Connecticut western news., 1901-01-10
OUTLOOK INSPIRING.
REV. DR. TALMAGE LOOKS FAR INTO
 THE FUTURE.
Predicts Marvellous eli-
 zion and Science In the Next Hum
 dred Years-MilIennfum Will Be In- augurated In This Century.

Predicts Marvellous Advances-Reli- dred Years-MilIenniumw Will Be In- augurated In This Century. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-In this dis. course Dr. Talmage tells something of what he expects the next hundred years will achieve, and declares that the outlook Is most inspiring; text, II Samuel xiii, 4, "A morning without clouds.'
 What do you expect of this new century| Is the question often asked of me, and many others have been piled with the same inquiry. In the realm of invention 1 expect something as startling as the telegraph and the telephone and the X ray. In the realm of poetry I expect as great poets as Longfellow and Tennyson. In the realm of medicine l expect the cure of cancer and consumption. In the realm of religion I expect more than one Pentecost like that of 1857, when 100000 souls professed to have been converted. I expect that universal peace will reign, and that before the arrival of the two thousandth year gunpowder will be out of use except for blasting rocks or pyrotechnic en- tertainment. l expect that before this new century has expired the millen- nium will be fully inaugurated. The twentieth century will be as much an improvement on the nineteenth century as the nineteenth century was an improvement on the eighteenth But the conventional length of ser monic discourse will allow us only >time for one hopeful consideration, and that will be the redemption of the cities.
 Pulpit and printing press for the most part In our day are busy in discussing the condition of the cities at this time, but would 1t not be healthfully encour- aging to all Christian workers and to all who are toiling to make the world better if we should this morning, for a little while, look forward to the time when our cities shall be revolutioniZed by the gospel of the Son of God, and all the darkness of sin and trouble and crime and suffering shall be gone from the sky, and 1t shall be "a morning without clouds?'
 Every man has pride in the city of his nativity or residence if 1t be a city distinguished for any dignity or prow ess. Caesar boasted of his native Rome, Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demosthenes of Athens Archimedes of Syracuse and Paul of Tarsus I should have suspicion of base heartedness in a man who had no especial interest in the city of his birth or residence-no exhilaration at the evidence of its prosperity, or It's artistic embellish- ments, or its scientific advancement.
 On the Way to Victory.
 I have noticed that a man never likes a city where he has not behaved well! People who have free ride in the prison van never like the city that fur nishes the vehicle. When I find Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to prove themselves the birthplace of Ho- mer, l conclude right away that Ho- mer behaved well. He liked them and they liked him. We must not war on laudable city pride or with the idea of building ourselves up at any time to try to pull others down. Boston must continue to point to it's Faneuil hall and to its superior educational advan- tages; Philadelphia must continue to point to its Independence hall, and it's mint, and It's Girard college; New York must continue to exult in it's matchless harbor, and It's vast population, and it's institutions of mercy, and it's ever wid- eniifg commerce.; Washington must continue to rejoice in the fact that it is the most beautiful city under the sun.
 If I should ind man coming from any city, having no pride in that city, that city having been the place of his nativity or now being the place of his residence, would feel like asking him right away: What mean thing have you been doing there? What outrageous thing have you been guilty of that you do not like the placer
 Every city is influenced by the char acter of the men who founded 1t. Romulus impressed his life upon Rome. The pilgrim fathers will never relax their grasp from New England. Will liam Penn left legacy of fair dealing and integrity to Philadelphia, and you can now, any day, on the streets of that city, see his customs, his manners, his morals, his hat, his wife's bonnet and his meeting house. So the Hol- flanders, founding New York, left their impression on all the following genera tions. So this capital of the nation is a perpetual eulogy upon the Wash ington who founded 1t.
 I thank God for the place of our residence, and, while there are thou sand things that ought to be corrected and many wrongs that ought to be overthrown, while I thank God for the past, I look forward this morning to glorious future. I think we ought and l take for granted that you are all interested in this great work of evangelizing the cities and saving the world-we ought to toll with the sun- light in our faces. We are not fighting in miserable Bull Run of defeat. We are on the way to final victory. We are not following the rider on the black horse, leading us down to death and darkness and doom, but the rider on the white horse, with the moon under his feet and the stars of heaven for his tiara. Hail, conqueror, hail!
 Municipal Elevation.
 know there are sorrows and there are sins and there are sufferings all around about us; but as in some bit ter cold winter day when we are thrashing our arms around us to keep cur thumbs from freezing we think of the warm spring day that will after awhile come. or in the dark winter night we look up and see the northern lights, the windows of heaven illu- mined by some great victorH just so we look up from the night of suffering and sorrow and wretchedness in our cities, and we see light streaming through from the other side, and we know we are on the way to morn ing-more than that, on the way to "a morning without clouds"
 l want you to understand, all you l~sJ