Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-02-21
Nv VA MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2l, 1881.

street and Broad way and the shambles.
If they have committed business sins
during the day they come over to Brook
lyn in the evening to repent OF them;
Everybody comes to Brooklyn. Stand
at the ferry gales at ten O'Clock Sabbath
morning and o'clock Sabbath evening
and 80 North, South, East, West, Eng
land. Ireland, Scotland, Australia, New
Zealand, come over in the person oil
their representatives. Many of them
have lust landed from the sea and they
hasten, as some OF them this morning,
to church that they may publicly thank
God for their rescue from cyclone and
from e..
Collision in the Fog Banks
off New Foundland. Every hymn sung.
every prayer offered, every sermon de
liyered in New York or Brooklyn, In
some lway makes the circuit OF the
globe. A pastorate in this city is at the
highest attitude OF cOnspiculty.
| Again pastorate in Brooklyn is gen.
eraIly brief pastorate. / bethink my
self il some ten or twelve excellent cler-
gymen who have for long while held
position here, but the vast majority oil
the 275 evangelc churches have chang
| ed sentinels again and again and again,
] and my short residence OF twelve years
in Brooklyn is comparatively long
pastorate. Why these short pastorates?
Various reasons known and unknown,
sometimes because they were to good ior
earth and heaven transplanted them.
Sometimes. By the established
rule Of their denomination.
Sometimes because having gained great
fame here in a short time other cities
| purloined them. Sometimes lhey broke
down physically under the pressure.
Some times because they came here with
great blair OF trumpets, proposing to
carry all before them and were ex-
,inyuished before distinguished. Some
because they got preached out and in
two or three years told all they knew,
others by holy speed doing in short
time what il requires others OF us aVreat
while to do. Some Tor good reasons and
some for poor reasons, but the general
| rule OF
| Brooklyn Pastorates Is Brevity.
Not much here # the old plan by which
a minister OF the gospel baptized an in
iant, afterwsrd received him into COM
munion on profession as an adult, after
wards married him, baptized his chill
dren and married them and lived long
enough TO bury almost everybody but
himself. Glorious old pastors they
were. Some OF them i remember-Dr.
Spring, Peter La Bagh, DR.. Cannon,
Dominic Z1briski, Abraham Halsey and
Daniel Waldo. When the snow melted
from the white heads of these patri-
archs it revealed the flowers OF an un-
fading c0ional. How the old war horses
champed their bits when they snuffed
fore ordination or free agency in the air.
Pastorates OF forty, fifty akd tiity-tive
years continuance. So old and decrep-
id, they had to be helped into the car
rage and into the pulpit.
We must lay religious plat for the
capture Of all the young people in
Brooklyn. sympathy for the old. They
have aches and pains and distresses
They cannot see Or hear or walk as well
as they used to. We must be reveren.
tial in their presence. We must, il the
day be dark, help them to find
the place in the hymn book. Before
long Sabbath morning will come and
We will miss them out OF their places.
Where is Father So and So to.Chyf
Have you not heard? Why the kings
~ - s.-- - - s,s"S VaIOD
up TO the place and see his Joseph who
is vet alive. Sympathy for business
men. Ten years OF New York com.
mercial life are enough TO tear their
nerves to pieces. Let the Sabbath Ser
vice be to those martys
of traffic escape from turmois
and foretaste of that heaven where
there are no business rivalries, and no
rents to pay, and riches instead OF tax.
ing wings to fly away, are brooding over
still greater riches. Sympathy ior tho
fallen, remembering that many OF them
are to be pitied as much as II they had
been crushed in railroad collision.
They simply got run over. You and l
in the same circumstances would prob.
ably have done as badly, perhaps worse
Had all our surroundings and all our
associations and all our native born pro-
cliyilirs been what theirs have been, We
would have been III the penitentiary or
among the outcasts Of society. No."
YOU say, al could not have been over
thrown" You old hypocrite, you
would have been the first 10 fail. We
must have 50 much sympathy for the
worst man that We can call him brother,
so much sympathy for the worst woman
that we can call her sister, sym
pathy for all the troubled, for
orphanage with its hear,less exposure
and widOwhood with its weak arm fight.
ing for bread and the households that
Anl
pattering feet, now awiully still. Broad
winged sympathy like the feathers OF
the Almighty. Warm.blooded SYM
p4thy. Everlasting sympathy. Sym
pathy that shows itself in the grasp OF
the hand, in tn consoIing word Of the
mouth, in the gitteriug tear OF the eye.
| sympathy of blankets for the cold, OF
bread Tor the hungry, ef medicine for
the sick, OF encouragement for the dis
heartened, Of rescue for the lost. Sym
pathy! sympathy! Let it thrill tn ouga
| every sermon and tremole in every
song and CLEAN in every light Sym
| pathy Men and women are fighting
for sympathy, dying for sympathy, tum-
| bled of into
Uncleanliness and Crime
1
God, give it to u.s.. Fill the pulpit with
it IRON step to step. Let the sweep OF
the gallery suggest its encircling arm.
Let the whole mouse from door TO door
and from floor to ceiling be heaped with
it till the house can hold no more OF it
and it overflow into the street and those
who pass By on loot or in carriage shall
feel the thrcb OF its magnificent benedic-
ton. propose this for my new de-
parture as pastor and for your new
departure as a church, declared on this
twelfth anniversary day. Gratitude to
God demands that mention that in all
the twelve years OF my work here have
not missed single service through sick.
ness. When | entered the
| ministry was so delicate
that hardly expected TO preach months.
But preaching has agreed with me and
the healthiest thing on earth is religion:
Gratitude 20 God also demands that ]
mention the fact that | have had such
multitudes to preach TO. 1t is simply