The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-12-09
RIGHTEOUS EARTH.
Talmage Discourses ON the
World as 1t Will Be
In Humnn Conditions
After II Has nsen HeNoiUi,OniHed
for G0od-GIories Of che
Coming Century.
rcopyrlght, 1899, by fouls Klopschl
We MIN t1V

,iscovrse shows how the world will look
oter 1t has been revolutonized for
ooo8: text, Peter 3:l3: "Anew earth,
Sberein dwelleth righteousness"
Down in the struggle to make the
norld better and happier we sometimes
,st depressed with the obstacles to be
orcrcome and the work to be accom-
rshed. VIII ii not be a tonic and an
;rspiratton to look at the world as il
,,lj be when it has been brought back
a. paradisaical condition? So let us for
few moments transport ourselves into
the future and put ourselves forward in
,be centuries and see the world in its
rescued and perfected state, as we will
soc il II in those times we are permitted
10 revisit this planet, as / am sure we
vill. We all want TO see the world after
tbas been thoroughly Gospelized and all
Wrongs have been righted. We will
want to come back, and we will come
back to look upon the refulgent consum-
nation toward which we have been on
larger or smaller scale toiling Having
heard the opening of the orchestra on
whose strings some discords Travelled,
i've will want TO hear the last triumph
amt bar of the perfect oTatorio. Having
seen the picture as the painter drew its
first outlines upon canvas, we will want
4 10 see it when it is as complete as Reu-
Hbcn's Descent from the Cross" or
michael Angeles Last Judgment"
4|Having seen the world under the CLEAN
hi The star of Bethlehem, we will want
+ 10 see it when. under the full shining of
1.-The sun of Righteousness, the towers
#lnai strike X at noou.
Il There will be nothing in that coming
#century of the worlds perfection to him
#der our terrestrial visit. Our power and
&yelocity of locomotion will have been
Improved infinitely. 1t will not take us
Hong to come here, however far off in
Hoods universe Heaven may be. The
#Bible declares that such visitation is
&roing on now. Are they not all minis
herring spirits sent forth to minister to
Nthose who shall be heirs of salvation?"
&Surely the gates of Heaven will not be
#bolted after the world is EdeniZed so
b. TO hinder the redeemed from de-
beading for tour of inspection and
eangratulation and triumph.
Toa know with what interest welook
4 pcn ruins-ruins of Kenilworth castle,
stains of Melrose abbey, ruins of Rome,
Bruins of Pompeii. So this world in
sruins is an enchantment to look at, but
I'VE want to see it when rebuilt, repil-.
barred, recovered, realtered, rededicated
klhe exact date of the worlds moral
Irestora Gon | cannot foreteu. 1t may be
That through mighty awakenings it will |
stake place in the middle of the nearby
twentieth century. 1t may be at the
Opening of the twenty-tirst century, but
III would not be surprising if it took |
more than 100 years TO correct the raw
bges of sin which have ragged for 6,U00 |
hears. The chief missionary and evan |
Egelistic enterprises were started in this |
century, and be not dismayed ifit takes |
Ia couple of centuries to overcome evils |
that have had full swing for 60 cen
nuries. | take no esponsibility in say
Hng on what page of the earthly calen-
dar it will roll in, but Gods eternal |
Eeracity is sworn to it that il will roll
0in, and as the redeemed in Heaven do
las they please and haveall the facilities
lof transit from world to world, you and 7
II, my hearer or reader, will come and
look at what my text calls "A new earth
wherein dwelleth Righteousness"
Alghted on the redeemed earth, we
N,s Ia c,tp;+ IF h. |
century, who proposes to
guide and show us all that we desire to
|see Without his guidance we would
lose our way, for the world is so much
changed from the time when we lived
En it. First of all, he points out to us
ia group of abandoned buildings. We
ask this spirit of the twenty-first cen
fury: 'ANhat are those structures
whose walls are falling down and whose
gates are rusted on the hinges?" Our
escort tells us: "Those were once peni-
entiarics filled with offenders, but the
crime of the world has died out. Theft
and arson and fraud and violence have
quilted the earth. People have all they
want, and why should they appropriate
The property of others even if they had
the desire? The marauders, the assas-
sins, the buccaneers. the Herods, the
Mana Sahibs, the ruflians, the bandits,
are dead or, transformed by the power
Of the Christian religion, are now up ;
hight and benelicent and useful.
After passing on amid columns and 1
statues erected in memory of those who {
have been mighty for goodness in the
most eNquisitely sculptured those IN ]
honoS of such as have been most eff {
fectual in saving life or improving life
rather than those renowned for de-
Stroying life, we come upon another /
group of buildings that must have been
from their original shape
and adapted to other uses. What sail j
this?" we ask our escort. He answers: I
Those were almshouses and hospitals, I
but accuracy in making and prudence a
D running machinery of all sorts have !
llmost abolished the list of casualties, I
md sobriety and industry have nearly I
pauperism, so that those :
buildings which once were hospitals c
md alnH;houses have bsen turned into '
BEAUTIFUL homes for the less prospereG, ,
lnd if you will look in you will see the !
poorest table has abundance, and the t
mallest wardrobe luxury, and the harp, a
'aiting TO have its strings thrummed i
Gaming against the piano, waiting fol !,
Is keys TO be fingered. il
Hospitals and almshouses must have /
'tau necessity once. but they would be a
RelEss now. And You see all the swamps il
ave been drained, the sewerage of the 5
-1eqt. fnu-ns has hnarn r.nr.fnntnd IL the n