The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-05-10
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DivINE-s SUM-
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The Generatious.-, y,

hu"'her gehefa'lon cometb. --Ecclestastea ea
T., 4.
According TO the longevity Of people I'm
their part ,uar century has general ion been
called 100 years. or fty years. or thirty
years. by common consent in our nineteenth,
century n generation is fixed at twenty-flye
years.
The largest procession that ever mo,e ed Is
the procession OF wears. aud the grsatest
army that ever marched is the army OF gene
rations: In each generation there are about
nine IN regiments Of days. These si25 DAYS
IN ench generation march with wonderful
precision. They never break ranks. They
never ground arms. They never pitch tents
They never halt. They are never OF on fur
Tough. They cana out OF the eternity past.
and they move on towarIthe eternity futurp
lhey cross rivers without any &c or boats
Tue GOO inmortaIs ofthe Crimes dashing into
them Gauss no confusion. They moyA "a
rapidly AZ midnight as Mt midnoon. Their
haversacks are full Of goo bread aud bitter
aloes, clusters OF richest vintage aud bottles
OF aRonsing tears. With n regular tread
that no order of double quick" can hasten or
obstacle can slacken. their tramp IL on and
on and on and on while mountains crumbie
and pyramids die. lone generation passeth
and another generation cometh"
This ia my twenty-nfth anniversary ser
mou-is69and 1924. II IL twenty-five years
since assumed the BROOKLYN psstorats A
tons we have known--that which preceded
our own. that which Ia now at the front. and
the one coming on. We are at the heels of
our predecessors. and our SUCCESSORS are at
our heels. What a generation II was that
preceded us We who are now in tho front
regiment are the only ones compstent 10 tell
the new generation just now coming In sight
who our predecessors were. Biography cam
not tell II. Autobiography cannot tell n
Biographies ara generally written by special
friends OF the drparied-perhaps by wife or
son or daughter-and they only tell the good
ihings. The biographers OF one OF tbs Hrvt
Presidents OF the United States make no rec-
orl OF the Presi tents accoun. books. now In
the archives at the Capitol. which 1 have
seen, telling how much he lost or gainsd
daiIy NJ the gaming table. The biocraphers
OF one OF the early Secretaries OF the United
Stntes never described the scene tnat day
witnessed when the Secretary was carried
ueau urunk u m the state apartments to his
own home. Autobiography Is written by the
man himself. and no one would record for
iutura times his own weaknesses and moral
dencns. Those who keep diaries put down
onIy things that read well. No man or wo-
man that ever lived would dare to make full
record OF all the thoughts and words OF
Lifetime. We who saw and heard much of
the generation marching Just ahead OF
us ara fur more able than any book
10 describe accurately TO our successors who
our predecessors wers. Very much liks our.
selves. thank you. Human nltur, In them
very much like human nature in us. At our
t'me OF liie they were very much like we now
nr". At the time they were In their teens
th"y were very much like YOU are In your
Teens. and ~ the tins they were In their
twehtips they were very much like YOU are
IN your twenties. Human nature 90: an aw-
III twist under fruit tree in Eden. and
thou;h the grace OF God does much 10
s,r'Shten things every new generation has
the same twist, AMI the same worl, OF
strengthening out has TO he done over again
mother In the country districts, expect |
lnS the neighbors NJ her table on some gala |
niSht, hal with her own hands arranged ey- |
erytning IN taste, aud as she was about 10 |
tur2 from II TO rh'siys. hsr. y,rs.l, saw ner
Httle enid by accident upset pitcher all
oyer the white cloth and soil everything. and
the mother lifted her hand 10 slap the child,
but she suddenly remembered the time when
ilttle child herself. In her fathers house.
where they had always before been used 10
candles, on the purchase OF u lamp. watch
was mater OF rarity and pride, sha took il
N her hants and droppsi IL. crashing into
pieces, and looking up in her fathers face.
sxpsctins chastisement. heard only the
words. 1T Is "a sad loss. but nsver mind
YOU dti not mean TO do IT,"
II story repeats itself. Generations
wonderfully alike. Among that generation
hat Is past. ~ In our own. aud as IL will be
IN Tue generation following u.s. those who
succeeded became the target. shot at by
NOSE who lid not succesd In those times.
as In ours, mans bltterest enemies were
nose whom h, had befriendel and helped
Hates. iealousiss and revenges we're lust "a
lively In 1889 as In 1894 Hypocrisy snifi al
IN looked solemn then rs now. There was
Just rs much avarce among the apple bur-
r''s rs now among the cotton bales and
hn shna ll....
locomotives. The tallow candles saw the |
same sins that ara now found under the |
electric ligh.s. Homespun was Just as |
grout as Is the modern fashion plate. /
twenty-five years-yan, twenty-five centuries |
nave not changed human nsture a particle. |
l say ms Tor the encouragement OF thoss |
who think that our tunes monopolize all the !
lbominattons OF the ayss.
Ons minute after Adam got outside OF |
paradise he was just like you. o man One |
step after Eva left the gate sne was lust like /
YOU. o woman All the faults and vices are /
many times centenarians. Yen. the cities .
SoIom. Gomorrlh. Pompei Herculaneum,
hehopols anf ancient Memphis wsrs as
muoa worse than our modern cities as YOU |
might expect IRON the tact that the mo Tern
cities have somewhat yielded 10 tho ra-
straints OF Christianity. while those ancient /
cities wer. not limited in their abomina-
tons
lea, that senerltton wlich p3Ssei 4 of with
In ths last twenty-five years had their be-
rrayements, their temptations their strug-
giles, their appointments. their successes,
tneir failures. their glaiuesses AMI their
Grie's, like these two generations now In
sight that in advance and that following.
But the twenty-five years between 1869 ami
1884 how much they saw How much they
discovered How much they felt Within
mat tlma have been performed ths miracles
OF the telephone and the phonograph. F'om
the ohseryatories other worlds have been
seen 10 heave in sight. Six Presidents OF
the United States have been inaugurated.
Transatlantic voyage abbreviated from ten
days 10 5}9. Chicago and New York. once
hree days apart, now only twenty-'our
hours by the vesibule limited. Two addi-
tonsl railroads have been built TO the Pacific.
France has pissed from monarchy TO repub-
llcanism. Many OF the cities have nearly
doubled their populations. During that
generation the chief surviving heroes OF the
Cyil War have gone into the encampment OF
the grave. The chief physicians, attorneys,
orators, merchants, have passed of the earth
or are in retirement waiting for transition.
Other men In edit orial chairs in Dulpits in