The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 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. "

something of what he expects the
next hundred years will achieve, and
declares that the outlook is most in
spring; text, II Samuel, 23:4: "A
morning without 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
thing as startling as the telegraph and
the telephone and the y ray. In
the realm of poetry, l expect as great
poets as Longfellow and Tennyson.
In the realm of medicine, 1 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 gum
powder will be out of use, except for
blasting rocks or pyrotechnic enter
tainment. l expect that before this
new century has expired the millen-
mum will be fully inaugurated. The
twentieth century will be as much an
improvement over the nineteenth CEN
tury as the ninteenth century was an
improvement over the eighteenth.
But the conventional length of SER
monic 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 cities 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 a little while look
forward to the time when our cities
shall be revolutionized by the Gospe
of the Son of God and all the darkness
of sin and trouble and crime and suf
fering shall be gone from the sky, ant
it shall be "a morning without
clouds?"
Every man has pride in the city o
his nativity or residence, if it be
city distinguished for any dignity Of
prowess. Caesar boasted of his native
Rome, Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus o
Sparta, Demosthenes of Athens, Ar
chimedesof Syracuse and Paul of Tar
sus. 1 should have suspicion of bas'
heartedness in a man who had N
especial interest in the city Of hi
birth or residence-no exhilaration a
the evidence of its prosperity or it
artistic embellishments or its scien
tific advancement.
l have noticed that a man neve
likes city where he has not behave'
well. People who have free ride il
the prison van never like the city tha
, furnishes the vehicle. When l fin
Argos and Rhodes and Smyrna tryin
TO prove themselves the birthplace O
Homer, I conclude right away tha
, Homer behaved we'll. He liked then
and they liked him. We must not wa
, on laudible city pride or with the ide
of building ourselves up at any tim
to try to pull others down. Bosto
must continue to point to its Faneu
hail and to its superior education;
, advantages. Philadelphia must col
|
hall and its mint and its Girard co
lege. New York must continue to e.
ult in its matchless harbor and il
y vast population and its institutions {
mercy and its ever widening con
: merce. Washington must continue
l. rejoice in the fact that it is the mos
u beautiful city under the sun.
II II 1 should find a man coming fro
any city having no pride in that cit
d that city having been the place of h
nativity or now being the place of h
h residence, I would feel like asking hi
right away: "What mean thing ha'
i you been doing there? What ou
rageous thing have you been guilt
of that you do not ike the place?"
v Every city is influenced by the cha
Vt acter of the men who founded
% Romulus impressed his life upc
o Rome. The pilgrim fathers will nev,
IL relax their grasp from New Englan
j. William Penn left a legacy of ia
g dealing and integrity to Philadelphia
70 and you can now any day, on Il
l. streets of that city, see his custom
bis manners, his morals, his hat,
4. wife's bonnet and his meeting hous
i, 90 the Hollanders, founding Ne
=. York, left their impression on all t
) following generations. So this ca
:, ital of the nation is a perpetual e
=, iogy upon the Washington who foun
n ed it.
- thank God for the place
our residence, and while there are
thousand things that ought to be CO
rected and many wrongs that cug
to be overthrown, while l thank G
for the past, / look forward Il
II morning to a glorious future. l thi
- we ought-and l take it for grant
AZ you are all interested in this gre
y work of evangeliring the cities a
] savinx the world-we ought to