The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1901-01-12
THE NEW CENTURY.
Dr.. Taimage Tells of the Wonders
to Be Achieved.
NE Preschss . Timely sermon fren
the Text. "A Merains Wtthsut
ciouds"-Hopesal Oudeok
for the Futare.



for h Futare.
Copyright. ioi. hy Louis Klop.ch. N. Y,
Washington. Jan.O
In this discourse DR.. TalmaRe tell
something OF what he expec IN,
next hundred years will achieve, anS
declares that the outlook Is most In
Apiring; text, IL Samuel, es.t: "A
morning without eloads."
What do you expect from this neu
century," 10 the question often asked
Of me, and many othera have beer
piled with the same inquiry. In th,
realm OF invention l expect come
thingas startling ss the telegraph Ant
the telephone and the X ray. In
the realm Of poetry, l expect a. great
poets ~ Longfsllow and TenMyaoa
In the realm Of medicine, i expect IN,
cure Of cancer and consumption. In
the realm Of religion, l expect more
than ons Psntacost like that Of 1851
when 100000 soulB professed 70 have
been converted. l expect that uni.
vsrsal peace will reign, and that be-
fore the two thouSandth year gun,
powder will be out of use. except fos
blasting rocks or ~pyrotechnic enter
tainment expect that before tai,
new century has expired the millen-
MUM viii be fully inaugurated. The
twentieth century will be a. much an
improvement over the nineteenth cen
fury az the ninteenth century was an
improvement over the eighteenth.
But the conventional length OF SER
monte discourse will allow us only
time for one hopeful confederation.
and that will be the redemption of
the citieA
Pulpit and printing press for the
most part In our day are busy In dis
eusSing the condition Of the cities at
this time, but would il not be health.
fully encouraging to all Christian
workers and TO all who ara toiling 70
make the world better II We should
tAis morning for q little while look
forward TO the time when our cities
shall be rsvolutionized by the Gospel
Of the Son Of God and all ths darkness
Of sin and trouble and crime and suf-
fering shall be gone from the sky, and
It shall b "a morning without
clouds9" Il
Every . has pride In the city Of
ale nativity or residence, ~ IL be .
city distinguished for any dignity o.
proves. Caesar boosted Of his native
Rome, Virgil OF Mantua, Lycurgus Of
Sparta, Demosthsnes OF Athena Ar
c~himsdesof Syracuse and Paul Of Tar
aus. l should have suspicion Of base
heartedness In . man who had no
especial Interest in the city Of his
birth or rssidencs-no exhilaration at
the evidence Of its prosperity or lie
artistic embellishments or lie scisn-
tlho Advancement.
have noticed that . man never
likes a city where he has not behaved
well. People who have q free ride In
the prison van never like the city that
furnishes the vehicle. When I fnd
Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna trying
to prove themselves the birthplace Of
Homer, ] conclude right away that
Homer behaved well. He liked them,
and they liked him. We must not war
on AUDIBLE city pride or with the idea
OF building ourselves up at any time
20 try TO pull Others down. Boston
must continue 20 point to its Fsneuil
hall and TO its superior educational
advantages. Philadelphia must ION
tinns TO point 10 its Independence
hall and its mint and Its Girard col
lsge. New York must continue to ex-
ult In its matehless harbor and its
rast population and its i~nstitutiA-. ~
mercy and Its ever widening com
merce. Washington must continue to
rejoice In the fact that II Is the most
beautiful city under the sun.
II | should And a man coming from
any city having no pride in that city.
that city having been the place of his
nativity or 10Y being the place Of his
residence, l would feel like askinR him
right away: What mean thing have
you been doing there? What out
ragsous thing have you been guilty
Of that you do not IKE the placer"
Every city IL influenced BY the char
acter OF the men who founded IL.
Romulus impressed his life upon
Rome. The pilgrim fathers will never
relax their grasp from New England.
William Penn left a 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, hls morals, bis hat, his
wite's bonnet and his meeting house.
So the HollAnders, founding New
York. left their impression on all the
following generations. So this cay
itsl OF the nation is a perpetausl Gu.
logy upon the Washington who found
ed IL.
| thank God for the place Of
cur residence. and while there are q
thousand things that ought to be cor
reeted and many wrongs that ought
TO be overthrown, while | thank God
for the past, l look forward this
morning TO . glorious future. I think
we ought-and / take 1t for granted
you r all 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 not fighting in a 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 10 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, haill
know there are sorrows and there
are sins. and there are suffernRs all
around about US. but az in ZONE bit
ter cold winter day, when we are
thrashing our arms around as TO keep
our thumbs from freezing, NE think
Of the warm spring day that will
come, or in the dark winter night we
look up and we see the northern
lights, the windows Of Heaven H.
lumined by some great victory, Just
so we look up from the night of sui.
fering and sorrow and wretchsdness
In u cities. and we see . light
streaming through from the other
side, and We know we are on the way
TO morning-m nor than that, on the
way 20 "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 cap
tured. The victory for Christ 10 these
great towns is going to be so com.
plete that not a mar on earth or an
angel in Heaven or a devil Ia hell will
dispute II. How do ! know? l know
II Just as certainly as God lives and
that this IL holy truth. The old Bible
Is full Of It. The nation IL TO be
saved. II makes a great difference