The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-13
BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

LESSONS OF UsEFULNEss-sERMoN BY THE REV.
T. DE WITT TALMAGE, d. d.
DR.. Talmage preached yesterday morning in the
Brooklyn Tabernacle the practical usefulness Of
different parts of the Church service taking his
text from Psalms, Xxx, 2:-"Send thee help from the
sanctuary" Ask fifty different men what the
Church is, said he. and you would have fifty differ
ent answers. One man will say it is u convention
of hypocrtes another that 1t is place for gossip,
where wolverine dispositions devour each other;
another that 1t is art gallery, where people go
admire the Dancsque in gloomy imagery. What
ever IT is my text sets forth the idea that it ought
be great, practical, omnipotent help. The entire
service should give encouragement the MOL and
struggle OF everyday life. The Sabbath ought to DO
harnessed to the six days of the week. drawing them
In the right direction. A business man sits down
In church; he is headachey from the weeks engage
ments; he feels almost sorry that did not stay at
home with newspapers and slippers. That man
wants to be cooled of. .
The first help of the sanctuary ought to come
from the music of the church. Music in church is
rehearsal for music in heaven. Can it be that We
expect to take part in the heavenly oratorio IL we
do not rehearse here. am no worshipper of noise
but do say that If all the people sang with hearty
outgushing of soul our American churches would
have tenfold power. Is it unfashionable TO sing
have only q few hymns. new hymn every sunday
and the people will not sing it, II you cannot sing
for yourself sing for others. and while you cheer
them you will cheer yourself. Tho best way TO se
cure your own happiness lis to attempt to build tho
happiness of others. All tho lesser sounds of the
word are overpowcrcd and drowned out by the
mighty tongue of congregational singing.
MEDICINAL SERMONS.
Again, sanctuary help ought to come from the SER
mons delivered. Out of thousand people there are
just thousand who want sympathetic help. Young
people have as much of n struggle as Tho older
Much of the work of the world has been done by
the yourg. think that the hardest battles and tine
toughest work OF life comes before thirty. We
must make our sermons helpful to the young. They
will not go to church from cold of duty, but
give them sympathetic help and they will ali come.
So with those people further in the journey.
What does that brain racked man about
AIelancthon's Synergism Augustne's Anthro-
poIogy? The who has the peurisy might as
well put his side for plaster DR.. PARIS treatise
medical Jurisprudence. (Laughter.) All of a SER
mon may not he appropriate tor all In an apothe-
carys shop patient while the clerk is putting
up medicine for some one else. SO in the sermon
each one may expect in his turn divine prescrip-
ton. What we want in our sermons IL moro SYM
pathy. The only compliment for preacher that is
worth anything is the utterance. by that sermon
was helped"
Again sanctuary help ought to come through tho
prayers The door OF the infinite and eternal store
house swings on one hinge--a golden hnge--tho
hinge of prayer. IL ali the people in q congregation
lay hold Of that door it is sure to come OPEN What
are you going TO do with your church prayerr Shall
your chief anxiety be about the fit of the glove that
you put TO your forehead while you bend ia prayer
Shall you be chiefly critical of the rhetoric of the
pastors petitiOn1 thousand people ought to feel
THAT prayer II for me-" Ia most churches have
three prsycrs-thc Invocation. the long prayer and
ton In arranging their apparel after coming 10
church, the long prayer In wishing IL were over
GsuRhterD-and the closing prayer in getting ready
70 start bomewAsd. Tho most insignificant