The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1896-11-30
THE DYING CENTURY
Dr.. Talmsss Talks Of the Good Things
Of The Nineteenth Century.
TELL GREAT INVENTIONS MADE
The Advancement in Science, Music
and Art That Has Been Made
During the Hundred Years.

Washington. November c9.-(Spcclal)--
Considering the time and place OF its de-
livery. this sermon OF Dr. Talmage IS OF
absorbing and startling interest. II is not
only national. but international in its sig
nIicancN Ills subject was: 1.-The Dying
Century" ana the text Second Kings. Ky, 4:
''rhus saith the Lord. Set thine house IN
or.lcr. for thou shalt die. and no; live"
No alarm he'll do ] ring in the utterance
~ this text. for IN the healthy glow OF
YOUR coumteaauces 1 rnd cause only for
cheerful prophecy. but / shall apply the
text az spoken in the ear OF Hezekiah.
down with a bad carbuncle. TO the nine
teenfh century. now closing. n will take
only four more long brcaths. each. year
breath. and tho century VIII expire. Ally
theme Is the dying century / discuss II
tt Lu hour when our national legislature IS
a.out 10 assemble. some of tAe members
now here present, and others soon 10 ar
rave from tire north. south, east and west.
SD the public couveyanrcs coming this
way viii bring important additions OF pub
1i.- mon. so that when ON December 5th, at
hIgh uoon. the ravei Of senate and house
OF r,sssraseiltatIvts shall llft ANA. fail. the
si,-tiuies az this nation. and through ~
the gestiuios or an nations struggling 10
-.s free. WIZ le put ou solemn anu tremcn-
,loIs tf.al. Amid such intersi.Fins clrcuIn-
ANA address 81 On tAe words 81 my text:
Thus saith the lord. st thine house II
orlc~ for -hou shalt jle. and mot ilFe.'
literally is too big subject fur us 90
understand. some ore BIAS @ail BE- is
r-elt ciora. that saFs- "Ii 30 tn one
century and Tack" lu auofh.-. iut we
can better understand old Tme who has
many children. ana they are the centuries.
uul many rraudchildrsn. ana thcy are the
wears. With the dying nineteenth century
wo shall this morning have "A plain talk,
telling him some OF tho good things Dee
las done. and thcu telling him some OF the
ttiuff he ought 20 adjust before he quits
this sphere aui passes out ~ ioin tne
otornifies. We generally wait until people
are dead before We say much in praise Of
them. Funeral euioEium is generally very
Vathetic and eloquent with things thHt
ought 70 have been said years before We
put Oh cold tombstoues what we ought 60
have put Tn the warm ears OF the LIVING
We curse. Charles sumner while he IS living
and cudEel him into spinal meningitis ANA
sgait unrii. f. tho rooms whore h0N"
lseu LKiug tne last year. De puts bis Band
ON nis htart ana cries. "tht+ ana S. Tphc,
ana then we make long procc sion n his
honor Dr. Sunderland. chaplain OF The
American senate. acgownauylug. stopping
long enough go allow tho dead senator 10
ua n state in Independents hall Iliiadc!-
phi.. aud Haltiug a. Boston state7ouse.
where not lonE before. da1nnatory rt-o4l-
tious Hal been passed iu regard % nlm,
ANA then move on. amid tho toiNnE heis
auI tie boom OF minute guns. until Uc
bury hlm ~ 1fouul Auburn ana cover him
w-ith flowers dRe feet deep. WHAT pity
no could not have been awake at Ills own
funeral TO hear tho gratitude or the nae
tlon, What a pity that one green leaf
could not have been takcn from c3rh one
o. tie Uortuary Efri4nGs mo. put unor llH
table while lie was yet alive az thc Arlus-