Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-11-28
THECOMINGCE CENTURY
DR.. TALMAGE TELLS WHAT THE NEW
CYCLE WILL USHER IN.

The Needs of the New Ase-when
War ShalI Be No Mere.
copyright, 1893. by American Press Asso-
ciation.l
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-This sermon
of DIR. Talmage is an anticipation of
things near at hand and urges prepare
ton for stirring events; text, Chron-
icIes xii. SO, ''The children Of Issachar,
which were men that had understanding
of the times, to know what Israel ought
to do.
Great tribe, that tribe of Issachar
When Joab took the census, there were
las, 600 of them. Before the almanac
was born, through astrological study,
they knew from stellar conjunotions all
about the seasons of the year. Before
agriculture became an art they were
skilled in the raising of crops. Before
politics became science they knew the
temper of nations, and whenever they
marched, either for pleasure or war,
they marched under three cOlored flag
topaz, sardire and carbuncle. But the
chief characteristic Of that tribe Of
Issachar was that they understood the
times. They were not like the political
and moral incompetents of our day, who
are trying to guide 1898 by the theories
Of 1928. They locked at the divine in
dications in their own particular CEN
fury. So we ought to understand the
times, not the times when America was
Ii colonies, huddled together along the
Atlantic coast, but the times when the
nation dips one hand in the ocean on
one side the continent and the other
hand in the ocean on the other side the
continent; times which put New York
Narrows and the Golden Horn of the
Pacific within one flash Of electric teleg-
raphy; times when God is as directly,
as positively, as solemnly, as tremen
dously addressing US through the daily
newspaper and the quick revolution Of
events as he ever addressed the aHcients
or addresses US through the Holy Scrip
lures. The voice of God in Providence
is as important as the voice of God in
typology, for in our own day we have
had our Sinais with thunders Of the AL
mighty, and Calvaries Of sacrifice, and
Gethsemanes that sweat great drops Of
blood, and Olivets Of ascension, and
Mount Pisgahs of farreaching vision.
The Lord who rounded this world 5000
years ago and sent his Son to redeem it
near /, 800 years ago has yet much to do
with this radiant but agonized planet.
May God make us like the children of
Issachar, (which were men that had
understanding of the times, to know
what Israel ought to DO"
The grave of this century will soon
be dug. The cradle Of another century
will soon be rocked. There is some
thing moving this way out of the eter-
mites, something that thrills me,
blanches me- appalls me, exhilarates
me, enraptures me. It will wreathe the
orange blossoms for millions Of we'd
dings. 1t will beat the dirge for mil
lions Of obsequies. 1t will carry the
gilded banners of brightest mornings
and the black flags Of darkest mid
nights. The world will play the grand
march of its heroes and sound the r0gues'
march of it's towards. Other professions
may halt or break down or fall back,
but the procession led by that leader
moves steadily on and Will soon be
here. 1t Will preside over coronations
and dethronements. hail it, bless it,
/ welcome it, the twentieth century Of
the Christian era.
The Cradle of the Century.
What may we expect of it, and how
shall we prepare for it, are the mo-
mentous questions propose now to dis
cuss. As in families, human nativity is
anticipated by all sanctity and kindli-
ness and solemnity and care and hopeful
ness, so ought we prayerfuUy, hopefully,
industriously, confidently prepare for the
advent of a new century. The nine
teenth century must not treat the TWEEN
tieth on its arrival as the eighteenth CEN
fury treated the nineteenth. Our cen
fury inherited the wreck of revolutions
and the superstitions Of ages. Around
its cradle stood the armed assassins Of
old world tyrannies; the ''reign of
terror" bequeathing it's horrors; Ro-
bespierre, plotting his diabolism the
Jacobin club. with its wholesale mas
sacre; the guillotine, chopping its be-
headments. The ground quaking with
the great guns of Marengo, Wagram
and Badajos. All Europe in convulsion.
Asia in comparative quiet, but the
quietness of death. Africa in the
clutches of the slave trade. American
savages in full cry, their scalping knives
Lifted. The exhausted and poverty
struck people of America sweating un-
der the debt of $500, 600, 900, which the
Revolutionary war had left them.
Washington just gone into the long
sleep at Mount Vernon, and the nation
IN bereavement; Aaron Burr, the cham
pion libertine, becoming soon after the
vice president. The government of the
United States only an experiment, most
of the philosophers and statesmen and
governments of the earth prophesying
it would be a disgraceful failure. No
poor founding laid at night on the cold
steps of mansion, to be picked up in
the 1lnnrnino Was rnnrar off than this