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THE BETTER EARTH.
DIR. TAl-AAGE ON 1.-THE WORLD AS
IT WILL BE-"
Improvement In Human Conditions
After the Earth Has been RcNolu-
tionjzcd For Good-The Giorics of
! The Coming Century.
copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1890. !

copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1901
WAsHINGfoN, Dec 3. - BY novel
modc DR. Talmagc in this discourse
shows how the world will look after it
Ihas been revolutionizcd for good; text
III Peter iii, IS. "A new earth, wherein
Hvcllcth righteousness"
Down in the struggle to make the
world better and happier we sometimes
get depressed with the obstacles 70 be
overcome aud the work to be accomplish
ed. viii it not be a tonic and an insp-
ration to look at the world as it will he
when it has been brought back to para
disaical condition? So let us for II few
moments transport ourselves into the fu-
turc and put ourselves forward in the
centuries and see the world in its fcscucd
and perfected state. as we will sec it if
sn those times we are permitted to rcvis-
il this planet, as am sure we will. We
all want TO see the world after it has
lccu thoroughly eospcli~ed and all
wrongs have been rishtcd. We will want
lo come back, and we will come back to
looh upon the refulgent contamination
toward which we have been on larger or
smaller scale toiling Having heard the
opening of the orchestra on whose strings
some discOrds travelled, We will want to
hear the last triumphant bar of the per-
gectcd oratorio. Having seen the picture
Is the painter drew its first outlines up
ON convus vvo will want to 500 II whom If
is rs complcte as Roubou's descent
l,rom tho Cross" or Michael Anyolo's
LAST Jrdcno,t" tInvirg soon tho
world under the CLEAN of the star Of
Rrthloben, WE will wont to 500 if whom.
,nd.r Tho fun sbiuin,, of tho SIM of ripht.
,n,i.uo.s tbn tovnrs shall strike 10 ot
noon
century of ,bn vvorld'. n.rfoctinn to hin.
uar our terrestrial visit Our mower and
,,Ioci+v Of loromotion will have been
iuproved infinitely. It will not take us
;.nc to come here. however far off in
Gods universe heaven nav be- The Bi-
IIn declares that such visitation is going
I'm uov ARA thny NOT all miuisterinp
,1irits sent forth TO minister TO those who
shall be hoirs OF solvntionf" Surely thc
Gates OF heaven will not be bolted after
the world is Edenizcd so MS to hinder the
redeemed from descending for tour of
insncction and concentration and tri-
umph.
You know with what interest we look
upon ruins-ruius of Kenilworth castle,
ruins of Melrose abbey, ruins of Rome
ruins of Pompeii So this world in ruins
l. an encbsntmcnt to look at but we
want TO IL when rebuilt, rpulllarc0,
yotovcrcd. rcaltprcd, rcdedicated The
exact date of the worlds moral rcstora-
1ion / cannot forctcll II may be that
through mighty awakcuincs it will take
place in the middle of the nearby TWEEN
1ioth century. 1t NAV he at the opening
Of the twenty-frst century, but it would
not be surprising if it took more than 100
wears to correct the ravages of sin which
have ragged for G.OOO years. The chief
missionary and cvangclistic enterprises
were started in this century, and be not
dismayed if it takes couple of centuries
t. overcome evils that have had full
swing for 60 centuries. take no respon-
fihilty in saying on what page of the
earthly calendar ii will roll in, but Gods
eternal veracity is sworn to il that it will
roll in, and as the redeemed in heaven do
rs the please and have all the facilities
of transit from world to world. you and
]. my hcar'r or reader, will come and
look az what my text calls "A new earth
wherein dWeileth righteousness
No Alarm For Glorificd Spirits.
imagine that we are descending nj
that noriod Of tho worlds connlete COS.
1.lizntIou. There will be no peril in such
/, descent Great heights and depths
Lave no alarm for rloriGcd snirits We
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