New-York tribune., 1875-09-27
PULPIT LESSONS.
SERMONS IN NEw.YORK AND BROOKLYN.

SERMONS IN NEW-YORK AND BROOKLYN.
pIscoURsEs OF TnR REV. 7. DE WITT TALMAGE At
Tue BROOKLYN TABERNACLE, THE REV. DIR.
II. w. bellows AT ALL SOULS CHURCH, THE
REV. DIR. DEEMS AT THE CHURCH OF THE
STRANGERS, AND THE REV. J. w. CHADWICK AT
THE SECOND UNITARIAN CHURCH. BROOKLYN.
The rain of the morning kept at home not few
persons who had intended to hear their first city
sermon after their return from Summer days OF
leisure in the forenoon of yesterday but congrega-
tions of fair size present in nearly all the prom
inent churches. The interest aroused in the antcl-
pated labors of Moody aud Sankey in this city fur
nished theme for the Rev. I. De Witt Ialmage'
who exhorted all Christians to do their utmost III
immediate and earnest effort for q rehgious
awakening, without idly waiting for the Evanaelss'
Effort of another kind and work In genera-the
dignity and usefulness of abor-formed the central
thought of the Rev. J. W. Chadwck's morning SER
mon in the Second Unitarian Church of Brooklyn.
He EXPRESSED no sympathy with religion ofemoion,
but believed in q religion of work, and went
oyer the familiar lessons of the necessity and
worth of honest and useful toll by persons in
every class. The Rev. DR.. Bellows, in All Souls
Church, explained his belief of what is true Chris
tianity, and commended that Christianity to his
hearers at the beginning of another season of labor
The offerings which should be brought TO God in His
sanctnary were pointed out by the Rev. Dr.. Deems
OF the Church of the Strangers, who also made ref
erence to the close of the days of recreation and
cest and the opening of the time for work.
WAITING FOR MOODY AND SANKEY.
VRs Rer. 7alma0e at The Brooklyn Tabernacle
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage preached
yesterday morning in his church, the Brooklyn
tabernacle schermerhorn-st, Brooklyn, on Wating
Tor Moody and Sankey" He took his text from Acts H.,
i23 "And when the day of Pentecost was fully
come they were all with accord in one place And
rddeny there came sound from heaven as or rush
g nightly wind and il filed all the house where they
we're sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven
tongues like Of fire, and it sat each OF them
There a great crowd OF strangers in Jerusalem AS
Tor long time after they have got in their crops the
here to the city TO the sights the people
round about Jerusalem entered the city for their enter
ainment While many of them engaged in relig-
service that service interrupted What s That
strange soundi Can be the rumbng OF an earhquaket
II comes on louder and louder and louder There Is no
.hanco for fight Under the roaring of that strange
nose the people are confOunded What ID that flying
osrns that earaaate a1 Il i the oy Ghos You
prepared for the sequcl-that day 5000 souls
.ost This whole land is in anticipation. The
lying need Of this country is grea. awaken
he wordlness the sin Of the people. There needs to
the rocking Of great Christian @ & @ ms
tinded into blaze of religious zeal And what are we
n e aSnS are wan reofmaty
Kaitns-even men of the world ore waiting. I hear
Waiting Chicago Baltimore, and Cinclnnati-the same
Hdings- waiting-while sin goes on IN its triqmpis;
Etstes waiting; 10000 churches waiting And what is
we have waiting FaT for SIX an5 O ansv An S
those two men God has put higher honor than qPGn
ind Peter. Their march through Glasgow Manchester,
md London has been tremph ior Goa ana ara
with them; voices and our pens are with them:
Hail. thrice-honored servants of the Lord Almighty!
wish that the first city they strike might he cur own
Esh that the church in which they first lift up their
Voices here might be this very building. wish all the
hr. Earl Mr.. Chapel Mr.. Whipple and the rest-and
hat they would our Gy ana tH ~ i0f @ G4 S
Kingdom Of Christ. 1t is enough to excite irresistible
he American Church lying on its back to-day and crying
out at the top of its voice. not for God but for Moody and
These don't propose to be omnipresent Suppose
they come here what then will the other cities dSt i
Why 1t will take them ten years to max circuit OF the
and in their eyangeeal iaSors They went thr9ngs
Ia snfi THAN a and
put together Ny counsel is therefore wait FOR none put
minutes He is waiting to have the American church
drop its wordness ard cry for the ere edsmPn en- Of
this land this Winter great aTake4ing ken Ian an
to the city, that church win remain dead minister
dead congregation dead choir dead sexton dead every
dnd church rcdh with Christian ZEAL that church will
make the day Of Pentecost seem tame in comparison
10 arouse and to save, why not call upon Him for
the salvation of all peopei Come, then, Moody and
sanbey, but come, above all, God the Father, God the
Son, and God the Holy Ghost. one Penteeost-tha is
only 1000 souls We want ,000-a. until the market
rcports in the telegraph Offices shall have TO wait for the
ppws pass that New York and Brooklyn are down on
their faces before God. Oh! how we have lived! We
have lived as though God were myth and Heaven a
dream, and the Atonement cheat, and eternity
nothing is ii not time for Us oil TO wake
npi When will this horrid nightmare be gOnei Is not
this time to favor Zonf Haven't you something OF
the zeal Of John Knox, who, when he cold night
and kneeed down and prayed for Scotland and his wife
called him TO back TO his pillow cried woman,
bow can sleep when Scotland 10 not sayedf Oh, GOD!
give me Scotland Oh die"