Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-09-14

1T VIII Ee Brought About and the Con-
sequence.
WASHINGTON. Sept. -. = So much
that is depressing IS said about the
wickedress Of the cities it will cheer
us to read what DR.. Talmage says in
this sermon about their coming redemp-
tion. The text IS Zechariah viii, 3,
FAnd the streets Of the city shall be
full of boys and girls playing in the
streets thereof -
Glimpses Of our cities redeemed
Now boys and girls who play in the
streets run such risks that multitudes
of them end III ruin. But, IL the COM
ing time spoken OF, cur cities will be so
moral that lads ard lasaes shall be as
safe III the public tlaoropghfares as in
the nursery.
Pulpit and printing press for the
most part III CUR cay are busy IN dis
cussing the condition Of the cities at
this time, bat would it not be health
fully encouraging to all Christian work
ers and to all who are toiling to make
the world better. if we should fer lit
tie while look forward to the time when
our cities shall be revolutionized by the
gospel Of the Son Of God, and all the
darkness of sin and trouble and crime
and suffering shall be gone from the
world?
Every man has q pride in the city of
his nativity or residence, if it be city
distinguished for any dignity or PROV
ess. Caesar bOasted Of his native Rome,
Virgil Of MaEtua, Lycurgus of Sparta,
Desmcsthenes CT Athens, Archimedes
of Syracuse ard Paul of Tarsus.
should have suspicion of base hearted
ness in man who had no especial in
terest in the city Of his birth or resi-
dence-no exhilaration at the evidence
of its prosperity CT it's artistic embellish-
ments or its intellectual advancement
Z 4 Noticeable Point.
I have noticed that man never likes
a city where he has not behaved WE'LL
People who have had a free ride in the
prison van never like the city that fur
nishes the vehicle. When I find Argos
and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to prove
themselves the birthplace Of Homer, I
conclude at once that Homer behaved
we'll He liked them and they liked
him. We must not war on laudable city
pride Or, with the idea Of building our
selves up at any time, try to pull others
down. Boston must continue to point
to its Faneuil hall and to its Common
and to its superior educational advan-
tages Philadelphia must continue to
point TO its Independence hall and its
mint and its Girard college. Washing
ton must continue to point to it's Won
drous capitoline buildings. IF I should
find man coming from any city, hav-
ing no pride in that city, that city hav-
ing been the place Of his nativity, or
now being the place Of his residence, 1
would feel like asking: ''What mean
thing have you done there? What out
rageous thing have you been guilty of
that you do not like the place?'
think we ought-and [ take it for
granted you are interested in this great
work Of evangelizing the cities and saw
ing the world-we ought to toll with
the sunlight Ill our faces. We are not
fighting III a miserable Bull Run Of de-
feat. We are on our way to final vic
tory. We are not following the rider on
the black horse, leading US down to
death and darkness and doom, but the
rider on the white horse with the moon
under his feet and the stars of heaven
for his tiara. Hail, Conqueror, hail!
know there are SORROWS and there
are sins, and there are sufferings all
around about US, but as in some bitter,
cold winter day, when we are thrashing
our arms around US to keep our thumbs
from freezing, we think of the warm
spring day that will after awhile come,
or in the dark winter nigk&we look up
and see the northern lights, the win
dows Of heaven illuminated by some
great victory, just SO we look up from
the night of suffering and sorrow and
wretcbedness in our cities, and we see a
light streaming through from the other
side, and we know we are on the way
to morning-more than that, on 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 a
man on earth, or an angel in heaven, or
a devil in he'll will dispute it. How do
I know? 1 know just as certainly as
God lives and that this is holy truth. The
old Bible is full of it. If the nation is
to be saved, of course all the cities are
10 &c SdN6Nl- IL HIKES u SI6db O1AO
with you and with me whether we are
toiling on toward a defeat or toiling
ON toward victory.
A Glorious Time.
Now, in this municipal elevation of
which 1 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 mil
lennium, and they think when the bet
ter time comes to our cities and the
world people will give their time Up to
psalm singing and the relating Of their