The New York herald., 1876-12-01
THE BRooKLYN TABERNACLE.


THE PRESIDENTIAL PROBLEM BRooKLYNs
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. BY REV. T. DE WITT
TALMAGE.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle was crowded at tho SER
vices held there yesterday Professor Morgan
presided at the organ with his usual SKILL and the
grcsation joined in singing the several hymns OF
praise. The text taken by the pastor Rev. 7. Dewitt
Talmage from Ecclcsiastcs-.say not what is
the that the former days better these
In opening has discourse the speaker gave thanks
God for the place in which they live, and said they
ought to appreciate the place whcro God has sur
rounded them with everything attractive. Scotland
is beautiful but it has chilling msts; and England,
but its society s somewhat journalistic; and
Italy, but 1t is too hot and infested with beggars;
and France, but II is revolutionary Give the land
against which the Mayfower struck. And, then as to
choice OF American localities. Boston beautiful but
1t is far north; ana Baltimore but it is too far
south and Chicago but it is far west The cluster
cities about here be the best place on all
earth to live in. Standing the gates the con-
tncnt keep what is worth having and try to pass
on what is OF Wherc is the city more
favored than thiss Whatever the mans literary or
theological preference no will find church and minis
ter to SUIT him. II he wants 10 hear decp
Christian experience discoursed about he will 20 to
hear Dr. Wells; II he wants strong argu-
mcnt presented he goes to DR.. Van Dyke; If
he wants old time Mcthodistic fcrvor he goes TO
Dr. Reed or DR.. Steele; IL he wants brilliant meta
physics he goes Dr. Duryca; If he fine Oren-
tai illustration he roes to Dr. scudder; II he
truth presented in phiiosophc form he COOS TO Mr..
Bccchcr II ne wants to have the truth in grand and
rhetorical syc he goes to Dr. Storrs; II he wants
old fashioned Gospel law he comes TO the Brooklyn
Tabernacle (Applause) The preacher SAID that ne
found his people IN such physical condition, and
coming from blessed homo, and residing in such
divincIy favored metropolis, he stirred their souls to
thanksgiving. There were multitudes OF people who
THE WORLD WAS GOING BACKWARD
and they argued that the pulpit had lost Its power that
Christianity not OF SO deep and thorough type
il once was and that there was more crime prcvalant
than there used to be- There never was so much Cos
pei preached as to-day. There more Gospel
preached Monday morning these cities than there
preached IN all the sundays OF the year. The
secular printing became adjunct oil the pulpit
and where the Gospel ouce came 10 the eye or OF
man. u now came TO the eye and ear OF thousand
mon Never there such a demand Tor Gospel truth
now, amt nevor such great multlludes glad TO
ce,vct IT. He procecdcdto TO deny the assertion that tho
world growing worse, and compared in support of
his argument the folies OF fashion ana the frequency
Of wars which prevalent In the past In the old
time training days. the most sober men were apt TO
day Tor themselves.
MANY
OF to-day were unknown to them, but their hard
cider mint iulep, methcglin, toucy aud lemonade
IN which the lemon not at all conspicuous-somc-
times made lively work for the broad brmmcd hats and
SILVER knee buckles. In Somcrviile, n. j.. he had
often heard aged persons tnat right opposite TO tho
church, in the tavern there was room called the
",
officers OF tho Dutch Church. used to 60 IN with the
minister and take drink before the service, ard then
the road tor the OF the sanctuary
That dono every sabbath morning. Talk about
dissipations ye who have the old fashioned
slde6oard. ''Did not have" SAID Mr.. Talmage, IAN
Old relative who always when vsitoru came, used to
90 up stairs and take drink through economical
habits, not Offering anything TO his vistors?'
He could not be made to believe that the world was
gong backward. There two three encouraging
facts. Tho first was that the AnRlo-Saxon had
become dominant on tho earth. Other races seem
1,r lOfn thn Tf.n
most important discoveries OF tho world had sprung
from laboratory and the most startling Inventions
had dartcd from It's brain. Another encouraging fact
in The history OF these times s the unparalleled de-
vclopment OF the carths material resources We mover
had better harvest than this He must be fool
who denied that there was any important relation be-
tween tins material advancement OF times and the
worlds welfare Mr.. Talmage a most encouraging
fact in tho history of The day In the fact that civil anu
religious liberty were mighty and you could not stop
them. II should not be told earth, in hell or
heaven that the land which Columbus discovered and
the Pilgrim Fathers settled and Washington freed, and
for which Abraham Lincoln died, cannot staEd
THE TEST Of A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
This question Will DO decided, and will 90 decided
rightly, and whether II be Rutherford B Hayes or
Samuel J. Tilden who takes the oath in the porco OF
the Capitol the next 4th Of March the whole nation
will cheerlully submit II Will not he the Kellopgs
and the Wade Hamptons and the ChamberaIns or the
federal bsyoncis which VIII settle this trouble, but the
Lord, who has made this HIS darling nation IN the
past, and VINO will hold It in HIS protecting power
encouragement and example until all the dcspotisms
OF earth have aIlen Hat their faces. Applause
The rumbing and quaking Of our institutions to-day
are only the jar OF The advancing chariot OF Gods de-
hvcrance. What spectacle o.day South Carolina
800 federal troops In the Capitol and tens Of thousands
OF excited people IN the streets. ana yot no boodshed
Would that have been possible thirty years ago Z
Away with your nonsense about tho worlds going back
Law and order and good government shall yet be
triumphant over all their Toes. (Applauscl NOW l
send you to your Thanksgiving banquet II may be
and may be meagre but "bcttcr is dinner OF
herbs where love Is than stalled OK and hatred nere-
with" II you carve at tho table put sioe OF con-
,cntncnt each plato nll tho glass 10 the brm
with sparkling praise The best sauce that caterer
ever provided is grateful spirit, and IT. gathered al
the table, you that the circle mas been broken and
there be vacant cna,r, think Of how much better Cd