Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1894-05-16
HIS TWENTY-FIVE.
Or. T. De Witt Talmage's Silver Anni-
verssry in Brooklyn.
H Reviews the Vast Work He Has Accom-
plished, and breaches "A Sermon on
the Subject of Generations

H. Review. the Vast Work He Has Accom-
| plished. and breaches a sermon on
the Subject of Generations
Sunday was great day in the his
tory of the Brooklyn tabernacle. The
figures in flowers back of the platform,
1869 and 1894, indicated Rev. DIR. Tai
IMAGES time of coming to Brooklyn,
and the present tele bration, and was
Introductory TO the great meetings in
honor of DIR. Talmage's pastoratc to
take place on the following Thursday
and Friday.
The subject of the sermon to-day was
1.-The Generations" the text being
Ecclesiastes l. 4: zone generation
passeth away, and another generation
/ cometh.'
According to the longevity of people
in their particular century has gen.
Grafton been called hundred years,
or fifty years, or thirty years BY com
mon consent in our nineteenth CEN
tury generation is fixed at twenty-five
years
The largest procession that ever
moved is the procession of years and
the greatest army that ever marched is
/
generation there are about nine full
regiments of days These o, 125 days in
each generation march with wonderful
precision. They never break ranks
They never ground arms. They never
pitch tents. They never halt. They
are never Off on furlough. They came
out of the eternity past and they
move on TO the eternity future. They
cross rivers without any bridge or
boats. The 600 immortals of the Crimea
dashing into them cause no confusion.
They move as rapidly at midnight as
ut midnoon. Their haversacks are full
of good bread and bitter aloes, clusters
of richest vintage and bottles of
agonizing tears With a regular tread
that no order of double quick can
hasten, or obstacle can slacken, their
tramp is on, and on, and on, and on,
while mountains crumble and pyramids
die zone generation passeth, and an
other generation cometh."
This is my twenty-ffth anniversary
sermon, 1859 and 1894. 1t is twenty i've
years since assumed the tabernacle
passionate. A whole generation has
passed. Three generations we have
known: That which proceeded our own,
that which is 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
it was that preceded us! We who are
now in the front regiment are the only
ones competent to tell the new gener-
alton just now coming in sight who
our predecessors were. Biography can
not tell it Autobiography can not
tell it Biographies are generally
written by special friends of the de-
parted, perhaps by wife, or son, or
daughter, and they only tell the good
things. The biographers of one of the
first presidents of the United States
makes no record of the presidents ac-
count books, now in the archives at the
capitol which have seen, telling how
much he lost or gained daily at
the gaming table. The biographers
of one of the early secretaries of the
United States never described the
scene that day witnessed when the Sec
rotary was carried dead drunk from
the state apartments to his own home.
Autobiography is written by the man
himself, and no one would record for
future times his own weaknesses and
| moral deficits Those who keep diar-
les put down only things that read
we'll No man or woman that ever
lived would dare to make full record
of all the thoughts aid words of a
lifetime.
We who saw and heard much of the
generation marching just ahead of us
are far more n BILE than any book to de-
scribe accurately to our successors who
our predecessors were. Very much
like ourselves, thank you. Human ma
ture in them very much like human
nature in us At our time OF life they
were very much like we now are At
the time they were in their teens they
were very much like you who are in
your teens, and at the time they were
in their twenties they were very much
like you who are in your twenties
Human nature got an awful twist I'M
der fruit tree in Eden, and though
the grace of God does much to straight
en- things, every new generation has
the same twist, and same work of
strengthening out has to be done over
sgtin.
\ mother in the country districts, ex-
! pec.ting the neigh bors at her able on
some gala night, had with her own
hands arranged everything in taste,
| "'N' 10 Suc was dDOuJ 10 turn from 1t
to receive her guests, saw her little
child, by accident, upset n pitcher all
over the white cloth and soil every
thing, and the mother lifted her hand
TO slap the child, but she suddenly re-
mem 0ered the time when n little child
herself in her fathers house whore
they had always before been used TO
candies on the purchase of lamp
which was matter of rarity and pride,
she took IL in her hands, and dropped
~ crashing into pieces, and looking up
In her fathers face expecting chastise-
ment heard only the words: 1T is n
sad loss, but never mind; you did not
mean 70 do it History repeats itself
Generations wonderfully alike. Among
that generation that is past. as in our
own as IL will be in the generation fol-
lowing us, those who succeeded became
the target shot at by those who
ana not succeed. In those times. as
ln ours, mans bitterest enemies
were those whom he had befriended
ana helped Hates, jcalousics and re-
Venges were just as lively i'm 1869 as in
1923. Hypocrisy shifted and looked sol.
f"n then as now. There was inst as
much avarice among the apple barrels
%, now among the cotton bales. and