Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-09-30
AAM0NsTER JUBILEE.
ANlGTEREsrINa PROPOSITION FROM
DR.. TALMAaE.

ANslEYEREsTINe PROPOSITION FROM
DR.. TALMAaE.
Re susgests IN international Jubilee to
Celebrate tho Nineteen Hundredth Birth
dayof Christ-A Banquet For tho Hun
gryr-An Interesting Sermon.
BRooNYN, Sept. M.-At the Brooklyn
Tabernacle this forenoon Rev. DR.. Tai
mage preached q sermon Of unusual in
terest to vast audience, the subject
beingas.The Nineteen Hundredth Ami.
sersagy. a Proposition Concerning 1t. "
The text was taken, from Isaiah *. 6,
ITO ua child Is born"
That Is q tremendous hour IN the his
tory Of any family when an immortal
spiritSs incarnated. Out of very dark
cloudfhere descendsa very bright morn
ing. One life spared and another given.
AL tie bells Of gladness ring over the
CRADLE. know not why any one should
doubtsthat Of old star pointed down to
the SaTiour's birthplace, for star of JOY
points:down to every honorable nativity.
A new eternity dates from that hour,
that minute.
Beautiful and appropriate Is the Gus
tom Of celebrating the anniversary of
such an ieyent. and clear on into the
eighties and the nineties the recurrence of
that day of the year in an old mans life
causesreo ognition and more or less con-
graduation. So also nations are &C.
customed to celebrate the anniversary
of theft birth and the anniversary Of
the birth. Of their great heroes or de-
liverersor benefactors. The ED of Feb
ruary and tho 4th Of July are never
allowed to pass In our land without
banquet and grafton and bell ringing
and cannonade. But all other birthday
anniversaries are 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 doxol-
ogy, put the words of my text into ma
tional and continental and hemisphere
chorus, "To us a child is born" On
the 25thtof December each year that Is
the theme In ST. Paul's and st. Peter 8
and st. Marks and st. Isaac's and all
the dedicated cathedrals, chapels, meet
ing houses and churches clear round the
world
We shall soon reach the nineteen
hundreth anniversary Of that happiest
event ofall time. This century Is dy-
ing. Only seven more pulsations, and
Its heart;%ill cease to beat. The fingers
Of many of you will write it at the head
of your letters and tho foot Of your i'm
portant documents, "18O0." 1t will be
o physical and moral sensation unlike
anything else you have before expert
enoed. Not one hand that wrote "1SO1"
at the Induction of this century will
have cunning left to write 1891" at the
inductiomof another.
The death of one century and the birth
Of another century will be sublime and
suggestiY and stupendons beyond al
estimate y stand by the grave of one
,eentur BY the cradle Of another
will Be an oppo rfunity such as whole
generations of the worlds inhabitants
never experienced. Ipray God that there
may be no sickness or casualty to hinder
your arrival at that goal or to hinder
your taking part In the yeledictory OF
the departing centuryand the salutation
of the new.
But as that season will be the nine
teen hundredth anniversary of o Saw
iour's birth, now nominate that q great
international jubilee or exposition be
opened in this cluster Of cities by the
seacoast on Christmas day, the 25th of
December, 1900, to be continued for at
least one month into the year 1901. This
century closing Dec 81, 1900, and the
new century beginning Jan. 1, 1901,
Will 1t not be time for all nations to
turn aside for. q few weeks or months
from everything else and emphasize the
birth Of the greatest being who ever
touched our planet, and could there be
a more appropriate time for such COM
memoration than this elimination of
the centuries which are dated from his
nativity You know that all history
dates either from before Christ or after
Christ, from B. G. or A. D. It will be
the year of our Lord 1000 passing into
the.year 1901.
we have had the Centennial at Phila-
delphia, celebrative of the one hundredth
anniversary of our nations birth. We
have had the magnificent expositions at
New Orleans and Atlanta and Augusta
and st. Louis. We have the present
Worlds exposition at Chicago, celebrative
Of the four hundredth anniversary of this
continents emergerce, and there are
at least two other great celebrations
promised for this country, and 9th
CT countries will have their historic
events to commemorate, but the one
event that has most to do with the well
fare of all nations is the arrival of Jesus
Christ on this planet, and all the enthu-
siasn ever witnessed atLondon or Wen
ma or Paris or any of our American cities
would be eclipsed by the enthusiasm that
would celebrate the ransonxof all ma
tons, the first step toward the accom-
plishing of 1t being taken by an infan-
tile foot one winters night about five
miles from Jerusalem, when the clouds
dropped the angelic cantata, GLORY to
God In tho highest. and on earth peace,
good will to men," :,
The three or four questions that would
be asked me concerning this nomination
of timo and place proceed to answer.
What practical use would come of such
international celebration Answer-The
biggest stride the world ever took to-
ward the evangelization of all nations.
That is grand and wonderful convocar
ton, the religious congress at Chicago.
1t will put intelligently before the world
the nature of false religions which have
been brutalizing the nations, tramping
womanhood into the dust, enacting the