The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-18

on every occasion been enormous; cost,
considering the fact that two exhibitions
are given year, the SO exacted as mem
bership fee has been Inadequate to bear.
the exhibition after reception night
being free to the public. How
to make ends meet is the
subject therefore that the Directors have
been discussing-in other words, how to
make the Association self-sustaining; not
that the members are not equal to-al
pecuniary emergencies, and it is pro-
posed to solve the problem, not by eur
failing the privileges which membership
now implies, but by extending them so
as to render membership 20 desirable as
to enlist the active interest and co-opera-
tion of the community. In other words,
while theuse Of the Academy OF Music
auditorium on reception night is likely
to be dispensed with for economy sake,
it is now proposed to add to the other at
fractions of the Association an art Ii
brary and an animal course of lectures
on art and to extend the curriculum and
increase the appliances Of the ArtSchool
fiourishing under the Associations pat
ronage. While these changes exist
merely in the form Of propositions, some,
1t not all, are likely to occur, while there
is also possibility of the spring exhibit
tion assuming annually the form ,either
ora water color or loan exhibition.
| The past ten years have been ones OF
trial in the art world, and now that
prosperity is dawning once more it is the
duty Of the Brooklyn Art Association
and all others to take ADVANTAGE of the
tide to get into the harbor of safety.
Rev. DR.. T.>De Witt Talmage preached
one of his racteristic sermons week
ago yesterday. I assume that every one
in America, certainly in SO enlightened
part Of it as Cincinnati, knows Of the
man, for be has lectured in all the prin-
cipal cities, while the notoriety he has
gained through the attacks made upon
him by unappreciative brethren Of the
cloth, has been greater than most clergy
men of even more pronounced ability
have acquired as the result of years Of
faithful ministration. The sermon was
his eleventh anniversary discourse, and
was directed to the financial straights
his church has been put to, having had
the new structure into which it moved
soon after he came to Brooklyn destroyed
by fire, and thus having had inside Of a
dozen years two great buildings, the
present one the largest in this country,
to pay for. Taking as his last text, "We
have mortgaged our lands, vineyards and
houses that we might buy corn because
OF the dearth; we have borrowed money
for the Kings tribute" he vowed first,
that mortgage, as the means of gaining
foothold in the world and thus encour-
aging industry and prudence, was bless.
ing, and second, that it became a curse
when it was allowed to remain as bur-
den. Then applying the text to his
church, the debt of which he stated was
$59,554 42. and reciting the financial
strain his people have been subjected to,
he proposed plan for hquidating the
debt by requesting every one who read
his sermon and every enc of his friends
to send him one dollar, promising to
personally acknowledge each subacrip-
| tion. '
Well, the suggestion has provoked a
great deal of discussion, and is character,
lied as Talmagean, especially by those
who have arrayed themselves against
him. But in this respect Talmage flung
the first stone, for in his sermon he paid
a tribute not altogether glowing to his
"clerical enemies" whom he referred to
as defeated, saying: "Let them stand as
a warning to all>men that the spirit of
pursuit is the spirit of the Devil, and that
when Haman builds a gnllows for an
other himself hangs on it," Sometimes
when minister stoops to fgurative Ian
guage he says things which sound queerly
in cold type, as instance the following in
that part of his sermon where DR.. Tai
mage refers to the indissolubility Of the
bonds uniting him and his people: "All
these things drove us closer together un-
til we are now one till death do us part.
think you will either bury me or | will
bury you. We have struck hands in
everlasting friendship. We may part a
little while at the marble pillar of the
sepulchre, but we will meet each other
beyond it." All Of which would seem
little Pickwickian if uttered by any one
but Talmsge. CRs.