The Red Cloud chief., 1893-11-10
I'VE SUPREME WEST.
REV. THOMAS DIXON, JR., ON THE
PROPHECIES OF THE FAIR.p

phCpfttClGS OF THE FAIR"
The First Of u New Series ~ rmon by
the Eloquent New York Divine-Dawn
of the Day OF Western Domination In
America.
New York, Nov. 5.-Rev. Thomas
Dixon, Jr.. began u new series of SER
mons in Association hall this morning.
Tho subject of tho new series he gives as
1.-THE Prophecies Of the Worlds Fair"
He will discuss in this the bearing of the
great exposition upon the questions of
'The Supremacy of the West" .'The
Religion Of the Future" "The Future
of the Sabbath In America and Tho
New Religion of Industry" among other
things.
His theme for this mornings discourse
was western Supremacy" He de-
clared that the location of the fair at
Chicago and its triumphant management
by that city was one of the most signifi-
cant events in our national history and
was prophetic of q new era in our ma
tional life. The reasons for this success,
he said, were due to the youth, strength.
matchless enterprise and e~xhaustless re-
sources OF the great west. He predicted
that tho west in the near future would
surely dominate American life, political,
social and economic. He urged the
broadcast patriotism in meeting this stu
alton. in anticipating the threatened
dangers of s~ectionalism, materialism and
atheism. The text chosen was from Rev
citation xxi, I, "And l saw q new earth"
The location of the great Columbian
exposition at Chicago and its triumphant
planning aud management by her people
Is ono OF the most significant events in
tho history Of America.
Three years ago l spent the summerin
Chicago and smiled with incredibly as
] saw them fling across one of the great
thoroughfares u banner on which was in
scribed the audacious words, "Headquar-
ters Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chi
cago, 1902" / had just moved to New
York. 1t seemed to me reposterous that
any sane mar could believe for q minute
that this big, rude western town could
get that fair, If New York, with her
5000, 900 people, the metropolis of the
new world and gateway Of two worlds,
should but nod her majestic head and
indicate a willingness to take it and
manage it.
SHE CAME, SAW AND CONQUERED.
I didnot know New York as we'll then
asI know it now. While poor old Father
Knickerbocker was rubbing his rheu-
matte legs and powdering his wig and
adjusting his spectacles to see what all
the fuss was about, the young giantess
of the west gathered Washington in her
arms. She came, she saw, she conquered!
And old Knickerbocker is still rubbing
his legs 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 a new
America whose center of power can only
DO the west. And the reasons which
make this prophecy a practical certainty
-are the same reasons that made its Local
ton a foregonc conclusion from the day
the lines Of battle were first drawn.
First-Youth. 1t is the old story Of
triumphant young manhood versus de-
crepid traditions. America is q young
country, and yet, strange to say, the At
lantic 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
to ape the life Of the old world, but we
do more. In the effort to hitch on some
how, somewhere to the past, we make
our life tho junkshop Of the old world.
and treasure as a priceless inheritance
ideas and traditions long ago cast off by
the better part of the old world Us worse
than useless.
The young west carries no such bag
gage.
Here is growing the real spirit Of the
American nation. Here we find our
real weakness and real strength.
The ives. is peopled with young men.
1t is managed by young men.
All her men are young.
They never grow old. They die young.
Men with silvered hair move with the
boundless vitality Of youth.
Traditions as traditions do not bind.
Men do not ask what the fathers did.
They simply ask, Is the thing a possible
human achievement?
II STRENGTH OF YOUTH.
They 60 at it. It's done.
For the first time in the history OF tho
world a great people in a great country,
with laws incarnating their aspirations
and flexible to their expansion, have
flung themselves into the gigantic stru3-
gle of tho race. The battles Of the
world have all been fought by the
strength Of youth. We behold in this
rising power youth in all its audacity,
its enthusiasm, its faiths, its power,
plunge with defiant spirit into the thick
est of the worlds battle with nature. 1t
was this force with which the older Sec
tons of the nation collided in the strug-
gle for the exposition. The manner in
which it was taken and handled after
taken gives some idea rs to the center OF
gravity of national life. And the fact is
of greater Importance for what 1t prom
Uses than what it Is now.
Second - Strength. Youth implies
strength. 1t may be in the promise. II
,,oy ho IN tbo optunl attoinmpnt. In