The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-09-23
RELIGION In CITIES.
REV. DR. TALM PREACHES UPON
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

MUNICIPAL EIEC IONS.
He Says the Cities CT SIN Are All Going tc
Be Captured by the Sunglass OF the Cos
psi Focused Upon Wickodness--He Er
p,c.s to Live to SEQ 1t.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-S, much
that is depressing is said about the
wickedness OF the cities that it viii
cheeru to read what Dr.. Talmage says
in this sermon about their coming re
demption. 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 redeem ed
Now, boys and girls who play in the
streets run such risks that multitud es
of them end in ruin. But in the com
ing time spoken Of our cities will be sc
moral that lads and lassies 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
cussing the condition OF the cities al
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 revolu.
tionized by the gospel Of the Son of
God, and all the darkness of sin and
trouble and crime and suffering shall
pe gone from the world2
Every man has pride in the city
of his nativity or residence, if it be q
city distinguished for any dignity or
prowess. Cesar boasted OF his native
Rome, Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus of
Sparta, Dsmosthenes of Athens, Ar
chimedes of,Syracuse and Paul OF Tar
sus. I should have suspicion of base
heartedness in man VINO had no es-
pecial interest in the dity os his birth
or residence-no exhilaration at the
evidence of its prosperity or its artistic
embellishments, or its intellectual ad,
vancemeat.
I have noticed that man never
likes city where he has not behaved
well People who have had free ride
in the prison van never like the city
that furnishes the vehicle. When I
find Argos and Rhodes andeSmyrna
trying to prove themselvesl@:e birth
place Of Homer, I concM:s at once
that Homer behaved Wgh He liked
them, and they liked Mrg We must
not war on laudable city pride, or,
with the idea of building ourselves up
st any time, try TO pull others down.
Boston must continue to point to its
Faneuil hall and to its Common and to
its superior educationa. advantages.
Philadelphismust continue to point
to its INDEPENDENCE hall and its mint
and GiraSa college. Warrington must
continue to point to its .wondrous cap.
itoline> buildings. If should find a
man coming from any city, having &c
pride in that city, that city having
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 there2 What
outrageous thing have you been guilty
of that you do not like the placer"
I think we ought-and l tAke it for
granted you areinterested in this great
work of evangelizing the cities and
saving the world-We ought to toll
with the sunlight in our faces. We
are not fighting in ? miserabie Bull
Run of defeat. We are on our way
to final victory. We are not follow
ing the rider on the black horse, lead
ing us down to Death abd darkness
and doom, but the rider on the white
horse, with the r DON under his feet
and the stars of 8eaven for his tiara.
Hail, Conquerorfhail
I know there & e sorrows, and there
are sins, and IRE are sufferings all
around about us but as in some bitter,
cold winter daI when we are thrash
ing our arms found US to keep our
thumbs from fl ;ezing, we think of the
warm spring dsg that will after awhile
come, or N the dark winter night we
look up and sea the northern lights,
the windows of heaven. Illuminated by
some great vicj ry, just as we look up
from the night II suffering and sorrow
and wretchedls s4ss in our cities, and we
see a light streaming through from the
other side, an we ! how we are on the
way to morning-4ore than that, on
the way to morning without clouds. "
I want you to understand, all you
who are toiling foS Christ, that the
castles Of sin are ALI going to be cap
tured. The victory pr Christ in these
great town 5 is goinaAo be so complete
that not q Ihan on ed s5h or an angel in
heaven oy a devil i1a hell will dispute
it. How{do I know I know just as
certainly as GezIETs and that this is
holy truth. The oil Bible isfull of it.
If the nation is to b saved, of course
all the cities are to bI saved. It makes
great difference VHh you and with
me whether we are billing on toward
a defeat or toiling & toward a victo-
FRY. $
r. Now, in this nun ipal elevation of
which I speak, ] hal to remark there
will be greater Fl ncial prosperity
than our cities have ver seen. Some
people seem to ha7 IA morbid idea of
the millennium, ar they think when
I:the better time CON to our cities and
the world people give their time
up to psalm singin and the relating
of their religious e1 erience, and as all
social life will be pN fed there will be
no hilaritys and as / business will be
purified there vii De no enterprise.
There is no ground such an absurd
anticipation. In the time Of
| which I speak where now one
fortune is mao there will be
a hundred fortr made. We all
know business osperlty depends
| upon confidence etween man and
man. Now, whd hat time comes Of
which I speak, when all double
dealing, al dist sty and all fraud
are gone out Of numerical circles,
thorough confid will be establish
ed. and there be better business
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