The Wilmingtonian., 1886-09-11
A Prominent wiimingtonian.

It is always matter of qualification to
Wilmingtonians to watch the steady upward
progress of those, once her citizens, who,
having been called from this city to a sphere
of larger, more extensive work, are found in
their new surroundings steadily advancing
and held practically in the highest esteem
by those with whom they are thrown.in con.
tact
This is markedly the case with the Rev.
Isaac Massey Haldeman, the once well
known pastor of Delaware Avenue Church.
These remarks are impelled by the repeat
ed attention given to this young ex-citzen
of Wilmington by the most prominent daily
journals of New York city.
One is easily driven to the memory of that
weighty fulmnation-almostd diatribe, of the
Master-''a prophet is not without honor
save in his own country"
The New York Herald of Monday last
affords some interesting information of Mr..
Trademarks status in his new field by Civ
ing its readers peep into the old First Bap-
tist Church of the metropolis just at that
moment when pastor and congregation meet
again after the formers return from his
summers rest.
The Herald says AS the Rev. Isaac M.
Haldeman stepped to the front Of his pnlpit
in the First Baptist Church, Park avenue
and Thirty-ninth street, yesterday morning,
hush fell upon the members of the congre-
cation, who had been exchanging greetings
after the manner Of people who have not
seen each other for good while. The
church, standing, as it does, on Murray Hill,
is the spiritual centre of section in which
brain counts for more than sinew. Its con-
gregation consists largely of old New York
families who have moved up out of the
Ninth ward, and the reunion of its members
was an ample Indication of the gathering in
the city again of those whom the summer
heat had driven to mountain or seaside abid-
ing places.
Notable in the midst Of the gathering
were some twenty-five or thirty Cinnamon,
all in their native costume. Eyes" said
Pastor Haldeman, speaking of these worsh-
ippers to Herald reporter after the services,
81 have baptised them all. They make good
Christians. In fact, they are among the
most devout attendants at my church."
The singing in this church, mainly by a
male choir, was inspiring. As the services
progressed the ediice was filled to overflow
ing.
Taking his text from the fourteenth chap
ter Of John, "Let not your heart be troubled,
Ye believe in God, believe also in me.
am the way, the truth and the life nc
man cometh unto the Father but by me, "
the .stor reminded his hearers that an alb.
sent Christ was the source of all their trou-
bles. With Him they could endure anything
without Him, nothing. The greatest trou.
BILE with Christians of the present period
was that they had not sufficient reliance Oh
even when the baby was sick, they woult
like to fiud the Christ around the corner
They believe in a God, true, but their hearts
did not reach Him. They did not, Or woulC
not, comprehend His status of full 'sonship.
1t was necessary that mankind should un
derstand that Jesus Christ was not only
man, an only Son of God, but actually go,
the Son." He had declared that all tina
mankind knew about God was through Him
for he had said 81 and my Father are one.
The pastor fervently appealed to his hearer
by saying that if they had cast their faitl
upon and joined their faith to God, hov
much more should they join their faith t.
with the spirit of God all around Him. II
had gone not to land of mist or doubt, bu
to heaven of reality. He was the Saviou
still, the Heaven. He had gone to what wa
real heaven, not as pilgrim seeking ne'
regions, but to that section of the univers
which was part and parcel of His Father
dominion. He was welcome there. He wer
: there to make home Of joy in his capacit
. as the "Sonship of God He went there I
= make place in Heaven for all Christians
come. 1t was great comfort to go Their
aye and go there even without dying. I'll
Heaven in which he ruled was not only fC
? the dead, but it was for the medium also
- change men while living
At the conclusion of the sermon commune
- services were held, and when the congregi
y tion left the beautiful building there we
u hearty recognitions between the pastor al
= his flock, who had not seen one another du
ing the summer months. The Rev. NJ
Haldeman spent his vacation in Oran!
- county, this State.
. Some who read Of the thirty Chinam
- among the host of New YoIk's rich citize
in that aristncratic old church will be