Connecticut western news., 1898-12-01
THECOMING CENTURY
: DR. TALMAGE TELLS WHAT THE NEW
 CYCLE WILL USHER IN.

CYCLE WILL USHER IN.
 The Advances That Have Been Made.
 How Epochs Have Been Marked.
 The Needs of the New Age-When
 War Shall Ee No More.
 ICopyright, 1898. by American Press Asso-
 ciation.l
 WASHINGTON Nov. 27.-This sermon of Dr. Talmage is an anticipation of things near at hand and urges prepara- tion for stirring events; text, 1 Chron- ieles xii, 82, "The children of Issachar, Eich were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do." #e
 Great tribe, that tribe of Issachar When Joab took the census, there were 145, 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 oolored flag topaz, sardine and oarbunole. But the chief characteristic of that tribe of Issachar was that they understood the times. They were not like the political and moral inoompetents of our day, who are trying to guide 1898 by the theories of 1828 They locked at the divine in- dioations in their own particular cen- tury. So we ought to understand the times. not the times when America was IS 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 tho 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 ancients 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 6,000 years ago and sent his Son to redeem it near l, 300 years ago has yet much to do with this radiant but agonized planet. May God make us like the children of Issaohar, (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. It will beat the dirge for mil lions of obsequies. It will carry the gilded banners of brightest mornings andz the black flags of darkest mid nights. The world will play the grand march of it's heroes and sound the rogues' march of it's towards. Other prooessions may halt or break down or fall back, but the procession led by that leader moves steadily on and will soon be here. It will preside over coronations and dethronements. Ihail it, I bless it, Iweicome 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 sanotity and kindli- ness and solemnity and care and hopeful ness, so ought we prayerfully, hopefully, industriously, confidently prepare for the advent of new century. The nine teenth century must not treat the twen- tieth on its arrival as the eighteenth cen tury treated the nineteenth. Our oen- tury inherited the wreck of revolutions and the superstitions of ages. Around it's cradle stood the armed assassins of old world tyrannies; the "reign of terror, {" bequeathing its horrors; Ro- bespierre, plotting his diabolism the Jacobin club, with its wholesale mas sacre; the guillotine, chopping it's 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 ill full cry, their soalping knives lifted. The exhausted and poverty struck people of America sweating un- der the debt of $500, 900, 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 1t would be disgraceful failure. No poor founding laid at night on the cold steps of mansion, to be picked up in the morning, was poorer off than this century at its nativity. The United States government had taken only 12 steps on its journey, its constitution having been formed in 1789, and most of the nations of the earth laughed at our. government in its first attempts to walk alone.
 The birthday of our nineteenth cen fury occurred in the time of war. Our small United States navy, under Cap tain Truxton, commanding the frigate Constitution, was in collision with the French frigates La Vengeance and L'In- snrgente, and the first infant cries of this century were drowned in the roar of naval battle, and political strife on this continent was the hottest, the par ties rending each other with pantherine rage. The birthday present of this nine- teenth century was vituperation, public unrest, threat of national demolition, and horrors national and international. adjure you, let not the twentieth cen L4 AL-A II l,,A