The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-06-02
TALMAGE AT THE ACADEMY,

The New Tabernacle-The Struggle for
Heaven and tho Obstacles In the Way.
Mr.. Tamage announced yesterday morning that
the corner stone OF the new Tabernacle would be
laid on Saturday afternoon week. at four O'Clock,
and that a number OF the leading clergymen Of the
city would be present and deliver addresses. The
new church edifce will be built the site OF the
former Tabernacle, which was destroyed by fire
last December, and will accommodate fully a
thousand more people. 1t Will be constructed Of
brick, In q Gothic style.
Mr.. Tamage preached from the text "Awake to
righteousness and his sermon was an earnest
and eloquent appeal to all to prepare for the great
hereafter. The Academy was crowded. The
pastor said he proposed to give three or
four arousng considerations for carrying out the
text; and the first was the number OF obstacles in
the way OF our salvation. II
MAN STARTS FOR HEAVEN
he starts "a one against ten thousand. Ayel so
vast are the multitudes and so mighty are tho en-
trenchments that If 1t depended upon his
own arm he would perish. do not refer
to the scoffers and the infdels who may block up
your way and try to laugh you out of your Chris
tianity or your serious Impressions; but speak in
the first place OF that spirit OF wOrldliness which
every man has felt. How dominant it Is in this
day. The vexations and hardships and uncertain.
ties OF business lie make you forget that you are
an immortal man, and that soon Tor you that ore
door will shut forever, and those shuiing feet on
the street be stopped, and the hundreds OF thou
sands OF hearts in our great cities halt for the
campment OF the grave In addition to these OBJ
staces there are internal, Satanic Influences
DIsPUTING YOUR PATH HEAvENwARD,
that try to break the lines OF your strength and
outnank your serious endeavors. You expect to
get to heaven. Ii the suspicion came across your
soul this morning that these influences would
swamp you finally and that you would not get to
heaven,
THE SHREK THAT GOES UP
from colliding rail trans or from the deck OF a
pared with the outcrv that you would this moment
utter. VINO in all this audience does not expect to
get to heaven? But, my friends If all these obstacles
are IN the way Is It not most time that you assault
tlemY You will have to call upon Almighty God
to help you. y Another arousng considera-
treasures of this world will be gone That Is,
on one side, the prevailing nature OF the world; on
the other side there Is something valuable. 1t is q
SOUL How shall tell you OF it's value2 1t Is a lIv-
ing soul; death cannot kill it; the grave cannot
hide 1t; eternity cannot exhaust it. Bring me a
scale an immortal soul; nothing else on the
other side put the world and all its treasures and
but how quickly tins side of the balance goes up,
While this containing immortal treasure comes
down, as with thousand ton weight Then "what
shall 1t profit man II ne gain the whole world
and lose his soul ~ Another arousing consider
alton, my friends, is the brevity Of the time in
which we have to attend to these things, How
long will it take to build
THE BRIDGE ACROSS THE EAST RIvER9
Fonr, five, ten years. You have to spend long
architect Of the buildings at Vienna did not expect
to put up those large structures in a lew months.
Now. You tell me in that immortal nature by the
grace or God vast temple is to be erared. How
long are you going to give me? thousand
years? oh, no; you will not give me forty, or
scveaty. or one hundred years-the average Of
human lie being far less than forty years SO
vast work to do and yet so little time in
which to accomplish III II twenty years from now
| some man who is familiar with religious assem-
blages here in Brooklyn should come back after an
| absence OF that time he would be stranger in
| almost any of the churches. Every day from two
| to four O'Clock you may watch
THE LONG PROCESSION
| or vehicles on the way to Greenwood or Laurel
| Hill or Mount Auburn. When will that procession
stop2 Not until all these merchants have gone out
OF their stores and all these mechanics have gone
out OF their shops and all OF these worsnppers
have gone out OF the churches to join It,
Another consideration was the glory to be won.
II these considerations did not wake them up what
would? Every heartbeat said sBe quick!- Every
tap or the bell at the cemetery gate said, "Be
qulckW Every cough, every twitch OF pain SAID,
''Be qulckW Every alarm of Gods word said, "Be
quickL' Swfter than express train ever shot
from New York to Albany. our life whirled on. The
ightnings were SLOW compared with the move
ment OF our days, and we had only few more
Sabbaths few more calls OF mercy, few more
opportunities or repentance, and then the journey
was ended and the gate closed