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LAMB, Attorneys. 3 PlFnifF3 1 1 w tLl- -1 "tt M 1 . Ill "I IT iMONUMDNTS, x GRAVESTONES.! (LWAYS KEEP Oil HAND Mitten THE COMING CENTUEY ' OR. TALMAGE TEULS WHAT THE NEW CYCLE WILL USHER IN. The Advance That Have Been Hade. Hotr Epochl Hare Been Marked. The Xecds of , the .ev Att When War ShaU Be X More. Copyright, 1S3S,. bjrt AmTican Ciltlon.1 Press Asso- WAsnrxGTox, Nov. 27. This sermon if Dr. Talmage is an ' anticipation of things near at hand and urges prepara tion for stirring events; tt, I Chron icles xil, 32, "The children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of tha times, to know what Israel ought to do." 1 Great tribe, that tribe of Issachar! When Joab took the census, there wero 145, COO of them. Before the almanao was born, through ' astrological study, they knew from stellar conjunctions all about the seasons of the year. Before agriculture became an art they were skilled in the raising of crops. Before politics became a science they knew the temper of cations, and whenever they marched, either for pleasure or war, they marched under a three colored flag topaz, sardine and carbuncle. But the chief characteristic of that tribe of Issachar was that they understood the times. They were, not like the political and moral incompetents of our day, who are trying to guide 1898 by the theories of 1828. They locked at the divine in dications in their, own particular cen tury. Sq we ought to understand the times, not the times when America was 13 colonies, huddled together along the Atlantic coast, but the times when tho nation dips one hand in the ocean on ono.side the continent and the other band in the ocean on the other side the continent; times which put New York Narrows and the Golden Horn of the Pacific within one flash of electrio teleg raphy; times when God is as directly, as positively, as solemnly, as tremen dously addressing us through the daily nowspaper and the quick revolution of events as he ever addressed the ancients or addresses us through the Holy Scrip tures. The voice of God in,, Providence is as important as the voice of God in typology, for in our own day we have had our Siuais with thunders of the Al mighty, and Calvaries of sacrifice, and Gethsemanes that 6weat great drops of blood, and Olivets of ascension, and Mount Pisgahs of -farreaching vision. The Lord who rounded this world 6,000 years ago and sent his Son to redeem 'it near 1,900 rears ago has yet much to do with this radiant but agonized planet. May God make us like the children of Issachar, ''which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do." ine grave or tnis century win soon be dug. The cradle of another century will soon be rocked. There is some thing moving this way out of the eter mties, eomethiug .that thrills me, blanches , me, appalls me, exhilarates me, enraptures me. It will wreathe the orange blossoms for millions of wed dings. It will beat the dirge for mil- ions of obsequies. It will carry the gilded banners of brightest mornings and the black flags of darkest mid nights.. The world will play the grand march of its heroes and sound the rogues march of its cowards. Other processions may halt or break down or fall back, but the procession led by that leader moves steadily on and will soon be here. It will preside over coronations and dethronements. I hail it, I bless it, I welcome it, the twentieth century of the Christian era. - The Cradle ofthe Centnry. What may we expect of it, and how shall we prepare for it, are the mo mentous questions I propose cow to dis cuss. As in families, human nativity is anticipated by all sanctity and kindli cess and solemnity and care and hopeful ness, so ought we prayerfully, hopefully, industriously, confidently prepare for the advent of a. new century. The nine teenth century must cot treat the twen tieth on its arrival as the eighteenth cen tury treated the nineteenth. Our cen tury inherited the wreck of revolutions and the superstitions of ages. Around its cradle stood the armed assassins of old world tyrannies; the "reign of terror,' bequeathing its horrors; Ro bespierre, plotting his diabolism; the Jacobin club, with its wholesale mas sacre ;, the guillotine, chopping Us be headmccts. The ground quaking with the -great guns of Marengo, Wagram and Badajos. All Europe in convulsion. Asia in comparative quiet, but the quietness of death. Africa in the clutches of the slave trade. American savages in full cry, their scalping knives lifted. The exhausted and poverty struck people of America sweating un der the debt of $300,000,000, which the Revolutionary war had left them. Washington just gone into the long sleep at Mount Vernon, and the cation in bereavement; Aaron Burr, the cham piou libertine, becoming soon after the vice president. The government of the United States only an experiment, most of the philosophers and statesmen and governments of the earth prophesying it would be a disgraceful failure. No poor foundling laid at eight on the cold steps of a mansion, to be picked up in the morning, was poorer off than this century at its nativity. The United States government had ' taken only 12 steps on its journey, its constitution having been formed in 1789, and most of the nations of the earth laughed at our government in its first attempts to walk alone. The birthday of our nineteenth cen tury occurred in the time of war. Our small United States navy, under Cap tain Truxton, commanding the frigate Constitution, was in collision with the French frigates La Vengeance and L'ln- surgente, and the erst infant cries oz this century were drowned in the roar of naval battle, and political strife on this continent was the hottest, the par ties rending each other with pantherine rage, xce oirtnaay prebemw iujb umo-. teectb cen tury .was vituperation, publip , unrest, threat of national demolition. : ana norrcx national and international. ' I adjure you, let net the twentieth cen tury be met in teat awiui way, bat with all brightness of temporal and re ligious prospects. First, let us put upon the cradle of the new. century a new map of the world. The old map was black with too many barbarisms and red with too many 'slaughters and pale with too many sufferings. Let us see to it that on that map so far as possible our coun try from ocean to ocean Is a Chris tianized continent schools, colleges. churches and good homes in long line from ocean beach to ocean beach. On that map Cuba must be free. Porto Rico must be free. The archipelago of the Philippines must be free. If cruel Spain expects by procrastination and intrigue to get back w hat she has surrendered,' then the Warships Iowa and Indiana and Brooklyn and Texas and Vesuvius and Oregon must be sent back to south era waters or across to the coast of Spain to silence the insolence as decid edly as last summer they silenced the Cristobal Colon and Oquendo and Maria Teresa and Vizcaya.. When we get those islands thoroughly under our protecto rate, for the first time our missionaries in China will be safe. The atrocities imposed on those good men and women in the so called Flowery Kingdom will never be resumed, for our guns will be too near Hongkong to allow the mas sacre of missionary settlements. On that map must be put the isthmian canal, begun if not completed. No long voyages around Cape Horn for the world's merchandise, but short and, cheap communication by water instead of expensive communication by rail train,- and more millions will be added to our national wealth and the world's betterment than I have capacity to cal culate. Connecting: Links. On the map it must be made evident that America is to be the, world's civ ilizer and evangelizer. Free from the national religions of Europe on the one side and from the superstitions of Asia on the other side, it will have facilities for the work that no other continent can possibly possess. As near as J can tell by the laying on . of the hands of the Lord Almighty, this continent has been ordained for that work. This is the only country in the world where all religions are on the same, platform, and the peo ple have free selection for themselves without any detriment. When we pre sent to the other continents this assort ment of .religions and give them uchin dered choice, we have no doubt of their selecting this religion of mercy . and kindness and good; will and temporal and eternal rescue. Hear itl America is to take this world f oe God I On the map which we will put on the cradle of the new century we must have very soon a railroad bridge across Be ring strait, those 86 miles of water, cot deep, and they are spotted with islands capable of holding the piers of a great bridge. And what with America and Asia thus connected and Siberian rail way, and a railroad now projected for the length of Africa, and Palestine and Persia and India and China and Burma intersected with railroad tracks, all of which will be done before the new cen tury is grown up, the way will be open to the quick civilization and.evangeliza "lion jit the whole world. The old map we used to study in our boyhood days is dusty, and on the top shelf or amid the rubbish of the garret, and so will the present map of the world,' however gild ed and beautifully bound, be treated, and an entirely new map will be put into the infantile hand of the coming century. ' The work of this century has been to get ready. All the earth is cow free to the gospel except two little spots, one in Asia and one in Africa, while at the beginning of the. century there stood the Chinese wall and there flamed the fires and there glittered the swords that forbade entrance to' many islands and large reaches of' continent. Borneeian cruelties and Fiji island cannibalism have given way, and all the gates of all the continents are swung open with a clang that has been a positive and glorious invitation for Christianity to enter. Telegraph, telephone and phono graph are to be . consecrated to gospel dissemination, and instead of the voice that gains the attention of a few hun dred or a few thousand people within the church walls the telegraph will thrill the glad tidings and the telephone will utter them to many millions. Oh, the infinite advantage that the twentieth century has over what the nineteenth century had at the starting I The Evils of the World. In preparation for this coming cen tury we have time in the intervening years to- give some decisive strokes at the seven or eight great evils that curse the world. It would be an assault and. battery upon the . coming .century by this century if we allowed the full blow of present evils to fall upon the futura We ought somehow to cripple or minify some of these abominations. Alcohol ism is today triumphant, and are we to let the all devouring -monster that has throttled this century seize upon the next without first having filled his ac cursed hide with stinging arrows enough to weaken and stagger him? We have wasted about 25 years. .How so? While we have been waiting for the law of the land to prohibit intoxicants we have done little to quench the thirst of appe tite in the palate and tongue of a whole generation. Where are the public and enthusiastic meetings that used to be held 30 years ago for the one purpose of persuading" the young and middle aged and old that strong drink is poisonous and damning? When will we learn that we must educate public opinion up to a proniDitory taw, or sucn a jaw.wm not be passed or if passed will cot be executed? God grant that all state and national legislatures may build up against this evil a wall which will be an impassable wall, shutting out the alco holic abomination. But while we wait for that, let us, in our homes, in our schools and our churches and on ont platforms and la our newspapers, per suade the people to stop taking ajcbholio stimulant unless prescribed by physi cians, and then persuade physicians cot to prescribe it if ,ia all the dominions' of therapeutics - there may be found some ether remedy, j 1 I ; Seven or eight years ago on the anni versary platform of .the National Tem perance society in New York I deplored the fact that we had left politics j to do that which moral suasion only co ild do and said on that occasion, "If son: e poor drunkard wandering along j this street tonight should see the lights kindled by this brilliant assemblage and should come in, and, finding the character of tne meeting, Ebould ask for a temper nucD jjjeuge, iiiui uo taigas sign is ana begin a new career, I ; do cot believe there is in all this house a-j temperance pledge,- and you would jhuve to take out a torn letter envelope or a loose scrap of paper for the inebriate's signature." I found out afterward that there was one such temperance pledge in the audience, but only one that I could hear of. Do cot leave to politics that which ban be done now in 10,000 reformatory meet ings all over the country. The two great political parties, Republican and Demo cratic, will put a prohibitory plank in the platform the same - day that satan joins the church and turns perdit on. in to a camp meeting. Both partie j .want the votes of the traffickers in liquid death, and if you wait for the ballot box to do the work, first you wj 1 have local option, and then you wi have high license, and then a first rate law passed, to be revoked i by the next legis lature. .-'...! ::' . Oh, save the young man Of tody and J-l i L IiU J A . 3 - 1 wave of national redemption 1 Do cot put upon the cradle of the twentieth century a mountain of ; demijohns and beer barrels and rum jngs.jand put to its infant lips wretchedness, disease, murder and abandonment in -solution. Aye, reform that army of inebriates. "Ah," you say, "it cannot be done!" mat snows mat you win ne oi mo use in the work. "O ye. of little faith 1 Away back in early times President Davies of Princeton college one day found a man in utter despair because of the thrall of strong! drink.;. The presi dent said to him: ,Sir, I be of good cheer. You can be saved. Sign the pledge. An, said tne despairing victim, "I have often signed the pledge, but I have always broken my pledge 1" "But," said the president, "I will be your strength to keep the pledge. I will be your friend, and with a! loving arm around you will hold you up. When your appetite burns, and y?u feol. that yon must gratify it, come to my house, sit down With me in the study or with the family in the parlor and I will be a shield to you. All that I can do for yon with my books, my sympathy, my expe rience, mf society, my lovej my money, I will do. You shall forget your appe tite and master it. " A look.' of hope glowed on the poor man's face, replied, 'Sir, will you j do all and he fthat?" "Surely I will. " "Then I will over-. come.". He signed the pledge. and kept it. That plan of President Davies which saved one man, tried on a; largo scale, will save a million men." j . The Conquest of Self. Alexander the Great madean imperial banquet at Babylon, and,! though he had been drinking the health of guests all one night and all next day, the seo ond night he had 20 guests, arid he drank the health of each; separately. Then calling for the cup of Hercules the giant, a monster cup, he filled and drained it twice to show! his endurance; but, as he finished the last draft from the cup of Hercules the giant, he drop ped in a fit, from which he never recov ered. Alexander, who bad conquered Sardis and conquereff Halicarnassas and conquered Asia and conquered the world, could not conquer himself, and there is a threatening peril that this god land of ours, having conquered all with whom it has eve gone into battle, may yet be overthrown by the cup of - the giant evil of the land that Herpules of infamy, strong drink. Do not let the staggering and - bloated and embrcted host of drunkards go into the next cen tury looking for insane asylums an$ almshouses and delirium tremens and dishonored graves. ! . ' Another thins we must cet fixed is a national law concerning divoroei Wil- Ham E. Gladstone asked me while talking in his grounds at HaWrden, "Do you not think that your country is in peril from wrong notions of divorce?" And before I had time to answer he said, "The only good law of divorce that you cave in America is tne law in South Carolina." ; The fact i$ that in stead of state laws on this subject we need a national law passed by the senate of the United States arfd the house of representatives and plainly interpreted by the supreme court of the country. There are thousands of married peo ple who are unhappy, and they ought never to have been wedded. They were deceived or they were reckless or they were fools or they were caught by dim ple or hung by a curl or married in joke or expected a fortune and it did not come or good habits turned to brutality, and hence the domestio wreck. But make divorce less easy and you, make the human race more cautious about en tering upon lifetime alliance. Let peo ple understand that marriage is not an accommodation train that will let you leave almost anywhere,' but a through train, and then they will cot step on the train unless they expect to go clear through to the last depot! One brave man. tnis coming winter, rising amia the white marble of yonder Capitol hilLv could offer a resolution upon the subject of divorce that would keep out of the next century much of the free Iovisxa and dissoluteness which have cursed this century. : ;: -.--j 1 " - . . Tae Jnry of 2f tiUaasV ',: Another thing that we need to get fixed up before the clock shall strike 12 on that eight of centennial transition is the expulsion of war by-the power of arbitration. Within the next three years we ought to bat, and 2 hope will j have, what might be called "a jury of caucus," which shall render" verdict oh all controverted international ques tions. All civilized nations are ready for, 'it Great Britain with a standing army of 210, 00Q men, France with a standing army of 5SO.00O men, Ger many with a standing army of 600,000 men, Russia with a standing ' army of 800,000 men. Europe witb standing armies of about 3, S00, 000 . men, the United States proposing a standing army of 100,000 men What a glorious idea, that of disarmament! V What an emancipation of nations and centuries I The czar of Russia last summer proposed it in world resounding manifesto. Dis armament! What an inspiring and heaven descended thought! In some quarters the czar's manifesto was treat ed with derisicn, and we, were told that he was not in earuett when he made it. I know personally that he did mean it. Six years ago he expressed to me the same theory in his palace at Peterhof, he then being on the way to the throne, not yet having reached it. His father, Alexander III, then on the throne, ex pressed to me in his palace the same sentiments of peace, and his wife, the said, in reply to my remark, "Your maiesty, there will never, be another great war between Christian nations; "Ah, I hope there never will bo ! If there .should ever be another great war, I am sure it will cot start from this palace." . ' .- vv What a boon to the world if Russia and Germany and' England and the United States could eaifely disband all their standing armies and dismantle their fortresses and spike their guns! What uncounted ; millions of dollars would be saved; and,. more .than that. what a complete cessation of human slaughter! What an improvement of the morals of -nations! What an adop tion of that higher and better manifesto which was set to musio and Jet down from the midnight heavens of Bet hie hem ages ago 1 The world has got to come to this. Why noi make it the peroration of the nineteenth century? Are we' going to make a present to the twentieth century of reeking hospitals and dying armies and homispherio graveyards? Do you want the hoofs of Other cavalry horses on -the breasts of . fallen men? Do youiwant other : harvest fields gullied with wheels of gun car riages? Do you want the sky glaring with conflagration of other homesteads? Ah, this nineteenth century has seen enough of war 1 Make the determination that no other century shall be blasted with it. -;' During the first half of this' century we expended $8, 000, 000 to educate. the Indians and $400,000,000 to kill them. According to a reliable statistician, dur ing this century we have had the Cri mean war, wmcn sjew veo.uuu ana cose 1,700,000,000, and our American civil war, wmcn slew l, uuu.uuu, men, norm and south, and cost $9, 000, 000, 000, dig ging a grave trench from Barnegat lighthouse, New Jersey, to Lbne Moun tain cemetery at San Francisco. And vou must add to these the Zulu war, and the Austro-Prussian war, and the Dan ish war, and the Italian war, .the j Franco-Prussian war, Chino-Japanese ! war, Napoleonic war, and the Amer- i co-Spanish war. What a record for this boasted nineteenth century! It makes all pandemonium chuckle. It has called put all the realms of diabolus in grand parade, satan reviewing them from plat- : form of fire, as the demons in companies and regiments and brigades have passed with banners of fire and riding on horses of fire, keeping step to the roll of the grand march of; hell. In the name of the God of nations, let. the .scroll of blood be rolled up and. put upon the shelf never to be taken down. And by the middle of next century let the sword and the carbine and the bombshell ber come curiosities in a museum, about which - your grandchildren shall aek questions, wondering what those instru ments were ever used for, but let no one dare tell them, but keep it from them an everlasting secret, lest they too much despise our nineteenth century and curse the memory of their ancestors. :The Dylns Centnry. j Will it not be grand if on the first day of the twentieth century the last will and testament of the nineteenth century shall be opened and it shall be found to read: "In the name of God. amen. I, the dying century, do make this my last will and testament. I give arid bequeath to my heir, the twentieth century, peace of nations; swords, which I direct to be beaten into plow shares, sr- spears, which mnst be turn ed into i ;ning hooks; armories, to be changed mto" schoolhouses, and for tresses, to be rebuilt into churches; and I order tlr ' ".greater benora be put on those wL - -. ye life than upon those who I destroy i; . id if. amid the universal peace no- - ; ttained, those two nations, Spain . a-i.-,: Turkeyr do not stop their cruelties ' : the other nations, banded together, v'-:en. porize a police force to wipe thcr countries off Vhe map of na tions as a .vst sponge wipes from a boy's slate at school a hard sum in arithmetic. This last will I sign and seal and deliver on the 31st day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1900, all the civilized nations of earth and all the glorified na tions of heaven witnesHicg. " But what we do as individuals, as churches, as nations, as continents, we must do very soon if we want the transi tion from century to century to be a worthy transition, for I hear the trum pets of . the approaching century and the Clattering hoofs of the host it leads on. i" For historical reminiscence there is ho street in all the world like yonder Pennsylvania avenue. Champs Elysees of Paris is more brilliant; Princess street, Edinburgh, more picturesque; Unter den Linden, Berlin, more richly foliaged ; Piccadilly street, .London, znore populous; Nevsky Prdspekt of St. Petersburg stands for more years; the Corso of Rome is lined with more an tiquities, but for an intelligent and patriotio American yonder avenue has oo equal for suggestiveness. The other eight,: while thinking of this subject. Washington; .cn.l-':sc.A'!r.7:f:' i..- r w ferson and Msd'son and Monr 3 7rd Lincoln. . As that" Jong- end ,fci';' tot procession, vanished, but nbw-a rrmr rected and remarshaled host, passes bo fore that reviewing stand. I see auotber precession coming from tho opposite direction to meet-this. They are the presidents, the senators,' the legislators, . the judges, the philanthropists the de liverers of the twentieth century. . They come up from the.schools, the churches, the farms, the cities, the homestead of . the continent Their cradles were rocked on the banks of the Alabama, and the St. Lawrence, and tho OrcgonS and the AndrOsccggin, and the " Potomac, and the Ilndion. Tbey have just as- timi a ' tread, jut as well built a brow, just as great a brain, just as noble a heart, jest ' as high a purpose,; just as sublime courage passing in procession "2a" through that avenue as .the other pro cession passes the other way. j Yea, the men coming out of the twentieth cen- ' tury in some respects surpass thoe com ing out of the nineteenth century, for they have bad better , advantage, and will have grander opportunity, and will tako part in higher achievements, cf( civilization and Cbristianjty. The Centnry Watch TVIpht. J Wbat a meeting on this midnight 13. o'clock, . tho two processions of the mighties of two centuries! Uncover all! heads and bow. reverently in prayer, j Thank God for the good done by ihej procession coming out of tho ! rast nud pray to God for good to be done by the procession coming out of the future. But halt, both processions! Halt! Haiti Break ranks! Back to your thrones, yo michties cf the nineteenth century t:nd enjoy the reward of your fidelity! Back" to yenr homes, ye miphties of the twen s tieth century', 'your congressional chain,' your judicial tenches, yocr presidential mansions, ' your editorial rooms, your 6ttipendor.s rcFponsibilities.and do the work f cr the tweri tieth century! Fare well and tears for the. one proccKbion. , Hail and welcome to the other proces- , sicn. " . - 'K. '. . ! ' ' It has .Lcc'u a custom in nil Christian ' landsffor people to keep watch night as an old. year, goes out and a new year comes in Pt-oplo assemble in churches ; about 10 o'clock-of that last night of the eld yeari and they have prayers and sdngs and sermons and congratulations until the hands of the church clock al most 'reach tho figure 12, . and then all bow '.'in eilcnt prayer, and the-scene is mightily impressive until the clock in ' thd tower cf the church or the clock in the tower of the city; hall strikes 12, and then alljrise arid sing with smiling face and jubilant voice the grand j doxology, and there is a shaking of -hands all around. ' . ';' ' But what a tremendous watch night the' world isusoon to celebrate! This centpry will derart a' 12 o'clock of the 81st of Dtceraber, of the year 1 900. What a night that will .bo, whether starjit or moonlit cr darkwith tempcetl It w'iU .be such a night as you and I never saw Those who watched tne coming in of tho, nineteenth century . long ago went to their pillows of dust. Here and tuero one will see the new century arrive who, saw this century. eifter, yet .they we're too infantile to ap-t . predate the arrival, But on the watch night of which I speak, in ull neighbor-' hoods and towns "and cities and conti- ' nerits," audiences will assemble and bow. in prayer, waiting for the last breath of the dying century, and when the . clock shall strike 12, there will be a solemnity and an overwhelming awe 1 Continued on Fourth Page.) 111 Many persons have their good -day and their bad day. Others are about half sick all the time. ... -They"have headache, backache, and are restless and nervous. Food does not taste good, and the digestion Is poor; the skin is dry and sallow and disfigured with pimples or eruptions; sleep', brings, no rest and work is a burden. ; ' ' ' -' - What is the cause of ell this? Impure blood. ! And the remedy? It clears out the channels through which poisons . are carried from the body. When all impurities are removed from the blood nature takes right hold and completes the cure. ; If there is constipation, take Ayers Pills. Tbey awaken the drowsy action of the liver; they cure biliousness. , 0 Yfrttm to ou Doctor We have the exelnslv lerrlesi of some of tb most eminent phylclni In tba Untted Bute. Write freely sll tbe psracnisra in your eae. iou win re eelTS prornDt replr, without cut. q O Lowell, Ms HIS i o