Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-01-11
HE NEW CENTURY.
r. Talmage Tells of the Wonders
to Be Achieved.
he breaches a Timely Sermon from
the Text. ga Morning Without
Clouds,-Hopeful Outlook
for the Future.
Copyright, 1901. by Louis Klopsch. N. 70
WaShfn1f0n Ian. 6.

copyright 1901, by Louis K1opsch, N. 70
Washington, Jan. g.
In this discourse DR.. Talmage tells
komething of what he expects the
text hundred years will achieve, and
Declares that the outlook is most in
kpiring; text. II Samuel, 23:4: "A
morning without Clouds
"What do you expect from this new
fentury?' 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 K ray. In
the realm of poetry, expect as great
tpoets as Longfellow and Tennyson.
In the realm of medicine, expect the
cure of cancer and consumption. In
the realm of religion, I expect more
than zone Pentacost like that of 1857,
when 100000 souls professed to have
been converted. I 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 pyrotechnic enter
tainment. I expect that before this
new century has expired the mlilen-
MUM will be fully inaugurated. 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 considera ton.
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
thisstime, 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 QUE cities
shall be revolutionized by the Gospel
of the Son of God and all the darkness
of sin and trouble and crime and suf-
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, il it be a
city distinguished for any dignity or
proves. Caesar boosted of his native
Rome, Virgil of Mantua, Lycurgus of
Sparta, Demosthenes of Athens, Ar
chimedes of Syracuse and Paul of Tar
sus. I 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 it's prosperity or its
artistic embellishments or it's scien-
tific advancement.
have noticed that a man never
likes a city where he has not behaved
- =,
the prison van never like the city that
furnishes the vehicle. When I 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 laudible 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 it's Faneuil
hall and to its superior educational
advantages. Philadelphia must con-
tinue to point to its independence
hall and it's mint and it's Girar6 col
lege. New York must continue to ex.
ult in it's matchless harbor and its
vast population and it's institutions OF
mercy and its ever widening com.
merce. Washington must continue tc
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 in 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 ont.
rageous thing have you been guilty
of that you do not like the place?'
Every city il Influenced by the char
acter Of the men who founded it
Romulus impressed his life upor
Rome. The pilgrim fathers will never
relax their grasp from New England
William Penn left a legacy of fai,
dealing and integrity to Philadelphia
and you can nowS any day, on the
streets of that city, see his customs
his manners, his morals, his hat, his
wife's bonnet and his meeting house
So the Hollanders, founding New
York, left their impression on all the
following generations. So this cap
ital of the nation is q perpetual eu
logy upon the Washington who found
ed it.
thank God for the place O,
our residence, and while there are 8
thousand things that ought to be cor
rected and many wrongs that ought
to be overthrown, while 1 thank Goo
; for the past, / look forward thi.
morning to a glorious future. I thinl
we ought-and I take it for grantee
you are all interested in this great
work of evangelizing the cities ani
saving the world-we ought to tot
with the sunlight in our faces. W.
are not fighting in a miserable. Bull
Rnn of defeat We are on the WAY r.