The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-10-09
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
yHg NOTED DrvINps sunday
DISCOURSE.
Subject "Tho Coming Redemption. .

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Gimpses OF our cities rofosmedi Now
/ h1Y ami girls who play 10 the strsat8 rur
I snth risks thnt mutlMdea OF thsm ond n
| foins hut I'm the coming time spoken of
/ orr cities viii ha SO moral that lads and
I l1asea shall Boz ns safe in the public th0r0ugh.
! fur.s aa in the nursery.
/ Pulpit and printing pre- e8 f0r the most
/ part u our day ore busy 10 discussing tho
/ condition OF the cities al this tmo; bat would
] % not bo BEAUTIFULLY sing 90 an
/ thrissian workers. and 90 ON who ara toil-
| ing o. mako tho world blttor, 40 we should
Tor little while look forward 10 the tim8
| when our cities shall be roy0lutl0nIzed by
| tho Gospel OF tho Son of God and an tho
| darkness OF SIN and trouble and crime aud
| suffering shall bo gone from the W0rId2
Every man has a pride in tho city OF his
nativity or rtshonee, II it be- q city distin-
guished Tor any dignity or proves. Caesar
| boosted otL.anauY8 Rome. Viryll OF Mantua.
I Lycureus OF Sparta Dsnosthrues OF Athens,
| Arehlmaies OF Syracuse. aud Paul 81 TaHus.
| should have suspicion OF blse-heaHoduess
in man who had no especial interest In tho
! city Of bis birth or resi- ence-no exhilara-
tIcu of the evidence Of its prosperity or it5
artistic establishment, OF its intellectual ad-
| vancemeut
have noticed TINT n man never likes q
| city where he has not behaved welli People
who have had a free ride in the prison van
never Ike the city that furnishes tha vehicle.
| When ind Argos and Rhodes aud smyrna
| trying to prove themselves the birthplace OF
| Homer / conclude az once that Homer be-
haved WELL lie liked them and they HEED
him. We must not war on laudahls city
pride. or, with the idea OF building ourselves
Up at any time, try 20 pull others down.
Boston must continue to point TO its FauBui
| Hall and 90 Cos Common, and TO its superior
educational advantages Philadelphia must
continue 10 point 20 It's Independence Hall
and Us Mint and its Girard College. WASH
in8ton must continue TO point 70 its Won
dr9us Capitollne buildng3. III should lind
q nun coming from any city, having no
pride In tina, city, that city having been the
place Of his nativity. or now being the place
OF HIS residence, j would feel like asking:
"What mean thing have YOU done there?
WHAT outrageous thing have you been guilty
Of that you do not like the place2"
1 think we Ought-ani / take It for
granted you are interested in this great work
o. eyangelizing the cities and saving the
wofld-we ought to toll with the sunlight in
our faces. We are not fighting In mser-
able Bull Run OF defeat. We are on our way
TO final Victory. We are not following the
rider on the black horse, lending 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, CJnqueror, hail!
l know there ar8 sorrOws, and there
are sins, and there are suGerin IS all around
about us; but as in some bitter, cold winter
day. when we are threshing arms around
us to keep our thumbs from freezing, we
think Of the warm spring jny that will after
awhile come; or in the dark winter night we
look up and see the northern lights, the win
flT.as- o. l.
victorY-iust so we look up from the night
Of suffering and sorrow aud wretchedness
in our cities, aud we see light streaming
through from the other side, and we know
we are on the way to morning Amore than
that, on the way to ga morning without
Clouds
want you to understand. all you who are
toihng 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 man on earth or an
angel IN heaven, or a devil in hell will dis
pute it. How do l knoW2 / know Just rs
certainly as God lives and this is holy truth
The old Bible is full OF it. II the Nation ia
to be saved, of course all the cities are to be
saved. 1t makes a great difference with you
and with me whether we are toiiing on to-
ward defeat, or toilng on toward a vic
tory
ADW VI Auls LluulgApui bibNdLlOu Vi WHICH
speak, ] 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
think when the better time comes to our
cities and the world people will give their
time up to psalm-singing and the relating OF
their religious experience, and as all social
life will be purified, there will be no hllaritY,
and, as all business will be purified, there
will be no enterprise, There is no ground
for such I'm absurd anticipation. In the
time of which speak, where now one for
tune is made, there will be a hundred for
tunes made. We all know business pros
perity depends upon confidence between
man and man. Now when that time comes
Of which l speak, and when all double deal
ing, all dishonesty, and all fraud are gone
out OF commercial circles, thorough conf
dence will be established and there will be
better business done, and larger fortunes
gathered, and mightier successes achieved.
The great business disasters OF this country
have come from the work of goddess specu-
lators and infamous stock gamblers. The
great foe to business is crime. When the
right shall have hurled back the wrong, and
shall have purified the commercial code, and
shall have Numbered down fraudulent estab-
nsnments, aud snan nave put into the hands
Of honest men the keys of business, blessed
time for the bargain makers. I am not talk
ing an abstraction, am not making guess
lam telling you Gods eternal truth.
In that day Of which speak, taxes will be
mere nothing. Now, cur business men are
taxed for everything. City taxes. county
taxes State taxes, United States taxes, stamp
taxes, license taxes, manufacturing taxes
taxes, taxes, faxes! Our business men have
to make small fortune every year to pay
their taxes. What fastens on our grent in
dustries this awful load2 Crime, individual
and official. We have to pay the board OF
the villains who are incarcerated in our pris-
ons We have to take care Of the orphans OF
those who plunged into their graves through
sensual indulgencies. We have to support
the municipal governments, which are vast
aud expensive just in proportion as the Grim
iDal proclivtles are vast and tremendous
Who support the almshousss and police sta.
tons, and all the machinery of municipal
government? The tax payers.
But in the glorious time OF which I speak
grievous taxation will all have ceased. There
will be no need Of supporting criminals there
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