Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-10-21
The ELOQUENT Preacher Of the Tabernacle Fills th,
Academy Of Masic-The CaihOlieiiy Of FEEL
ing The Kindness Shown His People
The Mileni1m Here.

genial ana loving nature, nave you not 10
order 10 be free for missionary journeys,
given yourself TO celibacy? Have you not
turned away from the magnificent worldly
successes that would have crowned your
illustriOus genius? Have you not end cred
the sharp and stinging neuralgias, like q
thorn in the flesh? Have yOu not been
mObbed on the land, and shipwrecked on
the sea; the sanhedTem against you, the
/ Roman Government against you, ell the
world and all hell against you?
"Whst of that?' says Paul. None OF
these things move me" 1t was not be-
cause he WAS a hard nature. Gentlest
woman was never more easily dissolved
into tears. He could not even bear to see
anybody cry, for in the midst of mis- ser.
mon when he saw some one weeping her
sobs aloud, "What mean ye to weep end
to break mine heart? for 1 am ready not
to be bound only, but also to die at Jeru
salem Tor the name of the Lord Jesus. -
What then did Paul mean be said, None
of these things move me?" He meant, ~
Will not be diverted fIOm the work to
which have heen called by any and all
the adveIsities and calamities"
/ think this morning l express not only
my own feelings bat that Of every man,
woman and little child belonging to Brook
lyn Tabernacle, or that was converted
there, or comforted there, or blessed there
when I look toward the blsckened ruins Of
the dear and consecrated spot and with an
aroused faith in a loving God, cry out:
NONE OF THESE THINGS MOVE ME-"
MI. Z go kL.k I 10 ,ok v.,enr kfof vrn
have no feeling about it, Instead Of stand
ing here to-day in this brilliant auditori-
um. it would he more consonant with my
feelings TO sit down among the ruins and
weep at the words Of David: 1T l forget
thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand for
get her cunning Why let me say TO
the stranger here to-day in explanation Of
the deep emotion OF my flock, we bad in
that building sixteen years of religious re-
vivsl. / believe that a hundred thousand
souls were burn there. They came from
an parts Of the earth and We shall never
see them again until the books are opened
Why. sirs our children were there bap.
tized, and at those altars our young men
and msidens took the marriage vow, and
out of those gates we carried our dead.
When from the roof of my house last SEn
day morning al 3 o'clock saw our church
in flames, / said: That is the last of
the building from which we
buried our De Witt on that cold
December day when il seemed ell
Brooklyn wept with my household And
it vas inst as hard for yen 10 give mp your
loved ones as for us to give mp ours. Why,
Ike the beautiful vines that still cover
some of the fallen walls, cur affections ere
clambering all over the ruins, and l could
kiss the ashes that mark the place where
it once stood. Why, now that think OF
it. cannot think of 1t as an insnimate
pile, but as q soul, a mighty soul, an IN
dsstructible soul. ! am sure that MAJ es-
tic organ had a soul, for We have often
heard II speak and sing and shout and
wall. and when the soul Of that organ en-
tered heaven think Handel, and Haydn,
and Mozart, and MendelsshoD, and Beetho-
ven were at the gates to welcome 1t. So
do not uae the words Of my text in heart
less way, but in the sense that we must
not and will not be diverted from our work
by the appalling disasters which have be-
faleen us. We will not turn aside one inch
from our determination to do all we can for
the present end 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"
NOT DAUNTED BY DISASTER.
When looked out through the dismal
rain from the roof of my house and saw th3
church crumbling brick by brick and tim
Der By timber, 1 said to myself: Does this
mean that my work in Brooklyn is ended:
Does this terminate my association with
this CITY, where l have been more than
twenty years glad il all its prosperities,
and sad in all its misfOrtunes? And a
still small voice came to me, voice that
is no longer still or small but most en-
phatic and commanding, through pressure
of hand, and newspaper cOlum, and tele-
gram and letter and contribution, saying:
go forward"
1 have made and l now make appeal to
All Christendom to help us. We want ell
Christendom to help, and will acknOwl-
edge the receipt Of every contribution,
great or small, with my own hard. We
want to build larger end better. We want
il national church, in which people OF
all creeds and all nations may hnda home
The contributions already sent in make a
small hearted church forever impossible
Would not be a sorry spectacle for angels
and men if, IN a church built by Israelltes
and Catholics, as well as all the STYLES Of
people commonly called evangelical, l
should. instead Of the banner of the Lord
Grd Almighty, ;aise a hutteriDg rag OF
small sectarianismf II we had threa hun
dred thousand dollars we would put them
all in one great monument to the mercy CT
God. People ask on all sides about what
we shall build. / answer, il all depends
on the contributions sent in from bere and
frorl the ends of the earth. say now TO
ali the Baptisls, that We shall have in it
baptistery. say TO all EpiscoPalians, we
shan have in our services az heretofore at
our communion table portions of the
Liturgy. say to the Catholics we shall
have a cross over the pulpit and probably
on the tower. / say TO tine Methodists,
We mean 10 sing there like the voices OF
mighty thunderings. say to sill denoml'
nations. We mean to prelch.la religion as
wide ss Heaven and as good as God. We
have said We had total loss. Bat there
was one exception. The only things we
saved were the silver communion ehalloes,
for they happened to be in another build
inc and take that fact as typical that We
are to be in communion with all Christen-
dom. Il believe in the communion OF
saints,n
CATHOIICITY OF THE TABERNACLE
I think, that if all tho Brooklyn fremen \
and all insurance companies should
search among those ruins on Schermerhorn
street, they would lot 6nd a splinter large
as the tip end of the little finger marked
with bigotry. And as it is ssid that the
exbumed bricks of the walls Of Babylon
have on them the letter n, standing ioI
Nebuehadnszzar, declare to sou that II
we ever get q rev church the letter we
should ike to have on every stone and
every timber would be the letter q, toI
that would stand 10th for Christ and for
/ Catholicity. The last two words uttered
in the old church on Friday night, some
of yOu may remember, were "Hallelu
iah Amen ~
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