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WASHINGTON Nov. 27.-This sermon of
DIR. Talmage is an anticipation of things
near at hand and urges preparation for
stirring events; text 1 Chronicles xii,
80, The children of lssachar, which were
men that had understanding of the times.
to know what Israel ought to do"
Great tribe, that tribe of Issachar. When
Juab took the census, there were LIS, coo
of them. Before the almanac was born,
through astrological study, they knew
from stellar conjunctions all about the
seasons Ut the year. Before agriculture be-
came an art they were skilled In the rails
ing of crops. Before politics became u sci
ence they knew the temper of nations, and
whenever they marched, either for pleas
ure or war, they marched under three
colorcd flag-topa7, sartline and carhun-
Gle. But the chief characteristic If that
tribe of 1ssachar was that they understood
che times. They were not like the politi-
cal and moral irCnmpetCnts Of our day,
who are trying to guide lS9S by the thco-
ries of 1898. They looked mt the divine in
dications in their own particular century.
So We ought To understand the times. not
TIE times when America was Is colonies
huddlei 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
telcgraphy; times when God is ms directly,
us positively. rs solomnly, as tremendous
ly adss 'ssinc us throj Oh the daily news
paper and the quick revolution OF events
a 4
dresses us throu the Holy Scriptures.
The voice of God in Providence is as i'm.
portsnt as the voice of God in typology.
for in our own day we have had our Sinais
with thunders of the Almighty. and Cal
varies of sacrifice, and Gothscmancs that
sweat great drops of blood, and Olivets of
ascension, aud Mount Pisgahs of farrcach
ing vision. The Lord who rounded this
world 5000 years ago and sent his son 10
redeem 1t near 1900 years ago has vet
much to do with this radiant but agonizcd
planet. May God make us like the chill
dren Of Issachar, (which Were men that
had understanding of the times, to know
what Israel ought to do"
The Dying Century.
The grave of this century will soon be
dug The cradle of another century will
soon be rocked. There is something NOV
ing this way out of the eternities, some
thing that thrills me, blanches me, APP
pals me, exhilarates me. cnrapturcS me
1t will wreathe tho orange blossoms for
millions of weddings. 1t will beat the
dirgc for millions of obsequies. II will
carry the gilded banners of brightest
mornings and the black flags of darkest
m;dnghrS The world will play the grand
march of its heroes and sound the rogueS
march of its towards Other professions
may halt or break down or full back, but
the procession led by that leader moves
steadily on and will soon be here IL will
preside over coronations and Gethrune-
ments l hail It'll l bless it. welcome
it, The twentieth century of the Christian
era.
What may we expect of it and how shall
we prepare for it are the momcntous Ques-
tions propose now to discuss. As in fam
lilies human nativity is anticipated by ali
sanctity and kindlincss and solemnity and
care and hopefulness, so ought we prayer
fully, hopefully, industriously, confidently
prepare for the advent of new century
The nineteenth century must not treat
tho twentieth on its arrival as the eight
zenith century treated the nineteenth
Our century inherited the wreck Of revo-
Around its cradle stood the armed assassin
OF old world tyrannies; the reign of ter
ror" boqueathing its horrors; Robe
sphere, plotting his diabOlisin; the Jacobin
club, with its wholesale massacre; the
guillotine, chopping its beheadments. Tho
ground quaking with the great guns Of
Marengo, Waeram and Badajcs. All Eu-
rope in CONFUSION. Asia In comparative
quiet, but the quietness of death Africa
in the clutches of the slave trade Ameri-
can savages in full cry, their scalping
knives lifted. The exhausted and poverty
struck people of America sweating under
the debt Of $500, 000, 600, which the Revo-
lutionnry war had left them Washington
just gone into tho long sleep at Mount
Vernon. and the nation in bereavement.
Aaron Burr, the champion liherrine be-
coming soon after the vice president. The
government of the United States only an
experiment, most 81 the philosophers and
statesmen and governments of the earth
propheSying il would be a disgraceful fail
ure. No poor founding laid at night on
the cold steps Of a mansion, To be picked
up in the morning, was poorer of than
this century at It's nativity. The United
States government had taken only IL ste,
ON its journey, its constitution having
DecH lurHleu IN 1 o., anu most OF the M
tons of the earth laughed at our govern.
ment in its first attempts to walk alone,
New Map of the World.
The birthday of our nineteenth century
occurred in the time of war. Our small
United States navy, under Captain Trux-
ION, commanding the frigate Constitution.
was in collision with tho French frigates
La Vengeance and L'Insurgente, and The
hrst infant cries of this century wery
drowned in the roar of naval battle And
political strife on this continent was the
hottest, the parties rcnding each other
with pantherine rage The birthday pres
ent OF this nineteenth century was vituper
alton, public unrest, threat of national
demolition and horrors national and in
ternational l adjure you, let not III,
twentieth century be met in that awful
way, but with all brightness of temporal
and religious prospects.
First, let us put upon the cradle of this
new century a new map of the world. This
old map was black with too many barhar
isms and red with too many slaughter:
and pale with too many suffcriugs. Lei
us see To IL that on that map, So far n.
possible, our country from ocean To occaI
Is "a Christian!zcd OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, col
leges, churches and good homes in Ions
line from ocean beach TO ocean beach On
that map Cuba must he free Porto RicS
must DO free, The archipelago Of the Phil
ippines must be free, II cruel Spain ex
poets by procrastination and intrigue Z,
get back what she has surrendered. ther
the warships Iowa and Indiana and Brook
lyn and Texas and Vesuyius and Oregon
M b, haa IN