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The Famous Brooklyn Gospe.-Shnger
Discoursed Upon III, Above Subject
Last Night.
NSw YnRK November l.

The Famous Brooklyn Gospe.-Shnger
Discoursed Upon III, Above Subject
Last Night.
Nkw York, November.
Special to the Register.
The Rev. I. Dewitt Ia mage, ID. d.,
preached in the Brooklyn Tabernacle
this evening. His congregation was an
| unusually large one; filling the immense
, temple to its utmost capacity.
The opening hymn was, "There'll bs
no more sorrow there" DIR. TalmaSe
! announced the subject, for his evening
sermon, rs the Poor Comforters," AMI
then proceeded as follows:
Text Job xvi e-"Miserable comforters are yc
all"
The man of Uz had a great. many
trials; the loss OF his family, the loss Of
his property, the loss OF his health; but
the most exasperating thing that came
upon him was the tantalizlng talk oi
those WHO ought to have synpathized
with him. And looking around upon
them and weighing what he hal said he
utters the words OF my text. Why did
God let sin come into the world? IL is
question often heard discussed, but
never satisfactorily answered. God
male the world fair and beautiful at the
start. Ii our first parents had not sim
ned in Eden, they might have gone
out OF that garden aud found fifty para
discs all around the earth-Europe,
Asia. Africa, North and South America
so many flower gardens or orchards
OF fruit, redolent and luscious. sup
pose that when God poured out the
Gihon aud the Hiddekel, he poured out
at the same time the Hudson and the
Susquehanna; the whole earth was very
fair AMI beautiful to look upon. Why
did il not stay soP God had the
Power to Keep Back Sin
and woe. Why did he not keep them
back? Why not every cloud roseate,
and every step u Joy, and every sound
music, and all the ages long jubilee OF
sinless men and sinless women? God
can make a rose as easily as he can
make thorn. Why, then. the pre-
dominance of thOrns? He can make
good, fair, ripe fruit AZ well as gnarled
and sour iruit Why 80 much, then,
that is gnarled and sour? He can make
men robust in health. Why then are
there so many invalils? Why not have
for our whole race perpetual leisure.
instead Of this tug and toll and tussle
Tor livelihood? | will tell you why
God let sin come into the world-when
| get on the other side OF the river OF
death. That is the place where such
questions will be answered, and such
mysteries solved. He who this side that
river attempts TO answer the question,
only illustrates his own ignorance and
incOmpetency. All i know is one great
TACT, and that is, that herd of woes
have come in upon US, trampllng down
everything fair AMI beautiful. The
sword at the gate OF Ellen aud the sword
at every gate. More people under the
ground than on it. The graveyards in
vast majority The six thousand win
ters have male more scars than the SIX
thousand summers can cover up. Irou-
BILE has taken the tender heart oil tins
world into its two rough han Is and
pinehed il until the nations
Walled With the Agony.
III all the mounds Ot yraSeyardS that
have been lifted were put side hy side,
YOU might step on them and on nothing
else, going all around the world, ana
around again, and around again. These
are the facts. And now have to say
that in a world like this, the grandest
occupation is that OF giving coincidence.
This holy science Of imparting comfort
to the troubled We all OF Us ought to
study. There are many oil You who
could look around upon your very best
friends, who wish you we'll and are very
intelligent, and yet be able truthfully to
saw TO them in your days OF trouble,
miserable comforters are We all.
remark, in the first place, that very
voluable people are lncompetent ior the
work Of giving comfort. Bildad and
Ehphaz hal the gift OF language, AMI
their words almost bothered Jobs life
ont; also for those yoluble people that
yo among the homes OF the afflicted ami
talk, and talk, and talk, and talk. They
rehearse their own sOrrows, and then
they tell tine poor sufferers that they ieei
badly now, but they will feel worse alter
awhile. Silence Do YOU expect the
thin coat plaster ot words to heal
wound deep IA the SOUR step very
y.ntly round about broken heart:
Talk very sofily round those where God
has berrit. A firm grasp oi the hand. q
compassionate look, jnst one word that
means as much gs u Who'll. dictionary,
and YOU have given. perhaps, ali tue
comfort ths, a soul needs. A man has
a terrible wound in his arm. The sur.
reon comes an binds il up. Now,
he savs. "carry that arm IN a sling, and
be y,Iy careful OF il. Lat no one touch
H." But the neiyhbors have heard OF
the accident, and they come il and they
say: Let us see II. And the bandaxe
pulled oil. and this one and that one
must feel il and see how much II Is
swollen, and there is irritation and in
flamation where there ought to he heal
ing and cooling. So there are
souls Brokea Down in Sorrow.
What they want most IS rest, or very
careful and gentle treatment. The
neiyhbors have heard Of the bereave-
ment or of the loss and they come in to
synpathize. Tearing of the bandages
here, and pulling them of there, leaving
a yhastly wound that the balm oil Gods
grace had already begun To heal. Oh,
let no lcquacious people. with ever.
rsttliny tongues, 90 into the homes OF
the distressed.
Again remark, that al those persons
are incompetent 10 give any kind OF
comfort who act merely as wordly y phil
osophers. They cone in and say,
why, this is what you ought to have
expected. The laws OF nature must
have their way Then they get elo-
ouent over somt thing they have seen in
post mortem examinations. Now, away
with all human philosophy at such
time! What difference does it make to
that father and mother what disease
their SON died Of? He is dead, and it
makes no difference wht ther the trouble
Was in the epigastric or hyposastric
region. 1t is