Connecticut western news., 1896-09-17
THE CHANGED CITIES.
REV. oR. TALMAGE SHOWS HOW THE ,, GOSPEL WILL AFFECT THEM.

REV. oR. TALMAGE SHOWS HOW THE GOSPEL WILL AFFECT THEM. He says They wM All Be Evangsli.ed.
 a.A He Expsots to Live to See It-How It Wm Ds Breesht Abost and the Con-
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 WASHINGTON, Sept IS. = So much that is depressing is said about the wickedneas of the cities 1t will cheer ns to read what Dr. Talmage says in this sermon about their coming redemp- tion. The text is Zechariah viii, 5, "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof"
 Glimpses of our cities redeemedl l Now boys and girls who play in the stxsets run such risks that multitudes of them end in ruin. But, in the com- ing time spoken ot, our cities will be so moral that lads and lasses shall be as safe in the public thoroughfares as in the nursery.
 Pulpit and printing press for the most part in our day are busy in dis cuss4ng the condition of the cities. at this time. but would it not be health fully encouraging to all Christian work era and to all who are toiling to make tho world better, if we should for 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 world1
 Every man has pride in the city of his nativity or residence. if it be city distinguished for any dignity or prow- esa. Caesar boasted of his native Rome, Virgil of Mantua. Lyourgus of Sparta, Deamosthenes of Athens, Arohimedes of Syracuse and Paul of Tarsua should have suspicion of base hearted ness In man who had no especial in- tsrest in the city of his birth or resi- dence-no exhilaration at the evidence of its prosperity or its artistic embellish- ments CT its intellectual advancement
 4 Noticeable Point.
 l have noticed that man never likes . city where he has not behaved welll People who have had free ride in the prieon van never like the city that fur niahes the vehicle. When I find Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to prove Ahemselves the birthplace of Homer, l 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 it's Faneuil hall and to its Common and to It's superior educational advan- tages. Philadelphia must continue to point to its Independence hall and its mint and it's Girard college. Washing ton must continue to point to its won- drous capitoline buildings. If I should find man coming from any city, hay ing no pride in that oity, that city hay ing been the place of his nativity, or now being the place of his residence. I would feel like, asking: What mean thing have you done theres What out Eageous thing have you been guilty of that you do not like the placer'
 think we ought-and l take it for granted you are interested in shis great work of evangelizing the cities and say Ing the world-we ought to toll with tho sunlight in our faces We are not fighting in . miserable Bull Run of de- feat We are on our way to final vio- tory. We are net 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, haill
 know there are sorrows, and there are sins, and there are sufferings all around about us, but as in some bitter, oold winter day. when we are thraahing our arms around us to keep our thumbs from freezing, we think of the warm apring day that will after awhile come. oe in tho dark winter night 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 wretchedness in our cities, and we see 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. |" i want you to understand, all you who are toiling for Christ. that the castles of sin arc all going to be captured. The victory for Christ in these great towns is going to be % complete that not 8 man on earth, or an angel in heaven. or . devil in he'll will dispute it. How do I knowf 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 to be saved It makes . great difference with you and with me whether we are toiling on toward defeat or toiling on toward . victory.
 A 0lorio1s Time.
 Now, in this municipal elevation of 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 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 religious experience. and. as all social life will be purified, there will be no hilarity. and, as all business will be purified, there will be no enterprise. There is no ground for such an absurd anticipation. In the time of which l speak where now one fortune Is made there will be . hundred fortunes made. We all know business prosperity de- ponds upon confidence between man kok of which I speak, and when all double dealing. all dishonesty, and all fraud are gone out of commercial circles, thorough confidence 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 godlew speoulators and infamous stoch