Connecticut western news., 1893-09-28
A MONSTER JUBILEE.
.-ANiNTEREsTINe PROPOSITION FROM
 DR. TALMAGE.

He suggests an International Jubilee to
 Celebrate the Nineteen Hundredth Birth-
 day of Christ--A Banquet For the Hun-
 gr-An Interesting Sermon.
 ,BRooKLYN, Sept. 24.-At the Brooklyn Tabernacle this forenoon Rev. Dr. Tal- mage, preached sermon of unusual in- terest to vast audience, the subject being saThe Nineteen Hundredth Anni- yersary. A Proposition Concerning It." The text was taken from Isaiah K, 6. sTo us 8 child is born"
 That Is a tremendous hour in the his tory of any family when an immortal spirit Is incarnated. Out of a very dark cloud there descendsa very bright morn ing. One life spared and another given. All the bells of gladness ring over the cradle. I know not why any one should doubt that of old star pointed down to tho Saviour'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 cus- tom of celebrating the anniversary of such an event, and clear on into the eighties and the nineties the recurrence of that day of the year in an old mans life canses recognition and more or less con- gratulation. So also nations are &C., customed to celebrate the anniversary of their birth and the anniversary of the birth of their great heroes or de- liverers or benefactors. The 22d of Feb ruary and the 4th of July are never allowed to pass in our land without banquet and oration 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 na- tional and continental and hemispheric chorus, "To us child is born." On the 25th of December each year that is the theme in St. Paul's and St. Peters 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 of all time. This century is dy- ing. Only seven more pulsations, and its heart will cease to beat The fingers of many of you will write it at the head of your letters and the foot of your inn portant documents, "19O0" It will be aphysical and moral sensation unlike anything else you have before expert enced. Not one hand that wrote "1801" at the induction of this century will have cunning left to write "1901" at the induction of another.
 The death of one century and the birth of another century will be sublime and suggestive and stupendous beyond all estimate. To stand by the grave of one century and by the cradle of another will be an opportunity 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 veledictory of the departing century and the salutation of the new.
 But as that season will be the nine teen hundredth anniversary of Saw tours birth, now nominate that 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. 31, 1900, and the new century beginning Jan. 1, 1901, will 1t not be time for all nations to turn aside for 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 culmination of the centuries which are dated from his natiuty2 You know that all history dates either from before Christ or after Christ, from B. c. or A. D. It will be the year of our Lord 1900 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 rld'sexposition at Chicago, ,celebrative of the four hundredth anniversary of this continents emergence, and there are at least two other great celebrations promised for this country, and oth- CT countries will have thelr 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- siasm ever witnessed at London or Vien- ma or Paris or any of our American cities would be echpsed by the enthusiasm that would celebrate the ransom of all na- tions, 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 the highest, and on earth peace, good will to men,"
 The three or four questions that would ke asked me concerning this nomination of time and place I 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 8 grand and wonderful convoca, ton. the religious congress at Chicago It will put intelhgently before the world the nature of false religions which have been brutahzing the nations, trampine womanhood into the dust, enacting the horrors of infanticide, hndling funera pyres for shriekng victims, and rolling tuggernauts across the mangled bodie, of their worshipers.
 But no one supposes that any one vii be converted to Christ by hearing Con fucianism or Buddhism or any form o heathenism eulogized. That is to b' done afterward. And how can it so wei be done as by celebration of man weeks of the birth and character an achievements of the wondrous and un precedented Christi To such an exposi tion the kings and queens of the cart would not send their representatives, kIoxx