The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-21
APPROACH OF THE MILLENNIUM.
TALMAGE THINKS THE WORLDS
OUTLOOK RAPTUROUS.

DaNn-Another Ray Seen in Fhcti
Mathematical and CHRONOLOGICAL
washington. Sept. 2O.-If the Clarion
note of this sermon, delivered at the Ma
tional capital, could sound through Chris
tendon, it would give everything good
new start. DR.. Talmage's text was Ro
mans 1872 "The Day Is at Hand"
Back from the mountains and the sea
side. and the springs. and the farm house
your cheeks bronzed and your spirits light
ed hail you home again with the words
of Gehazi to the Shuuammite: rs it wei
with thee? is 1t well with thy husband? Is
it wen with the chId?" on some faces
see the mark of recent grief, but all along
the track of tears see the story Of re-
surrection and reunion when all tears are
done; the deep ploughing Of the keel fol
lowed by the fash Of the phosphoresence
Now that I have asked you in regard to
your welfare, you naturally ask how am.
Very well, thank you. Whether it was the
bracing air of the mountains, or a bath
in the surf of Long Island beach, or wheth-
er it is the Joy of standing in this great
group OF WdTIIl-ntdIltu lIlclltSt VI WitAll-
er it is a new appreciation of the good
ness of God, ] cannot tell. I simply know
am happy 1t was said that John Moi
fatt, the great Methodist preacher, occa-
sionally got fast in his sermon, and to ex-
tricate himself would cry "Hallelujah! ]
am in no such predicament to-day, but l
am full of the same rhapsodic ejaculation.
Starting out this morning on a new &C.
clesiastcal year, | want to give you the
keynote of my next twelve months min
istry want to set it to the tunes of AN
tioch," Ariel" and Coronation" want
to put a new trumpet stop into my ser
mons We do wrong if we allow our per-
sonal sorrows to interfere with the glo-
rious fact that the kingdom is coming We
are wicked if we allow apprehension of
national disaster to put down our faith
in God and in the mission of our American
people. The God who hath been on the
side of this nation since the 4th of July,
1776, will see to it that this nation shall
not commit suicide on Nov. 8, 1896. By the
time the unparalleled harvests Of this
summer get down to the sea-board, we
shall be standing in a sunburst of national
prosperity that will paralyze the pessi-
mists who by their evil prophecies are
disappearing the God who hath blest this
nation as he hath blest no other.
In all our Christian work you and /
want more of the element of gladness. No
man had a right to say that Christ never
laughed. Do you suppose that he was
glum at the wedding in Cana of Galilee?
DO YOU suppose that Christ was unTe-
sponsive when the children clambered
over his knee and shoulder at his own
invitation? Do you suppose that the evan
gelist meant nothing when he said of
Christ He rejoiced in spirit?" DO you
believe that the Divine Christ who pours
all the waters over the rocks at Vernal
Falls, Yosemite, does not believe in the
sparkle and gallop and tumultous Joy
and rushing raptures of human life? l
believe not only that the morning laughs,
and that the mountains laugh, and that
the seas laugh and that the cascades
laugh but that Christ laughed. Moreover,
take a laugh and a tear into an alembic
and assay them, and test them, and an
alyze them, and you will often find as
much of the pure gold of religion in a
laugh as in a tear. Deep spiritual Joy
always shows itself in facial illumina-
ton. John Wesley said he was sure Of
a good religious impression being pro-
duced because of what he calls the great
gladness he saw among the people God
less merriment Is blasphemy anywhere,
but expression of Christian Joy is appro-
PIRATE everywhere.
Moreover, the outlook of the world
ought to stir us to gladness Astronomers
disturbed many people by telling them
that there was danger of stellar collision.
We were told by these astronomers that
there are worlds coming very near to-
gether and that we shall have plaques
and wars and tumults and perhaps the
worlds destruction. Do not be scared. II
YOU have ever stood at a railroad center
where ten or twenty or thirty rail tracks
cross each other, and seen that by the
movement of the switch one or two inches
the train shoots this way and that. with
out collidng, then you may understand
how fifty worlds may come within an incl
of disaster, and that inch be as good as
a million miles. If a human switch-tend
er can shoot the trains this way and thai
without harm, cannot the hand that fol
thousands of years has upheld the uni
verse, keep out little world out of harm!
way? Christian biologists tell us tina
this world was millions Of years inabulld
ing. Well. now, ! do not think Goo
would take millions of years to build I
house which was to last only six thou
sand years. There is nothing in thu
astronomical, to excite dismay. ! wisl
that some stout gospel breeze might scat
Ter all the malaria Of human foreboding
The sun rose this morning at about
o'clock. and / think that is just about tn,
hour in the worlds history, THE day il
at hand"
The first ray of the dawn / see in tn
gra6ual substitution of diplomatic skill
for human butchery. Within the las
twenty-five years there have been in
ternational differences which would have
brought a shock of arms in any othe
day. but which was peacefully adjusted
the pen taking the place of the sword
The Venezuelan controversy in any othe
age of the world would have brough
shock Of arms, but now is being so qui
city adjusted that no one knows just how
Il is being settled
The Alabama question in any othei
age of the world would have caused wa
between the United States and England
How was II settled? BY men-of-war of
the Narrows or off the Mersey? Bl
the gulf stream Of the ocean crossed b!
gulf stream of human blood! BY th'
pathway Of nations incarnadined? No. 4
few wise men so into a quiet room a
Geneva, talk the matter over, and tele
graph TO Washington and TO London: AL
settled" Peace. Peacel England pays