The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-01-12
THE NEW CENTURY.
DR.. Talmage Tells of the Wonders
to Be Achieved.
He breaches n Timely sermon from
the Text. "a Morning without
Clouds"-Hopeful Outlook
for the Future.
Copyright. 1901. by Louis Klopsch, N. "

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Copyright. 1901. by Louis Klopsch. N. r.
Washington, Jan. g.
In this discourse DR.. Talmage tells
something of what he expects the
next hundred years will achieve, and
declares that the outlook is most in
spring; text, III Samuel, 23:4: "A
morning withouY Clouds"
"What do you expect from 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 l expect some
thingas startling as the telegraph and
the telephone and the X ray. In
the realm of poetry, expect as great
poets as Longfellow and Tennyson.
In the realm of medicine, expect the
cure of cancer and consumption. In
the realm of religion, l expect more
than one Pentacost like that of 1857,
when 100000 souls professed to have
been converted. l expect that uni
versal peace will reign, and that be-
fore the two thousandth year gun
powder will be out of use, except for
blasting rocks or pyrotechn'c enter
tainment. / expect that before this
new century has expired tho millen-
mum will be fully inauguratsd. The
twentieth century will be as much an
improvement over the nineteenth CEN
fury as 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 consideration
and that will be the redemption of
the cities.
| Pulpit and printing press for the
most part in our day are busy in dis
cussing the condition of the citicS at
this time, but would it not be health
fully encouraging to all Christian
workers and to all who are toiling to
make the world better if we should
this morning for little while look
| forward to the time when our cities
shall be reyolutionized by the Gospel
of the Son of"God and all The darkness
fering 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 q
city distinguished for any dignity or
prowess. Caesar boosted of his native
Rome, Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus Of
| Sparta, Demosthenes of Athens, Ar
chimedes of Syracuse and Paul of Tar
Gus. should have suspicion of base
heartedness in 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 embellishments or it's scien-
| tific Advancement.
/ have noticed that man never
likes city where he has not behaved
we'll People who have free ride in
the prison van never like the city that
furnishes the vehicle. When l find
Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna trying
to prove themselves the birthplace Of
Homer, i 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 ide n
of Building ourselves up at any tire
to try to pull others down. Boston
must continue to point to its Faneuil
hall and to its superior educational
advantages. Philadelphia must con-
tinue to point to its independence
hall and it's mint and its Girar'f coll
lege. New York must continue to en-
ult in its matchless harbor and its
vast population and its institutions of
mercy and its ever widening COM
merce. Washington must continue to
rejoice in the fact that it is the most
beautiful city under the sun.
If | should find a man coming from
any city having no pride ir 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 out
rageous thing have you been guilty
of that you do not IKE the place?"
Every city is influenced by the char
acter of the men who founded it.
Romulus impressed his life upee}
Rome. The pilgrim fathers will. 80
relax their grasp from Newaef fair
William Penn left a legssfYadelphia,
dealing and integrity - an The
and you can now ~ nay, On eno
streets of that .ssxt see MS customs
bic r,orn.rs~ ~ morals, his hat, his
ms manner and his meeting house.
~iie ID,oPdollanders, founding New
~ left their impression on all the
..,56wing generations. So this cap
'fal of the nation is perpetual eu-
logy upon the Washington who found
ed il.
/ thank God for the place Of
our residence, and while there are a
thousand things that ought to be cor
rected and many wrongs that ought
to be overthrown, while l thank God
for the past, look forward this
morning to glorious future. / think
we ought--and take it for granted
you are all interested in this great
work of cvangclizing the cities and
saving the world-we ought to toll
with the sunlight 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
up down to death and darkness and