The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-09-18

| 80 - NS|W12 M 10 al WHO are GOll-
~ ing TO make the
AAH1lworld better, If we
V8tEN& MIzM should for a little
REv. TALMAGE 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 aud
trou BILE 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
prowess- Caesar hoasted of his native
Rome, Virgil. of Msntau, Lycurgus of
Sparta, nemosthenes of Athens, Ar
chimedes of Syracuse, and Paul of
Tarsus. / should have suspicion of
base heartedness in q man who had no
especial interest in the city of his birth
or residence-no exhilaration at the
evidence of its prosperity or its artistic
embellishments or its intellectual adj
vsncement.
have noticed that man never likes
a city where he has not behaved WE'LL
People who have had free ride in the
prison van never like the city that
furnishes the vehicle. If should find
q man coming from any city, having
no pride in that city, that city having
been the place of his nativity, or now
being the place of his residence,
would feel like asking: What mean
thing have you done there? What out
rageous thing have you been guilty of
that you do not like the placer"
think we ought-and I take it for
granted you are interested 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 a misera bic 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, wi b
the moon under His feet and the stars
of Heaven for His tiara Hail. Con-
queror, hail!
know there are sorrows. and there
are aims, and there are sufferinPs all
around about us; but as in some bitter,
cold winter day. when we are thrash
ing 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 aud see the northern lights,
the windows of Heaven illuminated by
some great victory-just so we look up
from the night of suffering aud sor-
row and Indebtedness 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 with
out clouds"
Iwant you TO understand, all you
who are toiling for Christ. that the
castles of sin are all going to be
captured. The victory for Christ in
these great towns is going to be so
complete that not man on earth or
an angel in Heaven or a devil in hell
will dispute 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 If the nation is to be
saved, of course all the cities are to
be saved. 1t makes a great difference
with you and with me whether we are
toiling on toward defeat, or toiling
toward a victory.
Now, in this municipal elevation of
which l speak l 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 millennium, and they think when
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the world people will give their time
to psalm-singing and the relating of
their religious experiences, and, as all
social life will be purified there will
be no hilarity, and, as all bust
ness will be purified, there will
be no enterprise. There is no
ground for such an absurd anticipa-
ton. In the time of which / speak,
where now one fortune is made, there
will be hundred fortunes made. We
all know business prosperity depends
upon confidence between man and
man. Now. when that time comes of
which / speak, and when all double
dealings, all dishonesty, and all frauds
are gone out of commercial circles,
thorough confidence will be estab-
lished, and there will be better busi-
ness done, and larger fortunes gath
cred, and mightier successes achieved.
The great business disasters of this
country have come from the work of
goddess spectators and infamous stock
gamblers. The great foe to business
is crime. When the right shall have
hurled back the wrong and shall have
purified the commercial code, and shall
Numbered down fraudulent establish
ments and shall put into the hands of
honest men the keys of business. blessed
time for the bargainmakerS am not
talking an abstraction am not max
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