The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-10-26
THE BURNED M P
III. Talmage on the Destruction OF
the Tabernacle.
lessons Learned From the Late Fire-The
rover of the Lord ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
solutions of ~ReIigion-An Appeal
to All Men.

On the Sunday succeeding the burnin
OF the Brooklyn Tabernacle, Rev. T. De
W.T. Talmage preached at the Academ
Oh Music in that city, his subject bein
The Baptism of Fire, " and he took as hi
text Acts Xxx, "a, None of these thing
move me-" He said:
nut raul, have you not enough fhictiol
TO move your Are you not an exile iron
your native lana? With the most genia
n loving nature, have you not, in orde
10 De free for missionary journeys, givel
yourself to celibacy? Have you not turned
away from the magnificent worldly sue
cesses that would have crowned you
INDUSTRIOUS geniusY Have you not endured
the sharp and singing neuralgias, like
thorn in the flesh? Have you not beer
mobbed on the land aud shipwrecked OF
the sea; the Sanhedrim against you, tn,
Roman Government against you, ali Tho
world and all hell against you?
"Wha of that?" says Paul. sNone OF
these things move mel" 1t was not be,
cause he was a hard nature. GentIest
woman was never more easily dissolved
into tears. He could not ever bear to see
any body cry, for In the midst of his SER
mon when he saw some one weeping her
soos aloud: "What mean We to weep and
10 break mine hearth for l am ready moi
20 De bound only, but also to die at Jeru.
salem Tor the name of the Lord Jesus,
What then did Paul mean when he said
None OF these things move me?" He
meant: IL will not be diverted from the
work to which | have b en- called by any
n all the universities and calamitiesn
L think this morning l express not nv
own Keeling, but that of every man, WON
An and little child belonging to BROOKLYN
tabernacle, or tbat was converted there,
when l look toward the blackened ruins
OF toe dear and consecrated spot and with
an aroused faith in "a loving God cry out:
None oil these thing move me-"
when l say that, J 10 not mean that we
have no feeling about it. Instead of
standing here to-day in this brilliant
auditorium, 1t would be more consonant
with my fee ings to sit down among the
ruins and weep at the word of David: 'If
1 forget thee, o Jerusalem, let nv right
forget her cunning" Why, let me say to
the strangers here to-day in explanation
OF the deep emotion of my flock, we had
Inere In that building sixteen years of re-
Iglous revival. i believe that a hundred
Thousand souls were born there. They
came from all parts of the earth and we
snail never see them again until the books
are opened. Why, sirsl our children were
there baptised. and at those affairs our
young men and maidens took the marriage
VOW, and out OF those gates we carried our
When from the roof of nv house
last Sunday morning at three o'clock saw
our church in flames, l said: THAT is the
last or the building from which we buried
our De Witt on that cold December day
wnen 1t seemed all Brooklyn wept with nv
nousehoId." And 1t was just as lard for
VOn n OIUn M VAVV. I-
to give up ours. Why, like the beautiful
vines that still cover some of the fallen
walls, our affections are clambering all
over the ruins, and l could kiss the ashes
nat mark the place where it once stood.
Why, now that / think of it. l can not
mink OF 1t as an inanimate pile, but as a
soul, q mighty soul, an in~destructible
soul. am sure that majestic organ had
o soul, for we have often heard it speak
sing and shout and wall, and when
tne soul OF that organ entered Heaven /
think Handel, and Haydn, and Mozart.
Mendelssohn and Beethoven were at
the gates to welcome it. SO l do not use |
the words of my text in a heartless way, |
out in the sense that we must not and will
not be diverted from our work by the an.
disasters which have b~efallen us. |
We will not turn aside one inch from our
determination to do all we can for the
present and everlasting happiness Of all |
the people whom We may be able to meet
None of these things move me. None of
these things move you"
When Hooked out through the dismal
rain from the roof of my house and saw |
The church crumbling brick by brick, and
timber by timber, As~aidE66fnyself: Does
his mean that my work dhsBrooklyn is |
Dots this terniinate my associa-
hon with this city where l have been
more than twenty years glad in all its
properties and sad in all it's misfor- |
And a still small voice came to
ne, a voice that Is no longer still or small, |
but most emphatic and commanding
through pressure Of hand and newspaper
and telegram and letter contribu-
ions, saying, go forwardw
have made and l now make an appeal
% all Christendom 10 help us. We want
III Christendom to help, and l will ac-
knowledge the receipt of every contribu-
ion, great or ANAL with my own hand
We want 70 build 3afeef and better. We
u ffa1a1; bel. In With peo-
Die o. AZ frt9d4 and MI nations find q
iomo. Thee 4utrioutIons already senf IA /
make q sfnaiI-hsarted church forever Inn
,ossibIe. Would not l be n sorry specta-
lie for angels and men IL, in a church
'uilt by lsraelites and Catholics, as well
70 all the styles Of people commonly called
l should instead of the BAN
Ter OF the Lord God Almighty, raise a
iutterinR rag of small sectarianism? Ii
se had $4,000 we would put them all in
ne great monument to the mercy of God.
'eople ask on all sides about what we
hall build answer, it all depends on
he IIti0ng SAINT tt From, haro .-I l.
rom the ends OF the earth. l say now to
the Baptists that we shall nave In il a
'aptistry. l say to all Ep~iscopalians, we
hall have In our services as heretofore at
'ur communion table portions of the. Lit
IrRy. 4 say to the Catholics we shall
ave a cross over the pulpit and probably
a the tower. 1 say to the Methodists, we
iean TO sing like the woes Of mighty
hunderiDgs. l say TO all denominations,
70 mean to preach religion as wide as
and as good as God. We have
aid we had a total loss. But there was
ne exception. The only things we saved
'ere the silver communion chalices, for
hey happened to be in nothe building.
i'd take that fact as typical that we are
!, 30 10 communion with at Christendom.
! eelisye III The coumpn>on OF saintslD
l think y al The Btook'yn firemen and
4 f1B utUsafee eomfanics should search
mone those rsfins onhfa1tfmsrhorn street
hey would not find a pIlBtet large as the
end Of tho little finger marked with
And as 1t is snid mat The ex-
bricks of the wills Of Babylon
ave on e the letter N, standing for
Embellishments. l declare 10 you that il
Q ever get a new church the letter we
iould like to have on every stone and
vorU ffuahar yyau1H 10 eha IatEo- ~ o. 4
lat wouid Stand bah for Christ and
ltholicity. The Iast TWO words 1 uttered I
the old church on Friday night, some I
you may remember, were 'Hallelujahi t
men !" 1
The two words that ] utter now as most
oppressive Of my feelings in this our first '
'rvice after the baptism of fire, are Hall !
Amenl None of these things Z
me.D q
we are kept in this mood by two or y
rec considerations. The first is, that 3
od rules. In what way the church took J
do not know. IL has been charged II
the lightnings. Well, the Lord con- I
the lightnings. He managed them 7
veral thousand years before our cleo y
Iclans were born. The Bible indicates b
az though they flash down the sky o
God builds for them a road to b
b
In the Psalms it is said: "He made a s.
~ for the lightning and the thunder.O N
FER since the time of Benjamin franklin n
Q world has been trying to tame the n
'htnings, and they seem to be quite weI a
but they occasionally kick over d
Q traces. But though we can not master Ell
natural forces, God can and does. Il
q That is our Father and best friend,
d this thought gives us confidence. o.
We are also reinforced by the increased in
that comes from confraternity b.
sorrow. The people who. durino the I'll