of the buildings
| of agriculture and machinery. The long
northern twilight has set in, the multi
! tudes are Fastening in every direction,
soon the electric lights shine out by and
! by the electrical fountains begin to play
/ there is music on the shore of the lake.
You stand and wonder. Is this II Am
on the earth, or, have l been transplanted
| to some enchanted world
The power of genius, supported by the
Sower of money, has turned Jackson park
in two years from marshy waste to a
| city built for few months, but appear
| ing solid as if of rock. In an exhibition
] innneGthlp n Ia
boastful disposition of mainland you are
| not surprised to find things on every
! hand, that claim to be the largest in the
world.
Here you may imagine the spirit of
| American pride, surveying the repre-
| sentation of American genius in archi-
! lecture, art, inventions, business and in
! duStrial enterprise, boasting: Is not
| this great Babylon that l have built?'
! The contemplation may well involve con-
| graduation.
| ALL WITHIN MANS GRASP.
"The development of the worlds re-
| so urces is right. Nothing in earth, or
air, or sea, is intended to be withheld
from man. Gods blessing has attended
| the advance of civilization. Men live
| longer and there is more peace among ma
lions and more regard for man.
''All arts, science, commerce are iustru-
]
But this great fair, with the exception
of a small park dvoted to ethnologu,
| hygiene, literature education and religion,
! IS an exaltation of the material of mines,
transportation, electricity, arts, agricult-
ure and machinery. This cannot well be
! avoid ed, but it is well to recognize dan
! gers. Losing sight of Gods hand as an
element of national prosperity; estima-
ton of life as consisting of things in
| possession, in possibility; prinde of
| power, the intOXication of success, under
mine the foundations Of national charac-
ter
THE LESSONS IT TEACHES.
DR. Bowman drew the following lessons
from the times that should teach humilia-
tion and Dependence:
Our materialism does not tend to the
development of statesmanship-e. G. pres
ent exhibition at Washington.
Success has induced speculation and
| over Notwithstanding in prostration
| of business.
! We have the appalling spectacle of
| idleneSs in the midst of the most elaborate
mechanical appliances -nal1edness in the
midst of cotton and wool sold below the
cost of production, starvation in the
presence of plenty, and with few eXcep-
tions, at the lowest prices of food
While we glOrify the achievements of
man, said DR.. Bowman. and mark with
gratitude the results of 400 years of pro-
gross since Columbus landed on these
shores, we must rejoice with trembling,
for in Selling the material we may lose
the spiritual and eternal. am glad 0
have seen the White City.
A clergyman of England writing of it
said: "Until / see the walls of the New
Jerusalem, I never expect to see a dream
of more exquisite loveliness." But !
close my eyes, and in my thought behold
another city, MOTH the far away Heavens,
but on earth-"the city of Cod
THE ETERNAL CITY.
1t is founded upon apostles and proph-
cts, Jesus Christ being the chief corner
stone" 1t is a spiritual temple-a house
not made with hands. Its principles are
! righteousness and peace. It's laws are
purity and love. Its purpose is eternal
life. Its citizens are souls-white through
faith in the atOnement for sin. The King
is the glorifed Christ. The Lord God is
| the light thereof.
On panels of the administration
building, we find the names of. Guten-
berg, Copernicus, Newton, Watt, Jenner,
Morse IN this other, and fairer city,
Abraham, David, Elijah, Isaiah, Paul,
| John, Chrysostum, Huss, Luther Calvin,
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