“REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE ing to another denomination, responded with heartiness, as though we were used to the liturgy, ‘Good Lord, deliver us!” During the short time we occupled that building we had a constant downpour of BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. religious ¢wakening., Hosannah! Ten mil. DAY SERMON, | had in the first Tabernacle, which, becauss | of its invasion of the usual style of church | architecture, was called by some “Talmage's Hippodrome,’ by others, Holy Circus,” and by other mirth ful nomen- | cinture, ¥ acoustics, and stood long enough to have its imitation in all the large cities of America | and to completely revo,utioniz yohurch arche« tecture. People saw wae the com mon sense way of seating an audience Instead of putting them In angular church, where ea hiefly saw the back part the audience were arranged in semicircle, so that they could see one another's faces, an the audi torium was a great family circle seated around a fireplace, which was the pulpit, It was an iron structure, and we supposed fire proof, but the insurance companies looked at it. and after we had gone too far to stop Subject: “The Three Tabernacles, a story of Teials and Triomphs” Text: “Let us make three tabernacles.” ~Luke ix., 33 Our Arab ponies were almost dead with fatigue, as, in December, 1580, we ro fe near the foot of Mount Hermon in the Holy Land, the mountain called by one “a mountain of ice,” by another ‘‘a glittering breastplate of i ¢,” by another *‘the Mont Blanc of Palestine.” Its top bas an almost unearthly brilliance, But what must it have been in the time to which my text re fers? Peter and James and John were on that mountain top with Jesus when, sud- denly, Christ's face took on the glow of the poonday sun, and and Elijah, who had been dead for centuries, came out from the heavenly world and talked with our | in its construction they to insure it Baviour, What an overwhelming three except for a mere noth feciaring that, Moses, representing the law; Elijah, repre- | being of iron, if the inflammable material senting the prophets, and Christ, represent- | between the shoots of iron rook fire no engine ing all worlds hose could play upon it And they Impetuous Peter was so wrought upon by | right During those days we educated and the presence of this won irous three, that, gonit out from a lay college under our ch without waiting for time to consider how ome twelve hundred preposterous was the proposition, ered Wi out, ‘Let us make three tabernacles—one | a for Thee, one for M and » Where would they get the building one tabernacle, much material enough to build two tabernacles, and still y therm r nearly down to za less, how would they the materis iro ny way to church, There wasane building three Wi y would tley get I ! reet and hammers Where Where Fire silver Where th Where the wns costly adornments lermon is a peak, and to build one Savernacie in 2 1 SAMO place would have been an tal » kind of a chariot ti jah wk from the yond human achie nt, and Ww i of the Jo Sunday morn propounding | tragedy, with its wringing of out in enthusi zon Wu n the cl nacles ” tanding in the t, ani t And yet that is whe this nzregation at sho arth, is as vivid has been call y first Brooklyn Taberns 1870, apd destrs something second Brooklyn 1 ple are in 1574, and destrove wy fire in 158 ! jo unusual this t the members, at third Brook | » life, 1 among the April, 180 and in that « are v shiping | su walls, mountei the it and took a Wi i t ! { hrought that it an nn one « of somebody else's head, AL linad were AY 0 and eVANgoiisls reguiariy or- them in all zhtily i men he many of them be { many of them beco lained preachers, and 1 parts of the land toiling One Sunday morning in De MIG, ning one for Elif material meet leas vein Dest net mui smo«e i eugin A t on the until sou our barret such ha hand many twas not a pore t and as apt to our oulg } yours and bel after you this you may debt ess I have prea and | expect tinued, to longer, alt! member th and any h account « the fut money for such an the questivo-- any son ive boca building needed was at that selon passed ve souls t i I ha lav 4 ' ve in Be yn, and they bave been to me event years, It was a pros trated church [ came, a church so flat down 1t ald ther. Thro cont relied ave Is Versi sad church n, mo evening of | ther WO non over 5 i sinned each and the entered ) { those gather tered hoa rw t day my J ckot | enters on that w glad to who stood by us Is dark ave that mh Ih york done were in that can Nohermer treet instead Wp What should the f architect What self sacrifios n the part was the immediate question. I had who gave almost till the blood came thought that the ampitheatrical shape would paiisiujabs! W y be appropriate for a chu Two distinguishe ple yod, and af signs they ann building was img poses, as would would sub ject criticism | ready for a rev tecture Utter] rm ndon style ALWAYS Al bh ing marches plays] w hitects were on ptisms What sacr hovering over d« jules! One hath Oh need to us that such 8 gfernoon, when all sible for religious pure op be churchly, and emselves and us to ruin vords, they were not ution Brooklyn npathize, and my ol lost son, bearing my n name, lay beneath the pulpit in the last on, and Florene: Ries Knox sang, and a we of ministers and around the plat in church archi: form tried to interpret how it was bes | that eartened as to my ne who had manhoo!, and favorite style ctare, 1 said to with brightest worl prospects, should b trustees, ‘Build anything you please, and I ' taken and we left with a heart that will not toast wa tistiod But one morning = to ache until meet where tears young architect appeared at my house and | ,ever fall asked If we had yet selected a plan for That second Tabernacle! What a stuoen church said, “No, and what we want wo Jous reminiscence Bat, if the Peter of my cannot get.” "What kind of building do you | text had known what an undertaking it isto want” he asked And taking out a lead | Luild two tabernacies he would not have pencil and a letter envelopes from my pocket, | proposed two, to say nothiog As n less than a minute by a few curved Hoes | on anniversary sermon must needs be som 1 indioated in the rough what we wanted, what autoblographioal, let me say [ have “But.” | said, “old architects toll us it can't | got been idle. During the standing of those be dove. and there is no use in you trying two Tabernacles fifty-two books, under as He sid, “I can do it. How long can { have many titles, made from my writings | were publisned, During that time also | was to make out the plans®™ | said, “This even ing ath o'clock everything is to be decided permitted to discus all the great questions of At § orolock of that evening the architect | the day in all the great cities of this conti presented his plans, an ! the Dida of builder nent, and in many of them many Simes, be and mason were presented, and in five min. | sides preaching and lecturing nioety.six utes after the plans were presented they | times in England, Scotland and Ireland in ninety four days were unanimously adopted. So that | would not be in the way of the trustees dur During all that time, as well as sinos, | not us ther in Just me to be Ee we our of thre up lion years in heaven will have no power to | dim my memory of the glorious times we | “Church of the | tut it was a building perfect for | ing the work I went to Europe, and when | ot back the church was well nigh done fut there came in a staggering hindrance, We expected to pay for the new church by the sale of the old building. The old one had been sold, but just at the time we must have the money the purchasers backed out | I my congregation that | would in a few and wo had two churches and no money. By the halp of God and the indomitable and unparalisie | energy of our trustes there and there one of them t to-day, but the most in a better world), we got the building ready for consecration, and on smbar 20, 1870, mornin eatofy wrvioms wers held, and in the afternoon the children, with sweet and multi. | tudinous voices, consecrated the place to God, Twenty thousand dollars were raised | everything seemed to blame, In the | not disturb the | | the second that day to pay a floating debt, morning old Dr. Swphen H. Tyng, glory of the Episcopal Church and the rysostown of the American pulpit, preached a sermon which lingered in | gracious effects as long as the building stood. He read enough out of the book 0 . himaslt from manded bv his bishop for preach Episcopat service, and we, al and evening | #1 was engaged in editing a religious news paper, believing that stich a periodical was | capable of great usefulness, aod I have bees a constant contributor to newspapers and periodioals, Meanwhile all things had be come easy in the Brookiyn Tabernacle. On a Sabbath in October, 1888, | announced to weeks visit the Holy Land, and that the offi. | cers of the church had consented to my go ing, and the wish of a life to me was about to be fulfilled, The next Bablath morfing about 2 o'clock, or Jue atter midnight, a member of my household awakened me Ly saying that there was a strangs light in the sky. A thunderstorm had left the air full of electricity, and from horizon to horizon But that did me, until an observation taken of my house declared that ahernacle was puttieg on red from the cu wing». 1 scouted the idea and turned over on the | went up and saw clear) fery " r 4 iG, Catt our second T , nacle, When I saw that 1 said to my family : “f think that ends my work in Brooklyn, Surely the Lord will not eall a minister to build three churches in one city, The build. ing of one church generally ends the useful. | ness of a pastor, How can any one preside at the building of three churches’ But before twenty-four hours "had prossed were compelled to ery out, with Peter of my text. “Let us build three tabernacles.” Wa must have a home somewhere, The old | site had ceased to be the center of our con- grogation, and the center of the congrega tion, as near as we could find it, is wheres we now stand, Having selected the spot, should we build on it a barn or a tabarnacle, beautiful and commaodions! Our common sense, as well as our religion, commanded tha latter, Hut what pus, what industry, what skill, what sacrifice, what faith in God were necessary! Impediments and hindrances without num ber were thrown in the way, and had it not been for the perseverance of our church offi cinls, and the practical help of many people, and the prayers of millions of good souls in all parts of the earth, and the blessing of Almighty God, the work would been done. But it is done, and all good people who behold the structure feel in their hearts, if they do not utter it with their Hps, “How amiable are Thy tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts! On the third Babbath of last April this church was dedicated, Dr, Hamlin, of Washington, preaching an inspiring ser. mon, Dr. Wendell Prime, of New York, offering the dedicatory praver, and fifteen clergymen during the day part in the services Hosannah! How suggestive to many of rds spelled out in flowers 180" and “IS what raptures , what triumphs gratit are the above the pul. for those dats what griefs, what I mention itas a ide to God that in these I have missed but one ical indisposition, and thirty six my min- reached this I start anew I HOOKS Analyses over us it three jo th ry And wenty-third in my nam nore preached, An . about During th r three vears of now, having milestone have an 1 than and I have pre L380) { sar mons § nor as tall tell past ¥ % 1 have learned two things mo others 1 | od that "all sLimnes seme me an outburst frightened almos | ot Ama at I di } t any suggest m of the charch wrnen to see that n xoitement y harm 1 Was pened many wiewiastionl trial, people who did lke the way I did thing and alth gh 1 was acquitted of all the charges, the contest shook the An an © h That battle vt ers » twenty r advan that "all Hossnnab Another less I have lsarnsd during these wonty-three vears is that it is not necsssary [ew re] n Wok wilh ie, wiled me, any him be nmy if 1 transiat hat group ly for earth, and the L they seem present toda out of the swollen thro s chook, and they have 1 radiance of heaven | childeen! How giad tmeox to » | and the pail on ape { n then health Hall, gr gl 1 am to have you cou And here sit thos aged this lite leaving an and chur Where are your ur gra vo! Are awlul vacan home staffs and where and wheres you stooping wd folks Mm" they all yo and the bath in the rivers o throne ws made us in the nfr ne they use no sta fly but scepters Hall, fathers and mothers in Israel: how giad we are 0 have you come back to greet us But the other audience | soe in imagination is made up of all thos to whom we have had portunity as A churcl, lirectly or indirectly, of pressating the Yon, all my parishes secan to come pack to-day, The people of my first caarge n Belleville, New Jorsay. The peopis of my second charge in Syracuse, New York, The people of my third charge in Philadelphia And tha people of all these threes Brooklyn Tabernachks Look at them, and all those whom, through the printing press, we have invited to God and heaven, now seomiog to sit in galleries above gallerioy Arty gallieries, a hundred galleries, a thousand galleries hig [ greet them all in your name and Christ's name, all whom I have from my first sermon in my first village charges, where my lips trembled and my knees knocked together from affright, K- ing trom the text, Jeremiah L, 6, “Ah, Lord God, bebold | cannot speak, for | am a obild "until the sermon I preach to-day from Luke ix. 84 “Let us make three taber- in are vi win shoulders enna] -. “wo INE AZAD from under 1 and bounding h we Aglie on n wh pia Lae wiped , | pacies,” those of tha past and the present, all gather in imagination, If not in reality, all of us grateful to God for mercies, all of us sorry for misimproved opportucities, all hopeful for sternal raptures, and while the visible and the Invisible audiences of the present and the past commingle, I give out to be sung by those who are here to-day, and to be sung by those who shall read of this scone of reminiscence and congratulation, tuat hymn which has been rolllog on since Isane Watts started it one hundred and fifty years ago Our God, our help in wet, Our hope {ov Dn 4 Pot Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our ereraal hotse, ssn tI i | A cask bas recenily been built in To. 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