Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-11-06
NEW TABERNACLE.
DIR. TALMAGE BREAKS GROUND FOR
HIS NEW CHURCH.
1t is TO be on Clinton Street.

DR.. TALMAGE BREAKS GROUND FOR
HIS NEW CHURCH.
1t is to be on Clinton Street.
NOW ON THE BORDER, 1T WILL SOON BE IN
THE CENTER OF BRooKLYN-A BRIEF,
BEAUTIFUL ADDRESS LESSONS OF THE
ocCAsIoN-eRowTH OF GODS WORK.
BRooKLYN, Oct. 2S-To-day took place
the breaking ground ceremony for the new
Brooklyn Tabernacle, on Clinton street,
one of the most beautiful streets In
America. Crowds gathered in and around
the yard were the ceremony was observed,
and neighboring pastors took part in the
services. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage,
D. D., made the following address =
DR.. TALMAeE SPEAKS.
That begins right which begins with
God. That begins wrong which begins
without Him. From first cut of spade till
last ring of trowel, from deepest foundation
stone to highest pinnacle, from this hour
when standing under the cloudy rafters,
temple-the world, to the hour when the
psople shall gather for dedication service
under the roof of the new Brooklyn Taber
nace, we want to put all under the Divine
direction. tin the beginning" says the
opening passage of the best of books, as
though to impress all ages that we ought
to look well to the genesis of every i'm
portant work.
IL the beginning Of life, in the beginning
| of families, in the beginning of nations, in
the beginning of churches. They who
wait until tho corner stone of a church is
laid, wait until the church architecture is
fixed, and the designs are determined and
The employees engaged, and to ask God to
decide things then wo aid be to ask mira
Gle. That may be the reason why so many
auditoriums are defiance of acoustics, and
so many buildings are cold and unsympa-
| thetic.
| God could not answer the belated prayers
and mako the church what it ought to be
without demolition of ali that had been
done. l. is useless to ask the Lord to make
the church blessing to the people, if al
ready lack of ventilation has decreed
asphyxia, and disturbing echoes are wait
ing in the new corridors ready to spring
out upon sermon and psalm, and the modes
of ingress and egress are a provocation.-
In the beginning, and while yet no archi-
tecturai plans are adopted, and no crafts
men are engaged, and all is yet undeterm-
inCd, let us impiore divine guidance.
THE TABERNACLE MOVES ON.
Brooklyn Tabernacle now moves on
Like the Israelites of old, we are led by a
pillar OF fire by night, a-d l remember that
pillar conducted them to the Promised
Land. We put our church here because it
| is as near as we can get to the center OF
our congregation. We were central when
we planted our former church where it
was, bnt Brooklyn mas moved on and moved
| up and moved out, and SO great and grand
are the prospects of our beloved city that
the church now on the utmost city limits
will after awhile be far this side of the
center, ard the tides of our municipal life
will meet the incoming tides of the ocean.
We also plant our new church here be-
cause it is street of gardens and umbrage-
Gus trees. The only time that God is
represented as walhipg on earth at all, he
is said to have walked Sin the garden in
the cool Of the day" The world started
with garden and will close with garden.
All np apil aown tie Bible the church is
compared to a garden. In the garden 81
|
tn Mary Magd ,lene in the costume of a
gardener, and our Lords tomb was in the
garden of Joseph Arimathea. What more
appropriate place could we find for our
church than Street of gardens?
| WHAT THE CHURCH WILL STAND FOR
As we break the ground to day for new
church let me state what this church will
stsna fo,: Evangelism, liberty of con-
sceuce, Christian patriotism, righteous
moss TOWARD God AID honesty toward man.
May it be great place for the eyre OF
heartachesl May its windows look into
the next world as we'll as thisl May all
the children baptized here become the
soma and daughters of the Lord Almighty
Nay all the marital oaths taken at these
affairs be kept until death does them part
May there be revival of pure religion
here VII en- shall roll on without Interrupt
ton aut!! Christ descends through the
wide opening heavens. hay the Lord God
of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. and
Joshua, and Paul. and John Knox and
John Wesley and Hugh Latimerand Bishop
| McIlvane take possession of this ground
and all that shall be built upon it!
We have but one regret in breaking
ground on this spot, ana that is, that this
grand aid beautiful tree on my left must
be cut down to make room. The tree
seems sad and its leaves are little tremu-
loas, ana there ara voices within US which
become recitative, saying; "W GOLDMAN,
spare that treeP' What America greatly
needs to-day is not more trees cut down,
but more trees planted. He who needless
ly slays tree is an assassin. The kingd m
of God is to be kingdom of trees: SIN
i stead IF the thorn shall come up the fir
| tree, and icstead Of tbs hrer shall come up
the myrtle tree - And "all the trees of
the wood are to clap their hands.o And
| 10 Revelation the angel cries out: "Hurt
pot the treest" There must be some good
reason for laying the az to the root Of such
piliared glory, Or it would not be dong at
all. Bot perhaps we may atOne for the
deed by putting here what Isaiah calls
"The trees of righteousness, the planting of
the Lord"
; THE GROUND BROKEN.
| And row / proceed to the ceremony of
breaking ground for new House of God
| Here spade was handed by an cider of
the church to DR.. Talmage, who with a
| turn of this spade removed portion of the
sod In the nsme of tho Father and of
| the Son a91 of the Holy Ghosti The work
! is begun. Nov let the building risel
Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from
evsrlastiag to everlasting. and let the
whole earth be dlled With His glory. Amen
and Amebl
Those who heard Burr ows in the Skating
Rink aud remember how swee} he was up
on the Coz federate soldiers, and how he
Iaudad thoea Who ~onld forget the mast and