Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-09-30
REV, DR., TALMAGE,
Tie Eminent Divine's Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: "The Coming Redemption .

full OF boys and girls playing In the strests
thereof. Of."-Zachariah viii, 5.
Glimpses Of our cities redeemed Now,
boys an girls who play IN the streets run
such risks that muititudes Of them end 10
ruin. But. in the coming time spoken OF,
lnsSes shall be IA safe in the public thorough
fur IA in the nursery.
Pulpit an1 printing presses for the most
part tn our day are busy In discussing the
condition Of the cities ut this time; but would
it not be hralthfuiiy encouraging to all
Christian workers. aud to all who are toll
ing to make the world better, II We should
for little viii . look forward to the tima
when our cities shall be revolutioniZed by
the Gospel OF til. Son OF God. and all tho
darkness OF sin and trouble and crime and
suffering shall be gone from the world?
Every man has pride in the city OF his
nativity or residence. II 1t be city distin-
guished for any dignity or prowess. Caesar
boasted OF his native Rome. Virgil OF Mantua,
LycurRus Of Sparta, Dsmosthenes OF Athens,
Arehimedes OF Syracuse. and Paul OF Tarsus.
l should have suspicion of base-heart edness
In man who had no especial interest in the
city OF b ) birth or resi- iencs-lO exhilara-
tion of tn evidence of its prosperity or its
artistic establishment, Or its intellectual ad-
vancement.
I have noticed that a man never likes a
city where he has not behaved we'll, People
VINO uHVc udu ~ iEco lu tuo pTtSou van
never like the city that furnishes the vehicle.
When And Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna
trying to prove themselves the birthplace OF
Homer / conclude at once that Homer be-
haved we'll. He liked them and they liked
him. We NUT not war on laudabie city
pride. or, with the idea OF building ourselves
up at any time, try to pull others down.
Boston must continue to point to its Faneuil
Hall and to its Common, IN to its superior
educational advantages. Phiadelphta must
continue TO point to its Independence Hall
and its mint, and its Girard College. Wash
ington must continue to point to its Won
drous Capitoitne buildings. Ill should find
q man coming from any city, having no
pride in that city, that city having been the
place OF his nativity. or now being the place
OF his residence. l would feel like asking:
'.What mean thing have you done ther-3
What outrageous thing have you been guilty
Of that you do not like the place."
l think we Oughi-and l take It for
granted you are interested in his great work
of evangeliZins the citisI and saving the
worla-wo ought to toll with the sunlight in
our faces. We are not fighting in n miser-
able Bull Run of defeat. We are our way
to final victory. We arc not fol. owing the
rider ON the black horse. Leading us down to
death and darkness aud doom. bur the Rider
Oh the white horse, with the moon under
His feet anl the stars OF heaven for His tiara.
Hail, ConIueror. hail.
sins. and there are sufrsrinss all around
about us; but as in some bitter, cold winter
day when We are hreshing onr arms around
us to keep oar thumbs from freezing, We
think OF the warm spring day th1t Will after
awhiie come; or in the dark winter night We
look up and see the northern lights. the win
dows of he.vcn Illuminated by some great
victory Just so We look up from the night
Uf suffering and sorrow and wretchedness
In our cities, aud We 500 hight streaming
through from the other side, and We know
we are on the way to morning--nore than
that oh the way to "a morning without
clouds
l want you to understand. all you who are
toiling for Christ that the castles of sin are
all going to be captured. The victory for
Christ in these great towns is going to be so
complete that not maR on earth AN
angel In heaven, or IL devil In he'll will dis
pute 1t. How do know? l know just as
certainly IA Col lives and this Is holy truth.
The old Bible is iull Of II. Ii the Nation Is
to he saved, Of course all ihe cities afe to be
saved 1t makrs n great difference with you
and with me whether we are to,tng on to-
ward a defeat. or toiilny on toward vic
tory.
Now. In this municipal elevation of which
| speak. l have to remark there will be
greater financial prosperity than our cities
have ever seen. Some people seem to have
a morbid idea OF the millennium, and they
cities and the world people will give their
time up to psaim-singing and the relating OF
their religious experience. aud rs all social
life will be purified, there Will be no biiarity,
and, as all business vii! Do purified, there
will b. no enterprise. There IS no ground
for such an absurd anticipation. In the
time Of which | speak, where now one for
tune is made. there will be hundred for
tunes made. We all know business pros
perity depends upon confidence between
man and man. Now when that time comes
of which speak aud when all double deal
ing, all dishonesty. ami alt fraud are gone
out OF commercial circles, thorough conf
depcs will be established and there Will be
better business done, and larger fortunes
gathered, and mightier successes achieved.
Thegreat business disasters of this country
have come from the work Of goddess spncu-
lators and Infamous stock gamblers. The
great foe to business ia crime. When the
right shall have hurled back the wrong, and
shall have purified the commercial code, and
shall have Numbered down fraudulent estab-
lfshments, and shall have put into the hands
of honest men the keys OF business, blessed
time for the bargain makers. l am not talk
Ing an abstraction, am not making guess.
am telling you Gods eternal truth.
In that day Of which / speak, taxes Will be
mere nothing. Now, our business men are
taxed for everything. City taxes. county
taxes, State taxes, United States taxes. stamp
tdXe8, uccuSS tdXos, tdNcS-
| taxes, taxes, taxes! Our business men have
to make small fortune every year to paw
| their taxes. What fastens on our great in.
dustries this awful load? Crime. individual
and ofncial. We have to pay the board o
the villains who arc incarcerated in our pris
those who plunged into their graves through
sensual indulRencies. We have TO support
the munic.p pal governments, which are vas
and expensive just In proportion as the Grim
inal proclivities are vast and tremendous
Who support the almshouses and police sta
lions, and ell the machinery OF municipal
government The tax payers.
But In the glorious time Of which speak
grievous ta1tion will all have ceased. There
willbe no neod OF sup00rttng criminals there
Will be no cnminalT. Virtue will have taker
the place Of vIo~. There will NO orphan asy
lums, for parents will be able to leave a com
petenoy to their children. There will be nc
voting Of large sums of money for som,
| municipal improvement, which moneys be
fore they get to the Improvements drop into
the pockets Of those who voted them. NJ
Oyer and Terminer kept up at vast expense
Try theft and Arson and murder and slande
and blackmail. Better factories. Grand ar
chitecture. Finer equipsge. Larger for
tunes. Richer opulence. Better churches
In that better time, also, coming to thos'
eitiss, Christ's churches will be more nu
! msrous and they will be larger, an they b.
moro devoted to the Gospel Of Jesus Christ
and they will accomplish greater influence
for good. Now, 1t Is often the case tina
churches are envious Of each other, and de
nominations collide with each other, IN
even ministers Of Christ sometimes forget tn
bond of brotherhood. But in the time o
which I speak, while there will b, just a
many differences Of opinion as there are now
there will be no ascerbity, no bypercriticisnl
| no exclusivenees.
In that day OF which l speak. IL
you believe there will be any midnigh
carousaI2 VIII there be any kicking of fror
the marble steps of shiverinR mendicanfs
Will there be any unwashed, uufsd, III
combed children Will there be any blaspre
mics in the streets2 Will there be any inc
briates staggering pastI No. No wine store:
No lager beer saloons. No dtstiileries, wher
they make the three Ks. No bloodshot ey,
No bloated cheek. No instruments OF rui
and destruction. No nst-pounded forehead
The grandchildren OF thst woman who Roe
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