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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
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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
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