The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-12
TALNAGES SERMON.
OPENING or THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY

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He Eaksas 81 70 -msruinx ulshsui
CIouas- r. Wonderf-l Ihinss . Be
Achieved ThrsaEh the Grace q God
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fcoI5r,shr. lsCl. ty L..1ls Klopseh. y r.
NzshlngZaa. Jan s-ln this dis
course DE- Taimags tells something Of
Whet Pc expects the neEt hundred
years Eil achieve and declares thar
The outlook IS most inspiring. text II
samuel K1iL. 4 "A morning without
clondz7
What 90 you expect o. this neN cen
tury Is the question often asked q
ne. and many Others have been Piled
sith the sane inquiry. II the realm
q Invention ] expect something as
startling as the telegraph and the tele-
phone and the n ray In the realm 0f
poetry J expect as great poets as Long
felloW and Iennyson- In the reailA o.
medicine 7 expect the cure Of cancer
and consumption In the realm 81 rs-
liglcn expect more than one Pente-
cost Ike that 81 1857. when go 600
souls professed so have been converted.
expect that universal peace VII reign
and that before the arrival q the tEo
thousandth year gunpowder win be ont
Of use except for blasting rocks Or py-
r0technic entertainment expect that
before this new century has expired
The millennium win be fully inaugur-
ated The twentieth century viii Be
as much an improvement on the nine
teenth century as the nineteenth cen
tury vas an improvement on the eight
eeuth. But the coaveDtonal length Of
sermonie discourse viii allow US only
tine for one hopeful consideration. and
that viii be the redemption Of the
cities.
Civic Pride Commendanla
! have noticed that a man never likes
3 city where he has not behaved well
People who have a free ride in the
prison van never like the city that fur
nishes tire vehicle. When 7 ind Argos
and Rhodes and Smyrna trying to
prove themselves the birthplace of Ho-
mer. I conclude right away that Homer
behaved we'll He liked them, and they
liked him We must not war on laud-
able city pride or with the idea or
building ourselves up at any time TO
tFy % pull others down. Boston must
continue 10 point 70 its Foneuil hall
and to Is superior educational advan-
tages Philadelphia must continue to
point 70 Its Independence hall and its
mint and It's 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 aust
continue 70 ] 3 ice in the fact that It
Is the most b Itiful 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 I 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 Orerhalanoos Evr.
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 arouil Us to keep our
thumbs from freezing we think OF the
warm spring day that wiH 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 I
from the night Of suffering and sorrow +
and wretchedness in our cities. and we
see a light streaming through from the /
other side and We know we are on the I
way TO morning-more than that. on
the way to "a morning without /
clouds"
I want you 10 understand, all You /
who are toiling for Christ, that she
castles Of sin are an going to be cap 4
tured The victory for Christ in these /
great towns e going to be so complete 4
that not a man on earth or an angel /
in heaven OF a devil in hell viii dis
pute it, How do I know I know It /
just as certainly as God lives and that 4
this Y holy truth The old Bible is +
fun of IT, The nation is to be saved: /
Of course. all the cities are to be saved.
it makes a great difference with you
and with me whether we are toiling
on toward a defeat or toiling on toward
a victory.
Iessenlnr The Burdens.
in that day Of which I speak taxes
wiz be a mere nothing. Now our busi-
ness men are taxed Tor 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
a small fortune every year 10 pay their
taxes. What fasiens on our great in