Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-01-10
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
OPENING OF THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY.
He Likens 1t to n Morning wIthoss
Clouds" - Wonderful Things To he
Achieved Through the Grace OF God
-LessenIns the burdens.

Copyright. 1901. by Louis Klopsch. N. "
Washington, Jan. Gin 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 CEN
tury?" IS the question often asked of
me, and many others have been piled
with the same inquiry. In the realm
of invention I expect something as
startling as the telegraph and the tele-
phone and the X ray. In the realm of
poetry expect as great poets as Long
fellow and Tennyson. In the realm OF
medicine | expect the cure Of cancer
and consumption. In the realm of re-
ligion / expect more than one Pente-
cost like that of 1857, when 100000
souls professed to have been converted.
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 py-
rotechnic entertainment | expect that
before this new century has expired
the millennium will be fully inaugur-
ated. The twentieth century will be
as much an improvement on the nine
teenth century as the nineteenth CEN
fury was an Improvement on the eight
eenth. But the conventional length OF
sermonic discourse will allow us only
time for one hopeful consideration, and
that will be the redemption OF the
cities.
Civic Pride Commendable.
have noticed that man never likes
a city where he has not behaved well.
People who have a free ride in the
prison van never like the city that fur
nishes the vehicle. When / find Argos
and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to
prove themselves the birthplace Of Ho-
mer. conclude right away that Homer
behaved well. He liked them, and they
liked aim. We must not war on laud-
able 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 advan-
tages. 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.
II / 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, l 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"
Good Overbalances Evil.
know there are sorrows and there
are sins and there are sufferings all
around about us, but as in some bitter
cold winter day when we are thrash
ing our arms around us to keep our
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 We 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 wretchedness in our cities, and we
see 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"
l want you to understand, all you
who are toiling for Christ, that the
castles Of sin are all going to be cap
tured. The victory for Christ in these
great towns is going to be so complete
that not man on earth or an angel
in heaven or devil in hell will dis
pute it. How do | know? I know 1t
Just as certainly as God lives and that
this Is holy truth. The old Bible Is
full of 1t. The nation is to be saved;
Of course, all the cities are to be saved
1t makes great difference with you
and with me. whether we are toiling
on toward defeat or toillng on toward
a victory.
Iessening the Burdens.
In that day Of which speak taxes
will. be a mere nothing. Now our bust
ness men are taxed for everything. City
taxes, county taxes. state taxes, United
States taxes, stamp taxes, license taxes,
manufacturing taxes-taxes, taxes,
taxes! Our business men have to make
small fortune every year to pay their
taxes What fastens on our great in
dustries this awful load? Crime, in
dividual and official. We have to pay
the board of the villains who are in
generated in our prisons. We have to
take care of the orphans of those who
plunged into their groves through
beastly indulgence. We have to sup
port the municipal governments, which
are expensive just in proportion as the
criminal proclivities are vast and ire
mendous. Who supports the aims
houses and police stations and all the
machinery of municipal government?
The taxpayers.
But in the glorious time Of which l
speak grievous taxation will all have
ceased. There will be no need Of sup
porting criminals. There will be no
criminals. Virtue will have taken the
place Of vice. There will be no orphan
asylums. for parents will be able to
leave competency to their children.
There will be no voting of large sums
Of moneys for some municipal i'm
provement. which moneys. before they