The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-01-11
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE 81 The NOTED
DIVINE.
Subject: The Outlook Inspiring - Far
Look Into the Future Marvellous Al
Vances Predicted - Religion ana SCI
.uce in the Next Hundred Years
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WAsurvGToN. ID C-In this discourse
DIR. Talmage tells something ot what ne
expect. the next hundred year, VIII
achieve. and declares that the outlook i'
most inspiring; text, II Samuel AA"l. D.
~ morning without clouds.
What do you expect OF this new cen
fury" Is the question often asked ol me,
and many others have been pied wlth the
same inquiry. I'm the realm OF invention J
eXpect something as startling a. the tcle-
graph and the telephone and the A-iay'
In the realm Of poetry ! expect as great
poets as Longielow and Icnuyson. In
the realm OF religion | expect more thah
one pentccost like that OF 1891, wheh 3oo,
900 souls professed TO have been con,
yertcd | expect that universal peace WlIl
reign, and that before the arrival oi thc
two thousandth year gunpowdcr VIII he
out of use except for gasting rocks or py-
rotechnic entertainment | expect that
before this new century has expired the
millennium will bc fully Inauguratcd. The
twentieth century viii hc rs much an I'M
provement on the nineteenth century as
the nineteenth century was an improve.
ment on the eighteenth, But the conycn.
iional length of sermonlC discourse VA al
low us only time for one hopeful consider.
alton, and that will be the redemption OF
the cities.
Pulpit and printing press for the most
part in our day are busy discussing the
condition of the cities at tins time, but
would il not be hcalthiully encouraging to
all Christian workers and TO all who are
loiling TO make the world better li we
should this morning, for a little while,
took forward to the time when our cities
shall be revolutionzcd by the gospel oi the
Son OF God, and all the darkness OF
sin and trouble ard crime and suffering
shall be gone from the sky and IT shall >'o
"a morning without clouds!
Every man has pride m the city ol ms
nativity or residence IT 1t be city dstm.
Euishcd for any dignity or prowcss. Caesar
boasted of his native Rome, NUgll oi
Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Dcmosthc
nes of Athens Archimedcs OF Syracuse
and Paul of Tarsus. ! should nave suspl
cion OF base hoarteanCss m a man who
had no csccpcial interest IN the city Of m-
birth or rCsidCnCC-no CNhllaratun at the
evidence o. its prosperity, or is attsuy
embellishments, or Its scientific advance
ment.
I have noticed that q man never likes a
city where he has not behaved well, Pco
pie who have free ride IN the prison van
never like the city that furnishes the We
hicle When | find Argos and Rhodes
the birthplace OF Homer, | conclude right
away that Homer behaved well lie liked
them, and they liked him. We must not
war on laudable city pride or with th,
idea of building ourselves up at any tim,
10 try to pull others down Boston mus
continue To point TO its Faucuil Hall Gnt
10 its superior educational advantages
Philadelphia must continue 90 point TO a.
independence Hall and its mut and III
Girard College; New York must Continu
to eXult IN its matchless harbor, and It
vast population, and ITS institutions O
mercy and its ever widening commerce
Washington must continue TO rejoice II
the fact that II is the most beautiful cit
lnder the sun.
II ] should find a man coming from an
city, having no pride in that city, tina
city having been the place of MS natiyit
or now being the place of his residence,
would feel like asking him right away
"What mean thing have you been doin
there What outrageous thing have yo
been guilty of that YOU do not like tn
place"
Every city is influenced by the charactc
of the men who founded IT, Romulus IN
pressed his life upon Rome. The pilgrir
fathers will never relax their grasp froi
New England William Penn left lei
Acy of fair dealing and integrity 10 Phil
delphia, and YOU can now, any day. on th
streets of that city, see his customs, h
manners, his morals. his hat his wife
bonnet and his meeting house. So Il
Hollanders founding New York, left the
impression on all the following generation
So this capital Of the nation is a perpetu
sulogy upon the Washington VINO found,
&C.
thank God for the place Of our ret
dence. and, while there are thousai
things that ought 20 be corrected az
many wrongs that ought TO be overthrow
while / thank God for the past, look f.
ward this morning 90 a glorious future
think we ougbt-and take IL for grant
that you are interested in this great wo
Of evangelizing the cities and saving {
world-we ought 20 toll with The sunlig
IN our faces We arc not fighting in
miserable Bull Run Of defeat We are
the way 90 final victory. We are not I
lowing the rider on the black horse. L.,
ing us down TO death and darkness a
doom, but the rider on the white hor
with the moon under His feet and the st,
OF heaven for Ilis tiara. Hail, conquer
hall