The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-03-03

is an admixture Of all races and nation
alities, the polite French, the solid Eng
lish, the vivacious Irish, the philosophlc
German, an sdmixture Of all people, with
disposition to let every body do as he
please, provided he interfere with no one
else. The climate, severe for weak
throats, for most Of us 1t is braCing. Our
atmosphere, not the discharged gases OF
chemical factories, or the miasma OF the
swamps, but right off the Atlantic ocean,
before any one else has had chance to
inhale it. We have more high minded
and pure men in public authority than
in any city know. Spread throughout
the city is good, kind, sympathetic peo-
Pile. How soon they fly to you when
you are in trouble; how they watch with
you in sickness; how tender they are in
distress. expect to stay here till the
Judgment Day. shall be only two or
three miles from here when that day
comes. When the spring weather comes
and the roses are all out, want place
in the Queen of Cemeteries. l shall
bring a sleeping one from Laurel Hill,
Philadelphia, and 30 we shall have two
with which to start our homes in Green
wood. When my time comes ! want to
sleep there, as near by my old church as
possible, and rise with the multitude Of
them on Resurrection Day.
In such city have been permitted
to have twelve year pastorate. find
the church at this milestone in pros
perity never before known Of it. Our
history has been 80 peculiar l have felt
myself almost indispensable to this
church. That time has passed, and this
church is now in such state | could
suggest large number of men, any one
Of would be adapted to this pastorate. Do
not let us be egotistiC, and feel that the
church depends on any ofu If an ep.
idemiC should come and take off pastor
and elders and trustees, this church wo'd
20 on. For the first time in our history
we are in smoothe waters, and the same
machinery that could run village
church would run this. By the gener'
osity of our congregation and our own
friends, our finances are beyond any per-
turbation. We are now in solid phal'
anx, ready to move on in the great work
Of saving struggling world. From all
the twelve wells dip up "reminiscences.
During these twelve years what trouble
some Of you havegone through. At half
past ten O'Clock of Jan. 9th had a new
baptism. 1t will change the type of my
ministry. It will not, l hope, make me
less cheerful and buoyant, but more sym-
pathetic. Sympathy for the young. We
must crowd them in here by the thous'
ands, and propose to them such a radi-
ant gospel they will take it on the spot.
We must make it 80 attractive the young
men will come in out Of the frigid world,
and wonder if they have not got into
heaven. And dimness will come into
their eyes till he can scarcely see thro'h
it. Then they will close their eyes, try
ing to imprison their emotion, but a hot
tear will break through the fringe of
eyelashes, and he will bow his head and
say, Lord God of the old folks at nome
or in heaven, help mel" We must work
to save the youth in Brooklyn. Sympa-
thy for the old. They have tneir mfr.
mites, and cannot see or hear like the
young can. We must be kind and at
tentive to the aged, they will not live
long. Why, the Kings wagons have
gone down to take Jacob up to the Pal
ace and see his Joseph, who is yet alive.
Sympathy for business men. Tn years
Of New York and Brooklyn commercial
life are enough to tear the nerves to pie
Ces. Let the Sabbath be to them a rest
from all anxieties. Sympathy for the
fallen, remembering that many of them
are to be pitied as much as though they
had been crushed in railway collision.
They simply got run over, Had all our
associations and surroundings been like
theirs we would have been in the Peni-
tentia,y or among the outCasts OIL society.
mo-" you say, Il could not have been
overthrown." You old hypoCrite, you
would have been the first to fail. We
must so much sympathy for the worst |
man that we can call him brother; and |
30 much sympathy for the worst woman
we can call her sister. Sympathy for
the troubled; for orphauage with its
hearlees exposure, and widowhOod with
its weak arm fighting for bread, and the
households that resounded with many
voices and pattering feet; now awfully
still. Broad winged sympathy, like the
feathers Of the Almighty. Warm blood
ed sympathy, everlasting sympathy.
Sympathy that shows itself in the grasp
Of the hand, in the consoling word of
the mouth, in the glittering tear of the
eye. Sympathy of blankets for the cold
or bread for the hungry, of medicines for
the sick, of encouragement for the dis
heartened, of rescue for the lost, Of help
for the distressed, and if need be, money
for the moneyless; sy mpathy for all the
woes that ffliCt mankind. sympathy,
sympathy Let it thrill through every
sermon, and tremble in every song, and
inspire every prayer, and CLEAN through
every light. Sympathy Men and wo-
men are signing for sympathy, dying for
sympathy, tumbled off into uncleanness
and crime and perdition for want of
sympathy. My God, give US sympathy
Fill the pulpit with it from step to step.
Let the sweep of the gallery suggest its
arms. Let the whole house,
from door to door, and from floor to cell.
ing, 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 foot
or in carriage shall feel the throb Of its
benediCtion.
propose this for my new departure
as pastor, and for your new departure
as church, declared on this twelfth an
niversary day. Gratitude to God de
mands that | mention that, in all the
twelve years of my work here, have
not missed a siugle service through any
When | entered the ministFy
l was so delicate l hardly expected to
preach three months; but preaching has
agreed with me- and the healthiest thing
on earth is religion.
Gratitude to God also demands that l
mention the fact that l have had such
large congregations to preach to. 1t is
simply marvellous; the attendance morn
ing by morning, night by night, year by
year, and long after have become an
Did story, Some people are dainty and
exclusive in their tastes. AS for myself
| like crowd. / would like to see an