The New York herald., 1878-10-28
PASTOR vosBURGHs FAREWELL.

THE CHURCH CRowDED-FLoRAL OFFERING
TO THE DEPARTING PREACHER.
Rev. George B. vosburgh last evening preached
his farewell sermon in tho Bergen Baptist
Church, Jersey City Heights The notoriety
achieved by tho clergy man through his trial
for attempted wife poisoning and the ent
that yesterday would DO his last day in that church,
served to a the pretty brown ediGce Madison
avenue, at both services. ln the morning tho altar
and pulpit hidden under profuson OF howcrs.
Mr.. Vosburgn preached the seriousness OF parting
hours-Mark XIV, land AZ.
AT the evening service fully twenty-five hundred
people wore gathered within tho church walls, and
the pulpit stairs were oecupied II is estimated
that nearly thousand people were unable TO gain
admittancc. Whom Mr. Vosburgh stepped from tho
vcsy to tno pulpit hc appeared nervous and excited
Hc requested the choir to sing
There Is u name love to hear,
love TO SPEAK its worth;
lt sounds ike music to mine ear
The sweetest name earth.
HARP.
Al tho conclusion the pastor prayed long and for
vcnuy, anu ut the close was about TO
naan'0 nasp was HANDED up n,% q. smiod
and placed the Offering u tablo behind him,
Then ne saia ut Is Is TOO pretty % 70 DC placed out oi
he thankoi God that II was not on tho willows. IL
suggestion not OF harps hung up In sorrow. but
oil those joyful ones swept by angel hands. Hc
accepted II as token OF his reiigious lilo.
He then announced his sermon from Matthew xiii
81, 35 and 39-Jesu5 said unto nim, thou snaIt love
LORD thy God with all thy heart with oil thy
soul, and with all thy mind. This Is the hrst and
great commandment, and the second IS like unto II,
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." He had
selected that icxt he said. because it showed moro
plainly tnan any otner how easy II tor o man
begin to be Christian by loving his neignbor and,
also, how orthodox head without the love OF God
IN bis soul might 20 INTO tue region Of the damned.
THE LAST FARkwKLL.
At the conclusion oil The sermon Mr. Vosburgh
SAID :-sNow my work In Jersey City Is done; the
last sermon Is preached and the last bensdicton will
shortly be pronounced What that has been
you all know, and nocd mako NO comment. Whether
have been aithiu 20 my pledges, you know Whether
/ have devoted my energies undeviatIngiy in the
church. you know. have tried to do the best could
Of Kindness tenderness and love. have tried al
most constantly to impress tho tdoas advanced my
sermon. and 4 can tnink OF no better farewell 70
you than IN this grand old doctrine Of love whicn
l have tried TO preach TO you and hopo
that you have been benefited. Ii I have not
preached we'll II was because 1 hadn't the heart or
energy. As time rolls on may be forgotten NY you,
memories. however humiiating such "A thought
may 10 to ones prize ye. alter all n
matters very nttlc, for tow brief years
ut most, !, ike you ALL Will pass away and
siumber In tho grave But, friends, remember
tho Christian truths have tried TO you, cherish
and hold fust 10 them IN sacred, everlasting
brance and some day. whom the shall have ialien
low In the distant West tnen shall rise fairer
cnes aud la that land where there Is
parting and no griei, we shall join ipseparabie
hands and TO tho music Of the upper sphere
many acts pt kindness, OF consideration aud OF love
which have received ut your hands tnapk you.
And now. farewell God bioss and guide US until wo
tho other siacn
A collection was taken up at the close Tor tho bon
eft oi Mr.. Vosburgn. He expects TO leave Jersey
City this wock lor stuyvesant.