Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1901-01-17
Dr.TALMAGE SERMON
THE GREAT DIVNE'S ELOQUENT
MESSAGE.
Subject: The Outlook inspiring az
Look Into the Future-M Marvellous Al
vances Predicted - Religion and eci-
once in the Next Hundred Years.


WAsHINGTox. D. C~--In this discourse
DIR Talmaee tells something OF what ne
sxnects the next hundred years WIH
achieve. and declares that the outlook -
most inspiring; text LII Samuel xAHl, I,
"a morning without clouds
''What do you expect OF TINS new cen
tury?'' IS the question often asked o. me,
and many others have been pied ~lth the
same inquiry. In the realm OF invention L
expect something a. startling as the teie-
graph and the telephone and the Array,
In the realm oi poetry | expect as great
poets ar LongTellOw and Tennyson. In
the realm OF religion | expect more than
one Pcntec0st like that Of 1857, when 3OO,-
900 souls protested to have been con
vcrted. ! expect that universal peace VIII
reign and that before the arrival OF the
two thousandth year gunpowder wall be
out Of use except tor glastIng rocks or py-
rotechniC entertainment. | expect that
before this new century has expired the
millennium viii be fully InaIgurated. 1he
twentieth century will be as much an nm
pT0vemcnt on the nineteenth century as
the nineteenth century was an improve
Incnt on the eighteenth. But the conVen-
t!OnaI length Of sermonic discourse HIll al
low US only time for one hopeful consider
alton and that will be the redemption OF
tic cities.
Pulpit and printing press for the most
part in our day are busy discussing the
condition OF the cities at this time, but
would it not be healthfully encouraging to
all Christian workers and to all who are
toiling to make the world better II we
should this morning, tOr Il 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 ard crime and suffering
shall be gona from the sky, and it shall be
"a morning without clouds!'
Every man has pride III the city OF his
nativity or residence If 1t be d cIty dIstIn-
guished for any dignity or prowess. Caesar
boosted of his native Rome, Virgil OF
Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demosthe-
mes of Athens. ArchmedeS OF Syracuse
and Paul of Tarsus. / should nave suSpl-
cion of base heartedness III man who
had no escepcial interest in the city OF his
birth or residence-no eXhllaration at the
evidence of its prosperity, or It's artistic
embellishments, or its scientific advance
ment.
[ have noticed that a man never likes
city where he has not behaved well. PEG
pie who have free ride III the prison van
never like the city that furnishes the We
hice. When L lind Argos and Rhodes
and Smyrna trying to prove themselves
the birthplace of Homer, | conclude right
away that Homer behaved well. He liked
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 its Faneuil Hall and
to its superior educational advantages;
Philadelphia must continue to point to It's
Independence Hall, and it's mint and its
Eirard College; New York must continue
TO exult in its matchless harbor, and its
vast population, and its institutions OF
Washington must continue to rejoice in
the fact that it Is the most beautiful city
under the sun.
T. If should find a man coming from any
city, having no pride in that city, that
city having been the place OF his nativity
or row 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
place?"
:. Every city is influenced by the character
Of the men who founded it. Ronulus i'm
pressed his life upon Rome. The pilgrim
fathers will never relax their grasp from
New England. William Penn left leg
acy Of fair dealing and integrity to Phila-
delph4a, 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
Holanders, founding New York left their
Impression on all the following generations
So this capital OF the nation is a perpetual
eulogy upon the Washington who founded
it.
| thank God for the place Of our resi-
dence, and, while there are d thousand
things that ought to be corrected and
many wrongs that ought to be overthrown,
Ttlle J. thank God for the past, l look for
ward this morning to a glorious future. |
think we ought-and | take it for granted
that you are interested ia this great work
OF evangeliZing the cities and saving the
world-We ought to toll with the sunlight
IN our faces We are not fighting in a
miserable Bull Run OF defeat We are on
the way to final victory We are not fol
lowing the rider the black horse lead
ing 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.
bail.
/ know there are sorrows and tnare are
SINS and there are sutferlngs all around
about us, but in some bitter cold win
ter day when we are thrashing our arms
around us to keep our thumbs from freez-
ing we think OF the warm spring dav that
VIII after awhile come or in the dark win
ter night we look up and see the aoFthern
lights, the windows OF heaven iilumined
Dy some great victory. just we look no
irom the night of suffering and sorrow and
Wretchedness i'll our cities and we see a
light streaming through from the other
side, and we know we are on the way to
mornlng-more than that on the wav to
a morning without clouds
1 want YOU to understand. all You vino
are toiling for Christ. that the castles OF
SIN are all going to be captured The vic
tory Tor Christ in these great towns Is