The Penn's Grove record., 1901-01-11
DR.. TALNAGES SERMON
SUNDAYS DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.

Subject: The Outlook Inspiring - A Ff
Look Into the Future-Marvelous Az
vances Predicted - Religion and Sc
ence in the Next Hundred Years.
copyright 1901
WASHINGTON. D. C.-In this discours
DR.. Talmage tells something of what h
expects the next hundred years wi
achieve, and declares that the outlook
most inspiring; text, II Samuel xiii. 4
"A morning without clouds"
"NVhat do you expect of this new GER
tury?" is the question often asked of me
and many Others rave been piled with tn
same inquiry. In the realm of invention
expect something as startling az the tele
graph and the telephone and the X-ray
In the realm of poetry ! expect as grea
poets as Longfellow and Tennyson. Ii
the realm of religion | expect more thai
one Pentecost like that of 1857, when 500,
900 souls professed to have been con
verted. / expect that universal peace viii
reign, and that before the arrival of tn
two thousandth year gunpowder will bt
out of use except for g~lasting rocks or py
rotechnic entertainment. | expect thai
before this new century has expired the
millennium will be fully inaugurated. The
twentieth century Will bt us HllcH an I'M
provement on the nineteenth century az
the nineteenth century was an improve
ment on the eighteenth. But the conven
tional length of sermonic discourse will al
low us only time for one hopeful consider
alton. and that will be the redemption o.
the 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 BEAUTIFULLY encouraging tc
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 revolutionfzed by the gospel Of 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 be
"a morning without clouds?'
Every man has pride in the city of his
nativity or residence if it be a city distin-
guished for any dignity or proves, Caesar
boosted of his native Rome, Virgil of
Mantua, Lycurgus of Sparta, Demosthe-
mes of Athens, Archimedes OF Syracuse
and Paul of Tarsus, l should have suspi.
cion of base heartedness in a man who
had no escepcial interest in the city of his
birth or r~esidence-no exhilaration at the
evidence OF its prosperity, or its artistic
embellishments, or its scientific advance
ment.
l have noticed hat a man never likes a
city where he has not behaved well! Peo-
pie who have a free ride in the prison van
never Hike the city that furnishes the We
hicle. When 1 find Argos and Rhodes
and Smyrna trying to prove themselves
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 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 its
Independence Hall, and its mint and its
Girard College; New York must continue
to exult in its matchless harbor, and its
vast population, and its institutions of
mercy, and its ever widening commerce;
Washington must continue to rejoice in
the fact that 1t is the most beautiful city
under the sun,
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 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
place
Every city is influenced by the character
Of the men who founded 1t. Romulus i'm
pressed his lie upon Rome. The pilgrim
fathers VIII never relax their grasp from
New England. William rem lett a leg
acy of fair dealing and integrity to Phila-
ielphia, and you can now, any day, on the
streets of that city, see his customs, his
manners, his morals, his hat, his Wife's
ponnet n his meeting house 30 the
Hollanders, foundln New fork, lett Their
impression on All tne following generations
80 tins capital OF the nation Is a perpetual
suiogy upon the washington who n
It,.
j thank God Tor the place oil our resi-
dence, and, while there are a thousand
things that ought to be corrected and
many wrongs that ought to be overthrow,
while thank God for the past, look for,
ward this morning to a glorious future. !
think we ought-and take 1t for granted
that you are interested in this great work
OF evangelizing the cities and saving the
world-we ought to toll with the sunlight
in our faces. We are rot fighting in a
miserable Bull Run of defeat. We are on
the way to final victory. We are not fol
lowing the rider on 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,
hail!
know there are sorrows and there are
sins and there are sufferings all around
about us, but as in some bitter cold win
ter day when we are thrashing our arms
around US to keep our thumbs from treez-
ing we think OF the warm spring day that
Will after awhile come, or in the dark win
ter night we look up and see the northern
lights, the windows Of heaven illumined
by some great victory, Just so we look up
from the night OF suffering and sorrow and
Indebtedness in our cities, and we see a
light streaming through from the other
side, and we know we are on the way to
morning-more than that, on the way to
"a morning without clouds"
! want you to understand, all you who
are toiling for Christ, that the castles OF
sin are all going to be captured. The VIC
tory for Christ IN these great own Is
going to be so complete that not a man on
earth, OF an angel in heaven, or a devil in
hell Will dispute 1t. How do l Know! !
know 1t Just as certainly as God lives and
that this is holy truth. The old Bible Is
full OF 1T. Ihe nation is to be saved; OF
course all the cities are to be saved. 1t
makes a great difference with you and
with me whether we are tolling on toward