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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
The Kmiuent Brooklyn Divine’: Sua
day Sermon.
Subject: “A ®rooklyn Castorate.”
Text: “And round about the throne were
four and twenty seats, and upon the seats
I saw four and twenty elders,”—Revelation
iv. 4.
This text I choose chiefly for the numerals
it mentions—namely, four and twenty. That
was the number of elders seated around the
thrope of God, but that is the number of
‘years seated around my Brooklyn ministry,
and every pulpit is a throne of blessing or
blasting, a throne of good or evil, And to-
day in this my twenty-fourth anniversary
sermon 24 years come and sit around me,
avd they speak out in a reminiscence of
ladness and tears. Twenty-four years ago
arrived in this city to shepherd such a flock
as might come, and that day I carried in on
my arms the infant son who in two weeks
from today I will help ordain to the gospal
ministry, hooing that he will be preaching
long after my poor work is done.
We have received into our membership
over 5000 souls, but they, I think, are only a
small portion of the multitudes who, com-
ing from all parts of the earth, have in our
house of God been blessed and saved.
Although we have as a church raised $1,100,
000 for religious purposes, yet we are in the
strange position of not knowing whether
in two or three months we shall have any
church at all, and with audiences of 6000 or
7000 people crowaed into this room and the
adjoining rooms we are confronted with
the question whether I shall goon with my
work here or go to some other field. What
an awful necessity that we should have
been obliged to build three immense
churches, two of them destroye iby fire.
A misapprehension is abroad that the
financial exigency of this church is past,
Through journalistic and rersooval friends a
braathing spell has been aff srded us, but he.
must promptly be met, or speedily this house
of God will ge into worldly uses and becoma
a theater or a concert hall, The $12,000
raised cannot cancel a floating debt of
$140,000, Through the kindness of those to
whom we are indebted £860,000 would set us
with holy speed did in a short time work
which it takes a great many years to do.
Whether for good or bai reasons a Brook-
lyn pastorate is characterized by brevity,
not much of the old plan by which a minis-
ter of the gospel baptized an infant, then re.
ceived him into the church, after he had be-
come an adult married him, baptized his
children, married them and lived on long
enough to bury almost everybody but him -
self. Glorious old pastorates they were,
Some of uw remember them--Dr, Boring,
Peter Labaugh, Dominie Zabriskie, Daniel
Waldo, Abram Halsey.
When the snow meitel from their fore-
heads, it revealed the flowers of an unfading
coronal. Pastorates of 30, 40, 50, 55 years’
continuance, Some then bad to be
helped into the pulpit or into the carria,
they were so old and decrepit, but when the
Lord's chariots halted one day in front of
the old parsonage they stepped in vigorous
as an nthiete, and as we saw the wheels ot
fire whirling through the gates of the sun.
sot wo all cried out, ‘My father, my father,
the cheriots of lsrael and the horsemen
thereof
I remark again, a Brooklyn pastorate is
characterizad by its happiness,
No city under the sun where people take
such good care of their ministers, In pro-
portion as the world outside may curse a
congregation stands close up by the man
whom they believe in. Brooklyn society
has for its foundation two slements—the
Puritasic, which always means a quiet Sab-
bath, and the Hollandisb, which means a
worshipful people. - On the top of this an
admixture of all nationalities-—~the brawny
Scot; the solid English, the vivacious Irish,
the polite French, the philosophic German
—and in all this intermingling of population
the universal dominant theory thata man
can do as he pleases provided he doesa't dis-
turb anybody else,
A delightful climate. While it is hard on
weak throats for the most of us it is
hraciag.
the discharged gases of chemical factories or
the miasns of swamps, but comine panting
right off 3000 miles of Atlaatic Ocean be-
fore anybody else bas had a chance to
breathe it!
kind, genial), generous, sympathetic
wople. How they fly to you when you are
you are sick!
Brooklyn isa good place to live in, a good
plac» to die in, & good place to be buried in,
beautiful resurrection,
forever free. 1 am glad to say that the case
is pot hopeless. We are daily in receipt of
touching evidences of practical sympathy
from all classes of the community and from |
‘all sections of the country, and it was but |
yesterday that by my own hand [ sent for
contributions gratefully received nearly 50
acknowledgments east, west, north aod |
south. |
Oor trust is in the Lord who divided the |
Rad Sea and "made the mountains skip like |
lambe.” With this paragraph I dismiss the |
financial subject and return to the spiritual, |
This morning the greatness of God's kind. |
ness obliterates everything, and if [ wanted
to build a groan I do not know in what for.
est I would hew the timber, or from what |
quarry I would dig the foundation stone, or |
who would construct for me an organ with
a tremelo for the only stop. And so this
morning [ occupy my time in building ons
great, massive, bizh, deep, broad, heaven
fercing halleluiah In the review of the |
ast 24 years I thiok it may bs useful to |
consider some of the characteristics of a
Brooklyn pastorate.
In the first place I remark that a Brook.
lvn pastorate is always a difficult pastorate, |
No city under the sun has a grander array |
of pulpit talent than Brooklyn. The Metho- |
dist, the Baptist, the Coagrezntionalist, the |
Episcopalians, all the denominations send |
their brightest lights here, He who stands
in any pulpit in
know that he stands within fiiteen minutes’
walk of sermons which a Saurin,
George Whitefield would not be ashamed ol,
is such a drug on the market.
charged witn homiletics, an electricity of
eloquence that strack every time it flashed
from the old pulpits which quaked with the
powers of a Bethune, and a Cox,
Spencer, and a Spear, and a Vinton, and a
Farley, and a Beecher, not mentioning the
magnificent men now manning the Brooklyn
pulpits, So during all the time there has
been something to appeal to every man's
taste and to gratify every man's preference,
gospel who are ambitious for a Brookiyn
yalpit that it is always a difficult pastorate,
f a man shall come and stand before any
audience in almost aay church in Brookiyn
he will ind before him men who bave heard
the mightiest themes discussed in the
mightiest way, You will have before you,
if you rail in an argument, fi.ty logicians in
a fidget. If vou make a slip in the uss ol a
coramercial figure of speech, thers will be
500 merchants woo will notice it. If you
wrong way, there will be ship captaios right
off who will wonder if you are as ignorant
of theology a= you are of navigation! So
it will be a place of hard study. If you
are going to maintain yourself, you will
find a Brookiyn pastorate a diffiruit pas.
torate,
1 remark still further, a Brookiyn pasto-
rate is slways a conspicuous pastorate. The
printing press of the country bas no greater
force than on the seacoast. Every pulpit
word, good or bad, wise or iguoraat, kind
or mean, is watched. Tbe reportorial cor
of these cities is an organized army. Many
of them have collegiate educationand large
culture, and they are able to weigh oration
or address or sermon. If you say a silly
thing, you will never nenr the end of it, and
it you say a wise thing it will go into per.
petual multiplication. There is no need of
decrying that fact. Men whose influency
has been built by the printing press spend
the rest of their lives in demouncing news-
papers. The newspaper is the puipit on the
wing. More preaching done on Monday
than on Sunday. The StiniYorous, all eyed
nting press is ever vigilant,
Pei that, a Brookiyn pastorate is
always conspicuous in the factthat every-
body comes here, Brooklyn is New York
in its better mood, Strangers have not seen
New York until they have seen Brooklyn.
The Fast River is the chasm in which our
merchants drop their cares, and their
auxietier, and ir business troubles, and
by the time they have greeted their families
in the home circle they have forgotten all
about Wall street and Broadway and the
shambles, If they commit business sins in
New York during the day, they come over
to Brooklyn to repent of them.
Everybody comes bere, Stand at the
of their representatives—soms of
fresh from the ves. They have just
landed, and they want to seek the houss of
God publicly to thank the Lord for their
deliverance from opciones and fog banks off
ewfoundiand, AYery song sung, stery
i along this
Bradt Eaorate os
yn a
consplouity.
ov
have 24 years of pastorate.
years how many heartbreaks, how many
owes, how many bersavements!
family of the church
struck with sorrow.
the future. I exhort you to be of good
cheer, Oh thou of the broken heart. “Weep-
I wish over every door of
the
in the morning.”
this church we might have written
sands and proposes a radiant gospel that
they will take on the spot,
ing, put down his hat, brush his hair back
mistake got into heaven. He will soe in the
faces of the old peopls not the gioom whieh
some people take for religion, but thy sun -
“Why, I wonder if that isn't the same pace
that shone out on the face of my father and
mother, when they lay dying?’
emotion, but the hot tear will break through
coat sleeve. He will put his bead on the
back of the pew in front and soh “Lord
to lay a piot bere fo the religious capture
of all the young people in Brooklyn.
Yes. sympathy for the old, They bave
their aches and pains and distresser. They
cannot hear or walk 0. see as weil as they
We must br reverential in their
presence, Oa dark days we must help them
{ help them find the
morning we shall mise them (rom their place,
and we shail say, *Waere is Father So.and-
#0 to-day” and the answer will be: “What,
The King's wagons
have taken Jacsb up to the palace where his
Sympathy for business men. Twenty.
| four years of commercial life in New York
and Brooklyn are enough to tear one's
nerves to pieces. We want to make our
| martyrs of traffic, a forstasts of thet land
| where they have no rents to pay, and there
| are no business rivalries, and where riches,
insteat of ta“ing wings to fiy away, brood
! over other richer. :
Sympathy for the fallen, remembering
man run over with a rail train, The fact is
that in the temptations and misfortunes of
| life they get run over, You and I in the
sams circumstances would have done as
badly. We should bave dons worse perhaps.
| If you and 1 had the same evil surroundings
{ an! the same evil pareotage that they bad
| and the same native born proefivitics to evil
| that they had, you ani I should have been
| in the penitentiary or outessta of society.
| “No,” says soms sell righteous man, “I
| couldn't Bave been overthrown in that way.”
| You old hypocrite, you would have been the
{ first to fall!
| We want in this church to have sympathy
| for ths worst man, remembering he is a
| brother; sympathy for the worst woman,
| remembering she is a sister. If that is not
| the gospel, I do not know what the gospel
[ is. Ah, yes, sympathy for ali the troubled,
| for the orphans in their exposure, for
| widowhood with its weak arm fighting for
| bread, for tha houssbold which erst re-
| sounded wits merry voices and pattering
| feet now awlully still—broad- me
| pathy, like the feathers of the Almighty:
warm-bloode1 sympathy, everia sym
pathy: sympathy which shows itself la the
grasp of the band, in the glittering tear of
{the eye, in the consoling word of the
mouth: sympathy of blankets for the cold,
| of bread for the hungry, of medicine for the
| sick, of rescue for the Jost, Sympathy!
| Let it thrill in every sermon. tit
| tremble in every song. Latit gleam in every
| tear and in every light. Sympathy! Men
and women are sighing for sympathy,
| groaning for sympathy, dying for sym-
pathy, tumbling into uncieanliness and
erime and perdition for lasek of sympathy.
May Gol give it to ua! Fill all pulpit
with it from step to step. Let the sweep of
these galleries suggest its encircling arms.
Fill all the house wita it, from door fo
door, and from flaor to ceiling, until there
tha morning 1
fact that during all thess
mimed but one service
When 1 entered the
cate | did not think
Em
of Jesus
i What
health!
mention
24 years 1 ha
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Iw preach three
with
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the gospel. You are not atrad of me, and |
am not afraid of you, and some day,
brother, I will clasp your hands together,
and I will turn your face the other way,
and I will take hold of your shoulders, and
while you are helpless in my grasp [ will
give you ons headlong push into the king-
dom of God, Christ says we must compel
ou to come in. 1 will compel you to come
n. Can 1 consent to anything else with
these men, who are as dear to me as my own
soul? I will comps] rou to come in.
Profiting by the mistakes of the past, 1
must do better work for you and better
work for God, Lest I might, through some
sudden illness or casualty, be snatched away
before I have the opportunity of doing so, |
take this oceasion to declara my love for
you ass people, Itis different work if a
pastor is plas im a church already built
up, and be is surrounded by established cir-
cumstances, There are not ten people in
this church that have not been brought into
the church through my ministry, You are
| roy family. I feel as much at home hers as
| I do in my residence on Oxford street, You
aze my family-—my father, my mother, my
sister, my son, my daughter. You are my
joy and crown, the subject of my prayers
the object of my ambition. I have no
worldly ambition. | had once. 1 have not
now, | know the world about as well as
any one knows it. I have heard the hand.
Sia ng of its applause, and I bave heard
©
you that the former is not espec
{ sought for, nor isthe latter to
| The world has given me about all the com-
fort and prosperity it can give a man, and 1
have no worldly ambition, [ have an all
consuming ambition to make full proof of
my ministry, to got to beavan mvseil and
to take a great crowd with we, Upon your
tabie and eradle and arm-hair and pillow
{ and lounge and nursery and drawing room
iand kitchen may tha blessing of the
| Alnighty God come down!
During thess 24 years there is hardly a
family that bas not been invaded by sorrow
or death, Where are those grand, old men,
those glorious Christian women, who used
| to worship with us? Why, they went away
into the next world so gradually that they
had concluded the second stanza or the
third stauza in heaven before you knew they
They had on the crown before
you thought thev bad dropped the staff of
Oh, bow
You
You folded them in
“0 God, I cannot
Take all else, taks my prop.
| arty, takes my reputation, but let me keep
Lord, 1 cannot bear this”
Oh, if we could all dig together! If we
could keep ail the sheep and the lambs of
sther until soms bright
the birds a-chant and the
waters a-glittsr, and then we could alto-
gether hear the voiesof tae good Shepherd
and band in hand pass Shroagh the fool
No, no, no, no! Oh, {{ we only bad notice
that we are all to depart together, ani wa
| could sav to our families: “Tae time has
The Lord bids usaway.” And then
we could take our little children to their
| beds and straightad oat thelr limbs and say
i *“Now sleep the last sleep. Good night un-
til it is good morning.” And then we could
go to our own couches and say: “Now,
| altogether we are ready to go. Our cail-
dren are gone; now lel us depart.”
{| No, no! Itis one by one. lt may be in
the midnight. It may be in the winter and
your arms and said:
| give them up’
ideep over our grave, It may be in the
the bell for help. Itmay be so suddenly we
! bave no time even to say goodby. Dealh is
a bitter, crushing. tremendous course,
1 play you three tuseson the gospal harp
of comfort. “Weeping may endure for a
| pight, but joy cometh in the morning .
“All things work together lor
That is the
second. “And the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall jead them to liv.
| ing fountains of water, and God shall wips
{all tears from their eyer.” That is the
{ thisd, During these 24 years | have triad
i ms far as | could by argument, by Ulostra-
| ton and by carieature to Il you with dis
| gust with much of this modern religion
i which people are trying now to substitcte
i for the religion of Jesus Carist and the relig-
| jon of the apostles,
| 1 bave tried to persuade you that the worst
of all cant is the cant of skepticism, and in-
| stead of your apologizing for Christianity
it was high time that those who do not be-
| lieve in Caristiauity should apologize to you,
| and I have tried to show that the biggest
| villians in the universe are those who would
{try to rob us of this Bible, and that the
| grandest mission of the churca of Jesus
i Christ is that of bringing souls to the Lord
{ =a soul saving church.
Bat now those years are gone, If you
have neglected your duty, if 1 have neg-
{lected my duty, it 1» pDeglected forever,
| Eseh yoar hae its work If the work is
formed within the 12 months it is dove
Bonar It neglected, it is peglecisd for.
ever.
When a woman was dying she mid,
“Call them back.” They did not kuow
{| what ehe meant. She had besu a disciple
of the world, She said, "Oh, call them
back™ They suid, “Woo do you want us
to call back™ On" she said, “call thom
| back, the Jays, the months, the years I bave
| wasted. Call themback™ But you cannot
| call them back: you cannot call a year beck,
or a mouth back, or a week back, or an hour
Gone cove, it i»
back, of a second back.
gone forever,
| was talking with an officer, ‘General, we
. have taken a from the enemy.”
! The general kept right on conversing with
his fellow officer, and the r said
“General, we have taken a standard
the enemy.” Still the general kept
rigut on, and the messsuger lost nis patience,
not having his
ted, and said again, *'
‘a standard from the enemy.’ Toe general
3am Jooked at hin and by aE mb
Ab, etting t are
Frydopies to those that are belare. Win
in,
trom
another victory.
Roll on, sweet day of the world’s emanci-
trees of the wood shall
and instead of the thorn shal
their hands,
come up the
the myrtle
Tord for a name, for an everlasting sign
that cannot be cut off.”
A novelty lias been introduced by a
Boston woman that bids fair to become
a mania in the cultured society of that
city. Bhe has a complete breakfast ser-
vice of cups, saucers and plates fot ner
large family on which are given, from
photographs, the likeness of the mem-
bers, so that the servant can properly
place the china to be used.
ms III
01d Hats Sapersede Autographs.
Too Duch Money,
State, discussing corrupt
practices, strikes at the
trouble when it says:
“The fact is, both parties have too
much money.”
What is admitted of that State is
unfortunately true of many others;
namely, that “shameful or rather
shameless, use of money has come to
be a part of every general election.”
The same writer sadly puts the sug-
gestive question: ‘'1f votes are worth
$30 each, provided a man has no
character; if work 1s scarce, crops
poor, and children plenty, and hungry,
what is going to become of his char-
acter?”
The story is told that'at a recent
election one of the parties polled in |
a certain town a much larger vote
than usual. On inquiry it was found
that some honest men in the party
who disliked the doubtful methods
of the official committee had quietly
appointed ap unpaid committee to
watch the other, to discountenance
bribery, and to do legitimate election
work.
The amount of ‘welling out” was
greatly reduced, and the issue showed
that in politics as elsewhere, honesty
is the best policy.
A noted example of the danger of
“too much money” i8 given by the
Panama Canal scandal. Of nearly
three hundred milliondollars received,
4 fraction only reached the men ac-
tuoslly at work. Corrupt politicians,
contractors, newspapers, and officials
absorbed the rest. It the sum spent
in bribery could have been spent in
work, the canal would have been
much nearer completion to-day.
We are proud that the United
States has had no such gigantic
scandal as that now convulsing
France; let us take care that
much money” in politics does not
lead us in that direction. Youth's
Companion.
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notices in English, French, German
and Swedish are hung in the waiting.
rootns the railway stations and
plier sheds warning young giris against
strangers and stating at what
a matron, who will be recognizable
by her prescribed badge, may be found
to give all peeded information and
advice. In the same city, which is
peculiarly the home and originating
place of practical charities. a second
good scheme is that the Young
Travelers’ Aid Society. Under
auspices matrons moet the chief
trains, both incoming and outgoing.
and ald by suggestion or information
the traveler who needs it. A eoun-
try girl, a foreigner, a mother wrest
ling with an unwieldy family of slip
pery children, particularly if she is a
stranger in a strange land —these and
similar helpless and distracted way
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‘Is
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‘There isn't any.
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Where is the
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