The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-01-16
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
The Eminent Divine's Sermon Do
livered in Washington.
Subject: "rne Dying Century,"

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this text. for in the healthy glow OF your
fnd cause only for cheerful
urophery but I shall apply tue text as
spoSen in the ear OF Hezekiah, down with
bal earbuncle. to the nineteenth century,
now closing. 1t viii take only TOUR more
long breatss, each year a Dreatn, anu rus
century will expire. My theme is "The Dy-
ing Cen urv.'' discuss it at an. hour when our
National Legislature il about to assemble:
some of the members now here present ana
Others soon to arrive from the North. South,
East and West. All the public conVeyances
coming this way will bring important addt-
lions of public men, so that when on Deceal-
Der z. at high noon, the gavels OF Senate and
House OF Representatives shall lit ana iaii
the destinles OF this Nation. AMI through 1t
the d. stlnies of all Nations struggling TO be
free. will be put on solemn an / tremen Ions
trial. Amid such insensifyins rcunstances
stand by the venerable century and address
it in the woris OF my text, "faus satin the
Lord, Set thine house in order, Tor tnou
sha t die and not live"
Eternity IL TOO ,big subject tor US TO |
understand. Some ono has sai1 IL Is |
great clock that says "Tick'' in one CEN
fury aud ''fack' in another. But we can |
batter understand old time, who has many
children-aud they are the centurie5-ana
many grandchildren-and they are the
wears. With the dying nineteenth century
we shall this morning have PLAIN lax,
| telling him some OF the good things he mas
| done. and then telling him some OF the
| things ne ought to adjust before ne quits
| This sphere and passes out 10 JON inc
| eternities. We generally wait untii peopie
| are dead before we say much In prafss Oh
| them. Funeral eulogium is generally very
| pathetic ana eloquent with things thar
| ought TO have been said years before. we
| put on cold tombstones what We ought 10
| have put in the warm ears OF Inc nVing.
| We curse Charles Sumner whlle ne is nv
! ing and cudgel him into spinal meningitis
| and wait until. in the rooms wDere have
been living the last year. he puts his hand
| on his heart and cries ''Oh." and is gone,
| and then we MAKE long procession In MS
honor DR.. Sunderland. chaplain OF the
American Sena,e, accompanying; stopping
long enough to allow the dead Senator TO lie
in state in Independence Hall, Philadelphia,
aud hating Mt Boston Statehouse, where not
long before damnatory resolutions had been
I pass ID in regard to him, ana then move en-,
| amid the tolIing bells and the boom OF min
ute guns. until we bury him at Mount Au-
burn ami cover him with flowers i've fett
deep What pity he could not have been
awake at his own funeral to hear the gresi-
tude OF the Nation! What a pity that one
green leaf could not have been taken from
each one OF the NOR uary gar.ands and put
upon his table while he WAS Yet alive at The
Arlingtonl What pity that out OF the great
| choirs who chanted at his obsequies one IT.
tie girl dressed in white might not nave sung
TO his living ear a complimentary solo! Tle
postmorteD expression contradtcred the ante
mortem. The Nation couid not have SPOKEN
the truth both inns about Charles Sumner.
Was it before or after his decease 1t lied?
No such Injustice shall be inflicted upon
this venerable nineteenth century. Before
he goes we rec,te in his hearing some OF the
good things he has accomplished. What
, an n idiiion to the worlds intelligence hs
: has madeI Look at the old sehoolhouse
with the snow sitting through the roof aud
the filthy tin cup hanging over The watei
l pail in the corner, and the little victims OF
tho long b-nches without backs, and TN
, illterate scboolnaster with his hickory CAD
and then Look at our modern palaces Q
, free schools under men and women cul
: tured and refined TO The highest txcelence
o so that whereas in our childhood we mad K
bs whipped to go 10 school, children nov
cry when they cannot go. Thank you
o venerable century; while at the san ne tim
8 We thank God What an addition to tn
= worlds inventions -within our century tn
: cotton gin, the agricultural machines 10
G planning. reaping and thrashing; the tel,
e graph; the monograph. capable OF pre-
8 serving n human voice from generation
/. generation; the typewriter. that rescues tn
:. world from WORSE and worse penmanshiI
d aud stenography, capturing from the lips {
= minutei Never was l so amazed at tn
facilities OF our time as when afew days as
b l telegraphed from Washington TO New for
e | long aud elaborate manuscript. and Re
a minutes after, to show its accuracy, it WI
rea to me through the long-iistance TEL
- phone. and it was exact down to the la
II sem colon and comma
q What hath God wrought! Oh. am {
~ glad was not born sooner. For the talo
=, candle the electric ighr. For the within:
~ OF the surgeons table God given anesthetic
D. aud the whole physical organism explore
a by sharpest instrument, aud giving not |
much pain as the taking OF splinter fro
under a childs finger nail. For the iumbe
n, ing stagecoaeh the limited express trail
of AMI there is The spectroscope OF Fraunhofe
~ by which our modern scientist feels he pu ,.
- OF other worlds throbbing with light, Je
le ner's arrest by incubation OF one OF Il
D. worlds worst plaques. Di. Kseley's emanr
IN patton for inebrety. lntimation that Il
virus OF maddened canine aud cancer az
III consumption ars yet 10 be balkei by magn
y flcent medical treatment. This eyesight
q the doctor sharpsnedtll he can iookthr0uG
~ thick flesh AM find the bi ling pace OF Il
~, bullet. What advancement in geology,
III the catechism of the moan aims; chenisir
~ or the catechisnl of the elements; astronom
he or the catechism Of the stars; e.ectrology.
g, the catechsm OF the Iightnings. What a
a. century, combining Itself, 50 far as t
to great masses of the people were co
ut cerned, to a few airs drawn out
- accordion or massacred on church ba
ne viol. now enchantingly dropping fro
ts thousands Of fingers in Handel's "Coneer
n In ID Flat" or Gulmant's "Sonata In
no Minor" Thanks TO you, o century, befo
= you die, for the asyums OF mercy that y
nu have fonnded-ihe bind seein2 with tn.
I'D fingers, the deaf hearing by the mot on
your lips, the born imbecile by skilliul obie
lesson lifted to to erable Intelligent
IN. Thanks 10 this century for theimproved co
dition OF most Nations. The reason that
poieon made such successful sweep acr(
. Europe ut ths beginning Of the century "
that most OF the thrones OF Europe we're
cupied either by imoeciles or proilga'
But most OF the thrones OF Europe are tod
occupied by kings ani queens oompe.el
les France a republic, Switzerland a republ
and about fifty fres constitutions, am to
In Europe. Twenty million ser;s OF Rus
Sc manumstted. On this Western continent
can call the roll OF many rspublics-Mexi
Guatemala, San Salvador. Costa Rica, Pa
MT quay. Uruguay, Honduras, New Greua,
at Venezuela, Peru. Ecuador, Bolivia, chi
Argentine Republic. Brazil. The one str;
Cling village OF Washington to which
United States Government moved, its ent
baggage aud equipment packed up in Sc,
boxes, which got lost in the woods near t
place, now the architectural glory OF
continent and admiration OF the world.
The money power, so much denount
and often Justly criticised, has covered t
cont nent with universities aud free libr
| tpca nd Of Tina nav M