The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-09-26
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Wicked Cities of the World
and Their Redemption.
Pictures of Metropolitan Life-Eievatiou
OF Municipal Standards-.C Christian
Effort Needed to Aid In
the Mighty Work.

ton. 1t was based on the text:
And the streets OF the city shall be full OF
BOYS and girls playing In the streets thereof
gecharah Will, %
Glimpses of our cities redeemed!
Now, boys and girls who play in the
streets run such risks that multitudcs
of them end in ruin. But, in the com
Ing time spoken of, 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
cussng the condition of the cities ut
this time; but would it not be health
fully encouraging to all Christian
workers, and To all who are toiling to
make the world better, If we should for
little while look forward to the time
when our cities shall be revolutionized
bv the Gospel of the Son of God, and
nil the da rkness 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, if it be city
distinguished for any dignity or Prov
esS. Cesar boosted of his native
Rome, Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus Of
sparta, Demosthenes of Athens, Archi-
medes of Syracuse, and Paul of Tar
sus | should have suspicion of base
heartedness in man who had no es-
recial interest in the city of his birth
or rcsiuencG-ro eXhiiaratlon at the
evidence of its prosperity or its artistic
embellishments, or its intellectual adj
yaucement.
have noticed that man never
Gkes city whore he has not behaved
ErH! People who have had 4 free ride
IN the prison van never like the city
lhat furnishes the vehicle. When !
fad Argos, and Rhodes, and smyrna
irving 20 prove themselves the birth
place of Homer, ! conclude at once
that Homer behaved well. lie liked
them and they liked him, We must
~; war on lauda5lc city pride, or
wf,h the idea OF building ourselves up
q. anr tiue, try 10 pull others down.
boston must continue to point TO its
lUucu'l han and to its common, and
~ 10, superior educational advantages.
nuadciphia must continue to point
is independence hall. and its mint,
aal its Girard college. Washington
mGst continue = point to its won
Graus capitGl:nc buildings. If should
1pd q UGa coming from any city, hay
Ing no pride IN that city, that city
having brra the place OF his nativity,
or now being the place OF his resi-
dtnee, would feel like asking: what
mean thiu: have you done there? What
l., l.
OF that yoU do not like the place."
Ithink we ought-and l take it for
granted you are interested in this
great work of evangclizing the cities
ana saving the world-we ought to
toll with the sunlight in our faces. We
are not fighting in a misera BILE Bull
Run OF defeat. We are on our way to
final victory. 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
arr sins, and there are sutferings all
around about us; but as in some Bit
ter cold winter day, when we are
threshing 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
night we look up and see the northern
light, the windows of Heaven illumi-
mated by some great victory-just so
we look up from the night OF suffering
ard sorrow and Indebtedness in our
i cities, and we see n light streaming
through from the other side, and we
know we are on the way to morning
more than that, on the way to IA
morning without Clouds"
i want you to understand, all you
who are toiling for Christ, that the
castles of sin are all going to be cap
tured. The victory for Christ in these
great towns is going to be so complete
that not man on earth, or an angel
Heaven, or devil in hell will dis
pute it. How do l know? know
just as certainly as God lives and that
this is holy truth. The old Bible is
full of it. II the nation is to be saved,
of course all the cities are to be saved.
1t makes great difference with you
ana with me whether we are toiling
on toward defeat or toiling on
toward victory.
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 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, rs
all social life will be purified there
will be no hilarity, and, as all business
will be purified, there will be no enter
prise. There is no ground for such an
absurd anticipation. In the time OF
which speak. where now one fortune
is made, there will be hundred for
tunes made. We all know business
prosperity depends upon conf
dence between man and man.
Now when that time comes of which
speak, and when all double deal
ing, all dishonestv md all fraud are